Statue of Responsibility…the project
April 30, 2008
You can get a look at this great project on YouTube.
Cerocahui, Copper Canyon, Mexico
April 19, 2008
Last Last week I visited this incredible place…beyond belief. Our hosts were Albert and Francia Lopez. They have built several new little cabanas and they are very nice, clean, and with a mountain view.
The town is close to Copper Canyon…the views are breathtaking.
In the village is a 17th century cathedral.
For info on the fantastic journey on CHEPE across Copper Canyon, including this cool little town, contact me at 217.369.9897, or go to Mexico Outback Ltd.
Alleys in Chicago…wow!
April 1, 2008I am fascinated by these great alleys in CXhigago and am looking for a guide or a forum.
Here are some articles a a huge video that I will place on davehensleigh.tumblr
video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBOH91h_Rfw
Whoa…I got a comment!!!
April 1, 2008http://rocktheworldforchrist.blogspot.com/
Attention blogworld! I recieved a comment for the very first time from someone I don’t know…a real live comment from “out there” and it was an actual comment about something I blogged.
This is huge people!
So…go out there to rocktheworldforchrist and let them know they changed the life of a really awesome blogger out here in Central Illionois.
What happens when you eat too much…
March 30, 2008Christians have always gravitated toward “snacking” often on the bible but never really digesting and using this great truth. The result is a spiritual flabbbynesss and lives that are no different than those of the “missing”.
So we spend our “Christian lives” looking for good teaching that we can connect with, and the next best Bible study, but we seldom connect with that one thing that God wants to revolutioize in my life right now.
Then the pattern is to lay around in the Christian ghetto and do the church thing and just live our lives out going from one opinion to another.
The church is plagued with the same kind of obesity that society is. We are focused on consumption rather than nutrition, health and purpose.
Warrior
March 28, 2008LifeChurch is in the second week of this huge series focused at men. I see so many men just dissengaged…a waste. Ironically they are typically swamped with problems. This quote which showed up on my wife’s whiteboard fits:
“Those who help plan the battle don’t battle the plan.”
Twenty years from now…
March 26, 2008This Mark Twain quote was in a recent Vine Lines article by Jim McArdle.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the tradewinds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.”
I, like Jimmie, find this quote particularly incisive to my situation right now.
Next week I am off to Mexico and Copper Canyon.
Then we move who knows where.
Then off to the Sangres all summer.
“reJesus” the Church
March 17, 2008
My son Luke sent this poem to me from a friend, Nathan Brown.
My exact sentiments…
Verb PlayWhen I’m forced to spend time around zealous minister types, I keep hearing the necessity of reaching out to the “unchurched.” The obvious implication being: we need to “church” the “unchurched.”
Now, this particular verbish usage of the word “unchurch” does not appear in my fairly large dictionary. What I do see is the transitive verb that means excommunicate. This definition is clearer to me. And it helps me organize my response:
Dear friends, our deepest need is not to “church” the “unchurched,” but to “dechurch” the “enchurched” — that is to say, the excessively “churched.”
God Save Me from Your Followers
has ceased to be a humorous bumper sticker. It is now a genuine fear for many of the “unchurched” to which you refer.
And as we look for solutions, a good place to start would be to “depolitic” “enchurched” leaders. But, in the end, [and while we're in the practice of verbing up nouns] nothing — and I reiterate — nothing supercedes the desperate need for Christians to “reJesus” the church.
Nathan Brown nub@ou.edu
Never/Always quit
March 4, 2008
“Pain is temporary - it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.
That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me, so when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?
Facing up to that question, and finding a way to go on, is the real reward, better than any trophy.”
–Lance Armstrong
The Best Oscars Ever!
March 2, 2008
What the vast majority of people consume is what the vast majority of people want…and its boring. What makes the world beautiful and captivating is rarely noticed by most.
This year’s films were the best for a long time. Yet I don’t know how many people complaining about the lack of a big blockbuster.
I prefer art over glitz.
