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Well, hello, friends, and welcome to episode 158 of the Worship Leader Probs podcast.

My name is Scott Long. You're sitting in for the ever-famous Brian Tabor, who is

feeling fine, but also under a ton of stress as he is working on worship and production,

as you are, for upcoming Christmas Eve and all of that. And so we're bringing to you a micro

podcast this month. It's our Christmas gift to you.

These are shorter podcasts because we know we're short on time this month, but we still want to be

able to entertain, encourage, and equip you along the way. So let me tell you what's going to happen

in our episode today. We're going to give you some great resources. We're also going to make you

laugh with a couple of prayer concerns. And then today,

what I would like to talk about is hope. This has just become a new passion of mine in looking

at everything that hope brings to us and what the enemy wants to do is he wants to steal hope from

you. I don't talk to a whole lot of worship and production leaders who are like,

man, I love Christmas because there's just a whole bunch of hope.

We're kind of like, just I hope this gets over.

But we're going to flip that, and we're going to actually walk through this season with an increased amount of hope.

So stick around as we talk about that in just a minute. But before we do, let me tell you about our great sponsor from

Planning Center. As you know, or may know, Planning Center has a free app for your congregation

called Church Center. And if you use certain Planning Center apps, you can give people in your church

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