Fired Up: Newsboys Frontman Michael Tait Reveals How a Message About Hell Led Him to Christ

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January 4, 2024

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Newsboys frontman Michael Tait has spent decades in the music industry, finding success and doling out inspiration along the way.

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The singer’s most recent project, “I Believe In Christmas,” is a collection of Christmas songs aimed at encouraging the masses. He sat down with CBN Digital to discuss the project, his long music career, and how he came to faith.

Tait, 57, said he’s learned a plethora of lessons throughout the many years he’s been performing on stage and professionally creating music.

“One big thing I’ve learned [is] just to stay true to who you are when you’re doing what you do,” he said.

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As far as what’s kept Tait going for so long in the music industry, he credited the “power of the Almighty God,” stating he believes his music gets stronger and more creative as he ages.

The singer also shared details about the origins of his faith journey, noting he was “late” to fully accept Christ, despite his father being a pastor.

“Dad was also a cab driver, so he … drove cabs, and they preached church on Sunday,” he said. “If you got in my dad’s cab, there was a good chance you were going to be saved in more ways than one.”

Tait said he was 17 or 18 years old when a preacher came to his school and spoke about the “subject of hell, and how real hell is, and how beautiful heaven is.”

“He preached on what preachers don’t preach about much anymore,” the singer said. “You can’t get saved on the back of your dad or your mom; it’s not osmosis. It’s a thing we have to be one-on-one with God.”

Tait continued, “I got fired up that day, man pun intended. I got fired up, and I went … forward for prayer, and I accepted God for myself as my Savior that day in high school.”

Like any Christian, Tait said he has had his “moments” throughout his journey with Jesus, noting, “We’re sinners saved by grace.”

But he said God has been faithful to him throughout his life.

“When I’ve been grossly unfaithful … He keeps bringing me back to the cross,” he said.

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Trump just wants a Ukraine-Russia deal – will Putin or Zelenskyy blink first?

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March 20, 2025

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Trump just wants a Ukraine-Russia deal - will Putin or Zelenskyy blink first?

The tone has changed totally. It’s a remarkable turnaround from the Oval Office meltdown to the perfect phone call.

President Trump is wholly transactional. His desire for give and take far outweighs any ideological instincts. He has no particular alignment to Ukraine or, for that matter, to Russia.

He just wants a deal. Peace would stop the killing as he has said repeatedly. It would also allow for deals which can benefit America: recouping the taxpayer money spent on Ukraine and reconnecting the American economy with Russia.

But trumping all that is his legacy and his image. He wants to be seen as the peacemaker president.

Since the Oval Office moment, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy seems now to have recognised all that.

Ukraine’s approach towards Trump has changed. Zelenskyy is now playing his game: transactionalism.

The minerals deal hasn’t dissolved. The indications I am getting is that it’s essentially been upgraded and broadened to a wider scope: fuller economic cooperation.

Zelenskyy needs to encourage America deep into his country economically. Has he bought into the idea that a US economic footprint amounts to a key part of a security guarantee?

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The old adage is: “If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” That’s too true with President Trump.

Zelenskyy now feels like he’s at the table and I am told he doesn’t feel coerced.

The challenges remain huge though: he doesn’t trust Putin. That’s what he tried to tell President Trump in the Oval Office. The performance that day proved to him that Trump is inclined to trust Putin.

Zelenskyy must use transactionalism to draw an impatient Trump in.

President Trump is in a hurry for a deal. He’s inclined to accept wholly disingenuous commitments from Russia, or as one source put it to me: “Trump has a high tolerance for bullshit…”

That’s the jeopardy for Zelenskyy.

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Trump just wants a Ukraine-Russia deal – will Putin or Zelenskyy blink first?

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March 20, 2025

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The tone has changed totally. It’s a remarkable turnaround from the Oval Office meltdown to the perfect phone call.

President Trump is wholly transactional. His desire for give and take far outweighs any ideological instincts. He has no particular alignment to Ukraine or, for that matter, to Russia.

But trumping all that is his legacy and his image. He wants to be seen as the peacemaker president.

Since the Oval Office moment, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy seems now to have recognised all that.

Ukraine’s approach towards Trump has changed. Zelenskyy is now playing his game: transactionalism.

The minerals deal hasn’t dissolved. The indications I am getting is that it’s essentially been upgraded and broadened to a wider scope: fuller economic cooperation.

Zelenskyy needs to encourage America deep into his country economically. Has he bought into the idea that a US economic footprint amounts to a key part of a security guarantee?

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The old adage is: “If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” That’s too true with President Trump.

Zelenskyy now feels like he’s at the table and I am told he doesn’t feel coerced.

Zelenskyy must use transactionalism to draw an impatient Trump in.

President Trump is in a hurry for a deal. He’s inclined to accept wholly disingenuous commitments from Russia, or as one source put it to me: “Trump has a high tolerance for bullshit…”

That’s the jeopardy for Zelenskyy.

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Trump 100, Day 60: Zelenskyy and the ‘perfect’ phone call

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March 20, 2025

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Trump 100, Day 60: Zelenskyy and the 'perfect' phone call

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From an Oval Office explosion to a “perfect phone call”, Donald Trump has spoken to Volodymyr Zelenskyy – just hours after his conversation with Vladimir Putin.

On Day 60, US correspondents James Matthews, Martha Kelner and Mark Stone discuss what’s happened to the minerals deal and ask: could the US take control of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure?

And as a constitutional showdown brews in America, Trump takes aim at the judiciary, calling for judges who block his policies to be removed. With tensions rising between the executive and judicial branches, could America be heading toward a crisis of power?

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