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Category: JUCO

Baptism – Not Rinse & Repeat!

THE SCENE: It’s a Pool Boy Q so it was supposed to rain… and then it did just enough at the end. Good times.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:
Jog from curb at top of parking lot where the #ShovelFlag is to the next parking spot down and then increase speed back – percentages listed below but we didn’t push it too much with the wet ground:
-40-50-60-70-80-90 (3x down and back total)
-Tennessee Rocking Chair x 7 IC
-Hand release Merkin x 5 OYO
-Overhead clap x 10 IC
-Imperial Squat Walker x 10 IC
-Imperial Rockette x 10 IC
-Pickle Pounder x 10 IC
-Pickle Pointer x 10 IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the guardrail overlooking the #ShovelFlag

At the Guard Rail x 2, reach for the sky and let it hang when done
20 x Dips, Overhead clap ±rocks in hand, Squats

Mosey to the Sherwin Williams building corner closest to JUCOmanjaro
4 Corners #1
20 x Flutter Kicks (4-ct), Burpees, Imperial Squat Walkers, 30 sec Plank then back for the 6 and do the rest of 4-corners with the 6.
Reach for the sky, let it hang 1-2x and then repeat 4 Corners #1
Commission did a 15-count.

Mosey over to the other businesses.

4 Corners #2
Heels to Heaven, Merkins, Imperial Rockettes, 30 sec of Lunges then back for the 6 and do the rest of 4-corners with the 6.
Reach for the sky, let it hang 1-2x and then repeat 4 Corners #2

Mosey back to the guardrail overlooking the #ShovelFlag
Repeat reach for the sky and let it hang when done
20 x Dips, Overhead clap ±rocks in hand, Squats
x2 of course.

Mosey back to the #ShovelFlag

MARY:
10 x BBS, Gas Pump, LBC, Dolly, Box Cutter
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX (7 beatdown + 4 rushers)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

So no matter how far down the road we’ve gone God is faithful to discipline – and I do mean discipline and not punish His children. We can fight and kick and scream but He will bring us back. As many of you know that’s what happened to me over 2 years ago and this Sunday I will be baptized – and for a second time.

This can be controversial to talk about even among Christians, but I think it’s good we can have Christ-honoring and respectful conversations about it.

Baptism signifies we are following in obedience to Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 28:19-20. Baptism is for the symbolic washing of regeneration of sins. There may be some here who disagree but I think the Bible makes it clear. That is not the main point of today though I do believe it is critical to make because of the salvific implications of those who believe in baptismal regeneration (which I believe the Bible does not teach). That is another conversation and I’d be glad to talk to you about it – but here are 3 things about baptism for you to consider today:

1. If you have been baptized, revel in what God did to bring you to the point of salvation. See how Jesus pursued you, disciplined you, and brought you who were far off to be near. Look at the sin you have committed against a holy God and how He was so gracious and merciful to pursue you, His bride to be, to the ends of the earth:

Ephesians 2:13 – But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

2. If you have not yet been baptized, why not? Most likely there is sin of which you need to repent of. It was for me. I am still in need of repenting daily. Do what so many have done. And if you’re questioning this, just remember it is the person says he is without sin who likely has the most (plank/speck).

Acts 2:38 – And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

3. If you are planning on being baptized (like me this Sunday), do not delay without a godly cause (and talking it over with your pastors).

My story (this is an ongoing story from previous posts):
For me, it was a strange time after I believe I was actually saved to not be baptized a second time for the past 2 years. I had led a life of decades-long unrepentant sin. I was a dead tree. God made me alive but I was not quick to seek to be baptized (especially without having reconciliation from many around me who had very justifiable reasons for great skepticism about my repentance). Then a worldwide pandemic hit about the time I was going to take a class and I took the first baptism class (part of the process at my church).

Romans 6:1-4
6 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

So today join me by repenting and being baptized. Every one of you for the forgiveness of sins.

MOLESKIN:
Prayed for Data’s friend about his job change, Dart Gun’s adoption of the little girl his family has been caring for, and Commission’s family as his grandfather Todd passed away recently.

Also today was my First Q in 3 months.Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill coming up October 2nd! See Wanderer’s post in #juco on Slack for more info or reach out to Tank with any questions.

