{"id":25526,"date":"2020-10-27T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/podcasts\/series\/preparing-people-for-christmas-with-advent-preaching\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T07:57:00","slug":"preparing-people-for-christmas-with-advent-preaching","status":"publish","type":"podcasts","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/podcasts\/monday-morning-preacher\/preparing-people-for-christmas-with-advent-preaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing People for Christmas with Advent Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can pastors prepare people for Christmas? Matt Woodley talks to Matt Erickson, Senior Pastor at Eastbrook Church about how to approach this in Advent. This year, he&rsquo;s doing a four week series on the genealogy of Jesus, from Matthew chapter one. The series will focus on some of the key men, and women that are part of Jesus story including Mary and Joseph. 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