Credit: Chris Tomlin / Facebook

Praise the lawd. Chris Tomlin is turning 50 this year, and is still writing those musical love letters to Jesus.

During lockdown, he released Chris Tomlin & Friends, a new album featuring an all-star lineup of country and Christian musicians including Lady A, Thomas Rhett, and Florida Georgia Line.

His new tour, which stops at Tampa’s Amalie Arena next week, doesn’t have an all-star lineup big enough to fill, say, Raymond James Stadium, but it doesn’t hurt that he’s closing for Hillsong United—a church the New York Times says “has lost nine of its 16 American church campuses” in the last three weeks after both a high-profile pastor and the church’s founder were caught in scandals.

There aren’t any vaccine requirements for entry, but you should have it by now anyway. It was a gift from God, you ungrateful heathen.

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Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...