“The greatest darkness imaginable is found when we’ve chosen to walk in ‘some kind’ of light that’s ‘some kind’ of some thing else other than light.” GodLightChristianJesusLostDarkBlindBlindnessDeceivedWandering Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“How great is evil if God is always greater?” GodLightChristianEvilJesusDarkSinGood Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So why am I running from something that’s always running from something?” GodLightRunningChristianJesusFearDarknessSatanFrightenedFleeing Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I can take everything that I am and bring the whole of it to bear on the darkness in your life. But it will do you no good. It will cast no light. It will lend no hope. And therefore, I don’t wish to gift you with the disappointment of myself. Rather, I would wish to point you away from myself and direct you to the God in Whom you will find everything that I could never be, for it was within Him that I became everything that I never was.” GodChristianHumanityHopeJesusPeaceHumilitySalvationRedemption Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“In the end, the only thing that a life unreclaimed by God can claim is that it has nothing to claim despite claims to the contrary.” GodChristianPurposeHopeJesusPeaceSalvationRedemptionJustification Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Peace on earth.” “Goodwill toward men.” “Tidings of comfort and joy.” Are these things not the very embodiment of our deepest desires and most vigorous passions? Are these not that which we yearn for? And yet, despite the fact that we thirst for them with a longing indescribable, we are left with the wretched reality that we have been unable to achieve them. Yet, that is the reason and rationale for Christmas itself. For such passions might elude our ability to weave these things firmly into the tapestry our existence. Yet God came on Christmas so that they might become our existence.” LoveGodHappinessJoyHopeJesusPeaceChristmasHolidayGoodwill Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If you take stock of the world you will realize that the peace of the world is ‘peace’ in name only, where real peace rests in Jesus’ name only.” WorldGodJesusPeaceChristianityCalmChristmasPeacefulDeception Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The peace of men is nothing than a hesitant and brittle calm under which burns coals constantly stoked and ever-stirred by agitated and self-serving men. And this ease which we call ‘peace’ is destined to erupt in flames that call men of peace to the perilous task of extinguishing those flames yet again. Yet the nature of mankind is such that the coals remain and the stoking and stirring continue. For the Prince of Peace is the only One who can stoke and stir the hearts of men away from the violence of self-serving agendas to obedience to God and the service of others. And a fire such as this kindles the greatest peace imaginable.” GodJesusPeaceMankindSalvationGreedChristmasRedemptionSelfishness Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The peace of men is nothing than a tentative and deluded calm under which the turbulence of men’s greed roils and churns. In time the waters of gluttony and winds of selfishness turn the seas wild and dangerous. The resources of men dispatched to calm the tumult find themselves tossed and helpless is the rage of mankind gone mad. And it is God who passes a steadying hand over the surging seas and orders all to a calm that leaves the resources of men subdued and their souls awed. And God stands ready to bring this formidable power into the center of the greatest storms imaginable…and those are the storm within us.” GodChristianJesusPeaceSinMankindSalvationChristmasStorms Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Mankind’s inability to move himself toward the peace he desires evidences the greed within us that forsakes the God above us who can deliver that peace to everything around us.” GodChristianJesusPeaceFriendshipHarmonyUnityCalmCooperation Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“That deep, soulish kind of rest is found in knowing that I am simply being obedient to the God who is bearing the burden. And because that’s the case, the burden is never bearing down on me.” GodChristianFaithJesusPeaceStressBurdenRestStrugglesBearing Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I spend my life attempting to create that which I cannot create. Therefore, that which I seek to create forever eludes me, leaving me either utterly frustrated or ever more adamant. Both lead to certain defeat. But if I am wise, this defeat will eventually lead me to the God who long ago created that which my hands cannot. And here I find rest in what I’ve dreamt of, and rest from the failed attempts to create it.” GodChristianJesusPeaceFailureDefeatFrustratedCreateSelf SufficientConstruct Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Paradise is not something that we create. Rather, it is something that we find.” GodFaithHopeJesusHeavenChristmasParadiseDiscoverHolidays Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If you view the claims of God as outrageous, it’s because your vision is far too tame and your apathy is way too strong.” GodChristianFaithJesusBibleClaimsSalvationRedemptionApathyPromises Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Apathy is convincing ourselves that we can’t change things. Oddly enough, faith is convincing ourselves of the same thing. However, the defining difference is that apathy places the onus of change on us, while faith places the onus of change on God working through us.” GodChristianFaithJesusChangeImpossibleApathyPossibilitiesJaded Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough