THE SCENE: Easy, breezy, beautiful
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
5 merkins
20 SSH, 4 ct
5 merkins
10 windmills, 4 ct
5 merkins
10 tempo squats
5 merkins
5 cherry pickers
22 merkins
THA-THANG:
Mosey around island
5 rounds of exercise, then a lap around the baseball field with 5 each merkins, BBS, and squats at each light pole (9 light poles = 45 reps per move per lap)
Exercises between laps – 22 reps each move:
- Squats, American Hammers (4 ct)
- Merkins, Flutter Kicks (4 ct)
- CDDs, Star Jacks
- Mountain Climbers (4 ct), Wide arm merkins
- Dive Bombers, Burpees
Fellowship mosey to basketball goal for 2 rounds of Gotcha (10 merkin buy-in, 10 merkin penalty when out)
Mosey back to AO
MARY:
1 minute Mary – 22 flutter kicks, 4 ct
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We went around the circle and named off something that caused us stress, anxiety, or to be scared in 2021. Most of us focused on our children, their safety, and how we’re doing as fathers and leaders. 2020 kicked off a 2 year cycle of stress, anxiety, fear, frustration, and anger. 2021, for most it seems, was even worse. We’ve heard nonstop garbage and noise about all the things we should be scared of. Covid, jobs, the economy, foreign governments, our own governments, non-citizens and citizens alike. It’s overwhelming the amount of fear that’s being preached by our leaders and news outlets.
I told myself for most of 2021 to ignore the garbage and shouting, to not be scared, to just keep on keeping on. It wasn’t until the last stretch that I realized that maybe they were on to something. Maybe they were right. Maybe I should be fearful. But they were, and still are, preaching the wrong kind of fear.
Paul tells us in Philippians 4:6, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” In Psalm 56:3-4 we find David saying, “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?”
Stress and anxiety have no place in our lives, gentlemen. It will not add anything to our lives. And we far too frequently find ourselves wallowing in the wrong kind of fear. There is one, and only one, thing we should fear. That is the Lord God Almighty. Our Creator, Provider, Healer, and Savior. Not as the world fears. Not as we fear punishment or harm. But a fear out of love, respect, admiration, and praise. A righteous fear.
Job 28:28 describes fear in this way, “And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'” Matthew 10:28 instructs us, “And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Let us live our lives with the right kind of fear, the Fear of the Lord. Let us give him all of our worldly fear, stress and anxiety to him. Let us lead our children, spouses, friends and neighbors with a righteous Fear and help spread the Gospel to this dark world that so desperately needs Him. Make 2022 the Year of Fear!
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