Top Ten Songs by Steven Curtis Chapman

Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the biggest legends in the Christian Music Industry. He has won 5 Grammy Awards a whole lot more Gospel Music Association (GMA) Awards. His debut album, Real Life Conversations, was in 1987 and since then he has had seventeen albums. Here are what I think are his ten best songs and my descriptions of each song will mainly focus on the lyrics because I feel the most important part of a Christian song is the message.

10. Dive
“Dive” is the first track off of Steven Curtis Chapman’s Speechless album and it earned Steven Curtis Chapman the GMA for best Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year. In this song, Chapman talks about diving in which can lead to two interpretations. The first is that you should dive in when it comes to life, go for it all and don’t be worried about what may come, take risks because when it seems like you’re close to drowning, God will be there to save you. The second interpretation, and the one I think Steven Curtis Chapman is trying to tell us, is that we should dive into God’s love and be completely covered, even drown in God’s love that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

9. Heaven in the Real World
“Heaven in the Real World” is the title track of Steven Curtis Chapman’s seventh album. In the song it is asked “Where is the hope? Where is the peace?” it begs the question what is the purpose and meaning for life here in the real world? Steven Curtis Chapman answers this question for us. HE is the hope, HE is the peace, that will make this life complete. Jesus Christ is the answer.

8. Remember Your Chains
The song “Remember Your Chains” is also from Steven Curtis Chapman’s Heaven in the Real World album. The song was inspired by Steven during a flight on a plane with a convicted felon who was chained up and looked very hopeless. After that flight Steven joined a Prison Fellowship. The message of the song is to remember what it was like before being saved, you were chained and hopeless, but when you accept Christ he breaks you loose from those chains and gives you a new hope.