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Casting Crowns is a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning Contemporary Christian/Christian Rock band. Casting Crowns was started in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall at First Baptist Church in Downtown Daytona Beach, Florida as part of a youth group. He now serves as a lead vocalist. Later they moved to Stockbridge, Georgia and more members joined creating the band now known as Casting Crowns. Some members of the band currently work as ministers for Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in Stockbridge, Georgia.
Christian rock group Casting Crowns began as a student worship band in Daytona Beach, FL, in 1999. Led by singer, songwriter, and youth pastor Mark Hall, the group initially included guitarists Juan DeVevo and Hector Cervantes and violinist Melodee DeVevo. The group relocated to Stockbridge, GA, in 2001, adding Chris Huffman on bass, Megan Garrett on keyboards and accordion, and drummer Andy Williams. This augmented version of Casting Crowns released two independent albums on CD, both of which were well received in the Atlanta area. Both independent albums were efforts on the part of Mark Hall and the rest of the group as outreach projects for youth in the area. The group won the GMA regional songwriters competition at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida in both the "Best Song" and the "Best Artist" categories in 2004. Although the group was not searching for a record label, one of the group's albums found its way into the hands of Mark Miller, lead singer for country group Sawyer Brown, who was struck by Casting Crowns' driving pop/rock style and Hall's vocal delivery of his hard-hitting but devout songs. Miller signed Casting Crowns to his fledgling Beach Street Records, a division of Reunion Records with distribution by the Provident Label Group, making Casting Crowns the first artist signed to Beach Street Records.
Who Am I - Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns - Just Be Held (Official Lyric Video)
Casting Crowns - Broken Together (Official Music Video)
Casting Crowns - Good Good Father
Casting Crowns - Here's My Heart
Casting Crowns by Nathaniel Bassey and Lovesong
Casting Crowns Praise You In The Storm
Casting Crowns - A Live Worship Experience (Full Album 2015)
Who Am I - Casting Crowns (w/ lyrics)
Casting Crowns - Thrive (full album)
You say I'm lame for calling on a man that I have never seen
You say I'm crazy for listening for a voice that I have never heard
You say that I am so naive to think that He could love me
but I have joy and I have peace
that will never ever leave me
Is it because you've never seen
Is it because you've never heard
that you're comfortable in darkness
in a lost and dying world
He'll be standing all around you
with His arms held open wide
and you're straining just to see Him
through blinded eyes
Open your eyes the place where you are standing now is holy ground
God shined His light straight into you heart now look what you've found
Is that right what you call righteousness
All dressed up in Sunday best
They're draped across the stage
Only Jesus never walked away
Open your heart, He'll open your eyes
show you the hope you have inside
call on the Name of Christ
and He will save you