Surrendering Every Little Corner, Josh Baldwin on Worth Everything

Josh Baldwin started his second album with no label, no money, and a Kickstarter campaign that barely cleared the goal. He thought Made for More was too much for a Sunday morning. He thought churches would pass on it. He was in the car one morning dropping his kids off at school when he heard them singing the demo — I know who I am because I know who you are — and understood for the first time what that song was for. It went to number one.

Surrender, writing songs for the church to actually sing, and a new album born from years of God dealing with every little corner: Josh shares what is behind Worth Everything, releasing October 16, and why this is the most fully worship-oriented album he has made, not songs to sit with, but songs to stand and sing together. He also talks about how a friend read Romans 8 in The Message one morning and said this love isn't a grave-tending kind of love, which became the seed of an entire song, why he describes his sound as if a country artist and Tom Petty got together, got saved, and wrote worship music, and how a borrowed guitar case from We the Kingdom's Scott Cash turned out to still have three vintage guitars inside it.

Highlights

• Why Made for More started as a verse from Romans 8 read in a different translation and why Josh almost gave it away to someone else to record
• The moment his kids sang the demo in the car and he realized the song was bigger than he thought
• How Worth Everything was shaped by years of God inviting him to surrender not just broadly but in every specific corner of his life
• Why this album leans more fully into songs the corporate church can actually sing together rather than sit with
• How he funded his second album on Kickstarter in 2013 when he had no label, no money, and had just gotten married
• Why he describes his sound as if a country artist and Tom Petty got together, got saved, and wrote worship music
• How navigating the tension between ministry and business means constantly checking whether his heart is in the right place
• The story of buying a guitar case from Scott Cash and discovering three vintage guitars still inside it

Resources / Links / CTA

• 🌐 Josh Baldwin website: https://joshbaldwin.com
• 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshbaldwin
• 🎵 Album: Worth Everything, releasing October 16
• 🎤 Worth Everything Tour: fall dates at joshbaldwin.com
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