CMU Ladder

THE SCENE: Nondescript. Not hot, not cold.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10x Abe Vigoda, 7x Cherry Pickers…Let’s mosey!
THA-THANG:
Mosey towards CMU pile stopping for 5 burpees OYO at two different spots.

Grab yourself a coupon and head to the start line to the west of the maintenance building.

CMU Ladder:

  1. 10 x CMU Thrusters
  2. 20 x CMU Swings
  3. 30 x CMU Tricep
  4. 40 x CMU Curls

Run to Cones:

  1. 10 x BBS
  2. 20 x HTH
  3. 30 x LBC
  4. 40 x Flutter Kicks

Start round 1 with both 1’s above, on round 2 do both 1 & 2 above, and so on.

After completing the CMU work, run to the cones (spaced about 50 yards apart) and complete the work.

Round 1 = 1&1; Round 2 = 1,2&1,2; Round 3 = 1,2,3&1,2,3; Round 4 = 1,2,3,4&1,2,3,4

Clear as mud.

Finished up the ladder work and moseyed over to the big parking lot for a taste of the Kraken.

8 Cones in a circle around the light pole. Start at any cone and perform the prescribed exercise until the timer PAX finished the 3 burpees (5 burpees on round 2).

Exercises were Burpees, Squats, Diamond Merkins, Monkey Humpers, X Factors, BBS, HRR Merkins, LBC

Made it two rounds through the Kraken.

Mosey back to the shovel flag for a bit of Mary.

MARY:
Flutter Kicks and Freddies
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 men got after it.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about Galatians ch. 2 when Peter was rebuked by Paul for not following his own teachings regarding accepting the Gentiles as they were. Talked about not forcing others to fit into a box that we have created with no basis. Make sure that you are practicing what you preach.
MOLESKIN:
IPC is in session, and it hurts.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is coming up. I need help preparing the obstacles and we need to fill out the JUCO team.

Measured at Average

THE SCENE:   66 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Skipped
WARM-O-RAMA:

OYO while the workout is explained

THA THANG:

IPC Week 2: Four rounds for time

Round 1: (8 burpees + sprint) x 11

Round 2: (8 squrls + CMU carry) x 11

Round 3: (88 shoulder presses + rifle carry) repeat

Round 4: (88 x-factors + bear crawl) + (88 x-factors + crawl bear)

MARY:

Nope

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

9 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

This morning, the JUCO flag was planted at 863 feet above sea level.  As we stood there, I asked…

“Do you ever fantasize about doing something exceptional and heroic?”  I do.  If only I had the chance, I would…rescue my kid as they are getting pulled out to sea by a riptide…I’d whip the pants off of some goon who’s broken into my home in the middle of the night…I’d grab the arm of an old woman just before she’s clobbered by a greyhound bus… If I ever get the chance, I could be great.

“Do you ever worry that your life and legacy will be defined by the stupidest thing(s) you’ve done?”  I do.  I didn’t mean to yell at the kids… I never thought I’d do… What a mistake it was to…

but…

“It is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured.” – James Garfield

Mt. Everest (29,032’), Clingmans Dome (6,644’), and the JUCO parking lot (863’) are each measured from the sea at its average – not from the massive crest of a wave in a storm – nor by the lowest trough between two waves.  Like the sea, I believe that your life is better measured not by the exceptional, but by the typical.  Your best chance at living a life of high-impact is not to wait for your heroic moment (which, in all likelihood will never come) – but to concentrate on living TODAY as a high-impact man.

Today, be an encourager to the people you are around.

Today, live with integrity in everything you do.

Today, be generous with your time and resources.

Today, be patient and slow to anger.

Today, be faithful to your wife with your thoughts and your eyes.

Today, show resolve in the face of your challenges.

Today, be kind to those whom you love as well as those who have wronged you.

 

Today, you can be that great man that we would all love to be and to know. 

Do it again tomorrow and all the tomorrows after that – and you’ll be well on your way to being a HIM.

 

MOLESKIN:

You want to know the crazy story behind that James Garfield quote?

We pick up the tale at the 1880 Republican National Convention.  There are a series of presidential nominees being presented for Convention’s selection.  It is a long and boring ceremony…until the flamboyant New York Congressman, Roscoe Conklin, gets up and gives a rousing speech nominating none other than the Civil War Hero, Ulysses S. Grant.  The crowd goes nuts.  The convention is in pandemonium.

