Free Live Sojourn Music mp3 and Major Details On New "Beauty For Ashes" Conference

Sojourn is playing host to our largest conference ever at The 930 Art Center from Thursday March 26 to Saturday the 28, called the Beauty For Ashes conference. As the website states, this conference is a chance to hear “urban and suburban leaders discuss how the gospel provides for deep reconciliation, authentic relationships, and collaborative action as well as their answers to the question “What is a gospel-centered partnership?”

Speakers include authors John Perkins and Eric Swanson, and our partners in this conference include The Acts 29 Network, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Christian Community Development Association and many Louisville ministries and churches.

Check out the full schedule here and register for the conference here.

You’ll notice many main sessions and breakout sessions dealing with racial reconciliation, urban renewal, homelessness, social justice and ministries of mercy.  These were the themes on my mind when I wrote the modern hymn text “Let Justice Roll Like A River,” which my co-writer Rebecca Elliott then set to music.

Last year, Rebecca and a Sojourn band played this song during a Sojourn Gathered worship service, and Drake Hatfield recorded it.  Check it out below, and consider attending Beauty For Ashes in a few weeks, here in Louisville.

Get the chord sheet here if you’d like to play “Let Justice Roll Like A River,” and listen to the mp3 as well:

“Let Justice Roll Like A River” LIVE Sojourn mp3

Let Justice Roll Like A River lyrics

Forgive us Lord, for passing by
When children cry for bread
Forbid it Lord, that justice lie
in tatters, cold and dead
Outside these walls run desperate streets
where greed is law and life is cheap
We bar the doors, refuse to see,
or hear the words You said:

(REFRAIN)
Let justice roll like a river. Like a river, let it roll.
Let justice roll like a river. Like a river, let it roll.

Convict us Lord, we dance and laugh
ignoring those who weep
Correct us Lord, our golden calf
has lulled our hearts to sleep
The gap between the rich and poor
grows ever wider, shore to shore
There’s racial hate, religious war
and wolves among the sheep

(REPEAT REFRAIN)

Indwell us Lord, and purify
our hands to work for You
Enlist us Lord, to serve nearby
and ‘cross the waters, too
Your image-bearers on the earth
will never know how much they’re worth
unless we love and help them first
and show the way to You.