The Walk: Real Stories of Faith
The Walk from Worship Leader Magazine is a podcast of real conversations with worship leaders, artists, pastors and believers, hosted by worship leader, songwriter and pastor Kurtis Parks. Each episode is about the moments when faith was tested, obedience cost something, and God showed up. Guests include Tauren Wells, Lecrae, Jenn Johnson, Matt Maher, Aaron Shust, Leanna Crawford, Ginny Owens and 150+ more. We talk about calling and surrender, worship leading and songwriting, church hurt and healing, unanswered prayer, and what it looks like to walk by faith in everyday life. Whether you lead worship every Sunday or you're just trying to follow Jesus through a hard season, The Walk is here to encourage you. Faith isn't just a moment. It's a walk, and you don't have to walk it alone. Presented by Planning Center. Show notes and more at worshipleader.com/podcast-network/the-walk
Episodes
Orlando Palmer records as IAMSON, produces, writes for other people, and is married to the gospel artist DOE. He and Kurtis start where you'd expect, on what it's actually like when two artists share a house. His answer is more interesting than the question: when they're commissioned to write professionally, it snaps on immediately, because both of them were raised in this and know how to work a room. At home, safe and comfortable,...
Natalie Layne grew up in Colorado watching her parents lead worship together, her mom singing and her dad on bass, while she ran around the rehearsals singing along. Her parents never pushed piano on her. They put a little keyboard in the playroom with her toys, said nothing, and let her discover it. She decided it was the coolest toy in the house, and started lessons at three. Her grandmother, who ran a piano studio for thirty yea...
Tauren Wells has four boys under fourteen, a church he planted two years ago, a book, and a live album arriving October 2. Asked how he balances it, he says he gave up on balance a long time ago. What he chases instead is rhythm and discernment about the season he's actually in. He puts it this way: he's spent stretches of his life looking like a man in a fur coat at the fireworks on the Fourth of July, doing the right thing in the...
Tommy Coomes and Jay Truax were there. Not adjacent to the Jesus Movement, not students of it, but in it, on the beach, in the room. They're two of the founding members of Love Song, and this conversation is the long version of how a handful of California musicians accidentally became the front end of an entire industry.
Jay starts at the beginning. He was an inland surfer who helped build the first skateboards out of plywood and c...
Franni Cash spent most of her twenties as one-quarter of We The Kingdom: two Grammy nominations, three Dove Awards, two No. 1 songs. Then she left the family band at the end of 2023 and nearly walked away from music entirely, paralyzed by the fear of not measuring up to what she'd already done. She looked into acting and seriously considered going to school for interior design.
What pulled her back was friends passing her demos aro...
What happens when you reach a milestone you once dreamed about and discover you still have to trust God tomorrow?
GRAMMY Award-winning artist DOE joins Kurtis Parks on The Walk for an unusually honest conversation about success, ambition, work, calling, community, motherhood, and ...
What happens when you believe God has called you to something—but every door keeps closing?
On Episode 183 of The Walk, host Kurtis Parks sits down with bilingual Christian artist and worship leader Iveth Luna for an honest conversation about calling, identity, fear, motherhood, worship, and trusting God in seasons that don't make sense.
Iveth grew up in the Dallas, Texas area in a family deeply rooted in ministry. Her grandf...
Show Notes
Real people. Real moments. True faith.
Sometimes God's greatest miracles don't happen overnight—they happen through years of surrender.
On this episode of The Walk, Kurtis Parks sits down with Christian artist Justin Gambino for one of his most personal conversation...
What if the greatest blessing in your life is a prayer God never answered the way you expected?
In Episode 181 of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Dove Award-winning artist Leanna Crawford shares the deeply personal journey behind her sophomore album,
What do you do when the dream you've spent your life chasing no longer makes sense?
In Episode 179 of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, singer-songwriter and worship leader Bodie shares the surprising story behind his rise from local church worship leader to runner-up on NBC's The Voice and one of Christian music's fastest-rising artists.
Before millions watched him compete on national television, Bodie was already considering wal...
What if the most important part of worship happens long before Sunday morning?
In Episode 178 of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Bella Taylor Smith shares her remarkable journey from a teenager with no church background to becoming one of Christian music's most compelling voices.
After winning The Voice Australia in 2021, Bella's life changed dramatically. What began as a simple prompting from the Holy Spirit during the COVID lo...
What does it take to write a worship song that serves the Church?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Kurtis Parks sits down with Justin Barnett, Bryant Urich, and Anne Elise Sherrod of the NCS Collective to talk about songwriting, worship leadership, artist development, and the power of Christian community.
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What if the songs we sing on Sunday are shaping our faith more than we realize?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, award-winning artist, songwriter, worship leader, and author Ginny Owens joins us for a thoughtful conversation about worship, theology, discipleship, and the responsibility of leading people in song.
After nearly three decades in Christian music, Ginny now serves at Redeemer Church Lincoln Square in...
What happens when the thing you believe God called you to becomes more important than God Himself?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Amanda Janson shares one of the most honest and powerful testimonies we've ever featured on the podcast.
Before releasing her debut album, Sinner to Saint, Amanda found herself living the dream she thought God had given her. After moving to Nashville, pursuing Christian music, and ...
What do you do when you're exhausted, discouraged, and ready to quit?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, the brothers of Consumed By Fire share the deeply personal story behind some of the hardest seasons of their lives—and how God met them in the middle of it.
Known for hit songs like "First Things First" and "Walk With Jesus," Caleb, Jordan, and Josh Ward open up about growing up in ministry, carrying on ...
What if worship was never just about music?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Alexandra Osteen of Lakewood Music shares an honest conversation about worship, calling, healing, church community, and the faithfulness of God across generations.
As the Worship Director at Lake...
What if praise was never meant to be a warm-up for worship?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Alexander Pappas—founding member of Hillsong Young & Free and writer of songs like Alive, Wake, R...
Church hurt is real.
But what if we’ve misunderstood where the hurt actually comes from?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, Cliff Preston shares one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about pain, ministry, mental health, and why community still matters ev...
What do you do when God keeps stirring something in your heart—but none of it makes logical sense?
In this episode of The Walk: Faith in the Real World, rising Christian pop artist Meeks Carter shares the incredible story behind his journey from pest control and finance… to signing with Red Street Records and stepp...
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