Faith!?

Chris Renzema names the exact sensation most worship songs skip past: "faith feels like a free fall sometimes," not peace, not certainty, an actual stomach-drop fear repeated as the chorus rather than resolved by it. The verses stack specific doubts instead of general ones — losing his head some days, unraveling mid-song while trying to write his way through it, a ladder that feels like it's "missing rungs."

The Peter reference does the heaviest lifting: "stepping out onto the water, not sure if you'll sink or stand," reframing that miracle not as a triumph of confidence but as a genuinely uncertain risk taken by someone who'd only ever walked on land before. "To leap into the unknown is to walk by faith not sight" reads almost like commentary on itself, quoting the standard verse but immediately following it with permission to still be scared: "we all get scared of what we don't know, and maybe that's alright." That closing phrase, repeated at the very end, is the song's actual argument — not that fear disqualifies faith, but that it's built into what stepping out onto water has always required.