Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. When you think about the end times, what comes to mind?

Mysterious prophecies, world leaders. What if the Bible's real focus isn't on those details at all,

but on something far more personal and urgent.

In today's teaching, Francis Chan challenges us to shift our perspective on the end times.

Instead of chasing signs and dates, ask yourself, are you living in a way that's ready

for Christ's return.

You turn to 2 Timothy, a passage we've been looking at for the last few weeks.

And I know for some of you it's been confusing because we've been talking about, I don't know what the title, what did I call the title, like end time something, and I know you read that and you think, man, you know, it's supposed to be at End Times, and every week we don't really get into the prophecies.

And I don't know when you talk about End Times, we want to know the details.

We want to know, okay, who is the Antichrist? Is it Obama? Is it Palin? Who is it? Who is this world leader? You know, what does this represent?

What does that represent?

And you guys, but the reason why we've actually stayed away from those things is when you read the

scriptures, all the passage about the end times, the purpose is the same.

It's always about how are you going to live

because this is going to happen. And sometimes we get caught up in the details of how this is

going to happen, when's it going to happen, what does this represent, what is that? And that's fine

to study those things. But again, the purpose, if you read those passages, they're all there

to say, are you ready for this?

Are you ready for the end?

Are you longing for his return?

And are you ready for his return?

And so Paul, when he's writing to Timothy, and he talks about these end times, and he explains

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