“ Do I dare believe such an absurdly outrageous story that a man would die, lay lifeless in some tomb for three days and then somehow live again? Yet, if I dare to consider it, is that not exactly what… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point that I think I completely understand God… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning. 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
“ To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself. 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
“ The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost bec… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us.… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remai… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while ru… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very t… Craig D. Lounsbrough
