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Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” The Last Christmas - The Greatest Small PackageGreat 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 and that their greatness is marked in part by their ability to inhabit small things.  Greatness is not so much about size or importance as it is about meaning and value.  It's not necessarily the size of the thing, but the power that it possesses.  It's not about how vast something is, but the potential that it has within it.  It's realizing that great things find the best home in small things, for great things...
2025-12-2414 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day - Christmas #4If 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 the debilitating belief that the only viable idea of rescue is fiction.  And I can think of few things that are sadder than that.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
2025-12-2301 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 transform the fullness of us.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
2025-12-1901 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Am I Listening to the Lyrics? - The Music of the World at ChristmasWhat 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, and we can lead ourselves to believe that we can manage the stuff that we let into our heads.  But the fact is, what we list to is eventually what we will become.  However, the worst of it is that we don't think about what we put in our heads.  We find some element of something as appealing or soothing or nice in whatever way it's nice, and th...
2025-12-1507 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 majesty within ourselves that we’ve so foolishly forsaken.  But rather than leaving us saddened and forlorn by what we’ve abandoned, this lens also possesses ample power to give us back what we threw away.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
2025-12-1201 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Our Need for RescueChristmas - 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 enough, and enough of whatever it is that we need to be enough of to save ourselves.  We tediously craft an endless array of things to rescue us from the things that we previously crafted to rescue us that ended us stranding us.  We add problem to problem.  Dilemma to dilemma.  Disappointment to disappointment.  The very effort to dig ourselves out of the holes that we’ve dug only serves to...
2025-12-1006 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughChristmas in a Box - Greatness BoxedWe 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 if from the filthy hands of our greed that shaped each box, and it must be freed of the bane of special interests that attempt to seal these boxes tight. And once we’ve done all of that, we must burn every box to ash and cinders. Yet, the oddity of it all is that we really can’t keep Christmas in a box anyway. We might ignorantly pres...
2025-12-1009 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 derivative that is but a thin and emaciated shadow of something that we have found intimidating and demanding because of how grand it is?  And so, do we diminish great stories out of our fear of them?  More frighteningly, do we then come to believe those stories as ‘the story?’ Have we diligently re-crafted and recast some original story, beneficently leaving a few scattered themes that we thought to be profound...
2025-12-0810 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Christmas Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Christmas - We ForgetChristmas - 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 in the ever-changing maze of politically correct ideologies, we forget. With bills looming and jobs teetering and marriages faltering, we forget. With value systems crumbling and leadership charting a course to places dark and foreboding, we forget. With crime rising and hope dwindling and common sense disappearing, we forget. We forget. When we fix our eyes upon the world around us, we will forget. When we vest...
2025-12-0607 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughChristmas RescueWelcome 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 realizing that I would be. And the cry of an infant two thousand years ago was that realization.” That’s Christmas. It’s our rescue. It’s our prison break. It eliminates our need to erase, or rewrite, or edit, or rip out parts of the book, or pretend that they never happened at all. Christmas eliminates all of that. How is that possible? It’s simple. God...
2025-12-0507 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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
2025-12-0201 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThanksgiving Thoughts - Changing Your AttitudeWelcome to LifeTalk Thanks for joining us for this Thanksgiving Edition Here's some quotes drawn from today's podcast to help shape your attitude and enhance your sense of Thanksgiving: “Thanksgiving demands that we set aside the cultural narrative and be thankful for all of the things that the narrative says are not enough.” It’s not about the things that we possess as being enough. It’s that we have them in the first place. “If I am swallowed up in the bowels of negativity, and if the world seems eternally dark and f...
2025-11-2510 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day -Thanksgiving #3“Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
2025-11-2401 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for the Day - Thanksgiving #2“It is my hope that despite the gravity of the trials, we will never forget that the privilege to live life always offsets the difficulties involved in the living of it.  This is the essence of thanksgiving.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
2025-11-1801 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThought for Today - Thanksgiving #1“An attitude of thanksgiving will thrive and it will breathe life into any place where a heart of appreciation and gratitude refuses to give way to a brooding sense of entitlement, the scourge of greed, or any other lesser attitudes that keep company with such things.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
2025-11-1101 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Thanksgiving Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Thanksgiving - Contrary to the CultureThanksgiving.  To the destruction and detriment of those who live there, it will perish in an environment within which a sense of entitlement and greed rules the day.  Conversely, on the opposite end of that spectrum, a sense of thanksgiving will thrive and it will breathe life into any place where a heart of appreciation and gratitude refuses to give way to a brooding sense of entitlement, the scourge of greed, or any other lesser attitudes that keep company with such things.   But in whatever place we might find ourselves on this spectrum, we must und...
