{"id":6062,"date":"2024-01-21T01:12:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/country-star-granger-smith-leaves-music-for-jesus-im-just-so-excited\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T01:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:42:53","slug":"country-star-granger-smith-leaves-music-for-jesus-im-just-so-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/country-star-granger-smith-leaves-music-for-jesus-im-just-so-excited\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Star Granger Smith Leaves Music For Jesus: &#8216;I&#8217;m Just So Excited&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>Country singer Granger Smith stunned fans when he announced last year he would be retiring from music to pursue ministry \u2014 a fascinating, new calling he\u2019s now actively living out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just so excited about it,\u201d the musician recently told CBN Digital, expressing elation over how he plans to serve the Lord. \u201cI have so much joy just even thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he\u2019s already begun speaking before audiences about his Christian faith. While he once traversed the nation and world sharing his music, he now plans to carry a different message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m used to air travel; I\u2019m used to hotels,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I have a different message to give, and it\u2019s a life-giving message. It\u2019s one beggar \u2014 me telling another beggar where I found bread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he wants to share his journey to faith, explaining how he was once hurting and in a \u201creally bad place,\u201d but how he found hope in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what the future looks like five years down the road, 10 years down the road,\u201d Smith said. \u201cBut, right now, immediately, it\u2019s writing books, it\u2019s taking speaking engagements, Lord-willing, when the right ones come around, it\u2019s attending seminary, and it\u2019s going to church on Sunday mornings with my family, and sitting under teachings of my pastor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Smith discuss his plans:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Country Star Leaves Music For Jesus: &#039;I&#039;m Just So Excited&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DGza91ltbzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This latter point might seem a bit basic regarding what Smith hopes to accomplish, but considering he\u2019s long been a traveling musician and on tour, being home for church on Sundays typically wasn\u2019t possible. With his newfound focus, all of that changes.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also discussed his recent memoir, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Like-River-Finding-Strength-Heartache\/dp\/1400334365\">Like a River: Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward after Loss and Heartache<\/a>,\u201d a book chronicling how he handled grief and sorrow and found faith.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s family made headlines in 2019, when the singer\u2019s 3-year-old son, River, died in a drowning accident. It\u2019s a topic at the heart of his book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe book\u2019s called \u2018Like a River,\u2019 and so it starts with losing my son to drowning in my backyard when I was there with him,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of times, when I was talking about writing the book and people would say, \u2018You\u2019re writing a book? What\u2019s it about?\u2019 And I would say, \u2018Well, it\u2019s about losing my son.\u2019 \u2026 And as I continued to write, I learned, \u2018Well, that\u2019s not really what this book is about.\u2019 It\u2019s really not. That\u2019s how it opens and the catalyst to it \u2014 that\u2019s how the curtain opens \u2014 but really, it\u2019s about me dying and me being reborn and the new path that followed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By sharing his harrowing story, the country crooner hopes to help others navigate their struggles and come out on the other side. While Smith had always considered himself a Christian, he said tragedy and heartache finally brought the message home.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said Scripture has transformed his heart and mind, relishing in the ability to discern the character and being of God through the Bible\u2019s illuminated pages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the Word of God revealed in Scripture; that just blew my mind,\u201d he said. \u201cI know I don\u2019t have to search for the clouds or have some kind of spiritual experience in some kind of dark desert. I could actually just sit on my porch with a cup of coffee and open up the Bible and turn to any book and see who God is as revealed on those pages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith continued, \u201cThat changed my life then and it continues to change it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/entertainment\/2024\/january\/country-star-granger-smith-leaves-music-for-jesus-im-just-so-excited\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country singer Granger Smith stunned fans when he announced last year he would be retiring from music to pursue ministry \u2014 a fascinating, new calling he\u2019s now actively living out. Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d \u201cI\u2019m just so excited about it,\u201d the musician recently told CBN Digital, expressing elation over how he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}