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Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk is a podcast intentionally designed to enrich your life, deepen your marriage, enhance your parenting, maximize your work life, and dramatically embolden this journey that we call life.
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Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughObstacles to Prayer - Taking It to Our Knees
Obstacles to Prayer LifeTalk “I want to live a life where prayer is the first thing that I do, the second thing, the third thing, and the last thing after the…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part One
"Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part One We yearn for security. There is an inherent need deep within the…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughA Personal Testimony - Life
The odds that are we’ve never met, and if we have, I hope that I was able to leave something with you in the meeting as that is my passion and my calling. My…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWhat Our Purpose Tells Us
The question of purpose is simple, direct, but inherently complicated. The question demands bravery. It rises on the belief that we have an utterly…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPersonal Testimony - Dreams that Die
You know, I grew up with a lot of dreams. A lot of things that I wanted to do. We all have dreams. Maybe your dream was to have a great marriage. Maybe it was…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Daily Devotional - Day One
“After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.’” John 13:21 Betrayal is…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWho I Am and Who I'm Not - "The Self That I Long to Believe In"
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” - Henry David Thoreau “Who am I?” The question seems a bit overused these…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughLove - A World Without It
LifeTalk Love – A World Without It “Love is the essence of our humanity expressing itself in actions of sacrifice so profound that we risk not surviving those…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPersonal Testimony - It’s Just Too Much
How many times have you felt that there’s just no use? There’s just no sense in going on. You know, we’ve made way too many mistakes. Or the hole that we’ve…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPersonal Testimony - Hope
People ask me, “Is there any hope?” And there have been times (more than one), where I’ve found myself asking the same question. “Is there any hope?” And I…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBelieving In a New Start - The Self That I Long to Believe In
The Self That I Long to Believe In Believing in a New Start Some of us don’t believe in new starts. We may feel that we’re not worthy of a new start. Or, we…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees - What Prayer Is and Is not
LifeTalk Reshaping Our Understanding of Prayer Hi, I’m Craig Lounsbrough. Welcome to LifeTalk. Thanks for joining us today. You know, I think that we would…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough"In the Footsteps of the Few" - Steps to Start Living
In the Footsteps of the Few The Power of a Principled Life By Craig D. Lounsbrough Are you where you want to be in life? Are you even close? Where have your…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough"Taking It to Our Knees" - What Prayer is Not
Eight Things That Prayer is Not We can ask what prayer is. That’s a great question. But it might be better if we ask what prayer is not. If our prayers aren’t…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughSelf-Esteem: Opportunities in the Pain
Today we’re going to talk about self-esteem. To one degree or another, at one time or another, each of us deal with feelings of low self-esteem. We questions…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughLike a River - "In the Footsteps of the Few"
"Despite the challenges, the river never reverses its course. Rather, it decides to cut fresh banks, fashion serene inlets, feed swirling eddies, sweep away…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughA World That’s Lost
Everybody seems lost these days. People don’t like to admit that, or they refuse to admit that…but everybody seems lost these days. I suppose that the greatest…
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The New Year - Wisdom to Start the Year
New Years 2025 Wisdom to Start the Year How do we live differently this year? I mean, with intentionality. With some sense of purpose and meaning that’s way…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”New Year Reawakened and Reclaimed:” New - It Does Not Mean Better
New It Does Not Mean Better What is “better?” I mean, the definition of “better.” When we change something, we tend to label the change as “better,” whether…
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To Believe in a New Beginning
Have you ever gone so far in a bad direction that you feel there’s no coming back? Is there a point where we’ve screwed up things so badly that there just…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”New Year Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Crafting the New - Birthing a New Beginning
Crafting the New Birthing a New Beginning She was born into an emerging America in 1890. Through the ninety-five years of life that stood in front of her she…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”New Year Reawakened and Reclaimed:” The New Year -Refusing to Be Relegated to the Sidelines
The New Year Refusing to Be Relegated to the Sidelines We stand on the escarpment of a New Year. In many ways, it seems that what lies ahead doesn’t rally us…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”New Year Reawakened and Reclaimed:” A Clean Slate - The Possibility of a New Start
A Clean Slate The Possibility of a New Start With the New Year we long for a fresh start. We want to wipe the slate clean, removing the smudges and the smears…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Thirty
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Nine
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” The Last Christmas - The Greatest Small Package
Great things are hidden in small things. That sounds terribly illogical. Yet, it's only illogical because we don't really understand the nature of great things…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Eight
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day - Christmas #4
If we fictionalize the story of Christmas as some fanciful tale spun in the backwaters of history and people long removed, in that action we have succumb to…
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Thirty Days of Hope - The Eighth Page-A Christmas Journey
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Six
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Five
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Four
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day - Christmas #3
“For the power of Christmas rests in the fact that we will never completely understand the vastness of it, but that will never stop its ability to completely…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Three
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-Two
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty-One
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twenty
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Am I Listening to the Lyrics? - The Music of the World at Christmas
What am I listening to? What is it that I fill my head up with? Whatever we listen to is eventually what we will become. We can pretend that's not the case…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Nineteen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Eighteen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Seventeen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day - Christmas #2
“Christmas is a vivid and brilliantly revealing lens. And if we dare to look at ourselves through this rich and telling lens, we are able to clearly see the…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Christmas In a Box
Christmas In a Box As the snow began to quietly début winter’s arrival, I made my yearly descent to the basement. Rummaging through the backwaters of the musty…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Sixteen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
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Christmas in a Box - Greatness Boxed
We must take Christmas out of the cultural boxes into which we have thoughtlessly crammed it. We must free it of the confines of our stupidity, we must release…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Our Need for Rescue
Christmas - Our Need for Rescue Rescue. It is hard to admit that we need to be rescued. We think ourselves to be smart enough, cunning enough, strategic…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Fifteen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Fourteen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Thirteen
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” What Is Christmas?
The Tragedy of Gutting Greatness Have we forgotten Christmas? Or more tragically, have we never really known it at all? Have we embraced some pathetic…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Twelve
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Eleven
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Christmas - We Forget
Christmas - We Forget We forget. In the middle of our own agendas, we forget. Consumed by the incessantly shifting tides of the culture, we forget. Caught up…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Ten
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughChristmas Rescue
Welcome to LifeTalk Christmas Rescue “I’m not certain that the greatest thrill was actually being rescued. Rather, I think that the greatest thrill was finally…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Nine
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Eight
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Seven
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day - Christmas #1
“Christmas was God deciding to do what we didn’t deserve in order to save us from what we did.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThirty Days of Hope - Day Six
“The Eighth Page – A Christmas Journey” is a novel about hope. A novel about how incredibly devastating life can be, and yet how God can bring an incredible…