Writing Songs from Heaven - Chris Blue

Those songs come from heaven. I think those songs come from hell. I just wrote a song a couple weeks ago. I was on a flight from New York back to Tennessee and I'm sleeping and in my dream right I hear this song this worship song and it's just like just like I saw this vision was massive choir and they were singing the words this song and I heard the chords and I'm like wow this is incredible this is amazing and I woke up and normally I don't remember you know my dreams that well that often even songs that I hear tasting it's really good but this when I heard and I remembered it I was like wow yo I've got to do this so I went home I wrote it immediately and when I got it to church it was an instant hit instantly the church just I mean in worship they loved it they they thought it was a song that already existed and like well yeah in heaven because that's where it came from it was literally a download spiritual download hey what's up y'all my name is Chris Blue I am a native of Central Florida Pope County Florida that is was brought up here for the bulk of my youth I didn't move to Tennessee with my family on the youngest of seven kids was raised by my mother and father and they kept us in church my entire life I was in church every single day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday and of course on Sunday they found a reason for us to be in church and I believe that is the reason why I'm able to talk to you guys right now because my foundation has always been faith and this is my faithfully story welcome to faithfully stories the podcast that brings you inspiring tales from conversations with church leaders as they navigate the peaks and valleys of their faith journeys through their ministry work and everyday life join us as we delve into their challenges moments of encouragement and answered prayers the Faithly Stories podcast is brought to you by Faithly an online community committed to empowering church leaders pastors staff and volunteers learn more at Faithly.co get ready to be uplifted and inspired as we unveil the heart of faith through stories from the front lines of ministry on the Faithly Stories podcast. Could you share how your faith journey started? Absolutely so my faith journey started I believe when I was about two years old I was really interested in music and singing and gospel singing and in particular I never forget man I was I was at my grandmother's house and every year for Christmas me and all my cousins my brothers sisters all my siblings okay really playing this picture right you have to understand my grandmother had 14 children right and so imagine everybody's children and one small house playing outside having a great time and it was just you know it was one of those things that I knew would be super fun for me and so I got to hang out with my cousins every Christmas and it was always something I look forward to this particular Christmas however it was 1992 I was only two years old crazy I remember this I was watching this gospel group on the television while all my cousins were outside playing and I could not move I was stuck I was glued to the television I'm watching them sing these songs quartet group gospel quartet group from Camp Mississippi they're called the Camp Structures and they're doing their thing and they're killing it and I'm like wow this is a beautiful expression of not only music and talent but but a faith and and and of love for God and just to see the response of the people that was something that I would say was the seed that truly truly started my walk with Christ so from there how did you start gaining like a knowledge and an understanding of like Jesus think that for me that happens over time right I think the beginning of of that happened when I was around about seven or eight years old I wanted to get baptized because at the church that we grew up in we were baptizing you know pretty often and at first I wanted to get baptized because I saw my friend starting to get baptized different people getting baptized and I was like oh the churches applauding they're happy they're doing something good and I was such a people please it back then not as bad as you know I'm not as bad as I was then but I was really bad and I would see them applauding I'm like you want them I want that applause you know I want to make everybody happy so I'm gonna get baptized I went to my dad I was like that I want to get baptized and he said son when you're old enough to understand what you're really doing I'll allow you to get baptized I said okay well how old is that you said I don't know but you'll know I was around eight nine years old when I really started to understand what it meant to be baptized in the faith and I would say that was the beginning of my understanding of Christianity and faith in God and I would say now though it's minutes every evolving I'm learning something new every single day right because when you look at my background my church background it started it started as an apostolic Pentecostal we left there went to a non-denominational church for a few years from there we left and went to an AME and from AME to Episcopalian and from Episcopalian and to Kojik and Kojik to Phi Beta I've been all over the place now I'm serving at a Presbyterian church so it's like I've seen God in so many different facets it's like okay I've seen the Hellfire Brimstone of God and I've been able to experience the love of God and so now I've come to this this pretty good balance of you know what who what and who God is in my life where some early influences in your walk and your growing and understanding here in honestly me every time I've ever opened the word of God I don't know it was as if the words would jump off the page and I could understand what God was saying you know revelation would just come easy for me like and it's something that I often pray as well you have to pray for the word to be revealed unto you God is mysterious in all of his ways so even there are certain things in the word of God this black and white there are certain things that are a little great and it takes the Holy Spirit revealing unto us what those things truly mean and what they are and how they apply to our lives so that we