TrueNorth Quest

How is your soundscape?  Is your soundscape congruent with your values and vision?  Did you know that sound affects health and productivity? 
I have a hunch that sound is very big in a Kingdom/Christian worldview …   Here’s Julian Treasure with The 4 Ways Sound Affects Us:

This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel.  Say to them: “The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”  So they shall put (invoke) My name on the [...]

Is social media like Facebook a fad?  Or, are we in the middle of a communication revolution?  Can Christians use social media intelligently and with purpose?  What will you do with it?  Watch the 4-minute fast-moving video …

Do we need faith?  Do we need more faith?  Good news.  Faith comes through hearing the living voice of God through the Word of God.   Pray for the Father to grant vision to see Jesus for who He really is.  As we behold Christ, a beam of His glory penetrates our soul.  Along this beam comes powerful grace which changes [...]

Just a few simple rules:

Stick to 400 calories per meal.
Never go more than 4 hours without eating.
Eat a MUFA at every meal.

Via CBN.com  What is a MUFA?  The latest research shows that there are astonishing  benefits to monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAS).  These plant based fats are found in foods like olives, avocados, chocolate, nuts, seeds [...]

You know what a Dear John letter is – A girlfriend or wife (or, as Keith Green says, a reasonable facsimile of) would write a letter to their boyfriend or husband at war and tell them the relationship is over.  Well, the Christ-follower needs to “write off” the Devil for good.  Give him his Dear John letter.  Let it be [...]

This is 7 mins., 14 secs. of a Youth With a Mission Discipleship Training School lecture by Graham Cooke in Oxford, New Zealand.
Just making it to heaven is not our goal.  Knowing “about” God is meaningless.  Reading about the Book of Acts without living the Book of Acts must become unthinkable to us.
We pursue learning, not to know, [...]

This is a fun and amazing demonstration with Bobby McFerrin.  The pentatonic scale is a musical scale containing 5 different tones.  This scale is found (in different forms) in most of the world’s music.  McFerrin uses the scale and the expectations of an audience to demonstrate neural programming.  It seems the human mind automatically knows something about [...]

John Piper says we must become like Jesus in order to reflect Him in the spontaneous aspects of life …