so why the Nativity came to be uh after looking at Dr Jeremiah’s book by the Nativity and knowing that Dr Jeremiah always wanted to do a film a feature film for television and so we felt that Christmas would be the perfect time to release something like that something different something that people would watch not just one time but possibly could be a tradition year after year so we thought why the Nativity be that perfect vehicle so we took the book and Dr Jeremiah is the host of this docu drama
film and the words pretty much come out of the book uh but we created a larger story line to Encompass more of Christmas than probably what people have seen before one day I was sitting in my office and one of our Publishers called me he was a friend of mine he said hey we’re thinking about doing this book on Christmas and what we want to do is take the key elements of Christmas and put them into short little chapters we need 25 chapters and we need them in 3 weeks and I thought you got to be kidding me but you know if you really get started
and you believe in something the good news was I’d preached on almost all of those so it wasn’t n like going to research new material it was taking things I’d already studied and finding ways to abridge them and put them in a chapter so that they would fit into this this category so we did 25 wi Nativity chapters and we made the deadline it was amazing for me as a pastor I think uh Christmas is special because the message of the birth of Christ is the seed of the Gospel it’s the good news you know Easter is fraught with the death of
Christ which is by itself is sad the resurrection makes it glorious but Christmas is totally positive in terms of the birth of a child the coming of the Redeemer people Gathering from every Walk of Life to observe the Angels the Shepherds there isn’t a better story that you could ever tell to film a historical piece you have to go someplace that looks like the time so going back to the first century and with the sets and the costumes and all that takes to film a first century piece the scope got quite big quite fast but we
