We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

This is a BONUS episode in our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. We've been talking about favorite old hymns for the season, but we also have worship leaders and pastors writing new music for Advent, Christmas, and beyond, and we wanted to highlight a song that emerged last year at [...]

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to [...]

We start a new series today called Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we've enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around [...]

In this final episode of our mini-series on church planting in C4SO, we discuss something that often happens in church planting, but isn't talked about a lot: when church planting doesn't work out, and the church needs to close its doors. Our guests are the Rev. Kimberly Deckel and Rev. Andrew Stravitz, who were planting [...]