Brandon Lake and Nick Jonas team up for faith-based single

Contemporary Christian artist Brandon Lake and pop singer Nick Jonas have released a two-song collaboration, featuring the brand new single “The Author” and a remix of “Hope.”

The project, released May 1 after weeks of online teasers, includes Lake’s ballad “The Author” alongside a reworked version of “Hope,” a track that originally appeared on Jonas’ solo album “Sunday Best.”

“Picked up the Book for the primary time in ages/ Still washed me clean with the dust on the pages/ My life is a story I struggle to put in writing/ But is it one value telling? Is it one You like?” Lake sings within the opening verse, before moving into the chorus.

“So who am I? Who am I?/ Am I only a poor preacher’s prodigal son?/ Troubled child, running wild/ Chasing the glory as a substitute of the One/ Who says that I, even I, have something still left to offer?/ So who am I?/ Who am I to query the pen within the hands of the Author?”

Jonas joins on the second verse, singing, “Like every good story, you learn from the loss/ And I lost the plot each time I played God/ I live in a moment You already wrote/ It’s proof that I’m someone, yeah, someone You love,” before joining Lake on the refrain.

According to a release announcing the collaboration, the song was written during a writing camp hosted by Lake, a five-time Grammy winner, in late 2025 and is credited to Lake, featuring Jonas.

Lake’s recent mainstream visibility has grown following his collaboration with Jelly Roll on “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” which helped expand his reach into arena tours and secular festivals. The track earned a Grammy Award for best contemporary Christian music performance/song, together with song of the yr honors on the K-LOVE Fan Awards and the Dove Awards.

The collaboration also arrives shortly after Lake’s April 3 release, “The Jesus I Know Now,” with Lainey Wilson.

Jonas, a member of the Jonas Brothers, has previously spoken about his faith journey and the challenges his family faced when his father lost his position as a pastor after the group signed with Columbia Records in 2005. The group, which recently performed with Switchfoot, initially started off as a Christian band.

“Our dad was at that church for 10 years. It was an actual safety net for us and a spot where we felt a component of a community,” Jonas said during an appearance on the “Jay Shetty Podcast.”

He added, “Some of the families that were there prior to our arrival didn’t like my dad and made it their mission to get him pushed out of the church. So effectively, he lost his job while also funding this dream of ours.”

“We had to maneuver out of our home because we were living within the church parsonage, which is owned by the church,” Jonas said. “We moved into principally somewhat house in a spot called Little Falls, New Jersey. The owners of the house were kind enough to allow us to rent it from them for principally nothing while we were on this transitional period.”

Jonas said the transition, combined with early profession pressures, led him to wrestle along with his faith.

“It all sort of collided at the identical time, and also you look up and life just looked very different,” he said.

“It took a variety of faith, and even questioning faith at the moment,” Jonas said, “going from the protection net of the church to unexpectedly being type of betrayed by them and having to redefine your relationship with God while going through a few of your hardest moments.”

“Throughout those years following our exit from the church, I actually questioned faith and what relationship I’d need to organized religion in any respect,” he said, “which is something that I can say now knowing that my relationship with my God is completely intact and that my belief is completely intact.”

In addition to “The Author,” the pair reimagined “Hope,” an organ-driven pop-soul track by which Jonas reflects on his church upbringing and sings, “I want some hope/ Where’s the silver lining cutting through all of the smoke?/ I want some hope/ I’m praying that the devil loosens up his hold, hold, hold/ I want some hope.”

Previously, Lake shared with The Christian Post how he hopes his music reaches each the Christian scuffling with hurt and doubt, in addition to non-Christians. Healing from church hurt is feasible, he said, and God, through His people, can restore what has been broken.

“Your primary call is not to ministry, it’s to intimacy,” the worship leader said. “Let every little thing flow from that. Just deal with your relationship with God. Take sooner or later at a time. Surrender every day. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Focus on what He asks you to do today, and you will find yourself where you are purported to be.

“Everyone’s going to be hurt by a Christian,” he added. “But it doesn’t suggest God hurt you. At some point, the church goes to allow you to down. But it doesn’t suggest God did. Church is not perfect, since you’re there and I’m there. So in the event you’ve ever had food poisoning, you do not stop eating food. You need to eat again in some unspecified time in the future. So just keep moving forward. Find healthier and healthier people to surround you. Keep your arms up, keep your faith on fire, and be quick to forgive.”

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