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Give 100% to God every hour or every day!

THE SCENE: 40 degrees and awesome!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side Straddle Hop (IC) X 15
  • Cherry Pickers (IC) 4 CT X 5
  • Baby Arm Circles Forward X 10 (IC) followed by Michael Phelps
  • Baby Arm Circles Backwards X 10 (IC) followed by Michael Phelps
  • Overhead Claps X 10 (IC)
  • Tempo Squats (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Tempo Merkins (IC) X 10
  • Mosey to the CMU pile
  • 15 Merkins & 15 BBS on the way

THA-THANG:

CMU & Around We Go

5 Exercises X 15 reps & then run the parking lot (rinse & repeat)

  • CMU Squats
  • CMU Overhead Press
  • CMU Tricep Extensions
  • CMU Curls
  • CMU Bentover Rows

3 Exercises X 30 (rinse & repeat)

  • CMU Pullovers
  • CMU American Hammers
  • CMU Bench Press
  • Curls on the walk to put up the coupons
  • Mosey to the Flag

MARY:

  • Flutterkicks X 20
  • LBCs X 25
  • Hello Dollies X 25
  • BBS X 15

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA – 18 men between Rush and the Bootcamp

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Acts 1:8 – “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

Matthew 28:19 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”

John 20:21 – “Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

2 Corinthians 5:20 – “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.”

Throughout the Bible, we are called to share the good news to the ends of the Earth.  I haven’t done that.  Sure, I’ve given my life to Christ, I’m a believer, I’ve chosen to serve in non-profits, I’ve attended church forever, I volunteer and I’ve even invited people to church but I now realize I haven’t done enough.  If I died today, I’d consider myself a failure in evangelizing to non-believers or those that aren’t on fire for God.  We all know lots of people that say they’re Christian and not bad people but they’re not on fire for God.

I can do more.  I have to do more if I’m going to follow the word to be a witness and make disciples.

I just finished a study series about evangelism and the speaker shared some advice…he said,

  • You’re not going to your kid’s ballgame…you’re going to share the good news and when you’re there, watch the ballgame
  • You’re not going to the grocery store…you’re going to disciple to others and when you’re doing that, go ahead and get groceries

The presenter also encouraged us to make lists of concentric circles of people that we need to intentionally visit with to learn more about their faith journey.  For example, one circle should be our family, another our friends, another our coworkers.  He challenged us…ME…to be intentional and seek opportunities to share.

Think about that…if 100% of what you did was for Christ how would that change your life or your actions or laying on the horn when someone cuts you off or won’t go.  This is pretty deep and I’ve doing a lot of soul-searching and I’m proud of how I live and serve most of the time but I’m not “all in” all of the time…I’m not actively seeking out non-believers or fair-weather Christians like I need to be.

So, I’m 50 years old and a little pissed off at myself for not listening to what I’ve heard through the years.  I’m a bit ticked off that I didn’t hear someone at 25 or 35 tell me to get my head out of my “you know what” and start living an abundant life by proudly sharing my faith with other.  I’m challenging you to not be like me and to start spreading the good news today and don’t wait until you’re an old man like me.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Sign Up To Q/VQ
  • Trunk or Treat this Saturday in parking lot across from JUCO
  • Coats for the Cold – bring them in every workout

Building Relationships

THE SCENE: warm and muggy…typical
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey toward the coupon pile. As the PAX begin to separate, do burpees until the 6 gets in and then to 5 burpees together. Repeat until arrival at the couple pile.

  • 20 OHPs run to top of stairs for 5 pull-ups
  • Back down the stairs for 20, 2 ct flutter kicks… repeat as follows
  • 20 merkins, 5 pull-ups, 20, 2 ct Freddie Mercury
  • 20 curls, 5 pull-ups, 20 big boys sit-ups

Mosey to Middle court yard.

Aiken legs – Done in succession with no rest — 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward).

Mosey back to the big parking lot for Blackjack. 1 LBC, run to the opposite side (short length) and do 20 merkins. Repeat with 2 LBCs and 19 merkins. Repeat all the way to 20 LBCs and 1 Merkin. Blackjack! We didn’t get all the way through, but got close to halfway.

MARY:
10 side crunches each side
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 including one runner.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What does it take to build a better, closer relationship? Time spent together. This works for our families (wife, kids, etc.), as well as with God. So, how do we spend time building that relationship? Same answer…spend time together. God has given us His word to study and learn and spend time in. God gave us the avenue of prayer to develop that relationship too. If we spend time reading God’s word and praying, we spend time with God. Reading the Bible gives us a close look at God’s relationship with mankind. We can’t know God’s will without spending time in His word. Prayer gives us the opportunity to open our heart to God even though He already knows what is on our heart. Prayer draws us closer to Him.

Think about the time and effort spent to grow closer to your spouse while you were dating. That is the level of effort we should apply to developing our relationship with God.
MOLESKIN:
Blackjack had YHC burned out quick! We’ll get through the whole thing next time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

4 corners

THE SCENE: 71 and foggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
0 burpee

5 cherry pickers

1 burpee

25 SSH

THA-THANG:
Mosey over to the largest parking lot and look at the 4 corners. Battle buddy up. 4 stations and each station have 3 exercises. You partner runs to the next corner and back while you do the 1st. then you run and come back and do the 2nd.

