Genre: Christmas, Folk/Acoustic/Americana, Pop/Rock
For fans of: Michael W. Smith, Geoff Moore & the Distance, Garth Brooks, John Mayer, Don Henley
Label: Sparrow/EMI

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"II want to remind people that God is more concerned with our day-to-day than we might think. He is not just in the valley or on the mountaintop. He's on the straight open road, too. I hope we can begin to really experience what he's doing in this moment."

Steven Curtis Chapman's insights and ideas are wiser and more wide-eyed than ever before on This Moment, his compelling sixteenth studio album and first new project in more than three years. Wisdom culled from two decades of ante-upping artistry (five Grammy's, a record-breaking fifty-one Dove Awards) anchors the set in a delightfully confident pop musicality. Meanwhile, the new wonders he's finding at home and now on the other side of the world add passion and a worshipful air to his thoughtful lyrics.

But that's not to say this record came easily. In fact, Chapman truly wrestled to find its core.

"Theme has always been so important for me," says the man behind such modern clarion call favorites as For the Sake of the Call and The Great Adventure. "I've got to be hearing clearly from God about what it is that he's giving me to share from this platform. It doesn't have to be earth shattering for everyone else, but it has to be for me."

After an unexpectedly long season of listening, what Steven finally heard was simply profound.

"The words of Revelation 1:19—'write therefore the things that are seen'—kept coming back to me," he recalls. "It was as if God was saying, 'Just write what you know.'"

What Chapman knows well today, through the growth of his family and his growing heart for international outreach, is the vital importance of embracing the "miracle of the moment." That's the title of the duly anthemic first single and opening track from This Moment, and it's a truth that definitely needs fresh restating in such a fast-forward world.

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