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Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Integrity - To Understand and Live It
Integrity - To Understand and Live It Integrity. You’ve heard that “Integrity is doing the right when nobody’s watching.” It’s not about being a crowd pleaser…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Perspectives For a Culture in Crisis:” A Noble Calling - A Noble Response
At times, the innumerable dialogues regarding the state of our nation appear to be less dialogues and more something akin to agenda mongering and rights…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: It’s Not About Being Ordinary
It's Not About Being Ordinary It’s not about being ordinary, because we all are. In talking about myself, I’m about as ‘ordinary’ as they come. But, it’s not…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Perspectives For a Culture in Crisis:” A Bigger Person - Reclaiming the Majesty of Our Humanity
The majesty of our humanity and the capabilities laid out within us are nothing short of marvelous; so much so that we are barely cognizant of it. All of us…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: We Like Things to Be New When New May Not Be Best
We Like Things to Be New New. We like new things, or things to be new, or to do away with the old to make a place and a space for something new. The idea of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: The In-Between - Waiting for What Will Be
“Right now, it’s Saturday for me. I’m between what was and what is yet to be, living squarely between a death of sorts and the unknown of the ‘what next?’ It…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: What Is Right and What Is Not?
What Is Right and What Is Not? What is ‘right?’ What provides our guiding function? What is our “north star?” Our constant? Our set of rules that keep us…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Why Is the World Like This Anyway?
Why Is the World Like This Anyway? Why is the world like this anyway? Why is the world so much of what we don’t want it to be like, and a whole lot less of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: It’s Time to Listen
It's Time to Listen We hear a lot of things. A whole lot of things. We’re incessantly bombarded with sheets and shards and streams of information. It’s about…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Where Did All The Time Go?
Where Did All The Time Go? “Rush often results in waste and moments forever lost. Attention to time is inattention to the life that fills that time. So much…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: What Is Success and What Is It Not?
What Is Success and What Is It Not? “Success”. People chase after this thing that we call “success.” But in the pursuit of this elusive thing that we call…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTrust - The Personal Characteristics That Build It Strong
Trust. How do you define it? Typically our definition of it is terribly basic and somewhat shallow. We seem to define it as that ability to rest fully and…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” - Part Four
We all throw around the idea of having a purpose, or not having one, or wondering if we’re supposed to have one, or whatever we’re wondering. We wonder if we…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” - Part Three
Success has been accorded an endless array of definitions. Some of them are crafted to make failure seem more like success so that we can limp through life and…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self Esteem” - Part Two
“Who Am I?” What the Question Evidences “Who am I?” The question seems a bit overused these days. It’s something more like a vogue, trendy kind of question…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” - Part One
The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem “We’re driven. Whether that’s for our good or our ill, we’re driven. That drivenness…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughConsequences - We Are the Cause
Do we realize that the choices that we make today lay the foundation for tomorrow's outcomes? Do we really think that things just happen, or do we understand…
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What I Would Say to the World - Thoughts for a Struggling World
I often think about what I would say to the world. In the pain, confusion, fear, and rampant disorientation…what would I say? With the deceit, the…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”In the Footsteps of the Few - The Power of a Principled Life”
"In the Footsteps of the Few - The Power of a Principled Life" Not Where We Were - Finding Ourselves Somewhere Else It seems that we have some vague and rather…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBeing a Lamp That’s Lit
Jesus calls us to be the "light of the world." The fact is, we are all lamps. We all have the capability to cast light into a darkened world. And furthermore…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughUniqueness - Not as License
Sometimes fully being oneself in plain sight can be viewed as rather weird or downright odd. Sometimes our uniqueness is labeled as strange, bizarre, quirky or…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDarren and a Plastic Fish - The Size of Smallness
We seem small. We look around at the mounting difficulties and challenges in our world today and we simply seem too small to make any sort of meaningful…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBeing a Lamp That’s Lit - Part Two
Being a Lamp That's Lit So let’s begin at the beginning and ask the first question that needs to be asked . . . are you a lamp that's lit? Matthew chapter 5…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDealing With Grief and Loss - An Autumn’s Journey
Grief and loss are something with which we are all well acquainted. Some of the losses that we've experienced are small, while others are utterly overwhelming…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBeing a Lamp That’s Lit - Part One
Being a Lamp That's Lit So let’s begin at the beginning and ask the first question that needs to be asked . . . are you a lamp that's lit? Matthew chapter 5…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughGrief and Loss - Part Two
Grief and Loss Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons There's an old Chinese proverb that states: "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: The Problem Is Not the Problem
The Problem Is Not the Problem We all have…problems. And there’s a real good chance that we have a lot of…problems. Life comes with problems. It’s part of the…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughECA Ordination Message - The Magnitude Of the Message in the Need of the Moment
The message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is everything that the world needs in a time when the world is madly pursuing everything that it doesn't need. Our…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughGrief and Loss - Part One
Grief and Loss Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons There's an old Chinese proverb that states: "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: What I Don’t Want to Hear
Might I Say - What I Don't Want to Hear We hear a lot of things. A whole lot of things. We’re incessantly bombarded with sheets and shards and streams of…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Talk is Cheap
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. “Talk is cheap,” as the old saying goes. We say a lot of things, more due to the fact that we believe that we’re…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Is Anyone Listening?
