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February 16, 2005

When You Spoke My Name

Well I just got back awhile ago from seeing a concert with Liz. The highlights were Jeremy Camp and MercyMe and opening were the Afters and Monk & Eagle. Monk & Eagle were a group of two guys both playing accoustic guitar. They had one song I think I heard on 104.9 a couple times, and they were a really nice relaxing way to start the whole concert. The Afters were a more upbeat rock band that apparently will be going mainstream rather soon.
Jeremy Camp was of course great with his mix of rock and worship music. I really hoped he would have played "Take My Life" but he didn't. Oh well maybe I'll get to see him again sometime.
All of the groups were great in their own respect, you ever want to go to a truly honest and down to earth worship concert, you must definately go see MercyMe live. The combination of their down to earth music and the visuals that go along with it are simply amazing and seem to just stop me in my tracks from one song to the next.
For those that aren't familiar with their stage setup, they typically have a large projector screen or two set up behind the stage which project videos which sometimes look like music videos and sometimes simply have an artistic rendition of the words of the song being played, all in time and on beat with the music. How the timing is so well done I'm curious about, but that's the engineering side of me getting off topic with what this post is all about.
Not only do the visuals take your breath away, but the manner in which the band respects the people that have come to see them is so awesome. One of the most dramatic things that caught me tonight was the end of one of the songs where the audience is singing along. Bart (the lead vocalist) asks for voices only and the band stops playing, then as we sing the chorus one more time the lights that are shining on the band slowly fade away and the lights on the audience become brighter, so that at the end of the verse it's only us and the lights on them have completely gone out. Maybe I'm being silly, but it just seemed like a way of showing why they were here.
So during another set Bart stops and tells us about his past year and how hard it's been for him. He tells about how his family has been hit by one tradegy after another from a fatal car crash to a brain tumor for family members. Then he talked about how he managed to keep going on, and how his outlet for his pain is to sing about God's grace, which was the inspiration for the song, "Keep Singing" which he then sang for us. During this song I couldn't help but think about how things seem so hard for me sometimes with all the work I've been trying to get done, the decisions about what to do with my life next, careers, and all that stuff. I also thought about one of my students who I've been praying for a lot lately. She seems to think there's nothing good about her, but I know better than this. I wish she would realize that there are so many positive things about her and there can be better outlets for coping with the stress and issues that she has. I just know God has a plan for her, and even though she doesn't seem to see anything good coming from it right now, I think it just takes time for her to get out of this trough that she's in. For some reason many of the things I've been hearing at church and in Bible study and even at this concert have been dealing with pain and stress and issues like this. God has to be telling me something too.
So MercyMe played Liz's and my song, "I Can Only Imagine," as the second to last song. I think that made her really happy. They also played a song off their new CD, "When You Spoke My Name," which I really enjoyed. I need to get their new CD now so I can enjoy these songs driving to school and back.

Alright that's enough for tonight. Wow 2 posts this week. You guys are really lucky.

Posted by Plocmstart at February 16, 2005 11:18 PM

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