Since the Seattle native first moved to Nashville to pursue his dream of songwriting, an urgent honesty and the desire to be different have marked his songs. "The lesson that God keeps pounding me over the head with is that if my faith is real, and if God really loves me that much, how does my life look different?" asks Scott. "I hope people come away [from this album] asking themselves that same question."

Straightforward honesty combined with sincere passion and a powerful vocal performance—this is the substance of Bright Star, Blue Sky.

Seven of the album’s twelve songs are written as worship songs, but this approach is not new for Krippayne. "I think the most passionate way you can write something is in the first person," Scott says. "The current trend is to label this sort of music worshipful, but it's what I’ve been writing for years."

Bright Star, Blue Sky continues where More left off, sharing the hope of Christ—a living, breathing, everyday kind of hope. The title cut, penned with friend Steve Siler, was written to bring "some light and joy" on a day when, as Scott describes it, there was "a dark cloud hanging over the house." The family had just received news of a separation between wife Katy’s parents. In the wake of that situation, the song reminded them that there is One who is our wisdom when we can’t find the answers, our sanctuary when we’re in need of peace, and our friend who loves us at our worst and our best.

The song, "Cross of Christ" (Scott’s current single on Positive Life Radio) as much as any other, underscores the driving desire embedded in Scott to live a life pleasing to God, to be true to his faith in real, tangible ways. "In all reality, there’s no way I'm going to live up to the lines of that song everyday, but this is my hope—that I'll be like this someday," he says. Written after one of his regular Tuesday morning prayer meetings, "I Want to Want," shares Krippayne’s heartfelt longing to want the things of God, a longing that is, in itself, a gift of the Father.

Full of promise and hope, Bright Star Blue Sky is the straightforward, heavenward prayer of one man—to be all God wants him to be—and his simple confession, that he’s not there yet.