All right, well here we go. Welcome everyone that is tuning in from around the country. We are so excited. Like JD already said we're kicking off a brand new series. I've got some friends that are hanging out with me that you'll probably see me interacting with.

As we dive in and kick off this series called Fact Check, which is a look at some of the tough questions facing Christianity and just answering some of the key objections people have as it relates to faith. How are we doing guys? Everyone have a good Easter?

Okay, so here let me bring you guys and everyone listening into kind of Easter world for me as just a parent with young kids.

This past weekend celebrated Easter, you know quarantine style and my four year old son was introduced to the very first time to the Easter Bunny. Like we probably talked about it, but you know the older they get the more they're like, oh yeah, I can kind of remember that now.

And the Easter Bunny, you know, there's these different holiday mascots like you got Santa Claus, you got the leprechaun for St. Patrick's Day, you got Cupid for Valentine's Day, you got, I would put the tooth fairy kind of in that even though it's not a holiday mask.

I mean, the holiday mascot, if you will, but of all of them probably the more interesting and humorous to me is the Easter Bunny.

And I was realizing this as I was talking with my four year old who just has questions like, man, there's a bunny who brings us baskets of toys.

And he leaves them right where Santa Claus left them on the fireplace. How does he carry? Because he doesn't think bunny, like we all think like bugs bunny or a big bunny that's like a fake bunny.

And he's like, bunnies, they can't really lift things and carry things like how, how does he carry all that to every kid out there? And like, how big is this bunny? That had to be a huge bunny.

And I'm trying to figure out like, how would you, how do you answer that question? Like, he's like, he's like your size of your mom because his mom's the Easter Bunny.

And that's about the size that he is. And he's asking questions that are really understandable questions like, why does he bring eggs?

Like, what do bunnies have to do with eggs? They don't lay eggs. And it's like, yeah, he brings eggs because, yeah, I don't really know why he brings eggs. Like, you think about it. It's like a very like so many of the traditions around this are just funny. And they're really understandable questions that come for him.

And at some point in life, if you ever had parents that encourage you to believe in the Easter Bunny, you get a little bit older and you begin to realize that those questions that you had about the bunny were really understandable.

And it seems like you're confronted with the truth that, oh, there really isn't an Easter Bunny. And I never got answers to those questions. And it was just some like wishful thinking that my parents wanted me to believe because that would be fun if life really actually had an Easter Bunny involved in it.

And the reason I start there is because I think for a lot of people as it relates to God and Christianity and faith, interestingly enough, around the same time they're introduced to the Easter Bunny, a lot of us will introduce the idea of God.

And just like the unanswered questions of like, why does he bring eggs? How big is he? And all these things chip away at my ability to believe in the Easter Bunny and eventually I'm like, I don't think this is true at all.

A lot of our unanswered and understandable questions about God that never get great answers from people begin to chip away at our ability to believe in God. And just like we're like, I'm abandoning, I'm not even sure I can believe in the Easter Bunny anymore.

I just have tuning questions that don't have good answers. That's the journey a lot of us experience with God.

When we find ourselves with the really understandable questions that never get answered and it just chips away over time at our ability to believe that God we were told about and the Christian God is really true.

And so my heart and doing this series and our heart as a team is that we would address some of those questions because there's a lot of understandable questions that people wrestle with as it relates to faith and as it relates to God and as it relates to Jesus really the only way.

That means billions of people are not going to spend eternity with him. God is love and yet he sends people to hell. How is that possible? The Bible is actually the words of God but it was written by men.

Can we really trust that it's inspired that it hasn't been changed? And then the topic for tonight, which is a question of how can God be good and so much bad brokenness evil exists around us?

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