can have an understanding of the word of God so every time before I even read I pray Lord reveal yourself unto me through your word these are your words these are not my words these are your words therefore I need you to reveal what you are trying to communicate and what you are saying unto me and I don't know that I have many people that I look up that I grew up listening to I can tell you there's certainly a few now that I highly respect and love and and and appreciate Dr. you know A.R. Bernard is one Adam Pastor Adam Dersos another passage of all Bernard I really highly respect and appreciate the men of God that they are in the mind that they have as it pertains to the word of God I guess what I'm trying to like tease out is like who have been like influential in your discipleship or just curious as to who's been shaping you as like a disciple but also to grow as like a man yeah that's great question God has positioned me to have several men in my life and matter of fact I'm an old soul and so I just naturally I gravitate toward you know older people you know so the men in my life that are pouring into me are not my peers that's just how it set up it's the older men and God called them because they're wise and so there's a man by the name of Haller and Hill that I've been walking with since I was ten another man Andrew Osaka who I've been walking with man this quite a few I have an uncle who's a pastor Raymond Mose he's been a great light and an insight into just helping me walk you know through this faith and understanding scripture and understanding the word of God my oldest brother my oldest brother I'm elder Ernest Blue who's an elder in the church of God in Christ he's another one that's been helping me really navigate this thing called life and manhood my dad my dad's been there to even help you know hey son this is what a man is this what a man does this is how man I'm so I have several men strong men good men in my life that have really helped shape the man of God that I am today and help continue to shape the man of God that I am so what do you think is it about these men that resonated with you because when I take a look at my life I realize like there are certain like types of men or men that like I look up to right and I will listen to them because I trust them right and when other people say the same exact and I'm like nah bro like I'm not receiving that from you so for you like what is it about these men that has been most helpful to you to be like oh I want to listen to these people because I've been growing and changing I would say the thing that makes me want to listen to a thing that helps me listen to them before I listen to anyone else has been consistency they've been consistent you know not perfect not perfect but consistent you know my brother's one he'll man when it comes to the word of God and right and wrong there is no tiptoeing on that line he is for what the word says he is for what is right regardless of who you are he's going to choose he's going to always side with the word that's just you know how he is and that's who he is and so you know it's been consistency for him and just being able to watch these men live their life because I hear them all the time say hey man you know you know you want to do this as a man you want to do that out of that out of you I'm like okay all right I hear you but now I'm gonna watch you that's one of the things that even I've learned with the world you know we've been we we we go out into the marketplace the Bible says go yeah into the world that's what Jesus told the disciples go into the world preaching and teaching the gospel baptizing father he's like we've done that for so long and you would think because we've done it for so long that it would become you know automatic or natural for people once they hear us to just you know come into the fold but what I've noticed is people have stopped listening to us they stopped listening on long time ago and now they're only watching us they're only watching what we're what we're doing and not really listening or paying attention to what we're saying because what we do carries a little bit more merit than what we say Jesus said your lips speak of me but your heart is far from me right so that heart theirs is an actionable organ anything that derives from the heart produces an action so that's what you know Jesus trying to let them know like listen I hear what you're saying but what you're doing is completely opposed to what you're saying and so I think the world is doing the same to us like they're they're not listening to us they're watching us and that's what I've done with all my mentors and and coaches life coaches and and and and you know those who have discipled me continue to disciple me I'm watching them and so that's been really key that's really fire that's so good thank you how does all of that now translated to you in the music industry and you're you're a pursuit of this career oh I think it translates into a beautiful journey because it's foundational so when I started when I started this music thing man I honestly I so I was on the voice and by the grace of God I was able to win that show I was a great experience what got me through it though were the foundational scriptures and the things that I learned as a kid so every single morning and we would stay with our grandmother we would wake up me and all my cousins it was about 50 of us that were in the house with her we would have to get up and say our prayers and we would have to recite scripture from memorization everything morning every Sunday morning on our way to church we would recite scripture and we would recite we would start we would pray prayers and just different things that we would just kind of do that on a routine basis so that was that was my secret sauce on the show I just took all of that in every single morning I'm reciting the same scriptures I'm reading scriptures at night I'm praying I devoted myself to God there was a message that one of my mentors gave me before I left to go to California he gave me two words two words that's it he said go win now to me and to the average person it's like oh go in the show to me I start winning completely different to me winning was being so connected to