A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.