Daniel Callan, Worship Leader of Freedom Church, leads the charge on the newly released "Good On Your Promise" (Live), now available on all digital retail and streaming platforms. Released through DREAM Worship, the powerful single from Freedom Church serves as a bold declaration of God's unbreakable promises and offers a compelling preview of the group's highly anticipated upcoming album, Upstream, arriving later this year.
Freedom Church is an international church planting movement formed out of Hereford, UK, with more than 40 locations around the world. The worship ministry carries a sound that reflects its heart to go into all the world and introduce people to Jesus. Known for its raw and passionate expression, the group has seen songs such as "Chariots" and "Because of the Cross" gain momentum across streaming playlists.
With the upcoming release of Upstream in 2026, Freedom Church continues its mission to create authentic, gritty worship music that transforms how people think about encountering and worshiping God.
Q: For readers discovering you for the first time, how would you describe Freedom Church's identity as a worship collective, and how does "Good On Your Promise" represent who you are in this season?
When trying to describe the sound or identity of Freedom Church's worship, one word always comes to mind first: raw. We've always had a bit of an untamed passion in our church, and we've consistently managed to capture it through our worship albums. We want to be bold and real before God, giving Him a sometimes unpolished sacrifice of praise.
"Good On Your Promise" is designed to be our corporate but also individual declaration that no matter what it looks like, no matter how dark the night, God is good on His promises and is faithful through the ages and through our darkest seasons. We believe this speaks to the individual's walk with God, but it also relates to the promises spoken over us as a church body.
Q: "Good On Your Promise" carries strong biblical imagery and a clear message of God's faithfulness. What inspired the writing of this song, and what moments or themes were most important for you to communicate?
What inspired the writing of this song was the deep sense and conviction that it's when we're in a situation or season that looks bleak or hopeless that we need to declare God's faithfulness the most. It's that confession that carries us through those hard times, not just sitting in it and giving up hope.
Fortunately, God has given us countless examples of this throughout the Bible, where all looked lost and the odds were stacked against our heroes, but He came through. He parted the sea when the Egyptians were closing in on the Israelites. He defeated the giant that towered over the small shepherd boy. He rolled away the stone when death seemed to have won.
The main point of this song is found in the bridge: hold onto hope, hold onto faith. Walk on through the night, He's leading you through. He is good on His promise.
Q: The song builds from reflective trust to bold, congregational praise. How intentional was that musical and lyrical progression, and what do you hope worship teams experience when leading it in a corporate setting?
It was definitely intentional. I love songs that take you on a journey, that start with acknowledging your state before God but leave you declaring the triumph of God in any situation.
To me, this is what is so powerful about corporate worship. The church comes in carrying the weight of their week, but through the process of singing together, our hearts are realigned to the truth of who God is. It's not that our problems are solved, it's that we see the One who is the answer to our problems more clearly and His glory overshadows everything else.
This is what I want people leading this song and being led in this song to feel: a rising confidence in God's faithfulness rippling through the congregation.
Q: Freedom Church has grown into an international church planting movement with a global presence. How does that global perspective shape the sound, songwriting, and mission behind your worship music?
It impacts it hugely. We want our songs to be just as relevant to our church in Raleigh, North Carolina, as they are to our church in Kigali, Rwanda, because that is the nature of our church.
That question of universal relevance is something we consistently come back to in the songwriting process. While it affects how we write, I believe it also leads to an even greater form of pure worship because we're doing as much as we can to take "us" and our perspective out of the equation and just make it all about God. When it's all about God, it's relevant to every nation, tribe, and tongue.
Q: With the upcoming album Upstream on the horizon, how does "Good On Your Promise" set the tone for the project as a whole, and what can listeners expect sonically and spiritually from this next chapter?
The title Upstream comes from the story in Joshua where the Israelites cross the Jordan River after God miraculously cuts off the flow of water. While the Israelites cross over on dry land, the site of the miracle actually happens upstream at a place they couldn't see.
"Something is stirring upstream" is a declaration that God is working on our behalf in the unseen, but also that He's gone ahead of us in creating our miracle. Upstream carries a consistent theme of great things that are on their way, the best being yet to come. In the case of "Good On Your Promise," God is still faithful even when we can't see it and is making ways for us in unseen places.
Sonically, Upstream aims to be consistent with our gritty roots and leans heavily on superb electric guitar work from Samuel Taylor, Nathanael Wheatley, and Will Graves. It also features distinct piano lines that are a staple of our previous albums, courtesy of George Owen Downes, that are evocative and ministering.
More than anything, we want people to be impacted by the theme that the best is yet to come, and for faith to rise as these songs are sung around the world.
Q: Worship music often reflects lived church experience. How do stories and testimonies from your congregations around the world influence the songs you choose to write and release?
Being heavily involved in the church means getting to hear countless stories of God's faithfulness that consistently remind me that God is so good and truly never leaves or forsakes us. Songs like "Good On Your Promise" are inspired not just by biblical stories, but real-life stories of miracle babies, miraculous healings, miraculous provision, and more.
Going back to the book of Joshua and other Old Testament stories, one of the things the Israelites are repeatedly reminded to do is remember what the Lord has done for them. Remembering what God has done is so important, but sadly many Christians can have amnesia when it comes to the works of God in their lives and in the lives of others.
I believe songs can be modern-day stones of remembrance. They immortalize a move or act of God that revealed His nature to us and continually encourage us to trust Him again. That's what I want to do as I write songs for our church. I believe it's a high calling, and I want to steward these stories in such a way that people won't forget who God is and what He's done. I pray that through the songs on Upstream, people remember who God is and look forward to the future and the other great things that He will do.
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