Is Anyone Listening? Is anyone listening? In the world within which you live, is anyone listening? Does your voice matter? The pain that you carry, the…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThere Is No God - Evidence to the Contrary
There is no God. It’s not an unfamiliar statement. In fact, it permeates much of our modern thinking, which begs the question if our modern thinking is really…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Good as the Enemy of the Best
Good as the Enemy of the Best “That’s good enough.” How many times have those words come out of our mouths? The idea of this lackluster commitment to the…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughA Noble Calling - A Noble Response
Life calls us to many things. We will have to step-up in more ways and in more situations that we'd likely prefer at times. And when we have to step-up, the…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: What Is Better...Really?
What Is Better...Really? What is “better?” I mean, the definition of “better.” When we change something, we tend to label the change as “better,” whether it’s…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTo Think With Thought - Words of Wisdom in Difficult Times
Few of us think with thought. What I mean is that too few of us really examine the times that we're in verses getting caught up in the times that we're in. If…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughConscience or Convenience
We each have a conscience. Whether we listen to it or abide by it is another story. But we each have a conscience. The issue with our conscience is what will…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s Thought for Life - The Notion of God
Welcome to LifeTalk’s Thought for Life. The notion of God does not set well with some people. Sadly, that notion was often shaped by people or situations or…
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Podcast Short: All Is Lost - Or So We Think
All Is 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…
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Talk is Cheap
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 LounsbroughThe Problem is Not the Problem
We all have…problems. And there’s a real good chance that we have a lot of…problems. Life comes with problems. It’s part of the deal. It’s a natural part of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDo We Search for the Truth - Or For Ways Around It?
Do we search for the truth, or do we search for ways around the truth? Do we even take the time to consider a question like that out of the long-held…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBetter or Worse - The Clouding of Our Choices
Will the choices in front of us make us better or worse? Will they improve our lives, or diminish our lives? That depends on who and what is informing those…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Battle - I'd Rather Be David
Battles. We all fight them. Sometimes they're just the minor things that are a natural part of the day-in and day-out living of our lives. Sometimes they're…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWe Are a Message - Sending a Message
You are a message. You cannot live your life without someone, somewhere watching you. Your existence is not solitary to the point that that existence does not…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughHow Have We Come to This Point? The Rejection of God
How have we come to the point where the message of the Gospel is largely considered irrelevant in 21st century America? How is it that God is outmoded…
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Am I Paying Attention? - Being Aware
Are we paying attention? We think that we are. We would tell others that we are. We lead ourselves to believe that we've embraced opinions or points of view…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughAn Intimate Collision
We are empty. Terribly empty. We don't like to admit that...but we are empty. And into that emptiness we throw all kinds of things...relationships, money…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWhat I Work to Remember - They Are People
In the midst of their behaviors, I often forget that behind the behaviors are people. When they rant about some cause or press some agenda down the throats of…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughHeralding a Hero - A Tribute to 911
What is a hero? A real hero? Not one cast of some script or fashioned as part of a fictional plot. Not one that is created by political spins, or constructed…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWe Are Better Than This
We are better than this. We are better than who or what we've become. We are better than the poor choices that we have made and the life of compromise that we…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughAccountability - Choosing to Be Accountable
We don't like to be accountable. We hate being called on the carpet or called out. Often we prefer just to put our tail between our legs and sneak away to some…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughShep - To Run With a Limp
We all have a limp that relentlessly dogs our steps, causing us at times to be dog-tired as we work against our limp in order to keep our lives sufficiently…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Worst Slavery - Slavery to Ignorance
Slavery as an institution is pretty far removed from the minds of most of us residing here in 21st century America. Slavery sits back plenty far enough in the…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughUniqueness - Looking Beyond Labels to See Strengths
You ever notice that we seem to be on this relentless quest where we’re scrutinizing ourselves raw in order to ascertain what we think our flaws, our foibles…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughWhen the Challenges are Bigger Than Us
Most of the challenges that we face are far bigger than us. They have a power and a vastness to them that far exceeds whatever resources we have to bring to…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDiscouragement - Being Dense to Discouragement
Discouragement. We all know it well because we've experienced it so many times. We watch the world wildly spin as a result of foolish decisions…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Discarded Power of Ethics, Morals and Values
We have adopted a "progressive" mentality that has resulted in the discarding of anything that we feel will inhibit the agenda of the progressive mindset…
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPurpose in Pain - Finding Meaning in the Tough Times
Pain is anything but random. It is the precursor to growth and it contains within itself the very ingredients for that growth. It's opportunity that we would…