Welcome to Sojourn’s weekly worship music set list review & service recap. You’ll not only read a list of the songs we led, but also the readings and prayers from our liturgy. You can also watch the video stream of the whole service from our Facebook page or here below (you can also see a video of our sermon alone, from Vimeo).
Our liturgy is directed by Worship Director Justin Shaffer, in collaboration with our Creative Staff at Sojourn Church New Albany, our Liturgy writers, and worship staff at the other four Sojourn Collective churches in the Louisville area.
This Sunday Pastor Jonah Sage preached from Genesis 1:26-31 in our series Sacred. Jennifer Pisani was our Lector.
—Prelude: “My Maker and My King” Key, Kara
CALL TO WORSHIP: Liturgist
Themes: Creative energy flowing from God’s Word, an inspirational God, teaming with diversity, the hand of God particularly on each of us, this church, etc
3 [The heavens] have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6 It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.
-Psalm 19:3-6 NIV
Let’s join OUR voices and praise him!
—Song 2: “Praise to the Lord the Almighty” Key, Kim and Kara
CONFESSION/LAMENT: Band Member
Heat the word of the Lord:
1 God presides over heaven’s court;
he pronounces judgment on the heavenly beings:
2 “How long will you hand down unjust decisions
by favoring the wicked? Interlude
3 “Give justice to the poor and the orphan;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
4 Rescue the poor and helpless;
deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
5 But these oppressors know nothing;
they are so ignorant!
They wander about in darkness,
while the whole world is shaken to the core.
6 I say, ‘You are gods;
you are all children of the Most High.
7 But you will die like mere mortals
and fall like every other ruler.’”
8 Rise up, O God, and judge the earth,
for all the nations belong to you.
-Psalm 82 NLT
—Song 3: “Shine Into Our Night” Key, Justin
ASSURANCE & GIVING: Liturgist
Hear what the Lord has done for his people:
8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. -Ephesians 2:8-9 NLT
1 John 3:1-3
—Song 4: “Jireh” Key, Justin and Ryan
PEACE: Band Member
3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. 2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. 3 And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure. -1 John 3:1-3 NLT
Let’s greet one another in grace and peace
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—Song 5: “This is My Father’s World” Key, Kim
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Reader
—Song 6: “Future/Past” Key, Ryan
BENEDICTION: Liturgist
Creator God—
as we return now to our homes, workplaces, and communities,
may Your Spirit open our eyes anew
to the vastness and splendor of Your beauty all around us.
May we hear, and smell, and see, and touch
Your glory, evident in all of Your creation.
Above all, let us see Your beauty
even in the brokenness of our brothers and sisters—
all of them, created in Your image,
and waiting to experience that redemption that comes
only through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Go and cultivate beauty in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Peace be with you!