2025-11-1006 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Thanksgiving Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Thankful for the Possibility of Possibilities - Flying With the GeeseFlying with the geese.  Following the seasons instead of being left behind in whatever season that we are in.  Taking wing and launching ourselves off to new horizons, fresh goals, untainted opportunities, and unexplored places.  To live life as an ever-unfolding adventure that is always anticipating the next adventure.  We want to live life like this.  We really do.  We might fear it sometimes.  We might think that it takes too much energy or we don't have the time.  We might believe that we don't have the abilities to live a life like that.  We can think a lot of things...
2025-11-0706 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Thanksgiving Reawakened and Reclaimed:” Rich Living - Climbing Trees and Mending ShoesRich living has nothing to do with wealth...depending upon the kind of wealth we're referring to.  Rich living is found far more frequently in impoverished lives.  It is in these lives that the clutter of material wealth is absent so that these lives are free to see what is truly precious.  Life is not about the pursuit of 'stuff.'  Rather, it's about the pursuit of the everyday experiences that are handed to us without cost or obligation.  It's about 'being thankful that we can be thankful' and that such thankfulness is not based on possessions, but on the p...
2025-11-0313 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: We Are More - Understanding Our CapacityWe Are More - Understanding Our Capacity “Whatever you see within yourself, let it be the whole of yourself.  For too often we have been brutalized by our own sense of inadequacy and we’ve been held hostage to the lesser choices born of such a debilitating sense of self.  Know this, that latent within you there lies more than ample resources begging to be called forth to smash the chains forged of such an incapacitating sense of self.  And it is my prayer that you would press against everything within you that would hold you back, and tha...
2025-10-2705 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Becoming AccountableBecoming Accountable Accountability…might it be time to be accountable to who we’ve become so that we can make ourselves accountable to what we can be?  Are we willing to divest ourselves of all the lesser things that we have elevated as greater things and engage in both a pointed and painful evaluation of who we’ve become?  And once we’ve done that, are we brave enough to look at the damage that we’re incurred in the becoming?  Can we relinquish our claim to whatever bit of turf we’ve claimed and lay our playground feud...
2025-10-2305 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Dead-End Roads of Our MakingDead-End Roads of Our Making We chart these paths.  We set these goals.  We ponder where we are, and from there we determine where we want to go.  There’s some sort of road that we’re walking, whether that’s a road of our own making, or it’s a road that everybody is walking, or it’s the road that culturally vogue or socially trending.  Sometimes that road is well defined and clear.  Sometimes there’s very little definition to it all, and we end up wondering if we’re really on any sort of road at all.  And t...
2025-10-2005 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Thinking It’s Over When It’s NotThinking 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.  The loss is too big.  The obstacles are too daunting.  Things have changed so much that whatever we lost no longer has a place in the current reality that we’re living in.  We’re one person (just one person) trapped in a downward spiral that’s far more powerful than all of us put together.  The glass isn’t half empty.  The fact is, there is no glass.  We...
2025-10-1306 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: We Are a MessWe Are a Mess We are a mess.  We are a mess because we are a people on a mad rant.  Sadly, we have become blinded to the fact that we are blinded by a host of pathetically self-serving agendas.  And the pathetic nature of these agendas are evidenced by the fact that they are unable to stand up to the slightest scrutiny despite how rigorous our justifications of those agendas might be.  We create a litany of agendas whose basis is indefensible, for any self-serving agenda will always be indefensible. Therefore, we shut down anyo...
2025-10-1008 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDay 6 - Taking It to Our Knees - Discovering My PurposeWelcome to Day Six of the devotional series taken from the book, “Taking It to Our Knees – Rigorous Prayers for Life’s Greatest Challenges.” Today’s Theme is “Discovering My Purpose.”   The Quote for Today Is This: “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails..” Proverbs 19:21   Purpose.  Without it, life has no meaning.  Without it, life is empty.  We can liberally pour all kinds of questionable things into our lives every day of our lives, but without purpose the emptiness remai...
2025-10-0205 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: There Is No God - EvidenceThere Is No God - Evidence 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 either ‘modern’ or ‘thinking.’ I think that the mentality that ‘there is no God’ is centered primarily on the fact that we don’t want a God.  Therefore, out of convenience, we simply declare that there is none, for we fear that the experiences that we crave will be snatched from us, the pleasures that we wish to indulge in will be made taboo...
2025-09-2907 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Fear - How We Create ItFear – How We Create It Fear.  We all have it.  Sometimes it’s just this slight apprehension, or this bit of inner angst, or this uncomfortable twinge that we experience.  At other times it’s utterly overwhelming, leaving us helplessly paralyzed and violently shaken right down to the core of everything that we are.  At certain times and in certain situations, fear seems to stalk us.  It seems to relentlessly circle us, waiting for some opportunity to pounce on what little bit of sanity and what tiny shred of hope we have left.  Fear.  It can be brutal.  And...
