For three weeks I've had a cornucopia of nasty viruses. First, the Flu..then...well...diarrhea...sorry. Then, 
Uvulitis for several days. Lost my voice...then I picked up a cold. Sinus issues. Okay, normally I don't get sick...but it's all happening at once.
So, Rachel got a Neti Pot to treat her sinus issues. I decided to try it. Here's the video...sorry for the faint of heart.
November 10, 2008
7:30pm - Rachel runs to Subway while I'm giving Ezra a bath and getting him ready for bed.
8:00pm - Rachel's contractions are about 15 mins apart, we start watching Heroes.
8:30pm - Rachel's contractions go to 5 mins apart for about an hour...PAIN ONSET!!!
9:30pm - Car is loaded and house is ready but Rach is in too much pain to move...
9:40pm - Helping Rachel to car...car is running in the street, Rachel screaming, I'm waiting on friend to arrive to stay with sleeping toddler in the house....TENSE!!!!
9:45pm - Friend arrives, and we flee towards the hospital...running red lights, passing cars while honking and flying down the road!
9:50pm - Arrive at hospital, frantically try to convince ER staff that baby is IMMINENT!!
9:53pm - Rachel is lifted out of car, Levi's head is almost out!
9:55pm - Arrive in hospital room, nurses everywhere, no Dr. in sight! PUSH RACH PUSH!!!
10:01pm - Levi Olen Henslee arrives!
16 minutes after we left our house Levi was born! Rach's water broke in the car and she was in INTENSE PAIN! I was freaking out! Had we not lived so close to the hospital, yours truly would have delivered his second child in the car on the side of the road! God is Good!
Thank you friends and family who have given encouragment and love. We're excited about this little guy....he was ready to come OUT!!!
Photo Gallery of Day 1
Here are a few shots of Ezra on Halloween this year. In case you can't tell, he's a monkey.
Today the band met for our LifeGroup time in the Green Room. One of the things that we discussed was the fact that we get to be an active part of what God does each and every week at the Tulsa campus of LifeChurch.tv. This week, 54 people indicated that they were accepting Jesus into their hearts, forever to be changed!
I love being a part of life change. I love it when it's the first eternal step, and when it's just one more step in the salvation process (sanctification.)
So, to have my full-time job be at a place where I love what I do and people get radically changed forever is pretty freakin awesome!
What about you? How is God using you in your job/ministry?
For 6 1/2 years I've been leading worship at LifeChurch.tv in Tulsa. I normally don't get sick but maybe once or twice a year. I've always been able to avoid missing the weekend but this weekend was an exception. Out of almost 350 weekends leading worship at Life....the sick bug got me.
Fortunately for me, I've got a couple of guys that are rip, roarin, and ready to go. Chris Kizzia stepped up on Saturday night with two hours notice AFTER running the Tulsa Run (15k) in under 90minutes!!! Instead of saying no, and leavin a brother high and dry, he sacrificed and even learned Bennie and the Jets (our walk in song this week.)
That made me think...had I not had guys trained and ready at a moments notice, there would have been a small catastrophe on our campus. Not to say that it can't run without me (cause it did.)
So, who do you have trained and ready to go in your ministry in case the fever bug bites?
Every week during the message at the 10am experience, the band and I get together in the green room. We sit down and have a small group together. This is a great way for me as a Pastor to help get a pulse on what is going on with my band at home, spiritually, personally, etc...
We took a small break during the summer but have since started meeting and this time is very crucial (can't believe I took a break) for me to connect with the peeps in the band. Today we talked about obedience. In My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers, we looked at October 10th's reading.
The cool thing is that it talks about knowing God and being Holy through simple obedience, rather than knowledge or intellect. That is huge! I grew up trying to know God by amassing knowledge about Him, and then not really doing anything with it. It's one thing to be able to exegete a passage of scripture, it's completely different to actually obey what I know God's word says.
So, check out the reading (here) and let me know what you think.
Derrick
Normally I'm off to the Tulsa campus of LifeChurch.tv around noonish. This week I was pretty productive and got completely ready before the weekend so I could come in later and enjoy some of the OU vs. Texas game. Most of the time the games are in the afternoon or evening and I miss them completely. Boo.
Excited to see my Sooners open up a can on Texas!
Two contributing reasons for my productivity:
1. Justin Cowell, our Switch worship leader, has become autonomous with ProTools and didn't need my help at all this week! Score!
2. Aaron Swensen, our Lifegroups / Missions pastor (who sits right in front of me in the office) was at the Catalyst 08 conference.....just leaving it at that. (wink, wink Aaron.)
So there is a lot of church leaders from all over the country attending the annual Catalyst conference this year. For those of us who are not among the fortunate to go and hear from amazing leaders, hear awesome worship, and mingle with other believers doing ministry together...you can partake of Anne Jackson's Backstage blog. It's called Catalyst Backstage. (LINK)
Anne is streaming some live content and interviews and you can follow when the new content is up from her twitterfeed.
Check it out!
Yep, I came across this cookbook...and I must say I would never purchase it...because I would have to actually purchase the main ingredient.....testicles. I can think of a couple people that I've worked with that would find humor in this book.
I personally am a little grossed out by it...
So, have you ever had em?
