Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. What if you could live without fear, even in the face of death, suffering, or the unknown?

What if the hardest truths about your own heart didn't discourage you, but instead became the gateway to joy and courage.

Today, Francis Chan walks through Psalm 23, unpacking how God is our present shepherd,

and he challenges us to live fearless lives rooted in God's sovereignty, goodness, and eternal promises.

It's really cool to be back with you guys again.

I've seen a lot of you lately.

We had an amazing first service.

It was such a powerful, just spirit-led time.

And, you know, sometimes I almost don't like having a great first service.

Because, you know, like I've shared the last couple times I've been here,

first service just wasn't there, so let's pray.

And, you know, and then we had an amazing time here.

You know, then I let off for

third service and it's bad again but but when it's uh you know sometimes when God does something

so powerful first service as a pastor you you want to recreate that the second time like okay

God I want it just like last time and so you do do everything exactly the same. And it never works, you know, and you just learn, okay, God, you, you're a creator. Okay, you're not a duplicator. You're a creator. And there's a different group of people in here. They may need a different word. You may want to do different things and it's so

important for me to you know just even beforehand saying god i don't know what you have for this

service we had an amazing time last week but that doesn't mean anything it's right now you're the

i am not i will be or i was it's just i am and what do you currently want to do in this service?

And so my prayer is I'd love for you even right now, just in your own mind, recognizing the

presence of God is here with us. He's with you. He's on his throne in heaven like we just

saying about. Yet somehow he hears us us right now even if it's not even

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