Travis recently asked me to post some thoughts on the new Sojourn Album, Over the Grave: the hymns of Isaac Watts, volume 1.

This album is the first of a two-album Isaac Watts project by Sojourn Church in Louisville, Kentucky. (Though a Baptist church, Sojourn is also affiliated with the Acts 29 Network, a group seeking to plant gospel-saturated churches worldwide.) This album has been described by the musicians at Sojourn as “Hi-Wattage”, meaning an indie-rock feel, while the next album will be more folk/acoustic influenced, hence, “Lo-Wattage”.

Let’s get the genre out of the way. There’s no way I would describe this as an indie-rock album. But that’s not a bad thing.

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted several reviews of the worship services at General Assembly. I appreciate the comments and discussion that those posts have inspired. A few closing thoughts today: As I’ve stated in a couple of venues, I think the variety that the Central Florida Presbytery brought to the worship services was [...]

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The third and final worship service, held on Thursday, June 18, was called “A Renewed World”. Attendance at this service was spotty, due to the Assembly ending early and the service being moved up to 4:30pm from 5:30pm. (This also meant that the cellist for the evening was on his way to the Assembly during [...]

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The second worship service, held on Wednesday, June 17, was called “A Renewed Church”. Music was led by musicians from Christ Kingdom Church, University Presbyterian, Willow Creek Presbyterian and Laura Story Elvington, a guest artist from Perimeter Church in suburban Atlanta. We sang the following hymns/songs: Awesome is the Lord Most High Words and Music: [...]

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Daniel was an investment banker who worked for a national bank in their downtown Houston office. One afternoon while waiting for the bus, he ran into Dr. Clark, his finance professor and mentor from college. Having a few extra minutes, they walked down to the Flying Saucer and caught up over a drink. They talked [...]

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Tuesday evening’s worship service was entitled “A Renewed Church Leadership”, going along with the theme for the week, “All Things New”. Music was led by the combined musicians of Orangewood Presbyterian in Maitland, Florida and Seven Rivers Presbyterian in Lecanto, Florida (as well as assembly organist Larry Roff leading us on a couple of the [...]

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