New songs for modern missional worship, rich in Christian teaching and contextualized in modern culture. Contemporary hymns, psalms, songs of lament and praise written by members of the Louisville, KY-based Sojourn Community.

Republished from the Sept/ Oct edition of Travelogue:       By any standards, Sojourn's all-ages music venue, The 930 Listening Room, has gotten off to a fantastic start this year. New venues often remain unknown to even neighborhood locals for up to a year, incur huge financial losses for at least as long and have difficulty booking credible acts, especially in cities with plenty of mid-to-large sized venues such as Louisville's Headliners Music ... Continue reading »

     Writing worship songs is hard work.  A lot goes into the creation of something that will be used in part as spiritual formation (it's often been said, "Show me the songs a church sings and I'll tell you what they really believe") and also as one way in which a body of people worship God together.       The eleven songs on Before The Throne passed through a screening ... Continue reading »

"I had tried to visit Woody (Guthrie) regularly ... Woody had been confined to Greystone Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey, and I would usually take the bus there from the Port Authority terminal, make the hour-and-a-half ride and then walk the rest of the half mile up the hill to the hospital, a gloomy and threatening granite building .... Usually I'd play him his songs during the afternoon. Sometimes he'd ... Continue reading »

"... I was having dinner at Johnny Cash's house outside of Nashville. There were a lot of songwriters there. Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Harland Howard, Kris Kristofferson ... Joe and Janette Carter ... cousins to June Carter, Johnny's wife. After dinner, everybody sat around in the rustic living room with high wooden beams ... We sat in a circle and each songwriter would play a song and pass the guitar to ... Continue reading »

reprinted from Tangzine.com, used by permission of author Matthew Ralph     On the surface, Great World of Sound is a lot like the most talked about aspect of the annoying TV show American Idol -- talentless hacks are exploited for being, well, talentless and hopelessly naive suckers who think they have a real chance at being pop stars.      Funny as the auditions can be, there has always been something unsettling ... Continue reading »

Sojourn’s Worship Arts Pastor Mike Cosper explains the Biblical understanding of worship and the theological groundwork behind “Before The Throneâ€? in the second and final installment of this article:      So often, we look at our church services as times and places where we start and stop our worship. In the light of this reality - life lived in communion with God made available to us through the sacrifice of Jesus - we ... Continue reading »

In honor of the 5-star review our brand new CD, "Before The Throne," received in Christianity Today online, we are announcing a "5-Star Review Sale" in our Store.  To access it, CLICK HERE or choose the "Store" from our main page . That's right, "Before The Throne" is now only $10 here at sojournmusic.com including shipping (international orders are an extra $2.) Pick up a copy or two today! Our earlier CD's are ... Continue reading »

"Cinematic rock" band Dirt Poor Robins (Sojourn's own Neil and Kate Robins, who contributed "Evergreen" to "Before The Throne") are featured in a half-page spread on p. 33 of the October 3-9, 2007 edition of Velocity, operated by the Louisville Courier Journal.  CLICK HERE to read the article online. You can visit Dirt Poor Robins' official site by clicking on their name in our "Helpful Links" section.  And you can hear ... Continue reading »

Sojourn's Worship Arts Pastor Mike Cosper explains the Biblical understanding of worship and the theological groundwork behind "Before The Throne" in this article.  Part One appears below; stay tuned for Part Two: 2 Corinthians 6:16: For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people." The "real world" is a ... Continue reading »

Guest writer Kevin Janes, booker for Sojourn's music venue, "The 930 Listening Room," on the subject of music and the Church: Understanding Music by Kevin Janes Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. - Flannery O'Conner Here We Are Now, Entertain Us "Here we are now, entertain us." In 1991, ... Continue reading »