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An Intimate Collision Encounters with Life and Jesus
Intimate Collision is a great book in which Dr. Lounsbrough takes us through his work as a Christian psychotherapist and brings home that for meaning and purpose to come into our lives and to have strength in times of illness, death, and need we need a firm foundation in the Gospel. I believe that people can find God in many places, mine is Jesus, but until they move from the me and self centered approach and see life as it really is they will have difficulty. I believe this speaks top the problems of our society today.
294 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
15 books51 followers“Effective therapy is about a number of things: experience, expertise, a clear diagnosis, concise goals, and the knowledge and the tools to effectively navigate difficult life issues. It’s also about a possessing a genuine concern for the patient and their pain.”
Craig Lounsbrough 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 earned an Associate of Science Degree from Hocking Technical College, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion with an emphasis in Christian Education from Azusa Pacific University, and a Master of Divinity degree in Family Pastoral Care and Counseling from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has completed his coursework for his Doctor of Ministry degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Denver Seminary. Craig is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado and is ordained by the Evangelical Church Alliance. He is a certified Professional Life Coach.
Craig has over thirty-four years counseling experience with a wide range of patients in a variety of treatment settings. These have included providing counseling in two psychiatric hospitals, a residential and day treatment program, inpatient and partial hospital settings, a facility for the mentally retarded and the physically handicapped, an outpatient clinic and a program for blind developmentally disabled patients. He has also provided counseling services in a variety of church and parachurch ministries.
Craig has a broad and unique base of experience counseling children and adolescents. Areas of emphasis with children include mood disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis. Craig also has significant experience working with children and adolescents who have experienced developmental delays, varying degrees of trauma, various types of physical and/or sexual abuse, abandonment and/or neglect, dysfunctional family systems, as well as issues related to mental retardation and physical handicaps.
Craig also has a strong base of counseling experience working with adults in a wide variety of settings. Specialty areas include depression, bipolar disorder, general mood disorders posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, and attention deficit hyperactive disorder. He is also experienced in the areas of premarital, marital and family therapy.
In addition, Craig has over ten years experience in pastoral ministry. He has served as youth pastor, associate pastor and senior pastor in churches both in Colorado and California. In these positions he has also provided leadership in both state and national denominational ministries. Furthermore, he has written for a wide variety of magazines and has published four books. He also hosted a Christian radio ministry for two years. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and Certified Professional Life Coach.
Craig Lounsbrough 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 earned an Associate of Science Degree from Hocking Technical College, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion with an emphasis in Christian Education from Azusa Pacific University, and a Master of Divinity degree in Family Pastoral Care and Counseling from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has completed his coursework for his Doctor of Ministry degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Denver Seminary. Craig is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado and is ordained by the Evangelical Church Alliance. He is a certified Professional Life Coach.
Craig has over thirty-four years counseling experience with a wide range of patients in a variety of treatment settings. These have included providing counseling in two psychiatric hospitals, a residential and day treatment program, inpatient and partial hospital settings, a facility for the mentally retarded and the physically handicapped, an outpatient clinic and a program for blind developmentally disabled patients. He has also provided counseling services in a variety of church and parachurch ministries.
Craig has a broad and unique base of experience counseling children and adolescents. Areas of emphasis with children include mood disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis. Craig also has significant experience working with children and adolescents who have experienced developmental delays, varying degrees of trauma, various types of physical and/or sexual abuse, abandonment and/or neglect, dysfunctional family systems, as well as issues related to mental retardation and physical handicaps.
Craig also has a strong base of counseling experience working with adults in a wide variety of settings. Specialty areas include depression, bipolar disorder, general mood disorders posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, and attention deficit hyperactive disorder. He is also experienced in the areas of premarital, marital and family therapy.
In addition, Craig has over ten years experience in pastoral ministry. He has served as youth pastor, associate pastor and senior pastor in churches both in Colorado and California. In these positions he has also provided leadership in both state and national denominational ministries. Furthermore, he has written for a wide variety of magazines and has published four books. He also hosted a Christian radio ministry for two years. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and Certified Professional Life Coach.
