About this episode

Drew Parker shares his journey of faith and the decision to walk away from a successful music career to follow Jesus.

Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with Drew Parker on this week's episode of Built 4 More. Drew Parker is one of the most successful songwriters in country music. He wrote Homemade for Jake Owen, Stay Country or Die Trying for Blake Shelton, and Doing This for Luke Combs, a song that earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song. Four number one songs. Stadium tours. The Grand Ole Opry. A weekend on stage with Willie Nelson. By every measure, he had made it. But Drew had been a believer his whole life, and at the very top of his career he could not shake the feeling that something was missing. He had chased the dream all the way from a small town in Georgia to Nashville, and it still was not enough. So he prayed and asked God to make it clear what he was supposed to do next. Days later his manager called him shaking. A skeptic who had never had a kind word for faith. He said he had been waking up in the middle of the night hearing that Drew was supposed to sing songs about Jesus. Drew walked away from his record deal at the peak of his career. He put out his testimony in a song called Blame Jesus. He is still writing country music, but now he is using the same…

People in this episode

Hosts: Joby Martin, Denny Thompson

Guest: Drew Parker

Topics covered

• faith
• music
• success
• surrender
• Christianity
• testimony

Keywords

• Drew Parker
• country music
• faith
• success
• Christianity
• testimony
• surrender

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jake Owen, Blake Shelton, Luke Combs, Grand Ole Opry

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