2025-09-2608 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDay 5 - The Agonizing Tragedy of SuicideWelcome to Day Five of the devotional series taken from the book, “Taking It to Our Knees – Rigorous Prayers for Life’s Greatest Challenges.” Today’s Theme is “The Agonizing Tragedy of Suicide.”   The Quote for Today Is This: “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 price.  Therefore honor God with your body. I Corinthians 6:19-20   Life is precious. Therefore, the loss of it goes...
2025-09-2405 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDay Four - Wresting With the Discouragement of FailureWelcome to Day Four of the devotional series taken from the book, “Taking It to Our Knees – Rigorous Prayers for Life’s Greatest Challenges.” Today’s Theme is “Wrestling With the Discouragement of Failure.”   The Quote for Today Is This: “…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 to achieve the goal either way.  It’s falling short.  It’s having missed the mark, or having pulled out of the race long before we came...
2025-09-1706 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Change - It Begins With UsChange - 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 waiting for, we’re probably going to just keep right on waiting. As a part of my own processing in trying to understand what change is, and how ‘real’ change is caused, I wrote this: “Change. It's needed, but maybe not in the way that we think it's needed.  It seems that we need to be thoughtful about the values that we've embraced be...
2025-09-1706 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDay Three - Taking Jesus to a Gender Confused CultureWelcome to Day Three of the devotional series taken from the book, “Taking It to Our Knees – Rigorous Prayers for Life’s Greatest Challenges.” Today’s Theme is “Being Jesus to a Gender Confused Culture”   The Quote for Today Is This: “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 knowing who you are.  And probably a close second to that is to hate what you do know.  And right behind that there’s the effo...
2025-09-0306 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees Devotional - Day TwoWelcome to Day One of the devotional series taken from the book, “Taking It to Our Knees – Rigorous Prayers for Life’s Greatest Challenges.” Today’s Theme is “The Aching Void of an Absent Parent “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 whose permanence in our lives is never questioned because they are designed to be permanent.  Their role in our lives had nothing of a temporary nature built into them.  Therefore, we have no...
2025-08-2606 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Autumn’s Journey - Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life’s Seasons” - Part FourThe front porch was the door to the world “out there.”  As a kid, it was the stepping off point to the world that never forced us to step off.  It was the place through which the outside world would come into mine; monitored and managed in a way that didn’t make the world safe, but that pared and neutered it sufficiently to make it safe whenever it was granted entrance.  As a kid, other than it being huge, I didn’t know everything that was out beyond the oak planks and cement steps.  What I knew however was that the...
2025-08-1126 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Autumn’s Journey - Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life’s Seasons” - Part ThreeThey leave sporadically.  Some of them go at the first hint of fall’s advance.  Others hang around until the first snows herd them southward as a rancher with heavy-footed cattle lumbering across pasturelands; gorged on the last of summer’s grasses.  The air is sullen and stilled by their absence; the void of song leaving a hole wide and gray.  Trees stand as tenements emptied, their residents having taken wing for warmer skies. But it was the geese really.  Their movement was monumental; indescribably massive in scope as if a whole nation of waterfowl moved in unison. ...
2025-08-1027 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Autumn’s Journey - Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life’s Seasons” - Part TwoDid you ever run with leaves: a wild race born of wind and liberated foliage?  It’s a race, but more than that it’s really an invitation to partnership and farewell.  Racing with the leaves was not about finishing first; rather it was about a romp enjoyed in the midst of a transition being celebrated.  It was playing with a friend before that friend was called away home. It happened in fall’s own autumn when the leaves turned dry.  They had long lost their color, becoming curled and brittle; gnarled sometimes like hands beset with arthritis...
2025-08-0932 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Autumn’s Journey - Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life’s Seasons” - Part OneIt’s eight feet at best, if even that.  When you’re a kid you run with the natural assumption that life will fall in your favor.  It grants exceptions and kind of looks out for you.  You think of life as some sort of doting grandparent and adventurous friend all in one; inviting you out to wild frolicking play while hovering close enough to catch you if you fall.  It’s the best of both worlds; of all worlds really.  It makes life terribly wild and inordinately safe all at the same time.  So, it’s only eight feet.  The nex...
2025-08-0731 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters With Life and Jesus” - Part FourHe 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 tapestry whose fibers were being woven into a soft spirit that reveled in life.  I love Corey.  I love him for what he is, and what I see in him that I am not.   He is innocence untainted and unsoiled, a young boy that catches the essence of living through windows of the soul yet unsullied by life.  Splendidly exuberant, he draws in all the energy of life and expels...
2025-07-2821 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters With Life and Jesus” - Part ThreeDean 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 them to cause a broad and crippling implosion where things just cave in all around us.  Life then becomes a litany of foggy responses to trauma where we move zombie-like through whatever the day or the moment holds.  There is no forward movement in times like these.  When our worlds collapse it all becomes about survival because often that’s all it can be about.  Soon survival becomes the norm where...
