“ 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… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice? Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ 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
“ Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity t… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He’s had enough. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to prete… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such… Craig D. Lounsbrough
