Drummer Boy Christmas Christmas Live and Brooke Robertson's Journey to Music

[Music] good evening and welcome to Good News on entertainment I'm cly Boyette I'm so happy you're tuning in tonight a little later I am so excited to introduce you is somewhat of a new music artist Brook Robertson has not only a beautiful voice but a pretty remarkable testimony as well but first tonight I want to tell you about a really exciting way to celebrate the Christmas season with one of my favorite bands for king and country they have already had an amazing year with their hit movie unsung hero and a tour that followed well now the award-winning brother Duo who was also known and loved for their Christmas music too is heading back to the theater along with the new live Christmas album that came out November 22nd called a drummer boy Christmas live they now have a fathom theatrical concert event hitting theaters Nationwide from December 5th through the 9th before we hear from Joel smallbone tonight about this exciting new Concert Experience let's go ahead and take a closer look at what to expect it's remarkable to think that a baby boy born in a stable no Prestige or privilege no social media or social status political campaigns or private airplanes the yet he flipped the world on his head he turned BC into ad he's the most famous name around the globe inspired the most read book ever written he reconnected us to heaven and and in turn brought Heaven down to earth and now he offers us Redemption a fresh start Freedom so that we can hold our heads high and March through this life knowing that we're never alone that every woman and man every girl and boy to all of us who feel like we have nothing left to bring nothing to give that we can know that God is smiling at us that he's loving us that you are enough so light up that Christmas tree stand under the mistl toe surround your yourself with the ones that you love the most and together let us celebrate the greatest news that this world has ever [Applause] known me and my [Music] TR me in my [Music] Dr uh man this has been quite the year and you guys now are finishing it out with a big bang I think you you could say that again it has been quite quite the one of the most Preposterous years that I have ever lived and uh to finish it out as you allude to not only with this viin country live tour um but then also and more so with this cinematic Concert Experience going back into theaters for the second time kly in a year is kind of preposterous you know yeah so much so you guys even already announced you're like listen we're gonna take a kind of a break next year uh but I love that you're packing all that you can in here at the end of 2024 and I love this because man if people haven't been to one of your shows I don't know what they're waiting for um but to see this I think in a movie theater is going to be it it's I want to say it's even better than a front row seat it's almost I want to know more about how you filmed this thing it almost looks like you have drones in the middle of it yes we're like with you what is better getting into the the nitty-gritty here because I love I love visuals I love I love pairing visuals with music and music with visuals so you got to imagine this is like this is just my bread and butter what we've done here so um yes you can always trust your CFO because if something's not good he's not seeing the dollar signs and we we actually played it for him uh you know sort of a screener for him and the team and he went out and he was like he said literally what you said and that's why I was reminded he he he said this this is better than going to the concert itself because in the concert you're at one perspective and sometimes you you know half a football field away or whatever and in this case it we took the film crew from our movie unsung hero which is a great team and we dropped them into the Toyota Center in Houston Texas with 12,000 folks in attendance and we captured cinematically with cameras all over the place we had cameras in the roof as you mentioned we had this techno Crane That was like this robot zooming around the room and um and we we all for the sake of capturing this these incredibly nostalgic songs capturing the Christmas story capturing this concert in a way that we have never done before and it it truly is i' I've obviously seen it because I directed it and I helped kind of piece it together it's beautiful Carly and and and and one of our great struggles with Christmas in general is we love Christmas tours they're some of our favorite tours we get to do but the season is so short and so you'd announce 10 shows and you know two-thirds of the country in Canada and the UK they're all upset because it's like well you're not coming here and in this Cas that was me last year I remember like y'all are I'm in the Tampa area I'm like why and you just you can't be everywhere but this is a way you can be everywhere we will be in driving distance of every American uh we're going to the UK with it we're going down to Australia and to New Zealand and so it's literally drum boy Christmas all over the world and you know I don't want to take away from going to concerts because there is something so special when we're when you're worshiping and singing with other thousands of fans right like that's um it's it feels like a peace of Heaven I think when we go to these worship concerts that you guys certainly host uh but to see a concert on the big movie screen like this you guys have just perfected so well what you've described how that looks visually so I think if anyone was going to do this to the Top Notch it's you guys this is what we want to see on the big screen well and you're so right I mean so much of this experience is about coming together and while Luke and I won't be there in person we have poured our heart and soul and everything into this piece and also one of the things I wrote at the top of the show is I said like hey you sit stand sting like this is your night and so what I my vision is that these theaters we've got these families and kids and everyone's singing These carols and raising their flashlight you know they might might be some disruption as well there might be some grumpy patrons but I I I want we wanted to create these sort of mini conert experiences in these movie theaters across the country as well well and what I love about what you guys have done so well over the years as well is your music and I believe this is going to do this as well it crosses outside of the lines to where you can absolutely just like unsung hero does you can feel so confident and so good