Cast Your Crown!
"And cast their crowns before the throne."
Revelation 4: 10
Contemporary praise and worship group Casting Crowns
began in Daytona Beach, Florida, with pastor Mark Hall,
who ministered at the First Baptist Church in 1999.
Initially a student worship band, Hall recalls that when the
group began, they were studying Revelation 4 and singing
Chris Tomlin’s song, “We fall down, we lay our crowns at
the feet of Jesus.” That was the inspiration for their name.
Hall went on to say, “For me, as a believer, if you’re not careful,
little things will rise up in your life and become important. And it
creates distance between you and God; and the little kingdoms
don’t have to be bad things, sometimes they can be good things.
They just take our focus away, and we have to let these
kingdoms fall and fall before Him and make sure that
we are setting apart Christ as Lord in our lives.”
The Bible talks about the five crowns that will be awarded
to faithful believers, the crown of life, the
incorruptible crown,
the crown of righteousness, the crown of glory, and the crown
of rejoicing.
If we live wholeheartedly for Christ, we will
receive a crown to cast at His feet in heaven.
We do not desire rewards for the reward itself,
but because rewards are a reflection of Christ’s
approval of us.
Erwin W. Lutzer
