Dave Horn

Dave grew up on a farm outside of Fulda, Minnesota, in that part of Minnesota that northern Minnesotans usually refer to as Iowa. He attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School, where he learned to say all the right things and began to learn what they meant, a process which continues to this day.

After a year studying photography at a tech school, Dave met Sobra Ortlieb, a freshman at Concordia College, which Dave also happened to be attending. Dave was enamored and fascinated with Sobra’s classical guitar and her charming foreign accent and mores. (She’s from Wisconsin.) Sobra convinced him that, if he had the slightest speck of intelligence or wisdom, he would make her his wife. Dave does indeed have the slightest speck of intelligence and they’ve been married as happily as can be for more than 25 years. The Lord then blessed Dave and Sobra with Alyssa and Travis, who have provided 20+ years of love, joy and laughter to their home, with no end in sight, thank God.

Commandeered from Environmental Science into Theology, Dave served as a parish pastor from 1986 to 1999 (including three years as an active duty Navy Chaplain), when he was moved to embark on this full-time music ministry. Dave’s work now is to provide a high quality gospel-rich resource to pastors, congregations and schools for use in their ministries.

Dave’s motto, “Singing the Cross and the Empty Tomb,” flows from his realization that, for the Christian, all of life takes place on that little piece of real estate, where Jesus Christ won our freedom from sin and death itself, and from which flows every good thing. His logo attempts to make that same point.