Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the state of the world?

Maybe fear or anxiety as things seem to get worse?

In this week's teaching, Francis Chan explores how to find peace and power in the midst of chaos.

And he shows us how to discover the strength that comes from a life committed to God,

even when facing the darkness and challenges around us.

It's interesting because in church, a lot of times our natural tendency is fear, which is exactly

what we're not supposed to be about.

You know, like when I show something like that or talk about where the world's going, or

even when we talk, whenever the subject of end times comes up, I hear people getting freaked

out about it.

Like whenever you bring up the topic of end times or we're going to talk about revelations,

something like, oh man, that stuff freaks me out, this stuff.

You guys, it's supposed to have the exact opposite effect on us.

Really, I was reading this verse, Luke 21, if you have your Bibles, turn to Luke 21.

I spoke on this back when we're teaching through Luke, but this passage always stands out to me

because I just love what it says.

Luke 21, when Jesus is talking about the end, In Luke 21, verse 25,

Luke 21 verse 25, he says this.

He says, and there will be signs in the sun,

in the moon, and the stars.

And on the earth, distress of nations

in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves. People fainting with

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