Pool Boy’s 3rd Annual Black Friday JUCO Discount Coupon Special

THE SCENE:
Deals for days! After we enjoyed a day of thanks we had just enough PAX to have the right amount of gloom as getting up and going shopping on Black Friday should be! (Actual weather: ~38°F and although it rained yesterday evening we were pretty dry.)

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER (Administered):
I’m not a professional Pool Boy or anything else. Know your injuries especially after Thanksgiving Day being yesterday.

WARM-O-RAMA:
5 each leg x El Capitan OYO
10 x OHC IC
5 x Werewolf OYO
10 x Tempo Squat IC
7 x Tennessee Rocking Chair IC
5 x Decline Pushup on Curb IC
15 x Calf raises on the curb IC (5 left leg only, 5 right leg only, 5 both legs)

THA-THANG:
Single Coupon – Grab a Coupon from the back of my car and start a Falling Indian Run – the PAX at the front of the line counts to 5 and then “falls off” and does a either Goblet Squats, Thrusters, or Blockees until the 6 passes him and then falls in. We stopped about halfway and did some core and then did a mosey the rest of the way (this was harder than YHC remembered)

TODAY’S SALE IS A REPEAT FROM 2019: Everything is $9.99!

9 hard reps	99 “easy” reps	Mary until done
Werewolves w/ or w/o a block	Calf raises	Boat-Canoe 3 sec rotate, 5 each followed by a 10 count break then repeat Boat-Canoe
Blockees / Burpees	1/4 pushups	Flutter kick
CMU Lunge	1/4 squats	BBS
Wall pull-ups / hangs (no block)	Wall jumps	LBCs

Next Up: AMRAP Dora with Unlimited COUPONS! (semi-repeat from 2019)

AMRAP DORA for time with core after each round (2019 we did this where we rotated through the exercises with a person in between, but this time we’re just having the partner run to the concrete pad just past the dumpster because the exercises are meant to be quite heavy.

First round:
Curls
Thrusters
Rows
OHP
CORE @end after timer, 30-count rest:

Second round:
Swings
Goblet Squats
Tricep Extensions
Piston (Hodor if Ribbed had showed up)
CORE @end after timer, 30-count rest:

Put up Coupons. Mosey back. Stop at overhang, dip a bit.
Mosey back to the AO with no time for Mary.

MARY:
Ain’t nobody got time for that!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
4 PAX who got major discounts!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The origin of the word “holiday” actually comes from a concatenation of the words “holy day”.
What is the focus during the American / Western Civ. season between the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas? The reason I like to call this “Black Friday: Discount Coupon Special” is that it’s so easy to miss what we’re supposed to be Thankful for (Christ’s redemption of us for His glory by His perfect sacrifice on the cross and subsequent resurrection from the grave) and what we are celebrating at Christmas (the miracle of God condescending by becoming a man and one in in every way like us, yet without sin).

With this knowledge, what ought we to do? 3 things we’ll take this Advent Season from a passage you probably didn’t think I’d talk about to start the Christmas season with:

Romans 8:12-17 – 12 So then, brothers,[e] we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons[f] of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Refocusing our gaze on Christ in the busyness and stress of all that is going on in our world is EXACTLY what our souls need.

1. v.12-13 We have debt – but not to the flesh but to the Spirit who called us to Christ. This is the Gift of Christmas.

When you give that gift to your friend, to your wife, to your son or daughter – you give out of what God has given you – and you and we have the opportunity to acknowledge that it’s not in us but all from Jesus

2. v.14-15 We have the Spirit of God that confirms us as children of God.

Anyone who has or has seen a young boy (say under 10) cry out to his father knows that Jesus said “¹¹If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:11). We know that this is true, but we can appropriate this for ourselves because of the solid foundation with this promise from God. This is another gift from God.

3. v.16-17 Because we have the Spirit, we are co-heirs with Christ and have the privilege to suffer with Christ.

This may not seem like the greatest thing, but that is the beauty of what Christ did for us. He suffered outside the camp for us so that we can be made like Him. His substitutionary death for us on the cross to redeem us allows us to say with the apostles in Acts 5:41 Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

So, as you go through Advent, see what debt you have (to the Spirit). Remember that you are a child of God who gives you the gift of Salvation, which is eternity with Him. And remember that we can rejoice when suffer because that is what Jesus did for us and it puts us in the best company and place. And that gift is, ironically, the best place for us because it identifies us with Christ.

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot

MOLESKIN:
Prayed for Data & his marriage – we are rooting for peace and love for you and your M, sir!
I’m still looking for a house to buy so could use some prayer there as well.
Also a BIG SHOUTOUT to Baby Boomer who drove past Shamrock to join us this morning. It was a pleasure and the 2nd-f at our coffeeteria at Dunkin was great.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Christmas Party December 11th at Judge Judy’s abode, 5-7pm. See #annual-christmas-party in Slack for more info and to sign up to bring something for Hot Providence.