Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.

What if we've been playing it safe for so long, we've forgotten what it means to really trust God.

In this classic teaching, Francis Chan opens up about fear, faith, and the kind of boldness that defined the early church.

From the valley of the shadow of death to the comfort of our shepherd's rod and staff,

this isn't a call to recklessness, it's a return to childlike faith.

It's been so encouraging hanging out with people from reality and just the more I find out

about this church, the more I love it, the more I just feel like total connection, kinship.

Even this morning, as we're praying for the people going to Ethiopia, for the Mossyfoot Project.

I don't know if you know, but that is something that is so dear to my heart,

this Mossyfoot project.

In fact, the founder of that Nathan Barlow, this is a guy who to me is one of my heroes,

and he's with the Lord right now he's he's passed away but

this guy went to Ethiopia and he stayed there for over 60 years okay medical doctor that

figured out how we could help these people I mean it is it is just the nastiest thing you'll see

just they really are ostracized.

Their feet is just, it's awful. But he figured out a way to do the surgery, to make it look,

you know, somewhat normal so they could come back into society and be with these people.

And there's thousands and thousands of people. He was like the only guy that was helping them.

And so he never left. He never left the mission field.

In fact, this, you know, the story, there's this one story where he went and he was going to, he had a toothache.

And it got so bad he had to leave the field.

But when he went to wherever Europe and flew over there and got his teeth worked on, he told the doctor,

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