Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Discouragement is the cancer of great things."
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"Discouragement is the cancer of great things."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Of course I donโt want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that itโs translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the โpossible,โ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the โimpossible."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"I am most thankful for what I donโt have, for had my lifeโs wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in Godโs treasures."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of liberation could only have been penned in one place: the cross."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"For once in my life maybe I ought to actually think about taking God at His word, and in doing so to suddenly find myself riotously welcoming the rather shocking reality that Christmas is truly everything that He says it is."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Itโs utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down Godโs mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, โHow about another run?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"To assist us in climbing the mountains is marvelous. To level the mountains and altogether eliminate the climb is miraculous. And at times I think that God prefers the latter because it emboldens us to face the former."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Whatever I โalignโโ myself with are the very things that will create a โlineโ into my future."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
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