2025-07-2238 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters with Life and Jesus” - Part TwoDarren 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 in Darren’s life, so numerous that he himself was lost in them.  They were pathetic and endless, so it seemed anyway. A plastic fish was little more than a cheap toy that momentarily anesthetized a child-like mind trapped in the deterioration of a thirty-five year old body.  It was a mere trinket, a point of focus upon which to forget the realities that had bent him and ultimately broken him.  It served...
2025-07-1535 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”An Intimate Collision - Encounters With Life and Jesus” - Part OneFilth 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 than a brutal manifestation of the accumulated slag and scum that is leftover in the wake of some departed tragedy.  These people become the thing that life has done to them, being so irreparably identified with their own tragedies that they themselves are a living manifestation of all those assorted tragedies.  Sometimes we become what life has done to us.  Hers was a life that was already an abysmal collection of un...
2025-07-1035 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees - Not Defined By a Journey Gone WrongNot 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 Welcome to LifeTalk It seems that we have some vague sense of where we’re going in this thing called life. For the more contemplative soul, that sense might be quite refined. For the casual traveler, it might be a bit more nebulous and scattered. Vague or refined, we all have some sense of where we’re going. And too often, we find ourselves...
2025-07-0810 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Freedom is PreciousLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “If I don’t passionately desire freedom for all of my fellowmen, it’s likely that I haven’t been sufficiently freed from my selfishness so that I might see their captivity.” Follow all of Craig's daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
2025-07-0400 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTo Change a Nation - It Begins With MeHow 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 anything else except us.  How far does that kind of change go?  Does it really have a broad sweep and a wide impact?  Does it really count all that much?  In the scope of history, much less the scope of this single day, will it matter?  Will it really matter? Don't underestimate the power of the one person that you are.  Don't.  Your life is staged to touch many...
2025-07-0411 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - The Power of PrinciplesWelcome 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 stands for principles that are timeless rather than those that suit the times.  Consider this “Thought for Life:”  “So it is that this man named Jesus handily performed feats that were astounding in their scope and utterly impossible in their nature.  And as if that were not enough, He then does something as outrageous as inviting us to a life of doing the same.  And yet it would seem that the most astoun...
2025-06-2701 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDefined By Our History - Taking It to Our Knees: Declaring Who I AmDefined 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. However, what impacts us doesn’t define us. Our histories can scar us, cripple us, leave us plagued with deficits, and reeling from loss. Our histories can leave us with overwhelming insecurities, fears that sabotage our dreams, and a deeply running pessimism that runs rogue over anything that might appear to possess some bit of desperately needed hope. They can leave us with deep-seated trauma, an addiction that won’t...
2025-06-2509 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 come to define ourselves more by what we lack than by what we possess. We define ourselves by the successes that we haven’t had, the relationships that didn’t work, the careers that never happened, and the dreams that never got off the ground because they never made it to the runway. All of these things tell us everything that we are not. The assets t...
2025-06-1909 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 little different on this Father’s Day week. Sometimes it’s a single thought that changes everything. Not some sweeping set of ideas or broad-based philosophy, but a handful of words. Just a handful of words that hold within them an idea that bumps the trajectory of our lives enough to make everything different. Entirely different. And so, we’re gon...
2025-06-1406 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughAsking the Right Questions Verses Responding for the Wrong ReasonsToo 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 by some cause.  Something feels inherently good and the premise that drives it appears sound.  We find that an army of people have raced to the forefront of this cause, or it's embraced as long overdue, or it appears right for the times. But in all of that, do we ask the larger questions?  Do we ask if there is some underlying issue that's bigger than the cause that prom...
2025-05-3008 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 truly magnificent.” Craig D. Lounsbrough The world has set an airbrushed standard of what we’re supposed to look like. This photoshopped menagerie of idealized versions of a perfected humanity demands something of us that none of us can achieve. Even those whose images are altered to this definition of perfection are themselves nothing of the sort. The culture defines beauty but it cannot demonst...
2025-05-2810 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Path to Losing Our FreedomOur 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 demanding our right to them or exercising them in ways that will destroy these very freedoms, we forget that they are fragile.  Very fragile.  They are not permanent.  They are not guaranteed.  They will not stand under the weight of our misuse of them.  And if handled inappropriately or abused in one of the many ways that we abuse them, we may someday find ourselves without them. We are a...
2025-05-2108 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 deeply aged body out of his worn wheelchair and stood to ram-rod attention.  He held a salute until the guard had passed, and then he feebly collapsed back into his wheelchair.  As I stared in ever-warming admiration, emblazoned across his hat I saw the words “WWII Veteran.”  And while I deeply admire his stirring passion for our country, I stood there wishing that my passion for the cause of C...
2025-05-0706 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Unrecognized Potency of PrayerLet’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 be viewed only as a pathetic last resort. Yet despite our incessant meddling, this asset nonetheless remains a first resort so potent that it never needs a last one. And that asset is prayer.” Prayer. You know, through our own lack of understanding and discipline, we’ve granted prayer the characteristics associated with some antiquated religious monk living in some secluded monastery off in the wood...