God that no matter what I sang performed or produced on TV the Holy Spirit and the anointing would project through every television screen every tablet every phone and God will be glorified and I can't tell you how many DMs how many takes messages how many calls I received from people saying man I know you were singing at Michael Jackson I know you sung Bruno Mars but I just felt the anointing I felt the Holy Spirit and I'm like what stuff does work and so that's how I say it translates into the music industry who you are as a person in your core things that you stand on the things that you say you believe the one you say you believe in it will show right as a man think it then is hard so is he and so whatever thought you have in your heart that actionable organ at well know whatever you think that's what you will be that's what you'll be coming that's how it translates into into the music for me it's all it's not even about the sound to be talented people in the world everybody can sing nowadays you know what I mean everybody can hold a note can do runs they can do all this stuff but how many people are bringing in the presence of God there's only one way to do that he must be present and so that's what I focus on yeah more and more I get as I get older and something I've been learning recently it's like the King of the Bulbas vibes like really like it's it's this resonance that you can't explain I guess the question I'm trying to ask is like for a lot of people especially in the arts and like in the non church world of music like how are you like what is it like navigating through that right now for you in your career and like what have been some distractions or what has been some wins that like you want to like encourage other artists to be like hey like it's gonna be hard or it's gonna be difficult or like these are the things you want to watch out for but like this is how I've been navigating it great question um the reality is misery loves company okay and the music industry just like any of any other industry is hard right and you have a lot of happy people and those people who have you know found the true joy and music in being an artist are happy they might not be the richest or most successful or most famous but they're happy because they found the secret sauce but you got a lot of people right who probably are pretty famous and are made of pretty good living for themselves miserable the majority are miserable and you know you have a lot of those numbers that aren't doing so well they're just struggling they're they're striving they're trying to you know make this thing work and it's just it's just not working you know fill it hard not only that the industry is a dark place because of the the the fame the lights the cameras you know it's I often say I'm in music but I'm not a music right like I'm in the music industry but I'm not of the music industry because of how volatile it is how fickle it is how how an how an unhuman it can be or in human it can be like it's you know it's it's the best way it's just a really really dark dark place you have a lot of angry people who are looking to talk about leverage what have you done for me lately you know it's it's it's if I scratch your back you scratch mine you know it's very very very political and you wouldn't think or imagine that that would be the case and even in the Christian music industry or the gospel music industry but the reality is anytime you are dealing in business anytime business is involved if you're not careful it's I mean it's gonna those lines are gonna get blurred and so that's one of the things that we see in facing the music industry and just being honest you know with anyone who's striving to become an artist or or make a career out of music it is difficult I'm not gonna lie to you it is it is it is hard but once you realize you're why and allow that to be your fuel allow that to project you into the world I think everything else kind of just goes away because you're zeroed in you're you're locked in on why you're doing this you know why you've been called that's all I that's what I do you know I I don't I know that those bad days are gonna happen I know that those disappointments are gonna come I know I just had one this morning I just got an email this morning of something that really really like it's kind of threw me for a loop just before you know we jumped on this interview but my why why why have you got why have you got called me into this that why keeps me going and that's what I would say to anyone who's looking to to be an artist and be successful don't focus on the money focus on why and everything else will come so what is your why my why is very simple my why is to be light and darkness a glue a conduit that brings people together all my life I've been the one for some reason that my family my friends co-workers so have you partners whatever they've come to I've just been that middle person who's been able to kind of bridge gaps and bring people together and so that's what I believe God has called me to he's called me to be that bridge to connect different worlds races beliefs lifestyles people through the love of God and and show them the reality of God's love and so that's that's been my why that's why I keep doing this that's why I wake up every day trying to figure out how can I get in front of people because I know if I get in front of people God will do the rest that's that's been my motto like God you just get me in front of them and then you'll do the rest and so that's my why man I got to be light in this dark world and it's a dark dark were you always like this like if I asked your grandma like well it's Chris like as a kid it's like oh exactly who he isn't now oh absolutely that tell you I was bold I always I was singing I was preaching dude my mom on the hair salon I would walk in the hair salon and steal all of her coms and use her coms as my microphone and brushes as my microphone and I'm preaching to all of her clients you know like everything that you're singing now is who I was as a kid obviously you know I'm probably a little bit cuter now but you know other than that but in both parts man I was always I was always a servant I was always a love of Jesus and and God all my friends