Sojourn Church launched in 2000 with under 100 people, most of whom were in their early 20s, and many of whom were participants or patrons of Louisville's independent arts scene.
Due to copyright issues, Sojourn Music didn't produce additional copies or make the album available through digital distribution.
This ten-song album featured the vocals of Sojourn worship leader Jeremy Quillo, who wrote all songs except for "Come Thou Fount".
The Institute's goal was to encourage grant recipients to come up with creative ways to teach worship liturgy and theology as a conversation with God.
They called the reformulated album Advent Songs, and it garnered positive mentions in the Christian blogging community as well as Louisville's major newspaper, the Courier Journal, and airplay on Louisville radio station WFPK for songs "Glory Be" and covers of Christmas standards "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Joy To The World".
This album marked the first time a Sojourn single appeared on a Worship Leader SongSelect compilation CD ("Refuge") or received significant internet radio airplay ("Warrior").
It also marked the first time a Sojourn record appeared on iTunes’ Top Twenty downloads list of Christian albums.
In 2010, Cosper decided to record the second Watts volume at White Arc Studios with producer Paul Mahern, whose production/engineering credits include music by John Mellencamp, Over The Rhine, and many other artists.
Each immediately climbed into the iTunes Top Ten Christian downloads, and the song "Absent From Flesh" quickly became one of Sojourn's top-selling singles.
[citation needed] Sojourn recorded The Water And The Blood: The Hymns Of Isaac Watts, Volume Two over the span of one weekend at Mahern's studio.
The album was released as Come Ye Sinners on November 20, 2012, and again featured a mixture of Sojourn originals (some appearing for the first time) and covers.
They have resisted drawing lines between "Christian" and "secular" music, and have been influenced by everything from the psalms of David to the great hymns of the Reformation, and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries like Thelonious Monk, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead, Elbow, Over The Rhine, Wilco and U2.