2025-05-0107 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “Decisions based on timeless truths will never leave our tomorrow regretting the decisions of our yesterday, for such truths will always supersede any ‘then’ or ‘now.’” Follow all of Craig's daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
2025-04-2400 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees - Defined By Our Self-EsteemDefined 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 diminishing us to some point of forlorn incapacity. Plagued by this beast, we live out marginalized lives that surrender the accomplishments and forsake the achievements that could have been ours. We grope through this existence meagerly living out each day by surviving each day, rather than realizing that we can live with an intensity that will have caused the day to finish having survived us.” Craig D. Lounsbrough Fr...
2025-04-2208 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughNew Beginnings - Seeds in PainNew 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 circumstances that seemed anything but kind to us.  And as we look down the road of our lives, we can only envision more of the same.  We really don't believe in new beginnings because all we've come to believe in is survival, and we frequently feel that we're doing that all that well either. But our new beginnings lay in our painful endings.  No one likes to hear that...
2025-04-1803 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBackwards - The Grand Reversal of EasterBackwards - 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, nor would I tell you that I’m backwards; but I’m backwards.  And the oddity of it all is that I actually see backwards as forwards.  From where I’m sitting it doesn’t look backwards at all.  However, in terms of how I conceptualize the realities of life as held against the limitations that I perceive myself as having, I’m backwards.  I’m backwards be...
2025-04-1611 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Ignoring Our ConscienceLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “Disabling your conscience is like disabling your smoke detector.  It doesn’t stop a fire.  It just leaves you ignorant of the fact that there is one.” Follow all of Craig's daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
2025-04-1200 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 overweening insecurity about doing the ‘wrong thing,’ I quickly inform them of three things. First, I inform them that it is nothing of a need born of fear, but everything of a choice born of conviction. Second, that it is nothing of insecurity, but it is everything of a strength that is sturdy and amply sufficient to field the most caustic of criticisms...
2025-04-0909 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - The Inadequacy of MenLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “I am left with no alternative than to look beyond the efforts of men, for efforts of those sort leave cities flattened, nations teetering, and lives crushed.  Instead, I must shift the whole of my gaze to the God who tenderly kneels in the midst of this unimaginable carnage and effortlessly makes the he...
2025-04-0901 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughI Heard a Robin - Hope in the DarkI 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 often are they borne of a discouraged soul and a frightened heart that cannot see beyond the realities of the moment so as to envision a brighter reality standing at-the-ready in the next moment?  How many times have we taken the darkness of today and handily projected it onto the landscape of a tomorrow that is in fact full of light?  How many times have we expected that failure...
2025-04-0710 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Forgetting What Love IsLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “Love is the essence of our humanity expressing itself in actions of sacrifice so profound that we risk not surviving those expressions.” Follow all of Craig's daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
2025-04-0200 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Running AwayLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “Running from what we fear is like throwing a bunch of stuff in the bed of a truck and somehow thinking that driving the truck will distance us from what’s laying in the bed.” Follow all of Craig's daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
2025-03-3100 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughLifeTalk’s ”Thought for Life” - Leaving a LegacyLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “Who are you sending into the future and how are you sending them?  For this is the stuff of legacy that we tend to forget until long after we’ve sent them.” Follow all of Craig's daily quotes on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
2025-03-2800 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”LifeTalk’s” Thought for Life - Fear or FaithLifeTalk'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 one of Craig's personal quotes.  All of his quotes are specifically written to challenge, inform, and inspire.  Today's thought is: “It comes down to 'fear' and 'faith'. 'Fear' of what stands in front of me. 'Faith' in believing that the resources I possess can handle what stands in front of me. If I stop at the former, I will change nothing. If I embrace the latter, I can change everything.” Follow...
2025-03-2400 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Flecks of Gold On a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Profound Living” - Part ThreeSlavery 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 faded, yellowed and brittle pages of history to create a more than comfortable chasm between us and itself.  We view that chasm of time and social development and modernism as broad enough to keep slavery from leaping from the past across the chasm of time into the present.  The idea of slavery seems to evoke dusty black and white tin-type images of the Civil War, the expansive plantations of the Dee...
2025-03-2212 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Flecks of Gold On a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Profound Living” - Part TwoFlecks of Gold On a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's For Profound Living An unknown author wrote, “Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what cannot be seen.”  Oddly, we possess this strangely cockeyed perception that we must be able to see something in order to treasure it.  What we see as treasure is really only the thing that’s revealing the treasure itself.  The treasure in a daisy is not the daisy, but the massively creative genius behind the daisy.  The flower itself is simply a tender, fragrant and quite intricate manifestat...
