Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior."
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"The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will eternally fill me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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