This is an IHeart podcast. Hey, I'm Brooke Taylor. I'm a radio host and a mom and just someone who's trying to live out her faith every single day. And I'm Mark Evans. I'm a pastor. I'm a dad. And Brooke and I, we have conversations with people who live their life in the spotlight. How do you steward your faith when you're on a pedestal? What does it look like to stay grounded? Faith-fueled conversations for life. This is the upload. What's up y'all? I'm Tyler Hubbard. Everybody raged a cold beers and let's sing a worship song. You know, I was just like, whoa, like this is Jesus. What would he do today if he were me? Country music artist and a songwriter, dad and a husband living in

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Tyler Hubbard is on the upload. Welcome. Hey, thanks for having me. Excited to be here. I'm excited to chat with you. We on this podcast really just like to have like faith-fueled conversations and not necessarily talk about the accolades and things that are happening in our lives, but just talk about our faith. And I just want to start with knowing what if a fan came up to you in a meet and greet and they're like, you know, what does faith mean to you? What would you tell them?

Well, I would say that's a fairly loaded question, but ultimately, to simplify it, I mean, I think it's just believing in something that you don't always see, you know what I mean, or maybe can't always touch. But ultimately, it's, it's more relational based, you know,

it's a more, uh, it's, it's just about relationship, you know what I mean, and relationship with Jesus. And, uh, for me, that's what's grown in my faith. You know, you do see him, you do hear him. You know, at times you can almost touch him where it feels like, you know, through, through life experiences and through, you know, different scenarios and prayer and all the things.

There's just, he's everywhere. So it's, it's, I've grown a lot in my faith over the last, definitely the last five years or so.

But yeah, faith has always been a part of my life. Growing up, I was really fortunate to have parents that pursued Jesus and taught me his

ways and showed me his love and grew up kind of reading the Bible with my parents and going to

church and doing those things. So I had a really strong foundation that kind of faith, you know,

that really kind of set the stage for the rest of my life ultimately. When you say that within the last five years, your faith has grown so much, what was that turning point for you where you're like, this is just different now? Multiple things. I would say having children and getting to experience that kind of love, when you understand that that's how God loves us. I mean, it's just, you know, it really gives

you a new perspective. My wife and I have been on a journey lately, I would say, where she's just

passionately pursuing her faith and pursuing Jesus. And it's been really cool to sort of watch

her journey, but alongside her just be there with her and support her, which has helped me grow

in my faith.

Even down to the practical things, like I made a goal this year. I wanted to read the whole Bible. And I've never read the whole Bible. And like I said, I grew up in church. And I'm not much of a reader at all, to be honest. So it's always intimidated me a lot. Oh, yeah. But at the end of the year last year, it showed up in my closet the one-year Bible.

And I said, I'm going to try this for a couple days Oh, yeah. But at the end of the year last year, it showed up in my closet the one-year

Bible. And I said, I'm going to try this for a couple days, even before the year starts, just to see. I'm going to test the water to see how much this would be. But I did it, and I really liked it. And so, yeah, January 1, I just decided, all right, this year, I'm going to read through the whole Bible. So ultimately, like even just sitting down 20 minutes in the morning with my coffee and just

reading through the, you know, the way it's divided up day to day, it just gives you probably 20 minutes of being in the word. And some of it's really just off the wall stuff that you're like, this is, you know, I'm just reading words. I don't even know what this is talking about. Some of it's really, really good fuel,

you know? But through the process, I've just really got to know Jesus more, you know what I mean,

and got to know his ways and ultimately kind of been able to carry those readings throughout

my day. It's been pretty cool. Yeah, I feel like reading the Bible, you're like going through genealogy and you're reading like 600 names and you're like, all right, who's this person? The genealogy part, I'm like, okay, I need another cup of coffee. It's tough. But when you're reading through the Bible, have there been any moments that have like stood out to you? Because I feel like you memorize scripture or like you know certain verses or

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