2025-03-2013 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”Flecks of Gold On a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Profound Living” - Part OneFlecks of Gold on a Path of Stone – Simple Truth’s for Profound Living” Someone once uttered the timeless saying that “timing is everything.”  There’s something about things happening in a certain order in a certain time that makes it all fit in a certain way.  We sense a natural and correct progression that, if followed, leads to success or happiness or fulfillment or whatever it is that we’re chasing.  The whole element of timing seems critical.  The more important something is, the greater the issue of timing seems to be.  Timing can be so critical that at ti...
2025-03-1813 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughObstacles to Prayer - Taking It to Our KneesObstacles 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 prayer has been answered.” Craig D. Lounsbrough Many of the obstacles to prayer are things that we have not given sufficient attention to, or we think that they’re somehow normal, appropriate, or of no real concern. These are the things that present themselves as rather casual issues that are of little importance. But they can (in fact) be major obstac...
2025-03-0509 minBlueprint for Men
Blueprint for MenCraig Lounsbrough: God’s Call for Men |175This week’s interview is with Craig Lounsbrough, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado. He strives to bring an effective blend of experience, expertise, clarity, concern and action to the counseling process in order to maximize outcomes and provide genuine healing and wholeness to individuals, marriages and families. Craig has over thirty-one years counseling experience with a wide range of patients in a variety of treatment settings. Click here to get to Craig’s website if you want learn more about him, including the books he’s written and published, some of which were mentioned in the show. 
2025-02-131h 04Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTaking It to Our Knees - What Prayer Is and Is notLifeTalk 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 like prayer to be a real thing. Whether you believe in it or not, I believe that most of us would like it to be true. We all have those difficult and devastating points in life when we would love to have something that would connect us to something bigger than we are. Something to get us out of the mess that we can’t get ourselves out...
2025-01-3106 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough"In the Footsteps of the Few" - Steps to Start LivingIn 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 dreams gone and has your hope gone with them? Have you found yourself someplace so far removed from whatever vision it was that you had for your life that you're convinced that there's no way back (if you even remember where 'back' might be)? This is the story of so many. So very many. And this story ends up...
2025-01-2507 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 fallen timber, lavish the floodplains with rich nutrients, and declare by actions such as these that the cowardice of reversal would never have created rivers this magnificent." - Craig D. Lounsbrough Enjoy a video of this thoughtful and challenging podcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@craiglounsbrough. Discover "In the Footsteps of the Few" on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or wherever books are sold.
2025-01-1100 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughA World That’s LostEverybody 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 kind of ‘lost’ is to be ‘lost,’ but to deny that you’re ‘lost,’ even though you are.  That’s about the worst kind of lost that I can think of, and we certainly see a whole lot of that kind of ‘lost’ today.  Everybody seems lost these days. Let’s face it, we live in a world that’s lost.  In one way or another (or to one degree or another), the world...
2025-01-0903 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”New Year Reawakened and Reclaimed:” New - It Does Not Mean BetterNew 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 it’s better or not.  If we adjust something, or alter something, or eliminate it altogether, we define the changes that we make as “better.”  We initiate new programs, or we reconstruct old ones, and in doing so we say that we are making things “better.”  We craft new policies, or we tear down old businesses, or we adopt new beliefs, or we upgrade this, or we downgrade that, and we labe...
2025-01-0405 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTo Believe in a New BeginningHave 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 can’t be a new beginning? Is the carnage that’s a result of our bad decisions, or our poor relationship choices, or our career failures, or our financial mis-management…does the carnage of all that stuff reach a point that a new beginning can never (and will never) find a place to begin? Because once we give up on the idea of a new beginn...
2025-01-0307 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”New Year Reawakened and Reclaimed:” A Clean Slate - The Possibility of a New StartA 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.  We want to get rid of the errors, the poor choices, the misguided decisions and the bruising flops that populated the previous year.  We want to wipe away old habits, clean up destructive behaviors, sponge up toxic relationships, run away from blood-sucking jobs and frantically flee the debt-feeding financial decisions that we made.  The New Year is our time to use a whole bunc...
2024-12-3006 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThe Frightening Call of Great ThingsGreat things scare us, as they should.  If something doesn't scare us then it's probably not all that great.  All of us are called to great things.  Those things will likely be different for each of us.  However, in whatever way they are great, they are great.  We are not here to pass through this existence as some distant observer of whatever's going on in this existence.  Our lives are not passive and our role in the lives of others is not passive either.  Whether large or small, we are here to do great things. However, our fear of...
2024-12-2911 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughChristmas - Denying Our Need for RescueRescue.  It is hard to admit that we need to be rescued.  We think ourselves to be smart enough, cunning enough, strategic enough, and enough of whatever it is that we need to be enough of to save ourselves.  We tediously craft an endless array of things to rescue us from the things that we previously crafted to rescue us that ended up stranding us.  We add problem to problem.  Dilemma to dilemma.  Disappointment to disappointment.  The very effort to dig ourselves out of the holes that we’ve dug only serves to dig them that much deeper.  We preach the...