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December 1, 2014
Human encounters with life are diverse and ambiguous. They can lift us up above the clouds of the mundane into the ecstasy joy, or they can plunge us into an emotional, existential abyss of pain and sorrow. Moments of an intense sense of meaning are intertwined with biting sensations of dullness and meaninglessness, rendering all our human efforts futile and leading us to the precipice of nihilism… Craig Lounsbrough is deeply aware of this inescapable, omnipresent human predicament. His account of life encounters is genuine, at times even naturalistically authentic, tormenting the reader with details of human misery, helplessness, and suffering, only to surprise him/her with a new, unexpected possibility – an event of the life and love of God invading our grey realities, captivating our hearts, and enlightening the darkness of our souls. We are born for this ‘intimate collision’ with Jesus, the utterly underserved and unimaginable encounter with ‘Life’ that engulfs us like an avalanche, yet without stifling who we are as beings made in the image of God.
A host of Christian authors have written rather mesmerizingly about such ‘collisions’ of humans with the divine, among them especially the numerous Christian mystics of every age. The uniqueness of Craig’s account rests in his ability to connect, to intimately interweave the unfathomable transcendent with the inescapably immanent; the history of God with the stories of human lives – all of this taking place not only on the pages of the New Testament, but also right here and now, in my and your very lives. An Intimate Collision takes seriously the concrete stories of human life, the colorful personal histories of people like you and me, in order to fully acknowledge them, to both weep and rejoice over them, so that they might finally be redeemed in light of God’s personal history permeating our lives in the unique, ever surprising, humbling and yet uplifting, life-changing and Life-giving collisions with the ‘Word become Flesh’.
Craig writes his book with “eyes of wonderment shaped in childhood, with those eyes brought to bear on the blackness of adulthood in a manner that lends the fullest credence to pain, while concurrently possessing the fullest of faith in something greater than pain.” (p. 12) He reminds us of the unique privilege that we all share to participate in the lives of others and be shaped by having others participate in our life, for this is the context where those ‘intimate collisions’ take place. Regardless of the nature of one’s own personal history, be it somewhat or not at all compatible with the life experience of the author, Craig’s stories invite us to recover the often forgotten gems from our past encounters with life, to experience the intimacy of colliding with our Creator, and to cast a new vision for our lives, a vision fuller of wisdom, gratefulness, and hopeful expectations.
If you chose to ‘collide’ with this book, may you experience the intimacy of Life’s and Love’s presence as God ‘runs right into you’!
A host of Christian authors have written rather mesmerizingly about such ‘collisions’ of humans with the divine, among them especially the numerous Christian mystics of every age. The uniqueness of Craig’s account rests in his ability to connect, to intimately interweave the unfathomable transcendent with the inescapably immanent; the history of God with the stories of human lives – all of this taking place not only on the pages of the New Testament, but also right here and now, in my and your very lives. An Intimate Collision takes seriously the concrete stories of human life, the colorful personal histories of people like you and me, in order to fully acknowledge them, to both weep and rejoice over them, so that they might finally be redeemed in light of God’s personal history permeating our lives in the unique, ever surprising, humbling and yet uplifting, life-changing and Life-giving collisions with the ‘Word become Flesh’.
Craig writes his book with “eyes of wonderment shaped in childhood, with those eyes brought to bear on the blackness of adulthood in a manner that lends the fullest credence to pain, while concurrently possessing the fullest of faith in something greater than pain.” (p. 12) He reminds us of the unique privilege that we all share to participate in the lives of others and be shaped by having others participate in our life, for this is the context where those ‘intimate collisions’ take place. Regardless of the nature of one’s own personal history, be it somewhat or not at all compatible with the life experience of the author, Craig’s stories invite us to recover the often forgotten gems from our past encounters with life, to experience the intimacy of colliding with our Creator, and to cast a new vision for our lives, a vision fuller of wisdom, gratefulness, and hopeful expectations.
If you chose to ‘collide’ with this book, may you experience the intimacy of Life’s and Love’s presence as God ‘runs right into you’!
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April 10, 2014Intimate Collision is a great book in which Dr. Lounsbrough takes us through his work as a Christian psychotherapist and brings home that for meaning and purpose to come into our lives and to have strength in times of illness, death, and need we need a firm foundation in the Gospel. I believe that people can find God in many places, mine is Jesus, but until they move from the me and self centered approach and see life as it really is they will have difficulty. I believe this speaks top the problems of our society today.
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