By now many of you have heard that Sojourn’s follow-up worship music project to last year’s Before the Throne, rated 5-stars by Christianity Today, is actually a two-CD set of songs based on the hymns of Isaac Watts.  Known as the author of “Joy to the World,” “When I Survey The Wond’rous Cross,” “Alas! And did my Saviour Bleed?” and many more classics, Watts is often called “The Father of English Hymnody.”

I sat with worship arts pastor Mike Cosper a few days ago for a ten-minute interview about the new project.  As pastor and also record producer (as well as multi-instrumentalist and songwriter), Mike sets the vision for our recording process and shapes the projects at every stage.  Topics addressed in this interview, which you can hear by simply clicking the play button below or by downloading to your iPod or similar device through our Sojournmusic.com Radio podcast, include:

Why an Isaac Watts project?  What do you hope to accomplish with this?

What is the difference between this project and the typical “Favorite Hymns of the Church” project, besides the fact that these songs are all based on Watts’ hymns?

What kinds of things were you listening for as you went through the 60 demos that Sojourn songwriters submitted for this project?

Contrast your process in producing records for Before the Throne and These Things I Remember.  What was different and what was the same?  What, if anything, do you plan to do differently for this new Watts project?

Subscribe to the Sojournmusic.com Radio podcast by clicking the logo below or requesting “Sojournmusic.com Radio” from iTunes and other podcast directories.  And later this week, we’ll publish the audio from one of the recent lectures that Dr. Harold Best (author of Unceasing Worship and Music Through The Eyes Of Faith) gave at Sojourn’s home, The 930 Art Center.

• description: Sojourn worship pastor Mike Cosper talks about plans for a 2-disc follow-up to 5-star (Christianity Today) CD \"Before the Throne,\" based on Isaac Watts hymns
• keywords: Isaac Watts, modern hymns, contemporary hymns, sojourn church, Sojourn Music, new worship music, new hymns, Mike Cosper, Sojourn pastor
• title: New Details on Upcoming Isaac Watts CD, Follow-up to 5-star \"Before the Throne\"

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