Welcome to the sojournmusic.com weekly set list review. Check out a special message by Lead Pastor Daniel Montgomery about this worship service and a short video from the service, on the Pastors’ Blog at our online journal, TravelBlog.
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 taken this week by Dan Canales.
1. Where Your Praise Never Ends by Sojourn’s Charlie Richardson. This was a fitting open song because the theme of this service and our pastor’s “Psalm Series” sermon was Praise.
Ones that have gone before us
Saints that have joined your chorus
Know of your glory now
My voice prepares the notes
That I’ll sing before your throne
Rehearsing the day I’ll see you face to face.
2. Our Great God by Fernando Ortega and Mac Powell, of Third Day. Like the first song, this has been a staple of Sojourn Gathered worship services for years. It’s a modern hymn of adoration:
Let every creature in the sea
And every flying bird
Let all the mountains, all the fields
And valleys of the earth
Let all the moons and all the stars
Throughout the universe
Sing praises to the Living God
Who rules them by His word
3. Psalm 25 adapted and set to music by Joe Day of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. A psalm of praise during a Psalmic Praise-centered Sunday. More specifically, Pastor Joe used Psalm 25:8-10 as the setting for his tune:
All your ways are
Loving, faithful, Lord
To those who
Seek your faceYou give grace to
The humble hearted
And instruct them
In your ways
4. Thy Mercy text by John Stocker, music by Sandra McCracken. Can’t wait till she comes out with her new hymn-based recording this year. “Thy Mercy” is from her project The Builder And The Architect. Here, we used it as a communion song:
Without Thy sweet mercy I could not live here;
Sin would reduce me to utter despair;
But, through Thy free goodness, my spirits revive,
And He that first made me still keeps me alive
5. King of Glory by Chris Tomlin. We sang this coming out of Communion this week, which gave it a celebrative, “love feast” feel. “King of Glory” is another psalm-based contemporary worship song (based off Psalm 24).
Lift up your gaze
Be lifted up
Tell everyone
How great the love
The love come down
From heaven’s gate
To kiss the earth
With hope and grace
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty
6. Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman. This is a favorite of many Sojourners, and of course Christians around the globe. Worship Leader Lorie King and I discussed “Blessed Be Your Name” as part of the “Worship Song Series” on the Inside Sojourn podcast. You can download podcast episodes at iTunes, or listen specifically to the five-minute discussion of “Blessed Be Your Name” right here.
7. Mourning Into Dancing by Sojourn’s Jeremy Quillo. You can view the lyrics and chords on our These Things I Remember page. If you don’t own These Things I Remember, listen to the “Mourning Into Dancing” mp3 for free now at Last.fm.
For that matter, you can also hear it and a couple other Sojourn songs on a great new short video that tells the story of Sojourn’s ten year history. Check it out:
Sojourn Past from Sojourn Community Church on Vimeo.
Worship band for the 9:30 and 11:15am services at the Midtown campus:
Lorie King — vocals
Charlie Richardson — vocals and guitar
Brooks Ritter — vocals and guitar
Mike Cosper — lead guitar
Daniel LaChance — keyboard
Brian Shrock — bass guitar
Buck Buchanan — drums
Worship band for the 10am service at the East campus:
Katie Stayte— vocals
Jamie Barnes — vocals and guitar
Kristen Smith — vocals and keyboard
Phillip Miller — lead guitar
Jonathan Ruff — bass guitar
Sean Brooks — drums
Worship band for the 5 and 7pm services at the Midtown campus:
Anna Young — vocals
Brooks Ritter — vocals and keyboard
Rob Maine — lead guitar
Martin Stam — bass guitar
Smitty Smith — drums
