Dr. David Jeremiah Explores the Real Meaning Behind the Nativity
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, why was Jesus born in a manger? Why were shepherds the first to know? And why did a Roman census set the stage for it all? In Why the Nativity?, Dr. David Jeremiah walks through the entire Christmas narrative to explain why each person was part of it. Mary, Joseph, the wise men, and even the animals in the stable each carry meaning beyond tradition. Dr. Jeremiah joins us to talk about what the nativity scene shows us when we look at it with fresh eyes, and why these quiet details still speak to people centuries later.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.3 | And we continue with our American stories and with some of our Christmas season programming. |
| 0:21.4 | And our next story comes to us from the founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries |
| 0:28.0 | and the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, Dr. David Jeremiah, and every morning |
| 0:35.1 | at 6 a.m., he's my teacher. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm a Christian, and well, 64% of Americans |
| 0:40.8 | are Christians. And this story is for you and for anybody else interested in why we celebrate |
| 0:47.7 | Christmas and why the Nativity. It was a terrific book written by David Jeremiah in 2006, and it has now been adapted |
| 0:56.7 | into a terrific film that's available for free to stream. Just type in Why the Nativity on your |
| 1:04.3 | browser, or go to David Jeremiah.org, and watch it with your family. And now here is Dr. David Jeremiah to tell the story of the |
| 1:15.6 | nativity and to answer the question and many questions around the birth of Jesus. |
| 1:23.1 | You know, we celebrate Christmas now, but most people don't know what Christmas is about. |
| 1:27.0 | So I decided |
| 1:27.9 | to write a book and answer a lot of questions that people had. And we started out was going to be |
| 1:34.1 | 11 questions, then it was going to be 15, and then it became 25. And these are key questions |
| 1:40.9 | like why Mary and why Joseph, and where do they all fit into the story. |
| 1:45.0 | So one of the questions we talk about in the beginning of the book is, why did God become a man? |
| 1:50.2 | And the answer to that is really so much a part of the heart of the story. |
| 1:54.9 | He did that because of his love. |
| 1:57.3 | He had to reach man, and the only way he could reach man was to become a man himself. |
| 2:02.6 | So he sent his own son, Jesus Christ, to become a person. |
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