about bringing non-believers to a show into a movie theater and um you know I think anytime we can do that and this is it what a great opportunity to celebrate Christmas and the real meaning of Christmas and man I just think it this is an opportunity to reach non-believers well this is I Love Christmas because you know it's romantic and it's Santa Claus and it's and and at the heart of it obviously the origin story is it's it's Jesus and and to be able to and this is a very as you mentioned it's a very spiritual show we we really opted to take these sort of the spiritual side the Redemptive side of Christmas and really highlight that through Drama Boy Christmas this is um this is all about yeah it's all about the the Christmas story and so I I think this is a this is a story for the world it was never relegated to a people group I the whole design of Jesus coming to Earth was for Humanity it was never for a bloodline you didn't have to be born into a certain family it was for the people and so that's our heart is as you said just kind of reach across the aisle if you will and and invite everyone into this this great narrative hey well I have you on the line here I did not get a chance to talk with you during unsung hero I talked with with Candace and so many of the other people but now that we're kind of on the other side of it I'm just so eager um you know what has this year taught you and and man I'd imagine the shows that you put on then afterwards after people really got to dive in deep and hear more about your story I'd imagine they hit a little differently for you and your family as well when you got to meet fans and uh continue to tour afterwards I mean I'd imagine this year probably out of most is going to be probably lifechanging for you uh and Luke the power of Cinema you know and you're right there's so many of those stories people coming up saying like I just had no idea what you walk through because it the film is very real to life you know there was there was some adjusting on timelines and some subtle bits but really all of the key moments are very much intact from what we lived um in the 90s and so it's been it's been really marvelous to experience it and also to honor our parents and the great sacrifice that they made in moving continents and their dreaming and the vision and um but yes it it it's the power of Cinema you know we I'm just in the the vowels of an arena tonight in Hershey Pennsylvania and and each night I've sort of mentioned because this tour is under the namesake of the unsung hero tour and I'm playing a few songs from the soundtrack and whatnot and I I say to the audience each night and I just thank them for making it the number two movie in America when it was released and and and and the whole Arena explodes and so you realize that like in in a few short months this went from no one has having ever having seen this film to millions of people now have experienced this this story and it's quite it's quite humbling yeah for sure well I love that you keep saying the power of cinema this is why I am so thankful that I get to do what I do and I'm so thankful that there's so many people stepping into the ring because there's power in cinema and there's just as much power if it's something that is not as you know Christ centered as what you guys you know are attempting to do it's powerful anybody can use it the Arts the Arts Story look Jesus was a Storyteller you know some would argue that the first the most ancient book ever written in the scriptures which was job was a play um you know and and and so this idea of Storytelling and music and Rhythm and like this is this is part of this is written into our DNA it's sort of the magic trick of God connecting with humanity and so yeah you can you can harness it in a load of different ways and and sometimes it can be used for great things and sometimes it can be used for really you know treacherous things and and and we we our hope is to take it very seriously and to use it to lift up this country and the people and point point us towards heaven towards each other and towards the what it means to be human to be loving and you know nonviolent and peaceful and and joyful and yeah yeah well we are so thankful that you and the team and the family are continuing to do this I mentioned you said you're taking a break next year but it's also so that you can focus that you know ahead what's coming later too little rest I do want you to do that but then we need to get to working again we will and then and I it's funny because people have said that K like you're taking a break next year I like well okay we're taking a break from touring um but we we we very much are eager to get back in the studio I'm personally very excited to get back on the film set work on another feature film and so there's a there's a lot of ground that we're hoping to cover creatively in 2025 and our hope is in 2026 you will see a 2 point fing country 2.0 come back around uh with with with a few guns blazing uh so to speak yeah I am here for all of it uh congratulations again on the Christ uh Christmas album coming out then it's uh coming to theaters as well so man what a what a wonderful 2024 I think for king and country has and we are so thankful for everything that you guys are doing and again we're just uh we're ready for what else is to come so thank you thank you for having me as always and just to the viewers you know if you made it this um the I should mention that that cinematic experience is only it's five nights only so it's December 5th through the 9th and there's limited capacity so I really want you to see it um check your local listings go to fathom.com for king country.com um and we'll we'll see you in the cemas me Merry Christmas K okay now I want to introduce you to another Rising Christian artist that you may not have heard about yet but I think God is using her in big ways her name is Brook Robertson she's a self-proclaimed small Town raised Louisiana girl who is combining pop and country with some heartfelt lyrics but before we hear more about her let's go ahead and take a listen to one of her latest tracks called Hey [Music] God be just who I am even when I'm speechless somehow you still understand hey God I don't have the perfect words to say bye I know it doesn't matter if my words are beautiful we barely put it together you still want to hear me pray even if all I have to [Music] say your album came out really kind of a couple years ago now but because of the pandemic and and covid it it I feel like it like so many of you slowed things down but from what I understand though you're like