THE SCENE: Dry-ish, 60°
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hops, Cherry Pickers, Maracan Night Clubs, Kick Throughs, Windmills, Mountain Climbers
THA-THANG:
Two Teams of 4 followed a map to locations with prescribed exercises at each spot. Counts are per man. If you finished early you help the guys still working so you stay as a team.
- 20 dips & 10 right leg squats & 10 left leg squats
- Merkin city 10 wide 10 regular 10 canyon
- 15 leg raises & 30 smurf jax
- 10x Loading dock jump ups & run down Ramp, 2 Donkey Kick
- 20 4ct Flutter kicks & 10 kick throughs
- 10 (or amrap) Pull ups & 10 (or Amrap) hanging Heels to heaven
- CMU: 20 Overhead Press, 20 Tricep & 20 Curls
The catch: It’s hide and go seek style. If the other team sees you they start a count down from 5 on the walkie Talkie. If you are still visible at the point they get to 0, 5 burpees for the team. Good time had by all.
I wanted to see someone dive into a bush but no such luck. Thanks to the guys who got into it and hid behind trees (even if they were only 3″ in diameter) It was good for a laugh.
MARY:
A little bit of time for some BBS and heels to heaven while we waited for the rushers.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve been reading Judges and there are a lot of “great” men. By worldly standards that is and some trying really hard to be godly men. But there is a noticeable lack of great fathers. Even the good judges didn’t have kids that followed in their ways.
One of these men was a non PG story. Who is the strong man of the Bible? Long hair?God used him; even his sinful and stubborn and perverted ways, but his life wasn’t the life we would want for our sons.Outside of having rather silly riddles and a bent toward violence, his wife was given to a different man after his wedding feast. Frequented prostitutes. Eyes gouged out. Years in prison. Died in a suicidal building collapse.
Yet, God used him. We’ll never know how God would have used him had his Parents told him no. If he had learned to control his desires. But instead we see the young Samson say of a Philistine woman to his dad: “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
We as fathers need to tell our kids no. Tell them to curb their appetite for what they feel they need so they can learn to win over the desires of this world, over sexual desire, over selfishness. It’s not easy. Laying aside His own interests for the interests of others is what we celebrate this weekend – Jesus did that perfectly.
If we get out here and get as strong as Samson and not figure out how to be a good father – we will have missed the mark. Being a good father is about daily caring about the spiritual development of your kids. That’s going to look very different for each kid, but be praying for your kids, talking with them about spiritual things and having the hard conversations. Don’t avoid the uncomfortable conversation or hard consequences win out over spiritual growth of your kids. I don’t have it all figured out- I’m talking to myself as much as anyone, but I’d love to talk it out over coffee or on a run.
And here is a tip – you can’t do it on your own strength. Ask the Holy Spirit, in the power of Jesus’ name to guide you in your parenting.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Family friendly workout at the Project Saturday, 7am.
Plan for the CSAUP May 7 9pm-12am. If you enjoyed this mornings workout, that will be 10x better.