Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. As each day passes, it can feel like time is slipping

away faster than ever before. It's easy to get caught up in the busyness of life and

lose sight of what's most important. In this week's episode, Francis brings us through

several parables and reminds us that there is no better time than now to start walking

with Jesus. We hope that this episode will inspire and encourage you giving you a renewed

understanding of the incredible worth of Jesus Christ.

This is so cool. I love this. You know, honestly, I used to hate Easter because I was

a pastor and you feel so much pressure on Easter because you're like, what am I going

to say this year that's going to top last year? You know, that type of thing. And hit

me one year, I go, this is so insane. Someone was tortured, crucified, buried, and then

came back to life and said, I'm going to return one day to judge the world. And I'm

sitting in my office trying to make that sound exciting. You know, like someone rose

from the grave and I have to come up with something creative this year. And then I started

reading, I go, man, what did Jesus do when crowds showed up? Because there's pressure

on Easter. There's pressure. You think, man, all these people are coming. A lot of you

come once a year and I'm thinking, man, I got a nail it. If I nail it, they may come

back on Christmas, you know, and you put all this pressure on yourself. Like this is my

one chance to get at these people. I better nail it. And so you start stressing out. So many

pastors go through this on Easter. And then one year, I'm like, wait, what did Jesus do

when he saw crowds? Did he stress out? You know, like, and I was reading in the book of Luke,

just reading the first time Jesus appeared before great crowds. Man, it's the crazy story

because it says that people came thousands of people came from different towns because

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