Chris Tomlin Tour 2026

Inside Chris Tomlin

Chris Tomlin is the Grand Saline, Texas-born worship leader and singer-songwriter who, more than any other modern artist, set the template for what contemporary congregational worship sounds like in the English-speaking world. Walk into a Sunday service at almost any evangelical megachurch in North America, the UK or Australia and you will hear a Chris Tomlin song inside the first twenty minutes — How Great Is Our God, Our God, Forever, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), Holy Is the Lord, Indescribable, Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies), or one of the two dozen other titles he has either written, co-written or made canonical.

The Christian Copyright Licensing International data has tracked his catalogue as among the most-sung in churches globally for more than fifteen consecutive years. Behind the songbook is a steady touring career that mirrors the church-circuit-meets-arena-headliner pattern of contemporary Christian music more cleanly than almost any peer.

Passion Conferences, the college-aged worship gatherings he has been a permanent musical fixture of since the late 1990s, fill basketball arenas in Atlanta, Dallas and Washington each winter. Standalone tour legs route through arenas like Bridgestone Arena, American Airlines Center and Toyota Center alongside the church-circuit dates at large multi-site evangelical campuses.

He is signed to Six Steps Records, the Louie Giglio-founded label that has been his home since the early 2000s, with national distribution and partner support through Sparrow Records and Capitol CMG Label Group. Burning Lights, released in January 2013, made him the first artist in the Christian and gospel format to debut a record at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

The Grammys, Doves, ASCAP Songwriter of the Year awards and the long list of platinum and gold certifications across the catalogue are downstream of the songs working in church rooms first and concert rooms second, which is the order Tomlin has been clear about preferring since he started. This page is the landing spot for current Chris Tomlin tour dates, ticket information, setlist trends and city-specific show notes, kept evergreen year-round so it tracks every routing as the calendar rolls out.

About Chris Tomlin

Christopher Dwayne Tomlin was born May 4, 1972 in Grand Saline, a small town in East Texas about ninety miles east of Dallas, the oldest of three brothers raised in a churchgoing family by Donna and Donnie Tomlin. He learned guitar from his father starting at age nine, was leading congregational worship at a local Methodist congregation by his early teens, and ended up at Texas A&M University in College Station for college, where the on-campus and Bryan-area church networks gave him a wider audience for the songs he was beginning to write.

The break came not through a record deal but through Louie Giglio's Passion Conferences movement. Giglio had launched Passion in 1995 as a college-student worship gathering aimed at the 18-to-25-year-old demographic Christian music had under-served for years, and Tomlin was on the platform from the very early events as a worship leader rather than as a featured artist.

The Passion live albums — Better Is One Day in 1999, the Road to OneDay compilations in 2000, OneDay Live in 2001, Hymns Ancient and Modern in 2004 — captured Tomlin's compositions in the room they were written for, and the songs spread out from those recordings into the wider church-music ecosystem rather than the radio chart. His solo studio catalogue runs alongside the Passion live releases without ever fully separating from them.

The Noise We Make arrived in 2001 as his debut on Six Steps Records, the Giglio-founded label, with Sparrow handling distribution. Not to Us followed in 2002.

Arriving, released in 2004, contained Indescribable and How Great Is Our God — two of the songs that became permanent fixtures of the global English-language worship songbook — and went gold in the US. See the Morning followed in 2006 with Made to Worship and Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), the rewritten contemporary version of the John Newton hymn that has since become the dominant version sung in most evangelical churches.

Hello Love in 2008 and And If Our God Is for Us... in 2010 added Jesus Messiah, I Will Rise, Our God and Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies) to the canon. Burning Lights, released in January 2013, debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 — the first Christian and gospel album to do so since Bob Carlisle in 1997 and only the fourth ever to reach the top of the all-genre chart from the Christian format — and produced Whom Shall I Fear, Lay Me Down and the title track.

Love Ran Red followed in 2014 with Waterfall and Jesus Loves Me, Never Lose Sight in 2016, Holy Roar in 2018, and a series of collaboration records under the Chris Tomlin & Friends banner starting in 2020 that paired him with country and Americana artists including Lady A, Florida Georgia Line, Russell Dickerson, Cassadee Pope and Brett Young in a deliberate crossover with Nashville's country and folk-pop scenes. Always arrived in 2022 and Wholehearted followed in 2024.

Across the catalogue, the awards tally has stacked: two Grammy Awards (Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for And If Our God Is for Us... in 2012, and a Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album), more than twenty Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, three ASCAP Songwriter of the Year honors, the BMI President's Award, multiple Billboard Music Awards for Christian Artist of the Year, and a 2017 induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as the youngest Christian artist ever inducted. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife Lauren Bricken and their three daughters, and the family-centric public posture is structural to how the tour is positioned — Chris Tomlin shows are squarely family-friendly, with the rooms full of parents and kids alongside the college-age and young-adult Passion-aligned core audience.

Chris Tomlin tour dates

The Chris Tomlin touring calendar runs on two parallel tracks that share repertoire but operate on different commercial logic, and understanding which version of the show you are buying matters before you commit to a ticket. The first track is the routed arena tour.

These legs run on the standard contemporary Christian touring template — an hour-long opening set from a label-mate or rising worship artist, a forty-minute mid-set from a direct support like Pat Barrett, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe or Matt Maher, and a ninety-to-105-minute Tomlin headline set that runs through the canonical singalongs alongside material from the current album cycle. Arena bookings have included Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, American Airlines Center in Dallas, Toyota Center in Houston, State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center in the New York metro, Crypto.com Arena and the Honda Center in the Los Angeles area, the Spectrum Center in Charlotte and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.

