Monthly Archives: September 2007

… and there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.  — Judges 2:10b      A lady I used to work with, we’ll call her “Debby,” lost her father the Thursday before Easter a few years ago. I talked with another coworker, “Kayla,” about it the next day. Kayla was a 25 year old, unchurched woman. She said, “Can you imagine? Easter is probably going to be ruined forever for Debby because of this.”      I reminded her that Debby was a Christian, so in the years to come, …« Read Entire Post

For all you social networkers and bands on myspace, check us out at http://www.myspace.com/sojournrecords and request”friend” status with us.  We’ll add you — we’re friendly folk. Of course you can also visit us at www.virb.com/sojournmusic to hear more mp3s, and keep coming here to www.sojournmusic.com  for the latest news, chord sheets, mp3s, informative articles, our “Helpful Links” section and much more. “All I really wanna do Is baby, be friends with you.”      — Bob Dylan, “All I Really Wanna Do”

This Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, the Sojourn band will lead worship for college students who have come from across the state of Kentucky to attend Focus 2007 at Crestwood Baptist Church, just outside of Louisville (at 6400 Sweetbay Drive, Crestwood, KY  40014). Focus conferences are held every fall, and are designed to equip college students with leadership skills.  Sessions at this year’s conference will prepare students to transform the culture through prayer, purity, proclamation and helping the poor. Sojourn will be the only band at this conference, and will lead the students in worship with songs from …« Read Entire Post

“Before The Throne” was birthed out of a series of conversations taking place between churches all across North America, facilitated by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Calvin uses the term “Vertical Habits” to describe the dialogue between God and us, and it challenged churches to come up with ways to teach the concept of worship as a life lived before the throne of God, where each day we are talking and listening to God, praising and confessing, offering and receiving. Sojourn took up this challenge with our CD “Before The Throne,” as well as a …« Read Entire Post

For those of you in the Louisville area, two retail stores are carrying Sojourn’s new worship CD, “Before The Throne.”  They are: EarX-tacy (1534 Bardstown Road) (www.earx-tacy.com) Christian Book Nook (2116 South Preston Street) Of course, ”Before The Throne” is also available at our information table before and after Sunday worship services at 930 Mary Street, and here in the Store of sojournmusic.com. 

Or at least Virb.  Check out our music on www.virb.com/sojournmusic.  If you’ve got your own profile on that site (which is a cool place for social networkers, bands, photographers, and anyone who likes to post songs, artwork, videos, blogs and the like), request “Friend” status with us — we’re friendly folk. You can check out some mp3s from each of our albums on Virb, as you can at this site – we’ve got 12 mp3s loaded up on virb. And as always, check back here for updates, music store and more!

As reported earlier, the Sojourn band will be playing along with six other bands as part of this Sunday’s installment of the “Takin’ It To The Streets” series.  This time it will be held at Fourth Street Live in downtown Louisville, KY, and will be filmed for a series of Saturday evening broadcasts this fall on Louisville’s CW affiliate, WBKI-TV.  Sojourn will take the stage at 2 pm. The event is free but a donation of seven canned goods is encouraged and will be distributed to area church food banks.  The complete schedule is: 1 pm — The Vine 2pm — …« Read Entire Post

The Sojourn worship band will be appearing for a third time at the “Takin’ It To The Streets” series, a monthly event that takes worship music outside the walls of individual churches by placing worship bands in Louisville-area hotspots.  Sunday, September 9th at 1 pm we will be appearing at 4th Street live along with six other bands.  The show is free, so come out and hear us.  We’ll be on stage from 2-3 pm. 4th Street Live is billed as Louisville’s premier entertainment and retail district, stretching down 4th street from Liberty to Muhammed Ali Boulevard and attracting millions of …« Read Entire Post