Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.

Have you ever wrestled with fear, fear of judgment, fear of not being enough, or fear of where you stand with God?

In this powerful message, Francis Chan confronts one of the greatest struggles in the church today,

the insecurity that keeps us from fully embracing God's love.

Francis helps us understand how we can break free from the lives that hold us captive

and shows us how we can find true confidence in Christ.

It's good to be with you guys.

My thoughts were so scattered during first service,

but so you guys will get a better message.

But, yeah, like Bill said,

you know, we've known each other for 30 years,

and the older you know, we've known each other for 30 years. And the older you get,

the fewer, like, deep friendships you'll have and the fewer people you'll trust. You just get

let down. You get deceived. You get ripped off. You get slandered.

You know, the list goes on and on and on. But then God gives you a couple faithful friends that you trust.

And I can probably count them on one hand the people I really trust and Bill is one of those

guys. We have been through a lot and I don't know. You know when I read in the Bible where it talks

where Paul would talk about Timothy, and he would send

him, and he says, you look, I have, he says to the Philippians, I'm sending Timothy, and I don't have

anyone like him. Everyone's about their own interest, but not Timothy. And I always looked at that,

I thought, wow, the Apostle Paul only had one guy. The Apostle Paul, he goes, everyone else is so greedy. They're thinking about

themselves. And I thought, how many people did the Apostle Paul try to disciple? And he goes,

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