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. You can learn about some of the songs we sing at Sojourn Gathered each week in advance of the Sunday service by reading my “Getting Ready For Sunday” post each Friday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week by Dan Canales.
For this second Sunday of Advent, Keith and Kristyn Getty led worship during the 5pm and 7pm services at our Germantown campus. They led from their own extensive catalog of compelling modern hymns. This week’s photos feature the the Keith & Kristyn Getty live band, from the 7pm service.
Visit the Getty website, gettymusic.com, to read lyrics, buy music, check out interviews and profiles, and more.
Keith and Kristyn Getty brought a tight band with them.
I loved the Irish fiddle.
The Getty’s led us in worship with songs like “Come People Of The Risen King,” “O Church, Arise” and “Behold The Lamb.”
And of course, “In Christ Alone,” which they wrote with fellow Irishman Stuart Townend.
They closed out with “Hear The Call Of The King.” Keith Getty informed us that Kristyn’s father was a church planter, and that Sojourn reminded them a lot of her father’s church.
During the two morning services in Germantown and the 10am service in St. Matthews, Sojourn bands led worship from the set list below:
1. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear by Edmund Hamilton Sears. We started off this second Sunday of Advent 2009 with this familiar song about the angelic choir that celebrated the birth of Jesus on that Christmas long ago. The song also points to the present — this “in between” time before the second Advent of Christ:
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heavenly music floats
O’er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o’er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
2. Hosanna In The Highest written by Sojourn’s Jeremy Quillo. Jeremy was Sojourn’s first worship songwriter, and this is one of the first original Christmas songs to come out of the Sojourn Community. You can find it on our Advent Songs record, which you can download for whatever price you want to pay at Noisetrade.com.
3. Amen, Amen by Sojourn’s Neil and Kate Robins, adapted from the Isaac Watts hymn “Jesus Shall Reign.” You can also hear this song on Advent Songs, our record for the Advent and Christmas seasons. Incidentally, on this link you can also hear sound samples.
4. O Come, All Ye Faithful written by John Wade and arranged by Sojourn Worship & Arts Pastor Mike Cosper. Yet another tune from Advent Songs. This one is faithful to the original lyrics and melody, with a classy arrangement.
5. Behold The Lamb written by Stuart Townend, Keith & Kristyn Getty. This was our hymn for the Lord’s Supper this week:
The body of our Savior, Jesus Christ,
Torn for you: eat and remember
The wounds that heal, the death that brings us life,
Paid the price to make us one.The blood that cleanses every stain of sin,
Shed for you: drink and remember
He drained death’s cup that all may enter in
To receive the life of God.
6. Beautiful Savior written by Stuart Townend. This is one of my favorite songs, and it’s a long-time favorite at Sojourn Gathered. It’s also a great, celebratory follow-up to Communion:
Beautiful Saviour, Wonderful Counsel-or,
clothed in majesty, Lord of history,
You’re the Way the Truth, the Life,
Star of the Morning. Glorious ho—liness,
You’re the Risen One, Heaven’s Champion,
and You reign, You reign, over all.
7. Glory Be written by Sojourn’s Mike Cosper. Yet again, you can hear this on Advent Songs. Also, you can view the lyrics and chord sheets to every cut on Advent Songs here at sojournmusic.com.
Worship band for the 9am and 11:15am Sojourn Gathered in Germantown:
Lorie King — vocals
Brooks Ritter — vocals and guitar
David Weir — lead guitar
Bryan Todd — bass guitar
Alex O’Nan — drums
Worship band for the 10am service at Sojourn East:
Anna Young — vocals
Jamie Barnes — vocals and guitar
Mike Cosper — lead guitar
Dony Erwin — upright bass
Jason Tiemann — drums
Worship band for the 5pm and 7pm Sojourn Gathered in Germantown:
The Keith & Kristyn Getty traveling band
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“In Christ Alone,” which they wrote with fellow Irishman Stuart Townend.
Stuart Townend is English not Irish you might be confused with the Actor Stuart Townsend from Dublin - thanks and God bless.
So, in Christ, the English and the Irish can indeed get along.
Thanks for the correction, Jonathan.
I have really appreciated the collaboration of Getty and Townend. They have revived the art of hymn writing in our time. Their song “Joy Has Dawned” is on my set list this Advent season.