I attended the 11:15 A.M. service this week at The 930, Sojourn’s art and community center, and the home to our weekly congregational worship gatherings. We’re working through the book of Romans this year; Teaching Pastor Daniel Montgomery taught from Romans 3:21-24 (sojournchurch.com will post the sermon mp3 soon).  Here’s our music set list:Â
1. “Evergreen,” written by our own Neil and Kate Robins (recorded on our Before the Throne album. Listen to the mp3 of Evergreen on our Virb.com page. Remember that Neil and Kate will be leading a free Sojourn songwriting seminar on Saturday, April 26 at 3 pm).
2. “Beautiful Savior” by Stuart Townend. This is one of the first songs I remember learning when I began attending Sojourn. I love the phrase “Lord of history.” Christ isn’t just my personal savior, although of course He is that, too — He is in control of all history.
3. “Majesty (Here I Am)” by Stu Garrard and Martin Smith. This song contains one of my favorite lines: Your grace has found me just as I am / Empty-handed, but alive in Your hands. What a big truth in just a few words. We come to God with nothing, empty-handed. And our very lives are owed to the fact that we are in His hands.
4. “King of the Universe” by Jeremy Quillo, the first worship songwriter in our community. You can hear this one on our debut album, With The Angels – a CD made up entirely of Jeremy’s songs, which helped define the early years of congregational singing at Sojourn, along with the classic “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”
5. “How Deep The Father’s Love For Us,” the second Stuart Townend song in this week’s set. We used this during communion time. Stuart is a great modern hymnist and one of my favorite current worship songwriters.
6. “At the Foot of the Cross” by Kathryn Scott. Kate Robins did a wonderful job leading us on this song that reminds of where “grace and suffering meet,” where we can “trade these ashes in for beauty and wear forgiveness like a crown.”
7. “Great and Mighty” by Caedmon’s Call. We do a fair amount of Caedmon’s songs at Sojourn, and this one, from their second worship CD, is up to Caedmon’s usual high standards for lyrical content and catchy melodies.
