Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat."
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"The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"If Christmas is a universally comprehensive and keenly clandestine rescue mission strategically crafted by God Himself eons before the rescue was necessary, it would naturally follow that if it is doomed to anything, it is doomed to incontestable success."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it’s appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
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