you know what God's got this and his timing is what we want anyways yeah so March was a hard time I think for everyone especially in the music industry and like I released my first it was like my debut record so it was exciting um in March of 2020 and I was like excited and ready for just something new and God really pushed me and challenged me to share my testimony like a really deep secret that I kept on to for 15 years and like God was healing me through it had me write a song about it to release it to the world and then boom like it felt like a door slammed in my face and I was just a little aggravated like okay God you know like you just had me share this story my testimony and now I feels like it was a door shut in the face and really it was a humbling moment for me looking back now I'm like he was teaching me that it was not about music it was not about touring it was not about the song it was about the ministry behind it and why he put me there to share my story like he he showed me that hey your story is going to touch people and it's not always going to be from a stage and so I'm thankful for that I'm thankful for that lesson learned and that he showed me that perspective it took me a minute to get it but he showed me that it was so much more and it was a Ministry yeah let's talk about that we opened with uh your latest song we'll talk about both songs because um so hey God though which I think um is just such an open and honest you talk about storytelling I think a lot of us can relate to that song and tell me about kind of how you uh came to write that yeah so initially I wrote the song as just a conversation between me and God it's how I start all of my prayers I always start with hey God just because it's so personal like we don't need to be formal right no and I don't have the fancy prayers and sometimes it sounds like a mess and I think that's the beautiful thing is like he's still listening he's still leaning in like what does my son or daughter have to say you know in Psalm 1162 it says that um because he inclines his ear to me therefore I will call upon him for as long as I live and like it's just a beautiful picture of like the Lord literally leaning in like when we talk to him and so that was my heart behind it well a year later it was a song that I would really need and only God could have Ed something like that but um that next year my aunt who was just my Goto to right like someone who if I needed wisdom or prayer she had a heart for Ministry and I just learned so much from her like she ended up having a very um sudden brain bleed and it took our family by surprise she was very healthy before and it was one of those things where it was like six months of ups and downs and not really knowing what was going to happen doctors saying she was going to be okay and then telling us that she had brain cancer and that there's nothing else that they could do you you know and so she went home to be with Jesus on March 16th of last year which is such a God wink um and something that I get to hold on to right John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and so it's like man I have that hope that I get to see her again one day you know and uh but it was hard like when I when I lost her here I struggled because I I prayed I had more than a mustard seed of faith and it may sound crazy to a lot of people but I had that she'd be raised from the dead like that is how much faith I had and so I was confused whenever God didn't answer that prayer that she would be healed here and I prayed for a miracle she had so many people praying for her Miracle here and after I lost her God was like you know Brooke she did get her Miracle she's with me um she's in heaven you know and what a beautiful gift that is is eternity with him and I get to see her again but it's like natural I think for us and our human sense to pull away from the Lord when he doesn't answer a prayer the way that we want him to um but there's something also beautiful about trusting him even when he doesn't answer the way that we want him to and that next you know six months eight months through the rest of that year um after losing her it just brought me so close to the Lord and it could have easily went the opposite way and I'm so thankful that God showed me that he's still listening you know and it just really was showing me the power of prayer you know and and that I could still pray the Bold prayers you know and like I went to Africa that summer and we were praying some bold prayers like praying for healings and deliverances and we were praying for us to hit water in places that they couldn't hit water and like God was answering all of the prayers and it was like okay he's wanting me to pray the Bold prayer still and trust that he is GNA he's listening and so and I don't know it was a beautiful Journey for me um even though it was really hard and so I'm thankful for that talk about how music and and this has been a Ministry you know for you as well just for you personally and then what your hope is for other people as well because I just think that's the coolest thing yeah so he was showing me um just the very beginning of this that he's opened the doors for music for a reason and I didn't quite understand that until years later whenever he surfaced my testimony that it it was time for me to tell my story and I remember back in 2019 just praying like God I don't understand why you have me here I you have me here in this music industry but I I feel so out of place I feel like a fish out of water and um I remember one time one night I was praying like God it's it's time for me to write a record like I was just signed to a label at the time and I was like God what do these songs look like you know if you have me here what is you know what does this whole thing look like and to my testimony surface and before it's something that I could bury under the rug pretend like it never happened um but this time it wouldn't leave me and it was my story My Testimony I was sexually abused at 10 years old and I kept it quiet for 15 years promised myself that I would never talk about it I promis myself that I'd go to the Grave with the story and I carried guilt shame I felt dirty alone scared and those are the reasons why I stayed silent and the enemy used that to twist and manipulate my mind and 15 later God opens the door for music and he was like this it's time it's time for you to share your story it's time for you to let me heal you the way that you've never let me before and he was just so gentle of a father to say you have not forgiven the person who who's sexually abused you and