Whole-Body Praise: Check It Out In This Short Video From Sojourn Gathered

Yesterday I preached “A Praise Manifesto” from Psalm 150.  (If you didn’t get a chance to hear it, we’ll have it in the resource section of sojournchurch.com soon).  I called for wholehearted praise to our great and holy God — praise with our voices, hands and whole bodies.
It was simply amazing to see our church [...]

Sing! Clap! Dance! Teaching Kids To Praise

If you are a parent, then God has commanded you to teach your children about Him.  And He has commanded you to teach your children to worship Him—and worship Him expressively.
In Psalm 78:4, the songwriter, Asaph, declares: “We will… tell the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders [...]

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, [...]

Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For The Feb. 21, 2010 Sojourn Gathered

This Sunday after the 11:15 service at the Midtown campus, Community Group leaders will share pizza and drinks in the Listening Room for anyone interested in joining a group or finding out what group life is all about at Sojourn.  You can find out about groups close to your house, ask questions and take care [...]

Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For The March 14, 2010 Sojourn Gathered

This week at Sojourn Gathered, our pastor will take us back to the Book of Psalms for the second of four sermons in the Psalms Series (after that, the Sojourn pastors will explore the entire New Testament for the rest of 2010).
Last week Pastors Rob Plummer and Chad Lewis taught from Psalm 32, a psalm [...]

Getting Ready For Sunday: How To Prepare For The NEW SERMON SERIES This Sunday, 2.7.2010

This Sunday at Sojourn Gathered, Pastor Daniel Montgomery will lead us into a new sermon series from the book of Psalms.  We will camp out in Psalms for four weeks.  After that, we’ll dig into the New Testament — every single book — for the rest of 2010.
Psalms has been called the “hymn book” and [...]

Did David Write A Psalm After Slaying Goliath?

Psalm 151 is considered an apocryphal section of the Old Testament, meaning that it exists outside the canon of Scripture — those writings that the church, down through time, consider to be the inspired Word of God.  We cannot be sure that David wrote it, although the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls makes it [...]

Psalm 42-43 – Hope for Depression and Suffering, by Mike Cosper

If you’ve been following along the reading schedule for the BC series, then you’ll have read Psalm 43 yesterday. Psalms 42 and 43 are a series, considered by some to be a single song broken up for various temple-worship purposes. Whatever the case, they are worth considering together.
Psalm 42 begins with a well-loved verse:
As the [...]

From The Mouths Of Infants And Babes, by Jared Kennedy

A few days ago, we read Psalm 8 as part of our Old Testament reading. Verse 2 says:
From the lips of children and infants
You have ordained praise
because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
In the 1860s, Charles Spurgeon wrote:

“How often will children tell us of a God whom we have forgotten! How [...]