all my artists friends will tell you when I was trying to like do the mainstream thing there was like Chris you church you bro you two churches like you you need to be singing in church like you are now in your lane you know to me so yeah I was always I was always like this as I get older too I realized like there's a core that doesn't change in me and I feel like that's the identity that God placed in all of us that there's just this authenticity in who we are and like a lot of life is just figuring that out and not letting the world tell me who I am but me discovering who got me to be so yeah that's great you said your grandmother had 14 kids right so my grandmother had half of that seven and so we would have like these like epic like family gatherings I mean it wouldn't be like like big per se like like we're spending a lot of money but like we would gather at my grandma disciples and then everyone would bring like massive amounts of food and and it was amazing until like you know drama started happening in families and then like the pours and like and it just fractured and like I no longer have that and I miss it I never realized like how good I had it even with a dysfunctional family as long as we work together and eating together but for you like is your family still together or are these scattered or like how's the family dynamic my mother my mother my father um their their relationship didn't make it they actually um separated when I was eight years old but my my dad you know still in my life come on obviously you still still in my life um and all my siblings and I like everybody so we're still together we don't live in the same you know state or city like we used to you know and we're like any other family just in all transparency man like we we're not perfect you know we have our dysfunctions and we have our issues but man we know how to come together and and that's one of the beautiful things that I appreciate about my family we will come together so don't mess with one of us because you got six more that's coming I'm telling you and they're not they're not as friendly sometimes but uh no oh and I think it's something that my grandmother and grandfather and my uncles and my us like they've instilled in us and and and I'm including my uncles and my and my aunts because every year for the for the past 40 years we host an annual family reunion matter of fact I just let I just came from one we were down in Miami you know at a reunion with you know my family uncles aunts and and we not only do it for my grandmother's side of the family but we also do it for my grandfather's side of the family so I'm getting to know both sides and it's it's really important I can tell it's very important to the the the the the the the history of the family and and and the legacy of the family that we know who our family is it's very very important because the reunions could have died off years ago my grandmother passed or when this one passed when that one passed but every year for the last 40 plus years we've met and and I've come together as a family with dysfunctions with our different issues with how separated and how scattered we are throughout the United States or you know across the world we keep certain dates blocked off you know every single year so like I know next year I will be in Charleston South Carolina around this time you know doing it all over again and so I'm really blessed unfortunate to have a family like that because that's what I want to see my little girl who's three years old that's what I want to see my little girl I want to see her experience that I want that to be in stood in her the essence of family it's a beautiful I think when I look back like yeah I didn't really love my family and I've hated them at times but like you said but you don't mess with one of us like we can mess with each other right and like talk mad smack so I to me that was always family so like when I had fights with my friends it's like wait why are we not finishing or what I think I thought we fight and like get over it but like I realized oh it's a very special family thing that like God can even create unity even in dysfunction and yeah it's just commitment you know that's beautiful God can create unity even in dysfunction you don't you don't get that like a lot of people don't understand that and I think because we don't understand that we quit we give up on each other and we give up on relationships I've always said man love is a choice and when you say you love me or if I say I love you I'm choosing to love even the bad parts about you and you're choosing to love the horrible parts about me and you're choosing to be patient because love is patient love is kind love you're choosing to allow me to grow into the person that God has called me to be and so when you say you love me man that means you're here you're deciding to be family you know and so I think that's really cool that even in dysfunction man God knows how to get the glory that's really cool so what has been some of your influences in music because I realized a you know whatever industry we're in we've always like build on top of what's come before us right to honor the past but also like reimagine the future so for you what has been some musical influences in your life man I'm all over the place with my musical influences I mean dead alive mainstream you know gospel whatever I'm all over the place but I'll go ahead and tell you man I grew up listening to Pastor Marvin Weinen's I grew up listening to uh gait the vocal band I grew up listening to the Ken spirituals um I'm trying to think who else uh Michael Jackson um Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye Sam Cook ah gosh man the list goes on and on and on I'm an old soul and old classic sound and singers Sam Cook is probably definitely one of my top singers Albury James Brown a little print like I don't kind of you know I'm kind of all over the place when it goes to music and my musical influences because those guys were the best man love listening to each and every like princes you know it's talent Pastor Marvin Weinen's ability to tell a story of painting a picture with his voice Michael Jackson's ability to you know entertain you and just be infectious and gripling