Weekend22

   
  • Home
  • Episodes
  • About Us
  • Music News
  • Contest
  • Contact Us

Steven Curtis Chapman Debuts First Worship Album In His Career

December 5, 2015

Multi-platinum selling and five-time GRAMMY® award winning artist Steven Curtis Chapmanis set to release his latest project on March 4, 2016 (Essential Worship). Titled Worship and Believe, this is not only Chapman’s 23rd career studio album in a three decade-long career but is his first worship record. The album was co-produced by Chapman and Brent Milligan.

Years before his latest album, 2013’s Glorious Unfolding, he had been encouraged to make a worship record. Now with Worship and Believe, a new season is beginning for Chapman – creating more vertically-focused worship songs spurred on by a soul awakening to worship music he experienced as he held fast to songs of the church through a season of loss.

Chapman shares, “I always loved singing worship songs and people responded when I’d sing them during shows. They were what I held on to so tightly when we lost our daughter Maria, but the timing was never right for me to make a full record of them.”

It was on THE STORY tour with pastor Randy Frazee when Chapman first heard about BELIEVE, a 30-day church curriculum that Frazee was working on as the follow up to THE STORY. “As Randy talked about how important it is for us as the Church to know what we believe and why, I began to get excited thinking, ‘I want to write those songs, create those musical declarations that we as the church can sing together.'”

He enlisted the co-writing help of Matt Maher, Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, and members of Rend Collective, and even the drummer for One Direction makes an appearance on the album. While Worship and Believe will be available at retail and online outlets, the album is also being cross-promoted by Zondervan as a worship companion product to the BELIEVE curriculum, currently being used by thousands of churches across the country.

Beginning today, the digital deluxe version of Worship and Believe is officially available for pre-sale at iTunes. The pre-sale for the digital deluxe version offers six tracks instantly upon pre-ordering the album – three studio and three live versions of “Amen,” “More Than Conquerors” and “We Believe.” “Amen,” the album’s first radio single, was the most added song at radio its first week. The digital deluxe edition includes 11 studio songs and six live-recorded songs, the standard digital version will include all 11 studio songs, and the physical edition will have the 11 studio songs and four live-recorded songs. All three versions will officially release March 4, 2016.

Chapman kicks off his “Joy: The Christmas Tour” tonight in Asheville, NC, and this coming spring he will co-headline a tour with Third Day, following a multi-city tour with Amy Grant in February. This past fall Chapman participated in the Experience Conference held in Orlando, and he is scheduled to participate in additional worship conferences in the new year.

In November, Chapman kicked off the second season as host of the popular concert series, “Sam’s Place-Music for the Spirit,” at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. Running through spring 2016, many of today’s favorite artists are expected to appear throughout the rest of the season such as Hunter Hayes, Dave Barnes, Matt Maher, Ronnie Milsap and MercyMe. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here.

For the latest tour schedule or more information on Steven Curtis Chapman please visit StevenCurtisChapman.com.

Worship and Believe Deluxe Digital track listing*:
1. We Believe
2. One True God (feat. Chris Tomlin)
3. Amen
4. Hallelujah, You Are Good (feat. Matt Maher)
5. More Than Conquerors
6. Sing for You
7. Who You Say We Are
8. The Body
9. King of Love
10. We Are Listening
11. God of Forever
12. We Believe (Live)
13. Sing for You (Live)
14. One True God (Live)
15. More Than Conquerors (Live)
16. Who You Say We Are (Live)
17. Amen (Live)
* The digital standard and physical versions of Worship and Believe will have a different number and configuration of some of the tracks listed above

 

Newsletter

By providing us with your name and email address you acknowledge that you're signing up to receive our newsletter and other email correspondence from The Weekend 22 which may occasionally include promotional information about products/services that may be of interest to you. (i.e. special events, new music releases, family entertainment etc.) The Weekend 22 will never sell your name and contact information to any third party.

Podcast



Click the menu icon in the upper right corner of the player to browse and download past episodes!

Weekend 22 Chart

Week of 5/3/25

01

We Still Believe  -  KB feat. Ryan Ofei & One Church Music

02

Heaven On This Earth  -  Forrest Frank feat. Torey D'Shaun

03

Stay Alive  -  Tedashii featuring Sam Rivera

04

I Need Help  -  Connor Price feat Maverick City Music

05

Pray  -  Social Club Misfits featuring Ryan Ellis

06

Miracles  -  Hulvey

07

Rearview  -  TobyMac featuring Juan Winans

08

Stick & Move  -  Steven Malcolm feat. Mike Teezy

09

Never Get Used To This  -  Forrest Frank feat. JVKE

10

Are You Ready  -  Blanca

11

Above The Waters  -  Spencer Kane and Caleb LaDuke

12

King David  -  116

13

Take The Wheel  -  DKG Kie featuring Caleb Gordon

14

Drop  -  Forrest Frank

15

True  -  Hulvey

16

Pray For Me  -  Anike

17

So What  -  Doe featuring Lecrae

18

God's Hands  -  Don Ready

19

Limelight  -  Coby James featuring Ben Becker

20

Sunshine Everyday  -  Gladden

21

Worthy  -  Blanca

22

Have Fun  -  Anike

Meet the Host

Josh Ashton
Christ-follower, husband to my beautiful wife Sarah, daddy to my 2 young'ens, dreamer & artsy music-nerd. In my free-time, you can find me soaking in live music at a concert, fishing, hiking... or even making my own clothes! I love to create & use my imagination for everything. Thanks for the honor of letting the Weekend 22 and myself be a part of your weekend!

Poll

Copyright © 2025 Weekend 22 · All Rights Reserved · Login