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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Granger Smith On Finding Faith Amid Tragedy

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Granger Smith has spent most of his adult life recording country music and selling out shows across the country, but at the age of 43 he is calling it quits. Country music star and Minister Granger Smith joins Martha to discuss his decision to walk away from stardom and surrender himself to God.   Later, he talks about how the loss of his young son, River, revived his relationship with God and how touring had conflicted with his faith. Plus, Granger touches upon his upcoming book Like A River: Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward after Loss and Heartache.   Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, everybody. Hello everybody and welcome to the Untold Story podcast.

0:51.8

I'm really thrilled today to be with country music star Granger Smith, who is announcing something that is very tough for his fans,

0:54.3

and that is his farewell music tour.

0:57.0

And he's also releasing his memoir called Like a River,

1:00.9

which is the name of his young son,

1:02.9

who their family lost back in 2019.

1:06.2

And the subtitle is Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward

1:10.0

After Loss and Heartache. So Granger,

1:12.9

welcome. It's great to have you with us today. Thanks for having me. So talk to me a little about,

1:17.9

you know, everybody knows you on stage and I'm looking at, you know, like the fire shooting up

1:22.5

and the sparklers and you're just joy and ebulence performing on stage.

1:33.8

Tell me what the process was to start turning away from that part of your life,

1:37.0

which you've done massively successfully for decades.

1:44.8

Yeah, I think it was a slow process and kind of things started happening to me after the loss of our son,

1:49.1

and after I was really searching for hope and peace,

1:51.5

and found that through the Bible,

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