Thrive

I had a chance to go to the Casting Crowns Thrive concert over the weekend.  It was one of the best concerts I've been to recently.  I enjoyed the songs from all of the artists.

Sidewalk Prophets were nice to listen to.  They have a lot of songs that I often hear on the radio and like.

Mandisa was full of energy and seems like she must get a work-out during her concert performances.  Naturally, her most popular and well-known song was Overcomer.

And Casting Crowns is of course my favorite current Christian group; so, I enjoyed their music the most.  I think one of the things that make them so good is that their songs are Scriptually-based, written from their experiences serving with their church youth group(s).  Some things that stuck out from their sharing:

• The picture of the tree for Thrive is one in which the roots go deep so that there is just as much going on below the surface as there is above.  In the same way, our internal depth should be as well established as anything externally
• The reference to the fishing showed that Christ helped the disciples catch a miraculous amount of fish in the beginning of His ministry when He called them, and they chose to follow.  However, after they went back to fishing dejected by the events leading to and following the crucifixion, Christ again helped them catch a miraculous amount of fish to remind them of their calling.  Peter responded by jumping into the water to swim to Jesus

It really was an enjoyable evening of worship at the concert.  I was blessed.

Before the concert, we had dinner at Izakaya Wasa at the Spectrum.  It may have been a little pricier, but the decor was nice and the California Rolls were really good.  The sushi pieces were fine; and it was nice that the combo had green salad, potato salad, and miso soup.  Another nice thing was that because we ate so early, we were only charged the lunch price for the combo ($14.50).