2024-12-2006 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughThoughts to Enrich and Enliven Your Holiday CelebrationsThe gift of Christmas (the gift of God’s Son) empowers us to do all of what we were designed to do, but will fail to God unless God empowers us to do it. It is the liberation from everything that we were ‘not’ designed to be and not designed to do. It is the opportunity and the power to finally, finally be our authentic selves. And then, how about the durability of Christmas? These things that Christmas does…but how long do they last? “Have we ever consider the boldness of Christmas? For to craft such a daring story and...
2024-12-1008 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: Integrity - To Understand and Live ItIntegrity - 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, or working to get some sort of edge.  It’s not agenda driven, other than we do the right thing for no other reason than it’s the right thing…and that’s not an agenda.  That’s a conviction.  It’s not about the cost of doing the right thing, or the long-term effects, or the short-term effects, or whether it will be popular or not so popular.  It’s not about th...
2024-10-1506 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: It’s Not About Being OrdinaryIt'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 about being ordinary.  It’s about recognizing that being ordinary does not limit us to ordinary things.  That’s the beauty of it.  We’re all ordinary, which gives us everything that we need to be extra-ordinary.  God granted you and He granted me all of the elements, all of the ingredients (if you will) to do what we never thought we could do.  You come packaged with resources...
2024-10-1305 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: We Like Things to Be New When New May Not Be BestWe 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 ‘new’ is appealing.  And because it is, we chase it.  But ‘new’ does not mean ‘better,’ and I think that quite often we associate the two way too much.  We tend to automatically think that if something is ‘new,’ the fact that it’s ‘new’ somehow guarantees that it’s ‘better.’  Certainly, some things that are ‘new’ are clearly ‘better.’  But many are not.  And at some level we know th...
2024-09-2907 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 is my Saturday.  If the ‘yet to be’ is nothing more than what is transpiring right now, my future will be shrouded in the thick cold of bitter hopelessness.  A shift in a slightly different direction, and there may be jubilation.  Either way, right now it’s Saturday for me.”   An Intimate Collision  Ever been in the “in-between?”  You know, something’s gone (whatever tha...
2024-09-2705 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 what we do want it to be like?  Why is it so incredibly difficult to create the kind of world that we all would love to live in?  How is it that we’re able to visualize what we would actually like the world to be like, yet we seem so incredibly incapable of actually creating the very world that we visuali...
2024-09-2306 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughPodcast Short: It’s Time to ListenIt'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 bits and bytes and boatloads of data that we ingest and digest without even realizing that we’re doing that.  Either consciously or unconsciously we compile all of that sordid stuff into some sort of choppy mosaic about the life around us and the world within us.  And as insidiously dangerous as it is, in time this rather indistinct and somewhat dubious mosaic becomes our reality.  In essence, it...
2024-09-0707 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughTrust - The Personal Characteristics That Build It StrongTrust.  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 completely in something or someone.  That's about as far as we take it.  Yet, the incredible power of trust suggests that it is more . . . much more. Remove trust from a relationship and that relationship simply cannot survive.  Extract trust from whatever situation we're in and we will doubt that person or that thing or that event to the point that we withdraw.  Erase trust and we simply don't want to go there...
2024-08-0209 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” - Part FourWe 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 really need a purpose, and if so do we create it or does it already exist and we just haven’t happened to happen upon it just yet.  For some of us, we think that the whole idea of having a purpose suggests that life is much more intentional than maybe we thought it was, and that maybe we’re all part of a grand design of some sort...
2024-07-2524 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” - Part ThreeSuccess 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 fail without remorse or guilt.  Other definitions are quite lofty, written to give us opportunity achieve in a manner that has little to do with the achievement and everything to do with restoring blunted self-esteems.  At times success is defined by whatever will accord us the accolades of others or advance us socially or professionally.  At yet other times, the definition of success is more about giving ourselves a sorely need...
2024-07-2425 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 that pulls us out of the doldrums of living among the masses and plants us in the more desirable currents of the intellectual mainstream.  In our culture, I tend to think it’s less about thoughtfully unearthing who we are as a means of living in awe of what God wrought within us.  Rather, I think it’s more about creating something that’s culturally acceptable and that adheres to the contri...
2024-07-2324 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough”The Self That I Long to Believe In - The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” - Part OneThe 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 may be born of a free spirit bent on living with unimpeded freedom, or it might be a drivenness used to hold ourselves captive.  It might be a drivenness to face ourselves, or a drivenness to run from ourselves.  We can be driven to do great things, or to hide from great things.  Being driven grants us the ability to fly, but we can use it just as readi...
2024-07-2226 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughConsequences - We Are the CauseDo 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 that what happens today is the consequence of a series of choices that we made yesterday?  We seem to stand stunned and perplexed by what we see in our culture.  But are these things really happenstance and the turn of fate, or are they simply the consequences of the choices we have made along the way? As the old saying goes, "You reap what you sow."  We are certainly reap...
