Fish & Chips Miracle

Have you read the story of the 5 loaves and 2 fish? Did you breeze by it like I have so many times? Well, I have been doing some digging and just wanted to share it with you. My church (www.onelifeknox.com) sparked the digging. OneLife Church’s slogan or mission statement is this: Discover God and how your one life can make a difference. So I started thinking about these “nameless” one lives in the bible that made a huge difference. I am a little crazy about bible characters. I like to indulge deeper into the characters that the famous orREAD MORE

A Father's Legacy

With the recent addition of our second boy, Gavin Lynn Hensley, to our family on August 9th, 2010, it began a thought process for me. I would now have two boys both being 19 months apart. Although part of me was ecstatic as any father should be, part of me began to think about my boys and begin to plan because let’s admit I had everything figured out for them even by the day they both arrived. With Keagan, we had his name well over a year before he was born. We already know what elementary school they will beREAD MORE

Dear Volunteers

Dear Local Church Volunteers, You guys don’t know me very well or really even at all but I need to ask a big favor of you. I know that you probably get some off the wall request from everyone like members, visitors, and everything in between. In fact, I am not a member of your church and honestly don’t know anyone who is but here is the thing. A family member of mine just lives down the street. What you don’t know that he gave up on church about 15 years ago and honestly I don’t know where he wouldREAD MORE

Colicy Christians

Josh Duncan was the guest speaker at OneLife Church on Sunday and shared a message that hit home as usual for me. He is the planting Pastor of The Overflow Church which hopes to launch in January. In his message, entitled Inside Out, he spoke about the more time that we spend with God the greater that our transformation from Inside Out becomes. You can check out his message here.

In our early stages of parenthood, Crissy and I was introduced to colic. Let me start by saying there are some people in this world that I have not cared forREAD MORE

Sunday's Rest

Sundays are meant for rest right. That is what a lot of people have been expressing to me lately. God even said it right? Not exactly. . . if you go by the Pagan calendar that we have adopted which somehow makes Sunday the last day of the week or a day seven but in fact on most calendars it is the first day. . . God did say that on the seventh day he rested and that the Sabbath is meant for rest. Let’s skip all the theological seminars, speeches, discussions, or debates for just a minute and letREAD MORE

To My Wife

Dear Crissy,

I sit here today on my blog and think back to three years ago to the most memorable day that I will ever know. With 200+ of our closest friends and family gathered around outside on a side porch of a house in Lenoir City, TN, I took grasp of the greatest blessing God has given me and made you my wife. A couple years before that I would never have imagined we would be sharing those moments on that porch, especially in high school when you shot me down several times. Glad you came around! Today, as weREAD MORE

The Cost of A Son

Tim and Cara were high school sweethearts. They were each others first kiss, first significant other, first love. They even grew up right down the street from each other where they would form a bond that everyone thought was inseparable. After high school they remained close and knew that they were the most important people in each others lives. Tim had always wanted this relationship to work ever since he knew Cara existed. After their college years, some bad news had hit Tim and Cara. While planning on extending their family, they would find out that it would only beREAD MORE

There Is Always Something

I sit here and write this post, not with a burdened heart but a joyous one. I have been absolutely blessed to be part of the creative team at OneLife Church as we plan out series and discuss the direction, how it looks, what it feels like, and all the elements that need to take place. We went into this current series with the word written at the top of the whiteboard “FUN”. We wanted to create a series that would be fun, exciting, but Pastor Rodney Arnold also wanted show people God’s Word and how it can be applicableREAD MORE

Should Anyone Be Unacceptable?

Oh my blog, how I have missed thee… I have had many things to write about and even more on my mind but the hectic schedule of life has taken over and pushed me away from my ever-so-loved keyboard lately. As OneLife Church wrapped up an incredible series called Healer, I am glad to share that some mutual friends of my family attended the last two weeks. I have written a few posts here and there but have yet to publish them due to the fact that they shouldn’t be published. They were driven by anger, disgust, or frustration andREAD MORE

Passion IT

It is always tough for me when meeting someone new to ask them, “What do you do?” Mostly to the selfish fact that I don’t want to open a conversation with someone (apparently that I just met since I don’t know what they do) and them begin complaining. I don’t like giving that first impression nor do I like receiving it. So I stole this idea from a good friend. He asks, “What are you passionate about?” What a great question! What a great conversation starter! So, friend, I am now adopting your saying and will begin to use thisREAD MORE