People ask me sometimes why I write Christian music. It’s a fair question. The Christian music market is crowded. The commercial opportunities are limited compared to mainstream genres. And frankly, it’s not always easy to write about faith in a way that feels honest rather than clichéd.
So why do it?
An Audience of One
The short answer is this: I write for an audience of One.
I’m not writing to top a chart. I’m not writing to impress a producer or win a Grammy. I’m writing because I have something to say to God — and music is the language I say it in.
The Psalms are the model here. David didn’t write the Psalms for a record label. He wrote them in the wilderness, in the palace, in exile, in joy, in grief. He wrote them because he couldn’t not write them.
That’s where I am.
The Tragedy of Complexity
My album The Tragedy of Complexity came out of a season of wrestling with faith in a complicated world. The title track is about how we overcomplicate the simple Gospel — how we add layers of theology, politics, and cultural baggage to something Jesus made beautifully simple.
The songs on that album are honest. Some of them are uncomfortable. That’s intentional.
Music as Ministry
I believe music reaches places that words alone cannot. A melody can carry a truth past someone’s defenses in a way that a sermon sometimes can’t. A lyric can lodge itself in someone’s memory and come back to them at exactly the right moment.
That’s not magic. That’s just how God wired us.
So I keep writing. Not because I have it all figured out. But because I have a God worth singing about.