like yeah I love I love him all what do you feel like is your voice or your sound or the thing that like like oh like it's you and then that is what you bring out to the world Dude that's a great question great question um I think a part of that is still somewhat being discovered to be honest with you I don't know that I've landed I don't know that I can articulate that you know you know adequately for you but I can give you an idea and put you in the realm I love classic sounding songs and classic sounding voices so if you took Sam Cook if Sam Cook passed a Marvin Weinen Prince Michael Jackson and Dietrich Hadden had a child and there's a lot of people coming together but if you took all of those sounds and styles and put them under one umbrella I think that would be Chris Blue yeah I think that would that would be my sound that would be my my flavor and my palate so what is about that sound that resonates with you and feels like it's so you it's not just the sound but it's it's the um it's the delivery right Prince is Groovy right Michael Groovy you know he's infectious he's he's an entertainer which I love I love to do after Marvin Weinen's and Sam Cook they're cruners they can sing the ABCs and just sing you under a table like they're I love that um Dietrich Hadden he's he's he's he's very pinocosso right and he's very like um the kingdom of God suffer by but the violent take it by force he's very violent in his worship like he like I don't know if I can coin this but I love I love worship right um it's just a violent like tight worship that's just like now I'm coming to take over Satan's camp and you know that it's that thing and so Dietrich Hadden has that and he's edgy and um I think it's I think it's a combination of not just their sounds but their deliveries like all of those things attract me and and that been uh really instrumental in my palate no I hear you um I think I'm answering your question I'm trying to know you definitely are you definitely okay because if you're not I'll be asking follow-up questions okay but like I love the fact that you called it warship right um because there is something like aggressive and violent with the sound and the words but we don't get physically violent right it's like like we we fight the darkness with the word of God because the word alone is powerful enough right so I get that and the reason why I ask the question is because I realize like for myself like the things I love in other people actually is because I love them in myself so like when I'm like figuring out who I am I actually have to look at others right and be like oh like that I like that oh I like that and then God is like that's because that's who you are yeah yeah but that's like the personality side right because the character side is like oh but that's Christ like this but like you said there's this consistency of integrity and love that all Christians should embody but then there's this little flavor right because like if you're just like Christ like I mean I'm going to be honest like I might add this a little blend because you know Jesus is too perfect so I like a little bit of flavor of like these other you know styles and like I think that's what it is I think personality is just style and we can we can have all these different expressions of style but you know how we treat each other and how we commit to each other those are the like intrinsic things in relationships that are a concept right and core that is Christ like this so yeah I love that I that it helps me to get to know who you are better by understanding all these other people you know that's really cool like did you even pointed that out I never even thought about it like that I never thought about seeing myself in other people and how that impacts me right I've always been one to try to be original and I got I'm gonna be different I'm gonna stand out but the Bible clearly said there's nothing new under this sun right it's just it's a combination of different things that already exist that you're making of your own that becomes quote unquote your difference you it becomes you but it's a combination of things that already exists and so I never saw it like that I never took up the time to realize dude if you really want to know who you are if you like I now I'm gonna start really like trying to articulate my sound now based upon the styles of individuals that I gravitate toward because it'll it'll help me to define my sound it'll help me to define you know you know my thing and who I am so that's pretty that's pretty key I like that's clutch because if you really think about like like if you reduce everything like music it just notes right it's just like was it tough keys and like there's always yeah 88 keys on a piano there's 88 keys on a piano and every Friday there's a hundred thousand new singles so you tell me none of those songs are sharing the same core progressions none of those songs are have any like like melodies that that no they all resemble we're all taking from each other and we're building upon that like there's no way around it there's only 88 keys but within those 88 keys or 88 notes on a piano you've got rock music you got jazz you got the blues you've got gospel Christian you got pop R&B soul there's so many things that come from that and I think that's just the beauty of of our God and in his mind and his creation because I tell you right now if I'm stuck with 88 keys you'll probably get 88 songs and that's it but God and his sovereignty and his his his his the primacy like he just he knows how to do it he knows how to do everything he makes no mistakes he's too wise and so he knew he knew what he was doing from the very beginning and I just think that's really really cool and you'll love this I realized sound is music but until you add words it doesn't become a song right and this is why like we will sing new songs and new heaven because we're not just trying to feel good because you can get that on drugs right so like sometimes music is like an emotional drug because you're coping with like a heartbreak or whatnot but when you listen to the word you're like oh yes and amen this is why I love this song and why people sing along to the lyrics because they're making it their own words