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.
Thanks to those of you who listened to the “Holiday Live Lunch singer-songwriter Showcase” featuring Sojourn worship leader Jamie Barnes and fellow Louisville singer-songwriters Leigh Ann Yost, Brigid Kaelin, Danny Flanigan and John Mann via live internet streaming on www.wfpk.org and, in Louisville, on FM radio 91.9 WFPK.
Jamie performed two songs from our new CD, Advent Songs, during the one-hour broadcast: “Joy to the World” and “Amen, Amen.” WFPK had introduced our recording of “Joy to the World,” featuring a brand new melody by Jamie, during their A.M. drive time shift this morning.
The show will be archived eventually on wfpk.org, and we’ll let you know when that occurs. They will also be airing this episode again live through internet streaming and 91.9 FM radio on Christmas Day at noon.
And now, courtesy of the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, MI (visit their site from our Helpful Links section), here is an mp3 of a talk by Bob Kauflin, Director of Worship Development for Sovereign Grace ministries (visit his site from our links as well).
From Calvin’s program notes on this talk:
Throughout church history views of worship have tended toward polarization: Spirit or Word? Planned or spontaneous? Reverent or celebratory? Relevant or historically rooted? For God or for us? We often think in either/or categories when leading worship, when God wants us to think both/and. This seminar highlighted many of the false dichotomies we set up in our minds regarding worship and suggest ways of embracing them as complementary truths.