Latest news from the LifeQuest website. http://www.lifequest-online.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:55:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.lifequest-online.com/images/M_images/mambo_rss.png http://www.lifequest-online.com Latest news from the LifeQuest website. http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/297/1/ Hello folks, I came across a blog by a one of the regulars at LQ, Kenny Tillman, and I found his thoughts on a particular matter interesting. Check it out: From galvitir.wordpress.com (http://galvatir.wordpress.com) Openness is something that I’ve been thinking a lot about recently, especially just before, and even more so after having starting this blog. As those of you who read “Who Am I?” know, I’m pulling no punches when I comes to being open and honest...Read more (http://galvitir.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/openness/) Administrator http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/266/43/ Mark 5 tells the story of a woman, desperate for healing, that reached out in a crowd and touched Jesus. At the moment she did, Jesus realized he had been touched and asked who did it. The disciples' response is priceless. They said, "Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, 'Who touched me?'" A lot of people were walking with Jesus, bumping into him, touching him accidentally, but only one intentionally touched him, and in turn, was touched by him. Bruce Blagg http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/257/43/ I came across an interesting fact the other day. There are over 70 different names for God in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). What's so fascinating is that the greatest commandment in the Torah starts with "Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one God ..." You would think if He is one God, then He would have one name. Yet the Hebrew people found they needed many different names to adequately describe this one God. While we could learn a lot from this, I want to focus on one name in particular. Bruce Blagg http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/242/1/ Due to technical issues, we regret that there is no recording of last week's message. However, in leiu of that, we are providing downloadable versions of Bruce's speaking notes, and the handouts from that night in PDF format. To check it out, go to the Sermons Online (http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/category/7/35/99/) section Administrator http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/215/43/ Romans 8:35 asks a question that is very relevant for these hard times. The New Living Translation reads "Does it mean Christ no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?" We often find it hard to believe that God still loves us when we are going through difficulties not of our making. There are some who might automatically answer that Christ never stops loving us. But most of us would have to admit that, deep down, we wonder if Christ really does love us. After all, how can he love us and still allow this to happen? Bruce Blagg http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/187/43/ At LifeQuest we've been examining Worship. It has been a wonderful journey so far and we have discovered a lot about God, ourselves, and our relationship with Him. One of the things we talked about is how, in the Scriptures, an encounter with God always resulted in Awe and Wonder. Awe and Wonder. We were made to experience Awe and Wonder. Humans are the only ones on earth that can stand in awe and wonder amazed by a sunset over the Ocean or the snow on the peaks of a mountain range or the emotions stirred up by a beautiful piece of music. We experience Awe and Wonder because God formed us to be in relationship with Him and to be able to experience His presence. Awe and Wonder can produce some very meaningful moments in our lives. So, in one of our services I asked the question, Where do you go when you want to experience awe and wonder? There were a wide variety of answers. Some said the beach. Others said the mountains or... Bruce Blagg http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/167/43/ Alex, my grandson, had his first overnight stay at Pap-pap's and Meemaw's the other day. It was a great time. On the afternoon of the first day, Pam and I needed to get some groceries and we took Alex with us. As we got out of the car, we told Alex that we needed to hold hands so we could safely to walk across the parking lot. Alex reached up and grabbed my index finger. In the meantime I tried to grasp his hand so I would have better control if something happened. But Alex pulled his hand out of mind and grabbed my finger again. So we walked across the lot with him holding my finger and me thinking that if I needed to catch him if he fell or grab him if I needed to quickly move him, I wouldn't be able to do it very well. Bruce Blagg http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/162/1/ We have some new goodies up in the gallery, with possibly more coming down later.That's right, the pictures from CAN are up, and two videos from CAN are also available, including one song each from Four of Three and Eddy's band. Here's the fun part, though, so listen up. I've created the videos in two different formats: one is a flash based video, the other is a windows media video. Flash is more universal, and WMV is more portable (that is, you can download it and play it easier) so, depending on which you perfer, I'll pick that format and convert the other video to it as well. Check out the videos by clicking read more! For all of the stuff from the last CAN, just go to the gallery album. (forum/index.php?action=gallery g2_itemId=2370 g2_GALLERYSID=bda56831211334ae7f3365c64cf0c7f2) Administrator http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/156/73/ One of the questions that is often asked is how can a book as ancient (and some would say archaic) as the Bible be an authority in how I should live my life in my world today? Bruce Blagg http://www.lifequest-online.com/content/view/153/43/ Jesus asked a question in Mark 8:36 which I find to be very challenging to the way I live. He asked, And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? Most of us would consider the second question rhetorical. If we take the time to think about it and weight the worth of our souls, most, if not all, would say nothing is worth risking my soul. Yet for so many of us, we risk it every day. Bruce Blagg