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.

Those interested in becoming members or learning more about Sojourn go through a six-week course that teaches all the basics of what we believe as well as the unique history of our church and the missional context of Sojourn within the city of Louisville.  We place a high priority on worship at Sojourn, believing it to be so much more than a type of music or something we only do as a ... Continue reading »

Sojourn Music will be a part of the next Takin' It To The Streets event this Sunday, May 25 at Hard Rock Cafe, located in downtown Louisville's entertainment district, Fourth Street Live.  One of our bands will be performing at 5 pm, playing Sojourn originals and other worship songs. You'll recall that we taped a television show for Takin' It To The Streets at Hard Rock last fall, and linked ... Continue reading »

Thanks to each of you who regularly come to sojournmusic.com, whether you subscribe through our RSS Feed or have bookmarked us in another way. Our daily visitors have more than tripled since we relaunched last August and doubled since the first of 2008. Sojourn has two new websites that you may be interested in as well. The newest is the web home of our visual arts ministry: sojournvisualarts.com. As you ... Continue reading »

Simply click the play button below to hear my interview with Coury Deeb, founder of Nadus, an organization bringing awareness and action to the rebuilding efforts of war-torn Sudan.  Coury is a Christian artist who has used his skills in photography and film-making to document the struggles of southern Sudan as they seek to recover from civil war with the north. In fact, I know of no better example of ... Continue reading »

"Segregation in America is at its worst in sanctuaries, on Sunday mornings."  Variants of this sentence pop up in conversation and on the web from time to time, pointing to the fact that, of our own accord, we Christians tend to segregate into "white" and "black" churches (and the other ethnic groups often stick together as well, but in the U.S., it's black-white relations that carry the most scrutiny).  Educators, theologians, pastors and lay persons of all ... Continue reading »

1. Beautiful Savior, by Stuart Townend. The lines "Lord of history" and "You're the Risen One / Heaven's champion" in the chorus express the theme that Jesus is Lord and Savior for all time.  The three verses develop this: verse one deals with the present -- the life of the singer: "for in my helplessness You heard my cry" verse two takes us back to Calvary: "I will trust in the cross ... Continue reading »

"I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees. You will be ... Continue reading »

The conclusion of Josh Thomas's The Eye Of The Beholder: A Brief History Of Kill Your TV/ Cultivate Beauty Month: Inherent in cultivating beauty, Coffey said, is creation. So in 2001, the Cultivate Beauty Film Festival was established. For the first few years, all of the entries were done in-house. Individuals, friends and whole community groups made short films, some better than others, but all of ... Continue reading »

Last week we talked about the Cultivate Beauty Film Festival.  As promised, we will bring you the audio lectures and Q&A panel from that festival, featuring Dr. Harold Best, author of Unceasing Worship and Music Through The Eyes Of Faith, along with Sojourn worship arts pastor Mike Cosper, Terra Nova (Troy, New York) pastors Ed Marcelle and Scott Womer, and Christ Church (Santa Fe, New Mexico) Pastor ... Continue reading »

CCM Magazine, now an internet-only publication known as ccmagazine.com, published an article by producer/author/artist Charlie Peacock entitled: The Future Of Christian Music: Peacock's Prognostication.  This quote particulary resonated with me, given my history in Christian radio: "Gospel music will survive with integrity-both the variety created out of the African-American experience and the kind associated with country, folk, bluegrass or Americana. When convenient or strategic, Christian artists will return to using the term ... Continue reading »