Welcome to the sojournmusic.com weekly set list review. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. 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 week at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week by Dan Canales. 1. Your Blood Says Everything by Billy Sommerville. This is a well-worn song at Sojourn Gathered. We’ve sang it in several different parts of the service. Here we used …« Read Entire Post
In the picture above, Sojourn’s Rebecca Dennison (vocals), Jamie Barnes (banjo), Brooks Ritter (acoustic guitar) and Mike Cosper (electric guitar) rehearse with Keith Getty and a Calvin College band on the eve of the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship’s 2010 Symposium. Follow along and see other pics at twitter.com/bobbygilles.
Welcome to the sojournmusic.com weekly set list review. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. 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 week at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week by Dan Canales. 1. We Are Changed by me (Bobby Gilles), Neil Robins and Dave Moisan. You can view the lyrics/chord sheet for “We Are Changed” on our Over The Grave: The …« Read Entire Post
Worship Leader magazine serves 40,000 subscribers each month with print issues dedicated to providing, recommending and discussing resources available to aid worship leaders everywhere. Check out the January/February 2010 issue of Worship Leader for a review of Over The Grave: The Hymns of Isaac Watts, Volume One. As of now, this review is not on their website. If you don’t subscribe to Worship Leader but would like to check out a free issue, you can do so here. Each subscription includes eight issues of the magazine and eight compilation CDs of recommended worship music. The Over The Grave review said, …« Read Entire Post
Welcome to the sojournmusic.com weekly set list review. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. 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 week at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week by Dan Canales, Ryan Harvey and Chuck Heeke, featuring baptisms from both campuses and all five services. 1. Blessed Are The Poor In This Life written by Sojourn’s Charlie Richardson …« Read Entire Post
A special message from Kevin Janes, long-time concert promoter for Sojourn’s music venue, The 930 Listening Room: Hello Friends & Family Old and New, Many of you know I’ve helped run a neighborhood music venue called The 930 Listening Room for a few years now, and we have a very special benefit show scheduled this Saturday, January 23 at 7 p.m. featuring five wonderful Louisville artists. Dubbed BreachBent: A Concert for Third World Justice, the show features Brooks Ritter, Jamie Barnes, The Parade Schedule, Dave Moisan, and Luke Asher, most of whom you may have heard on WFPK, 91.9FM. 100% …« Read Entire Post
Shortly after I published “Getting Ready For Sunday,” our weekly preview of the upcoming Sojourn Gathered worship service (which we post on TravelBlog, Sojourn’s online journal), Worship Pastor Mike Cosper updated our liturgy to include a time of lament for the people of Haiti. Join us this Sunday as we’ll pray together right at the beginning of the service, read from the Psalms, and sing “From The Depths.” Our own Jeremy Quillo wrote “From The Depths,” recorded on our These Things I Remember album. You can hear the “From The Depths” mp3 for free right here. As you listen, reflect …« Read Entire Post
In Christ alone, my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song … With those opening lines, Keith Getty and Stuart Townend began the quintessential contemporary hymn, “In Christ Alone.” In this age of praise and worship songs containing a single verse and a chorus (sometimes a second chorus and/or a bridge) one would have thought that “In Christ Alone” didn’t have a chance — no chorus, four big verses of eight lines each, in metered poetry. Keith and Kristyn Getty lead worship at Sojourn And yet, churches all over the world sing this anthem of the …« Read Entire Post
Welcome to the sojournmusic.com weekly set list review. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. 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 week at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week by Dan Canales. 1. Eyes On The Prize by the great American folk singer-songwriter, Pete Seeger. This is a fun song for the beginning of a service. It was also fitting, given …« Read Entire Post
It’s almost time for the yearly Worship Symposium hosted by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I will be a part of the biggest contingent yet of Sojourn Music members to take part in the Symposium, from January 28-30. So what’s it all mean? A few Sojourn musicians are slated to help lead worship Pastor Mike Cosper will participate on two panel discussions (Models for Coordinating Weekly Worship and What Does it Take to Plant a Church) Sojourn worship leaders will be taking in many of the workshops and lectures, attending worship services and making friends …« Read Entire Post
Matt Redman has written many strong contemporary worship songs, not the least of which is “Blessed Be Your Name,” the first song that we’re going to feature on our brand new “Worship Song Series,” which is all about how to use songs in church worship services. “Blessed Be Your Name” was co-written by Matt and his wife Beth, and is catalogued by CCLI under #3798438. You can find it on Blessed Be Your Name: The Songs Of Matt Redman, Volume One. Sojourn worship leader Lorie King joins me in this series, as in our “Worship: Why We Do What We …« Read Entire Post
