I grew up in Mobile, AL, in a Catholic family. I went to Catholic school, participated in youth groups, was an altar server, and from the outside I was a model Christian. However, for much of my life I struggled to fully accept my place in God’s Kingdom.

We’ve been blessed to share our music with a growing national audience through uplifting songs and nonstop touring. Our sound blends modern pop production, big harmonies, and electronic textures, but at the center of it all is a simple message: hope, perseverance, and the goodness of God.

That question changed everything. Jesus changed the direction of my life and transformed my perspective. I was becoming a follower of Jesus with a mission to share Him with others.

I got kicked out of college my freshman year. I moved back home to Dallas, defeated, certain I had wasted everything. And it was there, in that failure, that I opened a Bible and read words that cracked me open.

That Good Friday, I wandered back into a church for the first time. In the dark by candlelight the choir sang: O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam: attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus.

I went from a “frat star” at the University of Delaware to a husband and father of two in the Catholic Church. For years I was a cultural Catholic chasing the dream—money, status, luxury, the finance-mogul lifestyle I thought would make me happy.