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Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Thinking It’s Over When It’s Not
Thinking It's Over When It's Not It’s over…we tell ourselves. It’s over. Whatever it might be (or might have been) it’s gone and there’s no getting it back…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Change - It Begins With Us
Change - It Begins With Us Change. It’s needed for sure…just look around. But if our posture is to wait for someone else to create the change that we’re…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: What Are We Focusing On?
What Are We Focusing On? We can be very focused people. We can decide that there is something that we want to do, or not do, or get, or not get, or complete…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Better or Worse?
Better or Worse? Will the choice that you’re about to make, make you better or worse? Will it improve your life, or diminish your life? The fact of the matter…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Repentance - Reconfigured Standards
Repentance Reconfigured Standards We all have standards, even if our standard is not to have one. We all live by something, even if it’s the denial of that…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: We Reap What We Sow
We Reap What We Sow We reap what we sow. In other words, what we do is never free of an outcome that will be shaped by what we do. The ‘cause-and-effect’ of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughAbandonment - When People Make Destructive Choices
Abandonment When People Make Destructive Choices There are times when the best of our logic fails to understand the worst of other’s behaviors. It’s part of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughIn the Footsteps of the Few - Our Calling
In the Footsteps of the Few Our Calling “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” I…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters With Life and Jesus” - Part Four
He was four years old . . . barely. Boyish innocence was tightly stitched and held fast to a deep zest for living. He was a mosaic of the threads of a splendid…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughFinding Ourselves Somewhere Else - "In the Footsteps of the Few"
Not Where We Were It seems that we have some vague and rather ethereal sense of where we’re going in this thing called life. For the more contemplative soul…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Five Big Lies - Effectively Building Your Self-Esteem
Think About It You are what you choose to be. Life is not a dictated script. It’s far from being something to which you have to surrender. Yes, there are…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters With Life and Jesus” - Part Three
Dean was deaf. It was that simple, but it was inordinately complex at the same time. Life can have its sinkholes. Sometimes there’s a bunch of them, enough of…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters With Life and Jesus” - Part One
Filth described her very well. While it was an apt depiction, it failed to embrace the fullest description of what she was. Some lives seem to be nothing more…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters with Life and Jesus” - Part Two
Darren and a cheap plastic fish; it was a dollar store bin filler indelibly stamped with “made in China” that bordered on being junk. There were numerous needs…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees - Not Defined By a Journey Gone Wrong
Not Defined by a Journey Gone Wrong “To let myself be defined by my greatest mistakes is my greatest mistake.” Craig D. Lounsbrough Hi, I’m Craig Lounsbrough…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”In the Footsteps of the Few - The Power of a Principled Life” - Part Four
"In the Footsteps of the Few - The Power of a Principled Life" I Was Thinking - To Think Outside the Box(s) I was thinking. And the more I thought, the more I…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Freedom is Precious
LifeTalk's "Thought for Life" is a weekly one-minute thought that touches on one of today's pressing issues. Each of these brief presentations is centered on…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTo Change a Nation - It Begins With Me
How do we change a nation? We might start by changing ourselves first. Change begins with us. We know that, but we also doubt that changing us changes much of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: You Are Silent Now -Remembering the Sacrifices
You Are Silent Now -Remembering the Sacrifices “You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - The Power of Principles
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. Christianity stands for principles that are not stood for in our culture. It stands for something lofty, but costly. It…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDefined By Our History - Taking It to Our Knees: Declaring Who I Am
Defined By Our History “The nature of our histories are always secondary to what we choose to do with them.” Craig D. Lounsbrough Our histories impact us…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWho Are You Giving Yourself Away To?
Who are you giving yourself away to? To what propaganda have you come to subscribe? To what bit of media polished bias or refined political spin have you…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - The Power of Principle
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. Christianity stands for principles that are not stood for in our culture. It stands for something lofty, but costly. It…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThoughts for Father's Day
Father’s Day Some Thoughts Hi, I’m Craig LounsbroughWelcome to LifeTalk On Father’s Day week, I want to change the program up a bit and share something a…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - God’s Arsenal
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We spend our lives acquiring what we think we need to fight the battles that we think we’re fighting. In a world…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDefined By Our Deficits - "Taking It to Our Knees: Declaring Who I Am"
Defined By Our Deficits “Any deficit that you have can never stand against the asset that that deficit is waiting to become.” Craig D. Lounsbrough You know, we…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Ignoring Our Conscience
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We ignore our conscience because we want to do what it says we shouldn’t. But, we also ignore the consequences of…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Running After Stuff
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We run after a lot of stuff. Our time, our energy, our finances, and much of our lives are spent chasing stuff. And…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTo Think Outside the Box - "In the Footsteps of the Few"
In the Footsteps of the Few I Was Thinking To Think Outside the Box “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Pablo…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughAsking the Right Questions Verses Responding for the Wrong Reasons
Too often we don't take the time to really ask why we support what we're supporting. We get swept up in some energizing movement, or we're utterly captivated…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Am I Passionate for the Right Things?
