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.

We're just over a month away from the season of the Christian Year known as Advent, which means many worship planners are beginning to structure upcoming Advent worship services. What Is Advent Season? Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas in the Christian Church Year calendar.  The word advent means "coming," and in this sense refers to Christ's coming to earth.  We look back to ... Continue reading »

This season of Advent is just a month away -- the season when we wait with anticipation and longing for Christmas morning, the birth of the promised Messiah.  Our most recently completed CD, Advent Songs, is a collection of eight classic and original songs about this Messiah, from the lament and longing of "O Come O Come Emmanuel" to the ... Continue reading »

Behind The Scenes In The Studio With Sojourn Music Sojourn is recording our full-scale follow-up to 2007's Before the Throne.  As RSS subscribers and other regular sojournmusic.com viewers know, this will be the first of two CDs of original worship music based on the hymns of Isaac Watts.  While our second CD will have an Americana vibe, this first ... Continue reading »

Today through Wednesday, the Acts 29 Network is putting on a LEAD Conference that will focus on theological and practical implications of urban ministry.  St. Louis church The Journey is playing host for the main sessions, which you can view for free via live streaming on PlantingChannel starting Tuesday morning at 9:15, ... Continue reading »

Sojourn Church's Second Annual Fall Festival took place this past Saturday, and by all accounts I heard, it was a rousing success and good fun for our inner Louisville neighborhood.  Due to long-standing, out-of-town plans, I couldn't be there.  But thanks to Dan Canales, whose photographic work you'll recognize from our worship set blog posts here at sojournmusic.com, I got an inside look at the festival.  And now, you will too.  Here, ... Continue reading »

I was on a mini-vacation this weekend but thanks to The Planning Center (and worship arts pastoral assistant Jamie Barnes, who helps Pastor Mike with service planning and who keeps everyone up-to-date on the schedule), and with photos by Dan Canales, here is the worship music set list for this week's service here in Louisville, which included 22 baby ... Continue reading »

'Christ For President: God's Gospel and Human Politics' - Daniel Montgomery from Sojourn Community Church on Vimeo.  Last week I posted part one of Sojourn Church's two-part series on a Christian theology of politics and government, taught by Pastor Daniel in our home, The 930 Art ... Continue reading »

Check out this Youtube video of a live performance by a cool Louisville area band known as the Parade Schedule, and note the tight harmony among bandmates Matt Kinder and Brooks Ritter and evocative songwriting on "Backyard" by Matt, as well as the tasteful drumming of Matt Harris. Parade Schedule is the brainchild of Matt Kinder, who occasionally performs ... Continue reading »

Since we completed our "Worship Practices Explained" series last Friday, I thought we'd launch a new weekly series.  I've noticed that many people in blogs, message boards and other avenues share their "worship leader pet peeves."  Not long ago, worship leader Carlos Whittaker invited people to complete the phrase "I hate it when my worship ... Continue reading »

[caption id="attachment_1064" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Molly McCoy, "][/caption] "Happy, happy, happy, boing, boing, boing."  That's the stereotype of modern Christian worship, which you hear and read about in many forums online and elsewhere.  It's fresh-faced, bouncy people with permanent smiles, singing about how great they feel since Jesus came into their hearts.  But what happens when a loved one suddenly ... Continue reading »