Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. When you hear someone preach a powerful message,

what is it that moves you?

The personality of the speaker, or maybe the illustrations or stories that were told?

In this week's teaching, Francis Chan pulls us away from these external motivations and brings our hearts back to the

simplicity and true power of Christ and Him crucified.

Let me start by reading from 1st Corinthians Chapter 1. You know, when I preach it at my home church,

I always preach from the side and the only time I'll go in the middle is if I'm

reading the word of God because I want everyone to make a distinction in my church like, oh, he's going back there.

That means, because I see over here it's just me, it's me, it's me, it's Michael, you know you know it's bill we're just talking you know we

could be preaching and and we're probably 90% accurate whatever it's this is just human to human, but I'm trying to train the church when I go back here.

This is like the mount of transfiguration where Peter, James, and John are there and the

cloud comes and a voice comes out of that cloud and it says they just fell on their faces

and were terrified.

So that's why the word of God stays at the center.

The bread and the cup stay at the center.

That is sacred.

And so when I say I am going to read from 1st Corinthians chapter 1, I hope something in your soul goes, I'm about to hear from God himself.

Chapter 1, verse 17.

Actually, hold on a second.

Let me just say something.

I don't even know if you know this, Michael. Do you know I was baptized by Billy Graham?

Not many people were baptized by them.

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