http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuwillis/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 If you’ve been to many worship conferences or “talked shop” with worship leaders, pastors and ministers of music, sooner or later it comes up: What do you think when people applaud at the end of a song, during a worship service? Do you encourage it, ignore it or correct it? I took an informal poll of my Twitter and Facebook contacts. Here are some of their thoughts: I found this Swindoll quote pretty balanced in response to your question (read the Swindoll article. It’s a good one) I vote sometimes. It can be an expression … Read Entire Post
Welcome to sojournmusic.com’s weekly worship music 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. And 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 Thursday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos courtesy Dan Canales. This set list comes from the morning services at the Midtown campus. Slight variations may have taken place during the other services. 1. Invitacion Fountain written by Michael Pritzl … Read Entire Post
Kevin Twit is the founder of Indelible Grace, a collection of songwriters and musicians who have been writing updated hymn arrangements for many years, including many songs we sing at Sojourn. Kevin is a brilliant pastor and theologian who will be joining us to talk about songs and hymns in worship and history. Bring $5 for food and cash for CD’s if you’d like to pick up a few. We’ll gather from 5:30 – 8:00, including dinner. This is open to anyone who wants to come, though RSVP’s (for food’s sake) are requested. RSVP here at this link today! Just … Read Entire Post
Welcome to sojournmusic.com’s weekly worship music 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. And 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 Thursday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. This set list comes from the morning services at the Midtown campus. Slight variations may have taken place during the other services. Photos by Jason Spencer, from the evening services. 1. I Boast … Read Entire Post
Tony Kummer recorded the above video, which features a behind-the-scenes look at yesterday’s sold-out Band Of Bloggers event during Together For The Gospel week here in Louisville. You’ll hear our recording of “Mourning Into Dancing” from These Things I Remember in the background (written by Sojourn worship leader Jeremy Quillo). And the green Ford Explorer, used to transport the gift bags full of books for conference attendees? That’s mine. My car is a video star. Maybe it will stop being so greedy for gas now. The folks who are carrying bags out of the Explorer included several of the panelists … Read Entire Post
Band of Bloggers ’10-19 Originally uploaded by chuck.heeke Had a great time at today’s fourth annual Band of Bloggers (bandofbloggers.org) meetup, as did a capacity crowd of bloggers from around the country. You’ll be hearing much more about this event in the days and weeks to come, and will be able to experience it for yourself online. Photo courtesy of Chuck Heeke
Many of you are already regular readers of challies.com, the daily blog hosted by Tim Challies, one of the most respected and popular Christian writers in the blogosphere. This week he has launched a new “Friends of the Blog” incentive feature. For just a bit of cash, you can get all kinds of books, music and other products from a variety of sponsors who have lined up with Tim. Sojourn Music is glad to be a part of this deal. Together with Tim, we came up with a special album download that features his favorite Sojourn songs, and that covers … Read Entire Post
Welcome to sojournmusic.com’s weekly worship music 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. And 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 Thursday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. This set list comes from the morning services at the Midtown campus. Slight variations may have taken place during the other services. 1. Blessed Be Your Name by Matt and Beth Redman. … Read Entire Post
Many of you have expressed interest in how Sojourn conducts our visual arts ministry, and you’ve toured our gallery when visiting the Midtown campus in Louisville (which is located at The 930 Art Center). Check out this video on the making of our latest gallery exhibit, a visual representation of Psalms and Proverbs entitled Prayer and Wisdom. Be sure to watch the “Thanks to a few angels” segment at the end. It’s … well, words fail me: You can visit sojournvisualarts.com anytime for more about our visual arts ministry.
J. Barnes
CORRECTION TO THIS ORIGINAL STORY — in order to make sure we don’t conflict at all with the Thabiti Anyabwile session Wednesday morning the 14th, Sojourn Music is combining our free event with our Church Planting Center. We will hold LUNCH here at The 930 Art Center rather than breakfast. This is still totally free and open to the public, but RSVP here, as space is limited. If you’re coming to the Together For The Gospel conference next week here in Louisville, all of us in Sojourn Music would love to meet you. We’ll host a lunch at The 930 … Read Entire Post
Welcome to the Easter edition of sojournmusic.com’s weekly worship music 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. And 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 Thursday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos by Dan Canales. We’ll have more photos of Easter Sunday at the East campus — including the Sojourn cookout and children’s Easter Egg Hunt — later this … Read Entire Post
I. Wardell
I. Watts, J. Barnes
Former Sojourn member William Wallace is an incredible film-maker (and now a member of the new Antioch Church plant in South Louisville, led by former Sojourn pastor Todd Robertson). He recently shot this video for the Sojourn vision campaign, using our song “May Your Power Rest On Me” from Over The Grave: The Hymns Of Isaac Watts, Volume One. This features “Stories of Change” from a number of Sojourners. Lives transformed by the gospel, for God’s glory — that’s what it’s all about: Stories Of Change from Sojourn Community Church on Vimeo.
