Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Sojourn's Worship Music Set List, June 27, 2010

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 begins with the first song following our Call To Worship. Slight variations may have taken place in each service/campus.

Photos courtesy of Sojourn’s Chuck Heeke.

1. Come Ye Sinners written by Joseph Hart, arranged my Sojourn’s Brooks Ritter.  This song followed our Call To Worship reading, and is itself a strong call to worship:

Come ye sinners, poor and needy

Weak and wounded, sick and sore;

Jesus ready stands to save you,

Full of pity, love and power

2. Be Merciful To Me by Randall Goodgame, recorded by Caedmon’s Call.  This gentle, plaintive cry is a confession that we need God’s mercy:

Be merciful to me, be merciful to me

In shadow dark and valley deep, be merciful to me

3. It Is Well With My Soul the classic gospel hymn by Horatio G. Spafford.  We used this as a song of assurance, leading into the Passing Of The Peace.

When peace like a river attendeth my way

When sorrow like sea billows roll

Whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say

It is well, it is well with my soul

4. Whom Have I In Heaven But You an Isaac Watts hymn (Book 2, Hymn 107) revisited by Brooks Ritter and Rebecca Elliott.  This was our first time to sing “Whom Have I In Heaven But You” at Sojourn Gathered.

Chief of all my joys

Sovereign of my heart

Whom have I in heaven but You?

My heart may fail

But You are my Strength

Whom have I in heaven but You?

Following the Passing Of The Peace, Lead Pastor Daniel Montgomery continued in the second week of our Galatians sermon series, expositing on Galatians 4.  Following the sermon, we took communion, as we do each week at Sojourn Gathered.

5. Lead Us Back by me (Bobby Gilles) and Brooks Ritter. We wrote this as a song of confession and repentance on the liturgically themed Before The Throne album.  You can hear the full mp3 (click “Preview”) and view the lyrics (click “Chord Sheet”) on the Before The Throne page here at sojournmusic.com.  The song was a good fit, given how strongly the Epistle to the Galatians and our Galatians sermon series attacks the evils of legalism:

You have caused the blind to see

We have blinded them again

With our man-made laws and creeds

Eager, ready to condemn

Now we plead before Your throne –

Power sings a Siren tune

We’ve been throwing heavy stones;

Lead us back to life in You.

6. Absent From Flesh by Isaac Watts and Sojourn’s Jamie Barnes.  This was a favorite at Sojourn Gathered from the first time we sang it.  You’ll be able to hear it on our next full-length worship CD, volume two of the Isaac Watts project.  It’s a great way to end a worship service by looking to our final “sending”

I go where God in glory shines,

To one eternal day

This failing body I now resign

For the angels point my way.  For the angels point my way!