Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.
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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 ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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 ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that whe...
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 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 ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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 ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger th...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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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Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

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Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

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