Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For The February 28 Sojourn Gathered

This week, Pastor Daniel Montgomery will teach on singing, clapping, stomping, kneeling, bowing — all about worshiping our great God through music and rhythm. We all know that some people are more expressive than others.  And of course, whole streams of Christianity have developed traditions that are more or less expressive than other traditions.  Culture, [...]

Photo Blog: Ash Wednesday Service This Morning

Deacon Dan Canales took photos at this morning’s Ash Wednesday service at the Midtown campus.  We were thrilled to see approximately 400 worshipers come to this midweek, 6:30 am service at Midtown, in addition to those at the East campus.
As Pastor Mike Cosper explained, the ashes used during an Ash Wednesday service come from ground-up [...]

Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For The First Day Of Advent 2009 At Sojourn Gathered

This Sunday at Sojourn Gathered we will enter into the first day of Advent, the season of expectation and longing for the coming of Christ.  Advent always begins four Sundays before Christmas.  During these next few Sundays you can expect us to sing plenty of Advent Songs, our CD of original Sojourn songs and traditional [...]

Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For The 11/22/09 Sojourn Gathered

This Sunday we begin studying another major prophetic book: Daniel.  I asked Pastor Mike Cosper what he’s preparing for us.  He offered this preview:
“The book of Daniel is an amazing, apocalyptic book full of visions of war, bloodshed, madness, and the end of the world. But it’s not just a book about the grandiose and [...]

Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For Sojourn Gathered, Sunday, October 25, 2009

Our pastors Daniel Montgomery and Mike Cosper have been working hard to prepare this coming Sunday’s sermon and worship liturgy.  If you didn’t know, there is much more that goes into a worship service than simply writing down a few scriptures on a notepad and thinking of a few stories to tell.  There is much [...]

Sojourn Music Needs YOU, by Mike Cosper

I am always overwhelmed when I stop and think about the incredible amount of talent that we have been blessed with at Sojourn. I am so thankful that I get to make music every weekend with these gifted musicians.
Sometimes, that blessing might give the wrong impression. Often, when I meet a musician at Sojourn, they [...]

An Inside Look At The Sojourn Elders’ Retreat

Last week the Sojourn elders and elders-in-process traveled to a rustic cabin overlooking a lake for their 2009 summer retreat.  As the deacon in charge of communications I was allowed to observe the proceedings and participate in plenty of prayer, relaxation, good food, river-floating, stimulating conversation and a study on 1 Timothy led by teaching [...]

Sojourn Pastor Responds To Spirituality Column In The LEO Weekly

The following is the full text of Pastor Mike Cosper’s letter that ran in an abridged version in today’s edition of The LEO Weekly.
Dear Joe, I’m Glad You’re Not in the SBC
(This letter is a response to Joe Phelps’ spirituality column last week)
I, too, am a reluctant Baptist. After growing up in some of the [...]

Theology And Film: “Drag Me To Hell,” by Mike Cosper

If Flannery O’Conner Made a Horror Movie…
I was in Junior High School when I saw my first Sam Raimi film. It was summer time, a season when I logged countless hours watching movies and documentaries on cable. One day, on  show that I believe was called “American Cinema”, they profiled Sam Raimi, who had experienced [...]

Watch The Full Sojourn Meeting/Q&A Session On Multi Campus Expansion Here!

Last week Sojourn’s catalytic leadership team — Teaching Pastor Daniel Montgomery, Worship & Arts Pastor Mike Cosper and Director of Operations Bryce Butler — hosted an open meeting and Q&A session about the upcoming launch of our second Louisville church campus (St. Matthews) and called for a simultaneous rededication to the neighborhood of The 930 [...]

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