Christian Music Industry Podcast
Stephen McWhirter - Defining Success, Songwriting, and Redemption
This week’s featured guest is Stephen McWhirter! Wisdom, Kat, and Stephen have an open conversation about defining success, songwriting, and redemption. One thing we’ll be thinking about for a while is the reminder Stephen gave that “God wants to do something IN you, as much as He wants to accomplish things THROUGH you.” 🤯 We’ll see you next week, same time & place!
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Stephen grew up the son of a traveling evangelist, but the man he knew in private and the one he knew in public, were not the same. Due to the hypocrisy he witnessed as a child, he believed Jesus was simply fantasy. As he grew into his early teens he wanted nothing to do with Christianity. At this time of his life, he fell into extreme drug addiction. Eventually, becoming a crystal meth addict for over 5 years. During this dark chapter, someone gave him a book about Jesus, which he miraculously accepted.
One night at 3am, he sat in a bed reading the book, with drugs next to him on the side table. That night, as he read, he was acutely aware of the presence of God in the room. Stephen began to have an internal dialogue with the Lord, he knew He was real but didn’t know how to quiet the life of addiction he had known for so long. In that moment, with a thought more powerful than he could ever have imagined, He felt the Lord say, “You don’t have to do it alone, because I will do it!” and in that moment, Stephen believed Him and gave his life to Christ. He found himself with the willpower not his own, and overnight, went from addiction to redemption. He had come to personally and intimately know the God that saves.
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- 26 Apr 2021
This week’s featured guest is Stephen McWhirter! Wisdom, Kat, and Stephen have an open conversation about defining success, songwriting, and redemption. One thing we’ll be thinking about for a while is the reminder Stephen gave that “God wants to do something IN you, as much as He wants to accomplish things THROUGH you.” 🤯 We’ll see you next week, same time & place!
Have somebody you’d like us to bring on? Shoot us a DM on Instagram. 😎
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LISTEN TO STEPHEN MCWHIRTER ON SPOTIFY
Stephen grew up the son of a traveling evangelist, but the man he knew in private and the one he knew in public, were not the same. Due to the hypocrisy he witnessed as a child, he believed Jesus was simply fantasy. As he grew into his early teens he wanted nothing to do with Christianity. At this time of his life, he fell into extreme drug addiction. Eventually, becoming a crystal meth addict for over 5 years. During this dark chapter, someone gave him a book about Jesus, which he miraculously accepted.
One night at 3am, he sat in a bed reading the book, with drugs next to him on the side table. That night, as he read, he was acutely aware of the presence of God in the room. Stephen began to have an internal dialogue with the Lord, he knew He was real but didn’t know how to quiet the life of addiction he had known for so long. In that moment, with a thought more powerful than he could ever have imagined, He felt the Lord say, “You don’t have to do it alone, because I will do it!” and in that moment, Stephen believed Him and gave his life to Christ. He found himself with the willpower not his own, and overnight, went from addiction to redemption. He had come to personally and intimately know the God that saves.