“Since I’ve been involved in making music for over forty years now, I’ve met a lot of people who have been at it longer than me and they still work hard at their craft,” the singer-songwriter observes. “I know some people who stay interested, do things, go places, and learn new things, regardless of age.

“I have also met people who have really been put through the ‘wringer’ — that’s the thing that used to wring out the water from clothes in those old washing machines — and life has left scars upon their hearts,” he adds. “Some scars never heal. Life can be beautiful, but life can also be tough.

“Maybe some folks look back upon their lives, thinking about their happiest times, and they think that those days are never coming back again. But God has promised us that as Christians, we have yet to experience our greatest happiness. We have yet to feel our greatest joy. We’ve yet to smile our biggest smile.”

Produced by Jeff Collins, “Oh Yes You Will” shows Bishop not only in a typically thoughtful mood as he approaches his subject, but also as a powerful creative interpreter, serving up a distinctively conversational lyric that draws the listener into its meditation on the joy that Christians know await them, backed by an arrangement that echoes the deep heritage of African-American gospel music.

“Some day,” he notes, “in God’s promised future, we will reunite with people we miss. We will feel their love again firsthand. We will know complete joy with the absence of grief, pain, or worry.

“Maybe you think that your best days are behind you, but God says, ‘no… those days are ahead.’ You think you’ll never be that happy again, but oh yes you will. Oh yes you will.”

“Oh Yes You Will” is streaming in Dolby Atmos spatial audio on Apple Music, Amazon Music and TIDAL. Listen to it HERE.

About Mark Bishop
Mark Bishop is a Grammy-nominated, Dove Award-winning Christian music artist who resides in east-central Kentucky with his wife Carolyn. In 2024, Mark celebrates a forty-year career in Gospel Music as a recording artist and songwriter.

A music reviewer once said, “Mark Bishop’s music gives us the glasses to see the bigness of God in everyday happenstance.” Linda, an Amazon reviewer said simply, “You just need Mark Bishop’s music in your life.”

In 1984, along with his father and brother, The Bishops began a recording and touring career that would span seventeen years, reaching millions for Christ. The family enjoyed appearances on popular TV programs such as TNN’s Nashville Now, Crooke and Chase, The Grand Ole Opry, The World Today with John Hagee, The Bill Gaither Homecoming video series and many more. They were blessed with twenty-seven Top 40 songs, numerous #1 songs, along with countless awards and industry recognitions.

Many of the group’s most popular songs were penned by Mark. He continues to be a prolific songwriter today, writing music for his own recordings, and other artists such as Brian Free and Assurance, The Kingdom Heirs, The Kingsmen, Legacy Five, Allison Durham Speer, and many others.

Mark’s solo career began after the family group retired in 2001, with that yielding more chart-topping and #1 songs. Mark was voted “Soloist of the Year” in 2005 at the Singing News Fan Awards. In 2020, Mark’s “Beautiful Day” album was a Top-5 Grammy nominee for “Best Roots Gospel Album”. In 2022 he was the recipient of the “J.D. Sumner Living Legend Award” from the readers of SGN Scoops Magazine.