When you think about Easter, I wonder what comes to mind. Is it rabbits, chocolate, colored eggs?

As Christians, we know there is so much more to Easter. It started with a triumphal parade and anger Jesus had about the misuse of God's temple, the lastpper, a brutal death, then a miraculous resurrection.

And as adults, that is so much for us to process.

And it's really hard for us to help our kids get into those truths and understand them.

So today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we're going to explore the Easter story,

its relevance to our lives, and how you as a parent can help your kids grab onto it.

Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.

John, the period of time around that first Easter had to be filled with amazing moments.

We call it Holy Week, but if you just read it in the scripture, there was a lot

going on, a lot of chaos, really. And imagine how the disciples must have felt wondering if Jesus

would become the king, would he take over politically? Would he be the next leader in that way?

And then he had Judas, you know, betraying him. You had Peter denying him.

There was just a lot of things happening. And it's good for us to understand it and better

understand what were the motivations of people and what was happening. You know, we have the benefit

of 2,000 years of history now. We get to look back and we get to see that what Jesus said

is true. I mean, we are, should be envied as a generation. You know, we're not in the midst of it thinking,

is he the Messiah? Is he not the Messiah? I think you can say very definitively Jesus was who

he said he was. And we have still people that have lots of questions

about Jesus and his significance. And we're going to help answer those questions today,

especially for your children, which is so hard for them to kind of connect with, yeah,

what's a bunny rabbit and a colored egg have to do with Easter? Jesus, right.

So we're looking forward to talking to two great friends about how to speak to your children

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