Jennifer Nettles tells us what this season is all about.

They have made fun of "country folk" for 8 years, now. They think that because many of us finished high school but not college, we are uneducated. They think that because we know that they can't predict squat when it comes to "warming inspired"  [specific]  weather events, we are science deniers.  Well, November the 8th embeds the promise of real  change and the reality that we just took our country back. They started the Civil War. We won it. They wanted to ignore Hitler,  We won WW II. They founded the KKK and we died in Gettysburg to move us away from that tragedy.They refuse to fight and die for the freedom of others; we cherish the opportunity.

He said, "We are not a Christian nation." We said we were. And out of this faith, a country singer brings new life to the gospel message, always new, always reaffirmed in the new heart of the believer. Oh, they will made fun of this song and its message, but seriously, how can you listen without realizing that the living God, truly, dwells in the praises of His people. Play it twice. The second time, sing along and mark the fact that those emotions you feel, are the creation of a God who seeks union. Every time you cry, or laugh, or are left without words, that is God literally touching you. 

You sing along, your hands are raised, the tears flow . . . all while at a rock concert. News Flash: all that is about the God within, there in the concert hall, listening to Kiss. Do it again, only this time alone in your car, listening and worshiping the force of nature you cannot fully know or understand. He allows you to damn his name, to stir the fires of hell, to reach out to no one . . . . and, in the end, 70, 80, 90 years later, he has no problem with you singing his praises.