Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all."
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"Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn’t fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"There’s something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas was a response of the choice of mankind to take its existence into its own hands and chart its own course, liberally scripting its own ethics, crafting its own moral system, and choosing to believe that it was the creator and therefore master of its fate. Christmas is a response to mankind reeling off the pages of history and splattering the blood of lives and generations wasted along its free-wheeling course."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Shrewdly crafted political agendas, innately complex philosophies, man-made religions, governments and regimes of every sort, and all the endless volumes of man-manufactured wisdom and penned prose all completely failed to redeem mankind and make us better. When the best of our efforts failed to redeem the worst of our behaviors, God declared enough as enough and a baby was born."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas is a response to bring mankind back, to restore some original intent that could never be even remotely restored by any effort of mankind regardless of how grand or majestic any such effort might be."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas is not something that sprang from the musings of some person who creatively devised caricatures of elves, spiraling candy canes, visions of a magical city whose foundation was nestled in the far reaches of the North Pole, or embellishments of a kindly bishop spun by myth into a bearded old man in a red suit."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"When we actually refer to God’s blueprint, we gladly work in fascinated conjunction with it, suddenly realizing that any other action outside of that blueprint is foolhardiness and lunacy of the worst sort."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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