Monthly Archives: August 2009

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches. Photos by Dan Canales. 1. Refuge, by Sojourn’s Neil Robins.  Neil wrote this one based on the Isaac Watts hymn “Psalm 31, part one.”  You can view the chord sheet (and hear this song in the background of our preview video) in our Over The Grave: The Hymns Of Isaac Watts, Volume One page. Our sermon this week came from the Book of Job, so our songs, including “Refuge,” allowed us to rehearse together …« Read Entire Post

We’ve just completed a big conference on biblical counseling here at Sojourn, developed by our Counseling Pastor Robert Cheong.  Author Paul David Tripp led the main sessions, while pastors from The Village Church (TX), Mars Hill (WA) and Covenant Fellowship (PA) led breakout sessions (as did Pastor Robert and Nathan Ivey, the director of our mercy ministry). Sojourn bands led worship in each of the main sessions.  You can visit counseling.sojournchurch.com for a full photo blog of the conference.  We’ve also got the audio from Paul Tripp’s first session (on marriage) online at sojournchurch.com, and we’ve got live-blog coverage of …« Read Entire Post

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches.  Photos here by Sojourn’s Dan Canales, from the 11:15 a.m. Germantown service. 1. My Maker And My King, hymn text by Anne Steel, melody and arrangement by Sojourn Worship & Arts Pastor Mike Cosper.  You can hear the mp3 and view the chord sheet from our Before The Throne page.  We used “My Maker and My King” as the “song of adoration” on our liturgically-themed Before The Throne project, which is how we used …« Read Entire Post

As I mentioned last week, Sojourn took a trip to the Northeast last week, playing Rhode Island shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Here are some photos from the Saturday concernt at Lifepath Church.  The band is posing in the first photo with some of our great blogger/worship leader friends, Alastair Vance and Joel Klampert.  Joel is responsible for bringing the band to Lifepath, his church. In the remaining shots, the boys (and girl) play songs from Over The Grave and other Sojourn favorites. And in just a few weeks they’ll be on the road again, this time to play in …« Read Entire Post

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches.  Photos here by Chuck Heeke.  The first three are from the 10 a.m. service in St. Matthews, Louisville.  The final three are from the 7 p.m. service in Germantown, Louisville. 1. Invitacion Fountain, written by Michael J. Pritzl of the Violet Burning.  This is a good Call to Worship song.  I like how the song starts out using biblical metaphors, and then it gives us a fresh one in verse two: Let all who are …« Read Entire Post

Neil and Kate Robins have pirated away a Sojourn touring band to play three dates in Rhode Island this weekend.  In fact right now I understand they’re on radio station 1220 AM in New England (shineradio.us) to promote our new worship album, Over The Grave: The Hymns Of Isaac Watts, Volume One. If you’re in the region, go hear Sojourn Music at these venues Friday, 8/14 @ Christian Hill.Details Here Saturday, 8/15 @ Life Path. Details Here Sunday, 8/16 @ Aldrich Mansion.  Details Here

Those of you who follow @mikecosper and @jamiebarnes on Twitter got to ride along with their exploits and those of the entire Sojourn contingent that gathered in Gaithersburg, Maryland for last week’s Worship God ’09 Conference..  Now you can already listen to all the main sessions from Worship God ’09 at sovereigngraceministries.org. But first, Jamie himself provides a primer on the Sojourn crew — this way you’ll know a little something about them when you run into them at the next big event: The Fellowship: Know your travel companions Brooks Ritter – I’ve ventured around a few times with Brooks …« Read Entire Post

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches.  I’m reporting from the 9 a.m. Sojourn Gathered service at our Germantown campus.  Photos by Chuck Heeke. 1. King of Glory, by Chris Tomlin.  We sang this as a response to God’s call to worship: There is one God He is Holy There is one Lord over everything There is one King He is Jesus King of glory strong and mighty 2. Warrior, by Dave Moisan, Bobby Gilles and Neil Robins, inspired by Isaac …« Read Entire Post

The following article is reprinted with permission from Ron Man’s Worship Notes.  It’s a great article on the many things to consider when making musical choices for worshiping through song.  Download the pdf from the link above to see this article in its original form and to pull up links to a music mp3 and notation sheet. Making Musical Choices:  WHAT IS APPROPRIATE? by Ron Man The most consistently asked question  of me in my international teaching is about whether a certain type of music is  appropriate for use in Christian worship. This is both a difficult and an age-old …« Read Entire Post

Several Sojourn worship leaders are attending this week’s Worship God ’09 Conference.  As many of you know, Worship God is a biannual conference sponsored by Sovereign Grace ministries.  You may be familar with Sovereign Grace worship CDs and the excellent worshipmatters.com, Bob Kauflin’s blog (his book Worship Matters: Leading Others To Encounter The Greatness Of God is one of the best books for worship leaders I’ve ever read). The conference runs Wednesday through Saturday this week, in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  Follow @sojournmusic on Twitter for updates.

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches.  I’m reporting from the 10 a.m. Sojourn Gathered service at our St. Matthews campus.  Photos from an evening service at the Germantown campus, by Dan Canales: 1. Our Great God, written by Mac Powell and Fernando Ortega.  What a solid call to worship song: Let every creature in the sea and every flying bird Let every mountain every field and valley of the earth Let all the moons and all the stars in all …« Read Entire Post