Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and whether you're listening to this on your favorite podcast platform

or you're watching on our YouTube channel. I'm so thankful

that you've joined me for this episode. I want to just say it because it's time to say it.

Merry Christmas. I know it's early, but it is my favorite time of year. We're entering into

the December window, Thanksgiving in the rear view, and what can be more fitting than to

encourage you every single week,

every Monday when a new episode comes out here for the gospel, with Christmas-themed podcast episodes.

I want to talk to you about truths that will help you focus on Jesus. I want you to be filled

with hope. I want you to grow in sound doctrine. And so here we go. A little Christmas

series starting now. Today, I want to talk about four misconceptions about Christmas. And I want to

help you understand things that maybe culturally or just in tradition have woven their way in

to very dogmatic views that you might have or I used to have.

And I want to just help you kind of get in the Christmas mindset with this episode.

And then next week I want to talk about why the incarnation changes everything,

that Jesus came and he took on human flesh, game changer.

And then we'll talk about how to keep your Christmas focused on Christ. Very important.

And that'll be, I would call it kind of the halftime episode where midway through December

and you're feeling the rush and the push and the work parties and all of the action and the

recitals. And maybe just maybe by them, it'll be perfect timing for an episode where I can wrangle us all back into a

Christ-centered focus. And hopefully, by the end of that, you're going, Kosti, I needed that

one right about now. And believe me, I'm preaching to myself. I'll be saying the exact same

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