I was like struggling and fighting with the Lord because I was like I've got to tell the world but I've got to tell my family and that was even more scary for me at the time and so I you know after praying and stuff stuff like that I was like okay what does this look like and so I reached out to my abuser and I was just like this is where I'm at in life I've got to write a song about what happened but I want you to know that I forgive you and Jesus loves you and I can remember the moment where I felt that lift from me the unforgiveness I felt light again and I was like ah this is what it feels like you know to to be able to let that go and I didn't even know how up until then when it was just an Act of Faith was it a daily thing for you I've heard um with forgiveness when you really have something big to forgive somebody for that sometimes it's not always just an easy and but it sounds like for you it may have happened kind of quick but a lot of times it is a choice that people have to make over and over again for and until the feeling catches up I think too like it's a decision when you get to that place where you're like I am no longer going to let this hold me down and just to fully surrender that to the Lord because for 15 years I'd convinced myself that I was okay and that I had forgiven but the truth is I I was still believing the lies and the insecurities I was still believing all of that which means I hadn't truly Let It Go and so when I got to that place where I was like I am now ready to fully walk in Freedom and when I just decided to let that go and voice it out loud even and it's not always to that person you know always tell everyone everyone's story is different but it's it's in your heart and sometimes saying it out loud you know is is I feel like a slap to the devil you know um but it's just that decision and it literally it was immediate but I will say over the years God has been like un layering things through trauma like hey this is not me this is from trauma like let me heal that and it's been four years of that just surfacing things coming up that I didn't even know were there um so it is still a daily thing a daily diet at ourselves like God is there something deep in me from trauma that I don't know about show me you know what does that look like I want you to heal me deep and that's been my journey so in a sense yes it's been a daily thing of me just asking the Lord like reveal stuff reveal stuff you know get the junk out you know that shouldn't be there have that and that's all a form of refining and what God does yeah I think to the difference though when you truly Let It Go like you don't hate that person anymore you don't have so much bitterness and anger you know it's more or less like now I have this deep like compassion and I hope that this person finds the lord it's just only from the Lord that I could feel that way how' your family handle it and uh because it's one thing to you know it's it a lot of hurt there I'd imagine on different levels yeah so I have a big family and I didn't like gather them all up at one time you know so I went from family member to family member separately and was telling my story and God was showing me like how to tell my story through that season though in a place of uh hope and not hurt so telling my mom and my dad I told them separately um my mom was very heartbroken and you know obviously what parent wouldn't be um she tried to blame herself for it you know those things kind of surfaced and I told her I was like it is not your fault you know they always taught me what was right and what's wrong and like I think like from that I was scared to tell them because I was blaming myself but I was telling them like I was in a situation where I couldn't get out of it trying to get out of and this is I'm not trying I don't want to trigger anybody but like just trying to get out of the situation and not being able to and so I always was tell I would reassure my mom like it was not your fault it was something that was completely out of my control and telling my dad was a little harder because dads are protective and I remember just talking to my dad and telling him like this is what happened but if it wasn't for you and Mom bringing me to church as a kid and like giving me those roots that groundedness that I had I don't I wouldn't be here and so just reassuring like it's not y'all's fault and later that day my dad when I told him he was like if you can forgive this person then so can I and I was like that was huge for my dad to say that and I was like okay God what are you doing you know it's so much deeper you know telling my grandma and finding out that she's been abused by her father and struggling with unforgiveness she's in her 80s you know and it was just like okay like this is way bigger than what I'd ever thought and it's GNA start with family you know healing in my family first so yeah so yeah and then so what is this song because the song literally is taking your voice back and taking your story back right yeah so it's I always and I feel like over the years it's changed a little bit now I kind of come from it from a place where I want to challenge whoever is listening to it you know to to say the names out loud of the people who' have done you wrong because when you hold that in when you hold the unforgiveness in you're in bondage and you don't even realize it I was in it for so long and I thought that was normal but really it's heavy and it's not normal and like God took that he he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross that we wouldn't have to carry that and until I realized that I was walking in that bondage but I've been able to go out and share my testimony and hear people say like today I forgave my abuser today I'm going to tell my mom that I was abused like just taking that next step forward in healing and it's not always like a night and day but it's that next step that little step forward that matters and that sometimes that's the hardest one but once you take that it's like he's walking you like a lamp into my feet right he's showing you like all right this is your next step in healing and just letting him Journey with you through that healing oh I cannot wait to see where God continues to take her career if you would like to follow along with her on her journey and keep up to date on her tour dates and future projects just go to her website which is Brook Robertson music.com I hope you enjoyed tonight's show thank you so much for tuning in I'm kly Boyette and I look forward to seeing you next week right here on your Christian television network [Music]