Casting Crowns – The Next Best Thing

Ever a collaborative endeavor, The Very Next Thing masterfully combines the life experiences of each band member with the creative intuition of another, finished off with the spiritual insight and revelation of another.

This interplay breathes itself to light on the frolicking, roots-y toe-tapper, “Song That The Angels Can’t Sing,” featuring lead vocals from its main writer, Megan Garrett.

“I started writing this about nine years ago after I sang in a small Baptist church in the middle of Georgia. A lady came up to me and said, ‘You sing like an angel.’ It got me to thinking that angels are creative beings whose sole purpose is to worship. There’s a big difference between us and them. We can sing about salvation and redemption, which the angels can never know fully because they’ve not experienced it.”

The record concludes with “Loving My Jesus,” an uncomplicated take on the deep profundity of the love between man and His savior.

“The cool thing about this song is that on the surface, it looks like we’re talking about the future. We all know how hard it can be to carry the future on our shoulders, but if we can look at it as one thing at a time…how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Time is just moments strung together anyway, “ says Brian Scoggin. “Just talk to this person and love this person. It’ll change you by bits. If you keep following that, you’ll discover that you’ve been doing His will all along.

“When we started playing this song live, it was easy to look at ourselves and think that we’re really not all that cool. We don’t have dancers or lasers like a bunch of other bands. So what are we doing here? The truth is that God has us here for a reason. We’ll come and do what we do and let God do what He wants. Show our scars, love our Jesus and tell our story.”

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