Am I Passionate for the Right Things? “In full uniform, the color guard marched by as part of the parade. And as they did, he forced his horribly slumped and…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughNot Defined By Our Appearance
Defined By Our Appearance “If the mirror doesn’t give me much back, it’s because it’s not designed to reflect the things within me that make the reflection…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBigger on the Inside - The Self That I Long to Believe In
The Self That I Long to Believe In Bigger on the Inside Than the Outside Attempting to Define Success to Define Ourselves “It would make sense that our worth…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThinking About the Memorials That We're Creating
Finding Ourselves Somewhere Else In the Footsteps of the Few Not Where We Were It seems that we have some vague and rather ethereal sense of where we’re going…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Path to Losing Our Freedom
Our freedoms are not a "right." They are, in fact, a "privilege." They are not ours to abuse. Rather, they are ours to cherish. But as we abuse these rights by…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - We Need to Stop
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We need to stop. We need to put down our calendars, set our phones aside, strip ourselves of the voices incessantly…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Fear or Faith
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We spend our lives acquiring what we think we need to fight the battles that we think we’re fighting. In a world…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Building Bridges or Barries
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. We build bridges or barriers. If you think about it, everything that we do builds one or the other. And the function of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughA Mother's Day Letter
Dear Mom: I realize that on days like Mother’s Day people tend to wax nostalgic, venerating those Mom’s among us who have passed. It is, I suppose, a way to…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalks” Thought for Life - Not As Helpless As We Think
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. Sometimes we feel helpless. In the midst of tragedy, or painful losses, or devastating moments, we often feel that we…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - An Existence Without God
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. It’s my sense that God doesn’t need me to speak to you. He’s quite capable of doing that without me. But there are…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Unrecognized Potency of Prayer
Let’s start here. Think about this thought: “Too often we have stripped our single greatest asset of its power and hobbled it to the degree that it has come to…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees - Defined By Our Self-Esteem
Defined By Our Self-Esteem “I can only imagine how much low self-esteem has robbed us as individuals and ransacked our culture. It is a rogue beast bent on…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - What is Truth?
LifeTalk's "Thought for Life" is a weekly one-minute thought that touches on one of today's pressing issues. Each of these brief presentations is centered on…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - The Inadequacy of Men
LifeTalk's "Thought for Life" is a weekly one-minute thought that touches on one of today's pressing issues. Each of these brief presentations is centered on…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughNew Beginnings - Seeds in Pain
New beginnings. The way our lives frequently go, we doubt the existence of new beginnings...at least for us. We've had too much loss, far too much pain, and…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDefined By the Culture - "Taking It to Our Knees"
Defined By the Culture "Taking It to Our Knees - Declaring Who I Am “When they ridicule me and tell me that my need to do the ‘right thing’ is embedded in an…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughI Am Only One - "The Self That I Long to Believe In"
LifeTalk Script I Am Only ‘One’ Understanding Our Impact “I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.” Edward…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Ignoring Our Conscience
LifeTalk's "Thought for Life" is a weekly one-minute thought that touches on one of today's pressing issues. Each of these brief presentations is centered on…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day Seven
"Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control." Proverbs 25:28 Life is filled with pain. Or maybe more accurately, our lives…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughI Heard a Robin - Hope in the Dark
I Heard a Robin - Hope in the Dark We all create expectations. But how often are our expectations a wholesale surrendering of ‘what could be’ to ‘what is?’ How…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day Six
“I can do all things through him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13 We are bound by all kinds of limits. And we wonder why certain limits have to be…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBackwards - The Grand Reversal of Easter
Backwards - The Grand Reversal of Easter By Craig D. Lounsbrough I am backwards. I don’t think I’m backwards, I wouldn’t necessarily see myself as backwards…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day Five
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day Four
“…for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.’” Romans 3:23 Failure. It’s having set out to do something, or not do something, and having failed…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day Three
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.’” Psalm 139:14 One of the worst things is not…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part Four
"Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part Four Did you ever have one of those surreal moments when it seems like…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day Two
“Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD will hold me close.’” Psalm 27:10 There are many things that are meant to be forever. There are those things…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughFlecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part Three
Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part Three The concept of sacrifice seems more suited to novels or epic…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughFlecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part Two
Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part Two Forgiveness often seems to be one of those things that’s a genuinely…