Hi friends, welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun. I am your host Annie F. Downs

and I'm so glad to be here with you today. I hope you enjoyed hearing a little bit from

Ellie Holcomb, her new album Red Sea Road. Actually I listened to it this morning while

I got ready. It is absolutely one of my very favorites. I hope you've gotten a chance

to hear it. Every week on the podcast, it is a friend that I care about deeply and so

want you to meet and I love every single week. This week is a little bit different though.

I have to be honest. This week, both Chad, our producer and I have been just a little bit

beyond excited that Stephen Curtis Chapman agreed to be on the podcast. You have probably

heard his name. If you grew up listening to Christian music, he has sold 11 million

albums, has 48 number one songs, 58 devil wards, five Grammys, and his new book Between

Heaven and the Real World is just amazing. It kind of tells the story of his songs and

how he got here and his life and it's really, really good. So personally for me, Stephen

Curtis Chapman, as you will hear me, tell him through tears during our conversation,

is a voice that has been a part of my entire faith life. And as long as I can remember,

his songs have encouraged me and helped me, but an important part of my journey. So to

get to sit down and talk to him, though we've met before at my friend Hillary's wedding

in a couple of times, this is the first time I really got to sit down and kind of tell

him what he has meant to me and ask some really fun questions about his life and Nashville

and the Rhyman. And I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation. He got very

honest and we talked about kind of some of the hardest parts of his life and some of the

best parts and it just feels like a real honor to get to share this conversation with you.

So here I am unbelievably lucky to get to chat with Stephen Curtis Chapman.

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