“I was at the KLOVE awards and met Seth,” Hall says. In writing songs for the new album, Hall collaborated with his usual crew, including Bernie Herms, Jason Ingram and Matthew West as well as writing for the first time with Seth Moseley, a Grammy winning writer/producer whose credits include For King & Country, Brandon Heath, Mandisa, Colton Dixon, Newsboys and other major Christian acts. Since then the Grammy winning band has won four American Music Awards, 18 Dove Awards and two Billboard Music Awards while populating Christian radio with such hit anthems as “If We Are the Body,” “Who Am I,” “The Voice of Truth,” “Praise You in This Storm,” “Lifesong,” “Until the Whole World Hears” and “Thrive,” among others. Hall and bandmates Chris Huffman, Josh Mix, Megan Garrett, Mark Hall, Brian Scoggin, Juan DeVevo and Melodee DeVevo once again worked with writer/producer/Sawyer Brown frontman Mark Miller, who has helmed every Casting Crowns album since he discovered the band produced their self-titled debut in 2003. There are several other themes running throughout the record, but ‘Only Jesus,’ that’s the one I wanted them to hear first.” That was the biggest point in the record. “To me Thrive –– that idea of digging deep and reaching out - that was the point of that record and with The Very Next Thing following Jesus is doing the very next thing he says. “It’s not the first song on the record, but that’s the first thing I wanted to get out because the first song the world is going to hear on the record is going to set the tone for everything is going to come after it,” Hall says. The title track and lead single, “Only Jesus,” is already a hit, currently sitting at No. The point is for us to join him in his plan and these songs all walk through different parts of life where we need to see that.” “The point of our lives is not for God to come join us in our plans. “This record is looking at the idea of a Jesus-centered life where the foundation is him and the strength is from him, the direction is from him and the point of all of it is him,” says Hall, who serves as the student pastor at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church near Atlanta. That desire to keep the listener focused on the message, not the messenger, is at the root of Casting Crowns’ new album Only Jesus, out Nov. Prestige TV's Hottest New Composers (Literally) Rock
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