How would you like to be the follow-up act to that?  The very next speaker is the relatively unknown congressman, James Garfield – he’s there to present the nomination of his fellow Congressman from Ohio, John Sherman.  When he gets up, the crowd is still chanting, “Grant, Grant, Grant!”.

He tosses aside his prepared speech and begins with a word of praise for Grant.  Then he says this –

“…as I sat in my seat and witnessed this demonstration, this assemblage seemed to me a human ocean in tempest. I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured.”  He is comparing the crowd to the raging ocean – but noted that all heights on the earth are measured from the level sea.  It was his plea to decide on a nominee based on logic, not passion.

Know what happened?  The crowd was so impressed that the Convention ended up nominating…James Garfield.  Against his will!  He passionately appealed to them NOT to nominate him – and through each of the primaries, kept casting his own vote for John Sherman.  Ha!  The general election was held, and Garfield won the presidency – the whole time objecting to his own candidacy.  To my knowledge, he is only one of two men who were given the presidency against their own expressed desire —- the other being who, BB reader?  (I bet WaxJob knows…)

Garfield was brilliant and tremendously credentialed.  After the end of the civil war, our nation needed a leader for the ages.  Had he not been shot a mere 100 days into his presidency; he very well may have gone down in history as one of our nation’s greatest leaders.  This Sunday marks 120 years from the premature death of one of our nation’s might-have-been-greatest presidents.

Favorite Things and Horrible Jokes

THE SCENE: 67 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Newtons Cradle, Tempo Squats, Maracan Night Club, Mountain climbers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the base of jucamajaro, with a stop at the guardrail for some dips.

At every other line we did an exercise till the 6 was up and then did a few more.  Ran 2 lines, repeat.  Merkins, downhill merkins, Squats, LBC’s, downhill bbs, lots of abs on the way down.  This is where the jokes started and it was all downhill from there.

Dirkins on the guardrail, some SSH and other things till be bernie’d up the hill to the pull up bars.  3 pull ups, then we had to get some steps to make the middle bar closer.  1 CMU rifle carry, 2nd time Curls.  2 bricks was enough for the Q to reach the high bar, double carry down.  Indian run back with the line bernie and the back running to the front.  Jokes got so bad we did some Burpies and a ring of fire.

MARY:
LBC, Hello Dolly’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIM, half Rush, half not

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.  Romans 12:9-13

This passage made me think of the story I heard recently.  With all the horror of Afghanistan the story of one TN marine who was not slothful in zeal but was fervent in spirit and served the Lord by serving his dear brother, his interpreter from his time in Afghanistan.  His love, being genuine, flowed naturally to giving to the needs of others and showing hospitality.

Challenge 1: Read https://mydearbrother.org/ and as the Lord leads consider giving https://www.gofundme.com/f/my-friend-my-interpreter

Challenge: Memorize the above passage.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC on Friday!  Keep on pushing it.

Fill up the calendar or you’ll have more poorly planned Q’s that go from Jucomajaro to the pull up bars with jokes that make it feel twice as long.

Labor Pains

THE SCENE: Nice
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
4 Corners – 5,10,15,20 (Merkins, Squats, Mountain Climbers, SSH)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Big Parking Lot.  Perform 50 reps of the indicated exercise, Run 100 yrds, Bear Crawl 15 yrds, Run back to Start.  Repeat with next exercise.  (Exercises: Merkins, Squats, Flutters)

Mosey over to courtyard.  One Partner performs Step-ups on the wall while other Partner Runs the Oval and performs exercises at cones (Cone 1-20 Merkins, Cone 2-20 Squats, Cone 3-20 Flutters). Each Partner did 2 rounds.

MARY:
Various forms of the Plank for 3-4 minutes without rest.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong, including 1 FNG

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Until a person trusts Christ their worldview is fragmented and warped.  Christ is the only way to a renewed mind. When you know God in Christ you see God for who He is, yourself for who you are, and the world for what it really is.  Knowledge of ultimate truth begins with Christ.” – Grant Castleberry, former Marine and now Pastor

MOLESKIN:
Great Coffeeteria after.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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