Steven Curtis Chapman has a hit single at Christian radio, with “Don’t Lose Heart,” but he’s soon about to have a new version. The five-time Grammy Award winner is releasing the song again, this time with country music’s own Mitchell Tenpenny.

“I really believe God orchestrated something and put it together in a way that I couldn’t have planned it,” Chapman explains.

Chapman first met Tenpenny when Chapman was filming his I Am Second video. A friendship formed between the two singers, which resulted in a collaboration of “Don’t Lose Heart.” Chapman also joined Tenpenny for one of two of Tenpenny’s recent sold-out Ryman Auditorium shows.

It was Chapman who first reached out to Tenpenny about joining him on “Don’t Lose Heart.” The 33-year-old quickly realized that the song, while already a hit, had a much more personal meaning to him.

“At first I was like, ‘Yes, I’ll do anything you want, because it’s you,'” Tenpenny recalls to Chapman. “But, you gotta fall in love with the song, and I instantly fell in love with the song. My mother’s going through cancer right now. I lost my father. My aunt’s going through it. There’s a lot of those very close to our family and to our heart.”

Tenpenny also praised Chapman for the song, and for inviting him to be part of the track.

“It’s more than just encouraging; it’s uplifting as well. The production and your voice in it, it kind of tackles every element of that,” Tenpenny told Chapman. “So when I heard it, I was like, ‘I really want to try to do it justice for you, because you’re so great.”

“It was fun to sing that,” he added. “Hearing it back, what a full-circle, awesome moment it was.”

Chapman and Tenpenny’s version of “Don’t Lose Heart” will be released on Friday, February 17. The original version of the song is from Chapman’s latest album, Still, which is out now. Find the song and all of Chapman’s music by visiting his website.

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