New Album from Chris Tomlin Exalts King Jesus
The two crowns on Chris Tomlin’s new album tell “the whole story” of Jesus, he said, because a crown of thorns surrounds a golden crown. Because Jesus suffered to offer us forgiveness, Tomlin explained, “Erika [Kirk] could stand there and say, ‘I forgive you,’” to her husband’s killer.
According to Tomlin, the “surprise song” on his new album is “Help My Unbelief.” The lyrics, based on Mark’s gospel account of the father who asked Jesus to heal his son, reveal the “struggle of faith” we all experience at times, Tomlin said.
But “Help My Unbelief” is a hope-filled song, he added, because “God is at his strongest when we’re at our weakest points.” It ends with the words “It is well with my soul,” from what Tomlin called “maybe the greatest hymn…ever written.”
Those 150-year-old lyrics by Horatio Spafford connect with people during life’s greatest sorrows, Tomlin said, because people can rest in Jesus no matter what they face. “You saw that yesterday again in Erika,” he noted. “You saw that in the flesh.”
Tomlin urged people to place their hope in Christ the King, not in any earthly government. “He will set all things right,” Tomlin said of Jesus. “That’s the King I’m pointing people to…And I hope that this record continues to point people that way and continues this awakening in our hearts.”
“That occasion was a marking moment for me in my life,” Chris Tomlin said of singing ‘How Great Is Our God’ at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, calling it evidence of “a real awakening that so many people have been praying for.” @christomlin Click to Post