The arena tour cycles typically run from September through December for the fall leg and February through May for the spring leg, with the summer months reserved for festival appearances and family time. The second track is the Passion Conference circuit.

Passion is the multi-day worship gathering Louie Giglio launched in 1995 and has run continuously since, aimed at the 18-to-25-year-old college-student demographic and held annually in early January at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, with secondary editions across Dallas, Washington and overseas markets including London, Berlin and Hong Kong on different cycles. Tomlin has been a permanent musical fixture of Passion since the late 1990s — the Passion live albums are effectively a parallel catalogue to his solo records — and the annual Passion events are not standalone Chris Tomlin concerts but rather worship gatherings where he leads a meaningful portion of the music alongside other Passion artists like Crowder, Kristian Stanfill, Melodie Malone and Brett Younker.

The third format, alongside the routed arena tour and Passion, is the church-circuit booking. Tomlin appears periodically at multi-site evangelical campuses — Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Bayside Church in Sacramento, Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Hillsong Phoenix and Hillsong East Coast, Elevation Church in Charlotte — for one-off Sunday worship sets or weeknight worship nights that book on shorter notice than the arena tour and tend to sell tickets directly through the church's own ticketing platform rather than Ticketmaster.

The grid above pulls the live schedule directly from Ticketmaster and updates as new Chris Tomlin dates are confirmed and added. Door times typically run 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. for arena dates, with the opener at 7:00, direct support at 8:00 and Tomlin at 9:00 sharp.

Stage production is moderate by arena-tour standards — full LED wall, lyric projection on the side screens for congregational singing, warm lighting calibrated to support the worship pacing rather than competing with it — and pyrotechnics and aggressive strobing are rare.

Chris Tomlin tickets

Chris Tomlin tickets are sold through Ticketmaster as the primary outlet on the routed arena tour, with secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster's own verified resale platform linked from each event card on this page. Arena pricing for a Chris Tomlin date typically opens with upper-bowl reserved seats in the $25–$45 range, lower-bowl reserved at $55–$110, floor seats at $90–$160, and front-of-stage and VIP packages climbing to $250–$400.

The pricing runs noticeably lower than the comparable secular arena tours at the same room — Chris Tomlin has been clear in interviews that he wants tour pricing to remain accessible to families and college students, and the tour's own pricing structure reflects that priority — and dynamic pricing applies in a more muted form than on most major arena routings. Fan club presales through the official Chris Tomlin site usually open the Tuesday before the Friday public on-sale and remain the best path to good seats on high-demand markets like Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas and the Texas-and-Southeast corridor where his audience concentrates.

Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration has been used on select on-sales to keep bot inventory off the early window; sign up through the official site as soon as a date is announced to keep registration windows open. Citi cardmember presales and venue presales fill the rest of the week.

VIP packages on the headline tour have included early entry, premium reserved seating, a pre-show acoustic worship experience with Tomlin and the band, a Q&A session, an artist-signed merchandise bundle and a commemorative laminate; the photo opportunity has varied by cycle and is not guaranteed across every VIP tier — check the package description on the event page above before committing. Passion Conference registration runs through the official Passion Conferences website rather than through Ticketmaster, with student pricing in the $200–$300 range for the multi-day event including the worship-night arena sessions where Tomlin appears.

Passion typically sells out the Mercedes-Benz Stadium night inside the first week of registration. Always buy from a marketplace with a buyer guarantee; avoid social-media sellers and unverified PDFs for arena and conference dates, since major venues have moved to mobile-only delivery and screenshots will not scan at the gate.

Chris Tomlin setlist

A current Chris Tomlin setlist runs about sixteen to twenty songs across 90 to 105 minutes and reads as a designed worship arc rather than a chronological run through the back catalogue. The night typically opens with a high-energy congregational singalong — Our God, Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies) or Holy Roar — to set the room tone and bring the audience into participation immediately.

The first third of the set works through the more uptempo material in the catalogue, with Holy Is the Lord, Made to Worship, Jesus Messiah and Forever as common candidates. A mid-set acoustic break usually pulls the energy down deliberately, with Tomlin alone or with two band members on stools center stage running through Indescribable, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), I Will Rise, Lay Me Down or one of the gentler newer compositions from Wholehearted or Always.

The acoustic break is typically the section where he speaks to the audience between songs more substantively, frames the songs theologically, and brings the room into a more reflective worship posture. The set then builds back through the second half with Good Good Father, Whom Shall I Fear, Forever (Hallelujah from the South) and the new singles from the current album cycle.

How Great Is Our God is almost universally the late-set or closing peak — the song is the most-sung worship anthem in the global English-language church and the version Tomlin runs live typically includes an extended congregational singalong on the chorus that runs five or six minutes longer than the studio cut. The encore is most often a single song, either a stripped-back reprise of How Great Is Our God or a contemplative close like Goodness of God.

Setlist.fm logs across the last two touring cycles show a stable core of about twelve to fourteen tracks that appear in essentially every show, with five or six rotating slots that change night to night based on the band's read of the room and the new-album material in active rotation. Check setlist.fm after the first night of any new Chris Tomlin tour leg for the current run order.

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