2024-07-2009 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
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 ethereal sense of where we’re going in this thing called life.  For the more contemplative soul, that sense might be quite refined.  For the casual traveler, it might be a bit more nebulous and scattered.  For many, where they’re going is defined by the tasks of the day, rather than enlarged by a vision for tomorrow. In many cases where we’re g...
2024-06-2414 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughUniqueness - Not as LicenseSometimes 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 slightly peculiar. ‘Different’ in a culture of uniformity is too frequently labeled as eccentric, curious, “out there,” slightly unconventional, eerie, a tad bit unorthodox, or being something akin to being a dork.  Our uniqueness can have dramatic social implications, causing us to be the outsider, the alien, the cultural misfit or just so plain weird that we’re a social phenomenon entirely unto ourselves with no place within which to fit at all; being relega...
2023-09-2209 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDarren and a Plastic Fish - The Size of SmallnessWe 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 impact.  We witness the flood of irrational agendas, the rampant greed, the destruction of morality, the corruption in leadership, and the insanity of organizations that propagate questionable platforms, and we feel far too small to speak into any of those things. Yet, small is big when understood correctly.  After all, everything big started as something small.  Everything big is a compilation of small things.  Everything big requires the work of sm...
2023-09-2021 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBeing a Lamp That’s Lit - Part TwoBeing 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 talks about being a light, but we might want to first ask the fundamental question, am I a lamp that's lit in the first place? How many of us are lit and ablaze?  We’re all lamps . . .  every one of us.  But how many of us are lit and burning and casting light, because it’s one thing to be a lamp, and it’s quite anothe...
2023-09-1522 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughDealing With Grief and Loss - An Autumn’s JourneyGrief 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. Our natural response in our loss is to press past the pain in an effort to resume our normal lives as quickly as possible.  But in the rush to heal and free ourselves from the pain, we miss the immense growth that is awaiting us in the pain itself.  Craig's recent message outlines the fact that "There is great purpose in great pain."  However, if we live in denial of o...
2023-09-1342 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughBeing a Lamp That’s Lit - Part OneBeing 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 talks about being a light, but we might want to first ask the fundamental question, am I a lamp that's lit in the first place? How many of us are lit and ablaze?  We’re all lamps . . .  every one of us.  But how many of us are lit and burning and casting light, because it’s one thing to be a lamp, and it’s quite anothe...
2023-09-0816 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughGrief and Loss - Part TwoGrief 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 of standing still." I'm going to talk about grief and loss in this podcast.  And if there's ever times in our lives when we end up "standing still," it's during times of grief and loss.  My intent in this podcast is to help us understand how grief and loss, even devastating grief and loss, rather than causing us to "stand still," can ac...
2023-09-0125 minLife Talk with Craig Lounsbrough
Life Talk with Craig LounsbroughECA Ordination Message - The Magnitude Of the Message in the Need of the MomentThe 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 world is desperate for that message.  However, our less than thoughtful handling of the message of the Gospel has diluted it to the point that its appeal is nearly gone.  We have subjugated it to our particular interpretations, shaped it to our personal agendas, inserted our own biases, preached it for our own gain, presented it more as entertainment than transformation, and assumed that we have the power to deliver it...
2023-08-3032 minThe Thicc & Thin Podcast
The Thicc & Thin PodcastEpisode 6: Walking 'In the Footsteps of the Few' with Craig LounsbroughIn this episode, we have a wonderful friend and guest Craig Lounsbrough on the show! Craig has a robust background that includes being a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a podcaster (LifeTalk), a youth pastor, an ordained minister, and broadcaster amongst many other things. Tristan (Chris couldn't make it because he's a slacker! jk.) interviews Craig on his recently released book titled 'In the Footsteps of the Few' while also diving into Craig's upbringing and influences that made him into a pillar of his community. For more information on Craig and some of the resources he offers, see the links...
2023-06-071h 01The Mike Wagner Show
The Mike Wagner ShowColorado author/professional counselor Craig Lounsbrough of Beacon Publishing talks about his book "The Self That I Long to Believe In"!Colorado author/professional counselor Craig Lounsbrough (Beacon Publishing) talks about his new book “The Self That I Long to Believe In: The Challenge of Building Self-Esteem” along with his experience in marriage, individual and family counseling and a licensed counselor at www.craiglpc.com/plus check out his other books on Amazon and at www.beaconpublishinggroup.com/craigdlounsbrough ! #craiglounsbrough #counselor #family #marriage #individual #counseling #author #beaconpublishing #selfesteem #theselfilongtobelievein#colorado #overcomer #iheartradio #spreaker #spotify #itunes #applemusic #youtube #amazon #audible #anchorfm #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnercraiglounsbrough #themikewagnershowcraiglounsbrough Don't Forget to leave a comment on this episode See podvine.com/priv...
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