This is an I-Heart podcast.

And we continue with our American stories and with some of our Christmas season programming.

And our next story comes to us from the founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries

and the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, Dr. David Jeremiah, and every morning

at 6 a.m., he's my teacher.

I'm a Christian, and well, 64% of

Americans are Christians. And this story is for you and for anybody else interested in why we

celebrate Christmas and why the Nativity. It was a terrific book written by David Jeremiah in 2006, and it has now been

adapted into a terrific film that's available for free to stream. Just type in Why the Nativity

on your 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 nativity and to answer the question and many questions around the birth of Jesus.

You know, we celebrate Christmas now, but most people don't know what Christmas is about.

So I decided to write a book and answer a lot of questions that people had.

And we started out was going to be 11 questions, then it was going to be 15, and then it became 25.

And these are key questions like why Mary and why Joseph, and where do they all fit into the story.

So one of the questions we talk about in the beginning of the book is, why did God become a man?

And the answer to that is really so much a part of the heart of the story.

He did that because of his love.

He had to reach man, and the only way he could reach man was to become a man himself.

So he sent his own son, Jesus Christ, to become a person.

The Bible says he tasted flesh, and at Christmas time we celebrate that, Jesus being born into humanity.

And I always like to say to people, because sometimes people don't really understand it.

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