Hey friends, Alisa Childers here. On today's podcast, we're going to listen to the second

of two talks I gave at a women's conference at Bethel Baptist Church in Fairbanks, Alaska.

This talk is called Beautiful Eternal Truths, counteracting bad ideas in popular media.

I want to share a little bit about my story and what brought me here. If you would have

asked me 10 years ago, if I would be writing a book or if I would have a blog and a podcast

that's focused around apologetics and theology, I probably would have said, what is apologetics?

I would have said, you're crazy because I've always been a flaky artist. I've never been

an intellectual type person at all. I've always been an artist. I've always been more of a creative

type. I never would have dreamed that I would be in this world, but God is so good in how

He orders our steps even in times that are so hard for us. It's a story that I never would

have written for myself. Never. But God wrote this story for me and He's walking me through it.

See, I was born into a Christian home. My family was just a good Christian family. My parents

were real Christians. They were authentic Christians, not perfect. My raising wasn't perfect by any

far stretch, but I regularly saw my parents reading their Bibles and living their faith out actively.

They regularly repented in front of us. If they had done something wrong, if they had sinned,

this was an open kind of dialogue in our house, regularly walked in on them reading their Bibles,

and they led us in Bible studies, and prayer was constant in my home. My mom worked and

volunteered at a mission in LA. So she'd take us down and worked the soup lines. When I was 10

years old, it was just normal for me to go down on the weekends and work soup lines on Skid Row in LA.

It was just a regular part of my life watching my mom interact with drug addicts and drug dealers

and prostitutes. This was just normal. I was perfectly comfortable around homeless people,

because that's just how I was raised. In the summers, my dad would take us to New York and

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