Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.