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.

Sojourn's first children's book, Pastor Daddy, written by Lindsey Blair and me, with illustrations by Tessa Janes, is now available to purchase. From the preface: "Pastor Daddy was written to teach preschool children the Christian doctrine of the home as a "little church" where the father teaches his family God's commands and leads them to worship the one true God. The home is the front line of ministry to children-not the Sunday ... Continue reading »

Our corporate worship service each week follows a liturgy with seven basic elements.  On an even simpler level, these seven elements remind us of these basic truths: 1. God is holy 2. We are sinners 3. Jesus saves us 4. The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth and conforms us to the image of Christ. With that said, here is the order of our service for this Sunday: 1. My Maker and My King, hymn ... Continue reading »

In the week ahead on sojournmusic.com: an audio interview with worship arts pastor Mike Cosper on the sacred v. secular debate, focusing on why some of Sojourn’s worship leaders also record and perform “secular” music. A feature on worship leader Charlie Richardson including video and audio links to some of his songs. Charlie is the writer of Before the Throne’s “There is a Peace” and other great worship songs. Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual ... Continue reading »

We recently talked about "worship in the broad sense," which is often called "whole life worship." Theologians like David Peterson and Harold Best have done solid work in helping the church to see that worship is not just what we do as a congregation on Sundays. But of course, what we do on Sundays is worship, too. Whether we call it "corporate worship," "gathered worship" or "congregational worship," there is ... Continue reading »

"I believe that music will play a big part in my life in the next years to come." -- Chad Lewis' journal, October 21, 2002 I first saw Chad Lewis in March, 2005 in the basement of the old Narrow Path bookstore on Louisville's Bardstown Road, where he was headlining a standing-room-only concert. I stood in the back in a crowd of mostly young Christians as he told ... Continue reading »

After hearing the two podcast interviews with the co-producers (Neil Robins of Dirt Poor Robins, and worship arts pastor Mike Cosper) of the upcoming Sojourn worship music project -- two CDs of songs based on the hymns of Isaac Watts -- some of you have asked what we mean by "based on the hymns ..." Pastor Mike answered this question in his audio interview, ... Continue reading »

This ten minute audio interview with Sojourn Lead Pastor Daniel Montgomery focuses on Daniel's working relationship with worship arts pastor Mike Cosper, and answers questions such as: Why does Sojourn have a pastor/elder-level position over the worship arts ministry? What qualities make for a good worship arts pastor? Why is there so much conflict in some churches between the worship ministry and the teaching/preaching ministry, and how can churches move beyond that? What is ... Continue reading »

The format for this week's Sojourn music set list article is a little different. Sojournmusic.com has just switched web hosts, and in the process (because I wasn't smart enough to back things up when I knew we were going to be switching hosts) a blog post from last week and a couple drafts that were to be published this week were lost -- including the original "Psalms, Hymns and ... Continue reading »

The week ahead on sojournmusic.com will feature an interview with Pastor Daniel Montgomery, insights into Sojourn's upcoming worship CDs, and more.  This two-minute video will give you the scoop!

Actually I have no way of knowing if you're going crazy or not, but I'd like to think you aren't. Anyway, if you've been here within the last couple days and you notice a few changes with blog articles, have no fear -- we're switching our host server, which will be better and lead to some cool things in the future.  But for now, we lost a couple little blog items.  ... Continue reading »