Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast.

When you look at Heroes of the Faith, do you ever think there's no way you could ever be like them or look at those who've

fallen away and think you've got no chance of making it. In today's episode

Francis Chan takes all of our excuses to task and exhorts us to fix our eyes on our ultimate

example in Jesus.

Just love this.

gathering with people who love him, know him and just, it's not look him in the eyes and tell him how great he is.

Like the verse today just fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.

Life is so good when we fix our eyes on him.

Gathering with the church is so good

when we all fix our eyes on him.

It's blessed this morning by a couple of you that told me how you applied last week's message and you just all week long were just thinking let me just dwell, let my mind dwell on what's true, what's honorable, what's right, what's pure, what's lovely,

what's excellent, what's praise worthy, and anytime your mind would start going to something else you're like no no no

that the word of God says let my mind dwell on these things and

I hope that was true of all of you that were here last week. That the Word of God wasn't something you heard and you thought, well, I'm going to apply that one day,

but that this week you decided, no, I'm going to fix my eyes.

I'm going to dwell on what's true and honorable and right and pure.

How'd you do with that? I had an amazing week. I was, it just was a joyful, like nothing really changed. You know, I got a little bit of a funk a couple

weeks ago where just you hear a lot of negative and you can just dwell on it and

then it's like nothing's really changed. In fact, things have gotten worse in those areas, but I changed, like my joy changed, my focus changed. Like nothing robbed me of this elation this this high that I have with

Jesus and it was because of the word of God it's what we talked about a few weeks ago about being sober minded, clear

minded for the sake of our prayers and then it's dwelling on what's true and

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