right yeah so it's this combination of the feel but also the intellect of like knowing and believing and understanding and that's this is why I love music man it's just so powerful and like we're sure music you know but I want to come back to this pure like oh this song is so good because I can sing this in my living room by myself you know I think those songs come from heaven I think those songs come from heaven I just wrote a song a couple weeks ago I was on a flight from New York back to Tennessee and I'm sleeping and in my dream right I hear this song this worship song and it's just like this mess it like I saw this vision was mass acquire and they were singing the words this song and I heard the chords and I'm like wow this is incredible this is amazing and I woke up and normally I don't remember you know my dreams that well that often or even songs that I hear it taste me it's really good but this one I heard and I remembered it I was like wow you know I've got to do this so I went home I wrote it immediately and when I got it to church it was an instant hit instantly the church just I mean in worship they loved it they they thought it was a song that already existed I'm like well yeah in heaven because that's where it came from it was literally a download spiritual download and like I wrote the song in like two days and we we we sung at that church you know that Sunday and I'm saying that to say um songs the real songs I believe are downloaded spiritually there's some pretty good songs that you know happen 10 over a three month course you know four month course a year you know whatever but it's the songs that happen in like five minutes that you can't explain 10 minutes it's just like yo the song just wrote itself I believe that's God intervening spiritually divinely supernaturally intervening to give something pour something to download something into the earth that we meet to meet those other songs and I can't wait to get to heaven and hear the music that will be played up there because I just believe I know there will be court progressions and songs like God will take these same 88 keys on a piano and I'll hear I'll hear a heavenly progression that I've not heard on earth and I can't wait to hear that like I'm excited for that experience so uh when did your album come in out so my album actually came out June 7th uh 2024 June 7th 2024 is when my album uh was released and it was an incredible debut debut at number one on the gospel chart and so I was super excited about that did not expect or anticipate that that ever happened in my lifetime but but it did and managed just it just I'm still in awe like my heart fills with gratitude and I just think about it because I'm just like God I'm just this country you know little boy you know um I don't deserve this this imperfect I let you down every day human being and still you were being this good to me I don't deserve you I don't deserve you I don't deserve you but I thank you I really do thank you so I uh it's been a beautiful beautiful uh a couple weeks I'm getting calls and I'm going on tour this fall and this Christmas so that's already lined up I'm excited about that and uh yeah man God has been doing some great things in my life so I'm excited about what he's doing what are you hoping for at Faithly um number one I'm hoping that Faithly sticks around and doesn't go anywhere uh we need this platform we need this opportunity to connect as spiritual leaders and um something that uh Facebook and Instagram doesn't have control over but you know it's it's for us and our thing so that we can continue to stay connected and stay rooted in each other so my hope is that and I'm first and foremost at a state and it doesn't go anywhere and secondly my hope is that it grows and people will start to see the benefit of this platform and how it can bless and transform all of our lives so because we're one body made up of many parts but we're still just one body so when you heard I heard and how can we be praying for you and your family oh man um how can you be praying for us there's a few things that me and my wife we are working on one of particular is a music and wellness retreat that we're working off the 2025 and Bali and so you could sign up and be a part of of that just go to my Instagram or go to her Instagram my Instagram is at Chris B live you can find her through my Instagram step B underscore underscore and we have all the information up there and then also that that we remember I want me and my family to be the ultimate testimony of American society and my prayer is the same thing I'm praying for faith Lee and I'm praying for my family that we just stay together that's the ultimate thing man when you accomplish that you've done a great work in the earth you've done a great work in American society so many families are are dividing and splitting apart and I just I don't want to see that from mine so that's how you can be praying for thanks Chris this is great I had a lot of fun yes sir I appreciate the time thank you so much man I hope I didn't talk you hit up nah you you spit out fire so I'm gonna go listen to your album now because I can't imagine your lyrics oh man no no no my album is a nice little hymn album that we did there's a passion project um my next album will be more of Chris but this is Chris too it's just my my foundation yes my foundation so I'm a bless you bro that's it for the podcast guys but thank you for tuning in to the Faithly Stories podcast we pray this episode gave you the encouragement you needed to continue on your journey the Faithly Stories podcast is brought to you by Faithly an online community committed to empowering church leaders pastors staff and volunteers the Faithly Digital Platform offers innovative and practical tools and resources to enhance connection foster collaboration and promote growth within the church and ministry space remember to subscribe rate and review our podcast to help reach more listeners like you stay tuned for more uplifting tales from the front lines of ministry on the Faithly podcast stay bold stay faithful and never underestimate the power of your own story ring Central's AI receptionist uses voice AI to answer on the 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