THE SCENE: Proper TN gloom. 70s and sticky.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- SSHs
- Tempo Squats
- Little baby arm circles
- Tempo merkins
- Mountain climbers
- Hairy Rockettes
- Moroccan nightclubs
- Projectivators
THA-THANG:
The Thang – To Mordor
First, three sets of elevensies
- Parallel Bar
- Iron Mikes
- Inverse Rows
- Pool wall
- Wall ups
- Deep squats
- Peace Bell
- Carolina Dry Docks
- Pistol Squats
- Death March toward K-25, the long way around
- K-25 Hill – Mucho Hillo
- Mucho Chesto but with a hill sprint between each set of 25
- Merkins
- Wide Merkins
- Diamond Merkins
- Stagger merkins, each side
MARY:
Erector got us one set of freddies before time was up
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What kind of hero do you aspire to be?
We find a wide array of hero types in our culture. For most of my life, my favorite kind of hero was the highly masculine bad ass. He has the luxury of knowing who the bad guys are and possessing the wherewithal to give em a proper beat down. In terms of personality, they run the gamut from stoic, to clever, to goofy. Basically every super hero falls into this category. And it’s the kind of hero I think we all want to be. Power ranger, He-man, Beowulf, Superman. But these guys rarely show up in history books. The only one that came to my mind was Alvin C. York.
Another type of popular hero is still masculine but faces an enemy or task that is clearly beyond his ability to conquer. These make many appearances in history books. Firefighters climbing the WTC while it collapses, passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hi-jackers, military men memorialized with a medal of honor who charged machine gun nests, jumped on grenades, or drove their ship to the brink. We read a story like this each month in the F3 Knoxville newsletter.
These two types of heroes can be found in cultures from all over the earth and throughout history. In Christian tradition there is a third type, which can only be recognized as a hero if you hold a Christian world view. These heroes oppose bad guys by choosing to live differently, openly defying the evil they see in the world, but seeking the good of all people, including, or perhaps especially, their enemies. It is passive and submissive on the exterior, but subversive and compelling to see and experience. This type of hero is forming throughout the old testament, leading up to the single culminating event of all history, Calvary. This type of heroism is also described in Revelation 13:5-10.
5The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. 9Whoever has ears, let them hear.
10“If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword they will be killed.”
This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.
MOLESKIN:
Erector was our Frodo today, making it to the top of Mount Doom.
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