THE SCENE: Beautiful spring day, sunny, little breeze, low 70s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done adequately
WARM-O-RAMA:
Bolt 45s, Tempo Squats, Motivators, El Capitans, LBAC forward and backward, Grady Corns
THA-THANG:
MOSEY to bottom of Pickett’s…
Run PICKETT’S CHARGE, Bernie-ing the slopes and running on the flat parts.
Mosey to center of colosseum. Do Mucho Chesto, then Run to 12 o’clock position, do Aiken Legs. R&R.
Aiken Legs: 20 Squats, 20 Squat Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward)
MUCHO CHESTO: 10 x Merkin / 10 x Wide Merkin / 10 x Diamonds / 10 Stagger Merkin Left / 10 Stagger Merkin Right
Mosey to field below Overlook. Cones laid out in a rectangle pattern.
FIELD OF PAIN:
- Long side 1: Suicides
- Short Side 1: 10 merkins, Bear Crawl, 10 Merkins at opposite corner.
- Long side 2: Bernie to ½ way cone, 20 Iron Mikes (2-ct), 20 Bobby Hurleys. Run to next corner
- Short Side 2: El Capitan lunge , with 5 Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees at each cover.
Mosey about 1/2 way to road, then do 7s on small hill. Flutter Kicks and Bobby Hurleys.
MARY:
Flutter kicks and Homer/Marge
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 strong.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today’s Word is taken from John Chapter 11, which is a story that’s probably familiar to many of you, as it describes Jesus’ raising of Lazarus from the dead. It builds on Steam’s WORD about Expectations that he gave last week, which also referred to a passage that included the sisters Mary and Martha. In John Chapter 11, Jesus travels to Bethany to visit Mary and Martha after their brother Lazarus died. THREE TIMES the sisters ask “Why? Why did my brother have to die? If you had been there, he would still be alive.” Expectations. That question of “If I had mattered to you, this wouldn’t have happened” is a question I think we’ve all asked ourselves, and certainly for those friends and family of those killed in yet the latest mass shooting event just down the road in Nashville, that has affected some of our F3 brothers.
But I want to focus on one specific part of the passage in John 11. It contains the answer to a great Trivia Question When confronted with the reality of the situation, what did Jesus do? Jesus wept. Our God is deeply moved and troubled when his Children suffer, and when we grieve. We have a feeling and empathizing God.
Dr. William Sloane Coffin was a famous Presbyterian minister from Boston and Chaplain for Yale for a number of years, who lost his son in a car accident a few decades ago. He gave a sermon just 10 days later. (How does someone DO that??) Dr. Coffin had the same questions about his son’s death that we all would have, that Mary and Martha had. Where were you God? But he said in that sermon,.
He said, “For some reason, nothing so infuriates me as the incapacity of seemingly intelligent heads that God doesn’t go around this world with His finger on triggers, His fist around knives, His hands on steering wheels. the one thing no one should say to someone dealing with tragedy is “I know it was the will of God”. Never do we know enough to say it is the will of God. When my son died, my own consolation is that it is NOT the will of God that he died, it is that God’s Heart was the first of all of our hearts to break.” As he closed his sermon, he said “As the grief that once seemed unbearable now turns to bearable sorrow, The truths in Biblical passages are beginning to once again take hold. ‘In this world you shall have tribulations, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world; My light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Weeping may endure in the night, but joy cometh in the morning’. When my son beat me to the grave, it was not because God WILLED it. It was because for him, the Dawn had come.”
This is the key lesson of John. What God wills is Life out of Death. What did Jesus do in the presence of Mary and Martha when told the news about Lazarus? Jesus wept. This is the compassionate nature of God. God doesn’t just see from far away our pains and sorrows. He is WITH us in our sorrow.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for those who were affected by the Nashville school shooting earlier in the week. Prayers for Title 9 as he looks for other career opportunities.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
FORGE! growth week-end, end of September. Haw Ridge and Hardship Hill coming up!
