Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth on what Christmas is all about.

You can't have salvation without a Savior. You can't have redemption without a Redeemer.

And the nature of our distress spiritually is such that there is no way that we can save ourselves.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The First Songs of Christmas for December 19th, 2025.

I'm Dana Gresh. At five, At 5 o'clock in the morning, on December the 14th, 2005, a dam ruptured in a state park in Missouri.

And as a result, a billion gallons of water were released into this narrow valley,

and the water just came gushing through, destroyed everything in its path, including a hardwood forest.

And the park superintendent was a man named Jerry Toops, who with his wife Lisa and their three little children,

ages five and under, lived in a house in the park, less than two miles from the mountain where that dam broke loose.

And when the water was released, there came cascading over their part of the valley a 30-foot high wall of water, just a wave of water, like a tsunami.

It came crashing down and then back. And in the

process, their house was demolished. Their entire family was swept away. Lisa, the mom had been

up nursing her infant child, and so she clung to that child. And as they were all scattered

different directions, this is in the dark. She managed somewhere in the

process to run across one of her children and grabbed onto that child, but still couldn't

find her three-year-old daughter. And an hour or more later, finally, the volunteer fireman

who had come to the rescue, found Jerry the dad up on top of a tree,

found Lisa the mom and her infant and her five-year-old son clinging to each other in a field,

a half mile away from her house where they'd been swept,

and then found finally the little girl lying by herself

just whimpering out in a field the five-year-old boy was unconscious most of the rest of them were in

shock they were incoherent took two hours of CPR to revive the five-year-old who they didn't think

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