Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial."
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"If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Perfect majesty that deliberately chose to be born into abject poverty, walk a road of perpetual poverty, and be unjustly executed in the raw nakedness of poverty is utterly ludicrous unless I realize that this is the single and sole way that God can reach me in the suffocating poverty that I myself have created."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any human has ever descended, and then to raise Himself back up to glory from those horridly dark places. And I pray that we never miss the fact that Christmas is God’s invitation for us to join Him in the rising."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, the sum total of them will always be far too trifling to ever reflect my true value. My value rests in the fact that I am an accomplishment of God so incalculably valuable that He gave up Himself rather than give me up."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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