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 recap begins with the first song following the Call To Worship (our sets often begin with a pre-Call To Worship song that is “band leader’s choice,” and so is different in each campus). Some additional variations in the music sets may have taken place in each service/campus. Photos from the Midtown a.m. services by Brad Weir.
1. God Of Wonders written by Marc Byrd and Steve Hindalong. This is one of the more popular modern worship songs of the last 15 years, thanks to Third Day, Caedmon’s Call and many other artists — and thanks to the fact that it’s a great song. Here, we sang it as our response to God’s Call To Worship.
Early in the morning
I will celebrate the light
When I stumble in the darkness,
I will call Your name by night
2. From The Depths by Sojourn’s first worship songwriter, Jeremy Quillo. You can find the chord sheet and listen to the entire “From The Depths” mp3 on our These Things I Remember page, here at sojournmusic.com. This week, we sang this Psalm-based song as a confession of our utter dependence on the Lord.
Oh savior of mine, I’m longing to find
A place where Your heart meets with mine.
This valley I’ve seen
Too dark and too deep,
Too big for my faith and too far for my feet
3. O Love That Will Not Let Me Go hymn text by George Matheson. Contemporary melody written by Christopher Miner and recorded by Indelible Grace. I love their version of this amazing old hymn. We sang this as a declaration of our assurance in Christ for our salvation:
O Cross that liftest of my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust, life’s glory dead,
And from the ground, there blossom’s red
Life that shall endless be.
4. When The Savior Reached Down For Me, the early 20th century Southern Gospel classic by quartet man G.E. Wright. This was our Communion hymn for the week, which followed a sermon by Pastor Brian Howard on Ephesians.
When the Savior reached down for me,
When He reached down His hand for me,
I was lost and undone without God or His Son,
When He reached down His hand for me
5. O Church Arise written by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty. We sung this as a hymn of dedication — our response to Christ for the work He did “when he reached down His hand for me.” Below, check out a live performance of this song by our friends Keith & Kristyn Getty:
6. Fellowship So Deep by Aaron Senseman and Kinley Lange. We’ve sung this as a prelude to the Passing Of The Peace, as a song of assurance, a Communion song, and — as here — a song for the Sending, prior to our Benediction:
Let us sing of our Redeemer, and His love which makes us free
And know this gift is ours forever — a fellowship so deep. A fellowship so deep.