  • 1st station
    • Burpees
    • lunges
    • Welsh Dragons
  • 2nd station
    • V-Ups
    • Air Taps
    • BBS
  • 3rd station
    • mountain climbers
    • pickle pounders
    • monkey humpers
  • 4th station
    • CDD
    • hand release merkins
    • shoulder taps

MARY:
No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
off the chains event.

Dependence Through Prayer

THE SCENE: Humid and low 70s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers x 6, Frankenstein’s x 10 each leg, little baby arm circles forward/backward x 10, tempo merkins x 10, tempo squats x 10, 1 Alarm Clock.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Maple Street Parking Lot

  • Frog hop to the other side of the parking lot with 3 merkins after every hop.
  • Duck walk 2/3’s of the way back.

Mosey to Juconte

  • Workout at the bottom of the hill
    • 20 dips on the curb, 20 Carolina dry docks, 20 squat jacks
  • Run to the first light pole, 5 burpees, run back down and repeat the workout
  • Run to the second light pole, 5 burpees, run back down and repeat the workout
  • Run to the third light pole, 5 burpees, run back down and repeat the workout
  • Run to the top.

Mosey back to Maple Street Parking Lot and Partner Up

  • One partner jogs while the other partner lays on the ground, counts to 5, jumps up and sprints down his partner, then do 10 BBS together. Switch and repeat.

Mosey back to the flag.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The word was the Lord’s prayer from Matthew 6:9-13. I sometimes struggle with prayer, making time to pray, maybe it gets monotonous at times or I don’t know what to say. I sometimes even struggle with what prayer does or how it works. But whenever I’m struggling with it, I use the Lord’s prayer as a basis for how to pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name – we lift the Lord up, we want His name to be made famous, to be glorified.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven – We want to see His kingdom here on earth. We want His will to be done in our lives and in our world.

Give us this day our daily bread – We depend on Him for everything, even the simplest of things in food, we are dependent on Him.

Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors – We need the Lord’s forgiveness. We are forgiven and justified, but we still sin and we still need the Lord’s daily forgiveness in our lives. And then we take that forgiveness and we forgive others, we are gracious and merciful to others.

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil – We need His help in everything, in turning from evil and towards Him, we need His help.

There are a bunch of things in this prayer that could be focused on, but since I don’t have much time, I thought I would focus on one theme. This prayer and all of our prayers, should be prayers of dependence. We are so needy and helpless and we need the Lord to work in our lives, even down to giving us our daily bread, giving us the energy we need for the day. Our world tries to tell us to be independent, be a ‘self-made-man.’ This is not the attitude of Jesus’s prayer. Jesus is the best human that has ever lived and it’s not close. Yet even He was dependent on His Father. What makes us think we can be independent from the Father if even His Son was dependent on Him?

So, if you are like me at all and you struggle with prayer. A good place to start is to grow in your dependence on the Father’s provision in your life, to grow in your dependence on the Father for forgiveness in your life, receiving and giving.

Dirty Dozen At JUCO

THE SCENE: Warm humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA

Reach for the Sky, Let it Hang, 1/2 of a Windmill until everyone reminded me that it wasn’t Cherry Pickers as called, Cherry Pickers, BAC Forward, BAC Backwards, Grady Corns, Mountain Climbers, Tempo Merkins, SSH

THA-THANG:
Dirty Dozen…

12 BBS – run to the light 1 Burpee

12 BBS / 12 Box Cutters – run – 2 Burpees

12 BBS / 12 Box Cutters / 12 Heels to Heaven – run – 3 Burpees

12 BBS / 12 Box Cutters / 12 Heels to Heaven / 12 Rosalitas – run 4 burpees

12 BBS / 12 Box Cutters / 12 Heels to Heaven / 12 Rosalitas / 12 Hip Dips – run 5 burpees

Added 12 Scissor Kicks for Round 6.

Mosey to coupons with some stops for LBCs and Freddy Mercury on the way

Round 2

12 Squat Thrusters – bear crawl across street and back

12 Squat Thrusters / 12 Curls – Bear Crawl

12 Squat Thrusters / 12 Curls / 12 Tricep Extensions – Bear Crawl

Added 12 Picture Hangers for Round 4, 12 Rows for Round 5 and 12 Swings for Round 6.

Mosey back to Flag – Stopping for American Hammers along the way.   Jail brake came in from the 6 to avoid any more Mary stops on way back.

MARY:  Completed on the way

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 HIMs including my 2.0 and one FNG – MC Fraud.
CIRCLE OF TRUST:

Some guys and I at work were talking the other day how the appliance manufacturers have perfected the art of making disposable appliances.   I am sure we all have made the decision that the fridge/washer/dryer/dish washer has lived 7 years – I have recessitated from death 2 or 3 times how many more times do we want to perform CPR and sink another 100 bucks in replacement parts and countless hours on YouTube before we give up and replace it.

While on vacation in Roanoke we rode our bikes past an art murial that was colorful and had the words “Broke crayons still color”.   I put on the brakes and admired the art but also let the words sink in.   Broke crayons still color.    Yeah we want to be the sharp crayon straight out of a new box but life doesn’t work that way.   We all are broke crayons in one way or another.  But the blessing is in God’s eye we still color.   We aren’t ready to be thrown away and replaced.   We still have purpose and will be used in his redemptive story if we let him.   While we don’t always see it in the moment we all have come through those times we’re we were grateful he still had a use for our broke crayon.