THE SCENE: 70deg, dense fog, beautiful dark gloom
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5 HIMs on Rush Speed work, 16 HIMs on the beatdown below.
WARM-O-RAMA:
Hill Billy Squats, Reach for the sky, Butt kicks, Cherry Pickers, Newton’s Craddle with Merkin, Bonnie Blair, Mountain Climbers, Freddy Mercury
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the closest guardrail (some not surprised by this).
- 20 Derkins
- 20 Tricep dips
- 20 Small Rock Overhead claps
Cross the street to our favorite little hill: Jucomajaro
Every 100 feet a new Exercise chalked out. HIMs had to choose one time to crawl bear, bear crawl, crab walk and bernie, rest were mosey between.
20 of each:
- Newton Cradle with Merkin
- Burpees
- Mountain climbers
- Bonnie Blair
- BBS
- V ups
- LBC
- Side crunch L
- Side crunch R
- Downhill Merkin
- Uphill Merkin
- Diamond Merkin
Mosey to the summit and hit the stations again on the way back down. 6 swept with the group finishing in time to mosey to the flag.
MARY:
Dealers choice: Flutter kicks, mountain climbers, American Hammers, planks
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
You all are impressive. You do the hard things out here really well.
The verse I want to look at today: Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. James 5:16
An area of the Christian life we don’t spend much time talking about is confession of our sins. Out here it is deep and hard and uncomfortable. Maybe it’s because of that or maybe it’s the complicated dynamics of southern hell fire and damnation preaching style or a catholic image of telling some sins to a priest in an ornate wooden box.
But we are called to do it. It’s in the Lord’s prayer and all throughout the Psalms
I see 4 types of confession and all are important to all the time:
- High School level confession: coming clean on blatant sin; probably having to do with actions – Maybe outbursts of anger, or the way you drive or sexual sin.
God is faithful to forgive. Jesus conquered sin and death. Rest in that! Praise God for that! - College level confession: gets to the pride and heart and emotion and ways we have broken His Law privately and in our thoughts and desires
- Masters level confession: searching your heart for sins of omission and small ways we have turned our back to God and hurt Him and others
- Doctorate level confession: is seeing that even in our good deeds with less than 100% pure motives are filthily rags to God. God hates hypocrisy and says in Isaiah 64:6
We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
Even if I’m doing the right thing for my wife and kids but my heart is doing it so my life is easier or people think higher of me or whatever the reason, that can be sinful and we need to confess that.
Or take leading a Q. I encourage you all to sign up for a Q soon. But if it is so you think more of me or I get to boss you all around for 45 min, That’s sin I need to confess. This week I checked my motives and confess they were not 100% pure but God rooted much of that out.
Are our motives ever perfectly pure – not this side of heaven, but are they increasingly motivated by the Holy Spirit and from a place of love? Be growing in that. Do the hard work of examining your heart. Pray God will show you the truth.
Don’t take this college level analogy too far – it falls way short – we must practice all levels of confession no matter how long we have been walking with Christ. We must all get double doctorates in rooting out the sin in our hearts
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
James 5:16 (ESV)
It is a call to holiness, It isn’t some magic word; but it is a part of the walk of a follower of Jesus
Spend some time with the Lord confessing your sin. If you want to knock the power of sin out – confess your sins to a brother.
As HIMs we need to be willing to humbly confess sin.
MOLESKIN:
Prayer for Wander’s son’s upcoming surgery and pain – praise for Pool Boy’s friend Sam who continues to recover
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I like how you started in high school. We ALL should go through at least high school, right? Those are things that every guy should know and then you brought it back home keeping humility in mind that (this next part you didn’t say but here’s where I think Scripture speaks to what you said) we should be teachers and there is a sense that we leave the “elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity” (Hebrews 6:1) because many of us should be teachers (Hebrews 5:11-13), but also that we need to continue to go back to the Gospel (Romans 1:16-17), our first love (Revelation 2:2-7), and keep confessing (James 5:16).
I’ve also been thinking about confession a good bit recently and appreciated hearing another man walking that out in his life. Thankful for your word and example, Guardrail!