How the Women in the Bible Point to Jesus | Nana Dolce

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ever wonder about the women in the Bible? From Eve to Mary, their stories aren't just background noise—they're central to God's plan. Nana Dolce, author of The Seed of the Woman, joins Dave and Ann Wilson, hosts of the FamilyLife Today Podcast, to reveal how the faith and lives of these incredible women point directly to Jesus.

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0:00.0	One of my daughters asked this question, how come the Bible seems to be so much about men?
0:04.8	The story that God is telling includes women.
0:08.0	It includes Shifra and Pua and Leah and Rehab.
0:12.3	What do we miss about God when we miss the story of Rehab?
0:15.8	Is that what you told your daughter?
0:17.6	Yes.
0:17.9	Well, I wrote this book too.
0:19.6	I wrote this book for her to see.
0:25.4	When I was a new follower of Jesus and I started reading the Bible, I was surprised by the lineage of Jesus.
0:34.1	In what way? I just felt so disqualified in terms of, I felt like Christians were the good
0:41.8	people. They had it all together. They didn't have the past that I had. So then I start reading
0:46.8	the Bible. I'm like, wait, some of these people are messed up. And then when I started reading
0:53.0	the lineage of the women women where Jesus came from,
0:57.0	well, first of all, we have Eve who, you know, she's the one that's sinned. And then I have
1:02.5	you read about Rehab. Rehab was a prostitute. She wasn't even a... There's no way she's in
1:09.9	the lineage of Jesus.
1:12.0	No, she's a foreigner.
1:14.7	She's not a Jewish woman.
1:19.7	And so when you start to read, you're like, wait, God can use them?
1:23.0	These are the mothers and grandmothers of Jesus.
1:29.1	And it made me question like, God, can you use me with all of my junk?
1:30.8	And he is.
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