I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.


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Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort
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Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was no...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us wh...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I ha...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monume...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utt...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinge...
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Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infi...
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And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liber...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or ...
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If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they ar...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far ...
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If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some te...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are read...
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The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room f...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear n...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table...
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Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of 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...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do s...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of t...
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To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latte...
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The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never b...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely...
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If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that whe...
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Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself int...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Why am I always lost in the woods?” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down ...
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If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going...
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Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of...
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If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi...
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The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
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I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores i...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way ...
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At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the...
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Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
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Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it...
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We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
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Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger th...
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If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
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The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wi...
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We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in what...
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The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.
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