F3 Knoxville

The Lord Will Provide

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Honeydew, Choir Boy, Farley, Kentucky, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Dung Beetle, Tropicana, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Crash Dummy, CRISPR, Abacus, Pusher, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Lulu (Greg Huddy)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Mountain Climbers, 7 Twisties, 10 Tempo Merkins, 7 Tempo Squats, 10 Windmills, 7 Pterodactyls Forward and 7 Backward. From West end of parking lot to East End, Bear Crawl 3 parking spaces and lunge 3 spaces alternatively. When everyone has made it to curb we will sprint back to the West end. Next we will Bernie from the west to the east end of the parking lot, then sprint back.

THE THANG: Mosey up Mini Cardiac to the Crosswalk. We will do 20 American Hammers.
Mosey to Haslam’s Rock. We will do 20 Imperial Walkers.
Mosey to Coliseum Area. We will do 20 Diamond Merkins and 20 Hello Dollies.
Mosey south to the circle by the main park road. We will do 20 Rocky Balboas.
Mosey to the parking lot near the Northshore gate. We will go counterclockwise around parking lot, with High Knees and then Butt Kicks until we get to the pavilion.
Mosey to East end of the pavilion. We will split into groups of two to do Doras. While one man runs counterclockwise around the pavilion, the other will do exercises. Then partners switch. Here are the exercises each group will do as team:
100 Picnic Table Pull-ups.

100 Bench Dips

100 Decline Merkins

100 Incline Merkins

100 Step Ups.

Mosey to the end of the baseball field area. Then mosey south of the playground and go to the west end of the soccer fields parking lot. We will sprint north, stopping at the two crosswalks to do 10 Squat Jumps and then stopping at the stop sign to do 10 more Squat Jumps.
Mosey to the Bros Bowl. We will run clockwise to benches at top. Those getting their first do Bench Dips until the six arrives. We will then take a 30 second gander at the BSIA. Then we will mosey back to the bottom of the Bros Bowl. Those getting there first do Baby Crunches until the six arrives.
Mosey to the west end of the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will then sprint two islands forward, do 10 Merkins, sprint 10 more islands forward, do 10 more merkins, and continue that pattern until we have done 10 Merkins at the cone that is placed about 2/3s of the way up the other side of the parking lot.
Mosey to the Pavilion near the AO. The, mosey to the AO parking lot.

MARY: Nada this morning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Haw Ridge on March 28.

COT:

Message

The Lord Will Provide

James 1:17 “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights.”

Genesis 22:14 “So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’”

Malachi 3:10 “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse… Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven.”

As HIMs, we are charged to do good for others. Sometimes, in our everyday lives and amongst the battles we ourselves face, we forget that charge. Yet, I think all of us at times do try with great effort to help others. And, we see positive impacts such as the improvement in the conditions of Lakeshore Park when so many F3 brothers came out with chain saws and willing hands to cut up fallen trees and clear tree wreckage after the horrible winds and tornadoes of several summers ago. Such as the when many of us spend a Saturday working to paint and beautify the Cerebral Palsy Center and received such thanks from the staff there who were amazed at what we accomplished. And, such as the gratitude of our brother, Backflow, when we collected over $400 to help he and his wife with the recent birth of their baby or the gratitude of our brother, Jenner, when we gave him that copy of the trivia book that we purchased for him and signed.

But what happens when our efforts seen to fall short? The needs of this world are so great. We beautified the Cerebral Palsy Center but this one small region in our nation still has so many that suffer from that horrible disease. Poverty is abundant in Knoxville and in the United States, the richest nation in the world, no matter how much time or money we give to charities. How can we help so many in pain when there seems to be no answers and we fall short of giving those what they need? Because, God will provide. We must have faith in that. God is in control. He asks us to give generously, as that is part of his plan. And in that giving, we must trust in God to do the rest, whether here on earth or in heaven. Our giving is not in vain. So, let us do what we can and give with glad hearts, looking to the Mountain of God and knowing that He Will Provide.

Prayers

Prayers for Lizzy whose brother died in the past year, whose father-in-law has terminal cancer and whose stepbrother recently died. Prayers for Jenner in his continuing recovery from a stroke. Prayers of praise for Matlock’s teenage nephew, Jonathan, who has not had seizures in over 6 months. He, therefore, is able to drive a car now and work the high parts of the stage as stage crew team member at his high school.

Fat Hugh’s Day

AO: asylum-am
Q: F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom)
PAX: P3, Hands, Waxjob, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Grandslam
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Wayne Dunn for the win , SSH x 30, big arm circles, lunge stretch and lesson on the Melungeon people of Sneedville TN

THE THANG:
Baby Everest …5 burpees at Base and 10 merkins at top R and R 5 times

Mosey to base of cardiac hill …select rock
20 Curls – 20 thrusters- 20 squats with rock
Go up hill with your rock – swap out at top for another rock and do the 20/20/20 again the mosy with rock back to base of hill- R and R x 3

Long way run to cloud …

Set of 7s – box jumps and picnic table pull ups followed by 5 burpees

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Haw Ridge !
COT: Q. Shared the focus of lent should be on adding in to your prayer life in preparation for Easter rather than just giving things up..a brief history of Fat Tuesday was then reviewed and the story about Pluto’s mom calling Fat Tuesday Fat Hugh’s Day when Hugh was overweight… on that note Pluto shared a King Cake with the Pax to start the day fully on theme!

[the-pulpit] Grace Mtn (Official name TBD)

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Voodoo
PAX: Leland Robbins (Geiger), Smoked Pickle, Jim Norris, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Betty
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
Short jog and some stretching.

THE THANG:
Mosey to the base of the hill. Run up first section to the road. 3 burpees at the road complete 15 reps of an exercise and then mosey the rest of the way up to the guardrail. Mosey back down to road, 3 more burpees and then 15 more reps. Long way to the base of the hill to start another round.

Rounds included:
-merkins/bbs
-curb dips/snow angels
-heel elevated squats/crunchy frogs
-lunges/peter Parker’s
-Carolina dry docks/??

One last hill run and then moseyed to flag.

Made the hill a little shorter each round, and the Q got tired of the burpees so we stopped those half way through.

COT:
Shared a couple of recent instances that reminded me kiddos are always listening. We should be mindful of what they hear from us and others.

Spring Has Sprung…Let’s Do Work

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Steam, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lilydipper, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
SSH – 100
Imperial Walker – 10
Little of this this, little of that
Tempo Merkin – 10

THE THANG:
Scamper up Baby Cardiac and over to ‘all my benches’ at the top of Cardiac.
– One cycle of the Crawdad Comebacks with 20 LBCs at the switchbacks
– Mosy over to the Pier – stopped for 50 squats (25 on 4 ct)
– At pier, added ten years to our lives with “Junk Science” – 40 merkins – and watched the BSIA in all its glory,
– Mosy’d to “District 13” (furthermost corner of the AO by River and stink plant) and did 50 more squats.
– Began the Bataan Death March up and over the Brose Bowl, past the Yoga Studio, up Pickets Charge and down Everest and then back up Everest to the Coliseum.
– Cold Yoga at the Coliseum! AND Mary.
– 100 Hello Dollies, 40 Flutters, and yoga core.
– Mosy back to AO for some 15 yard dashes.
– Closed out with some ATMs.

MARY:
Mary on the go.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lots of prayer requests. People are hurting. People are sick. Reach out to your brothers.

COT:
Johann Sebastian Bach is said to have walked about 250 miles (400 km) from Arnstadt to Lübeck in 1705 to meet and learn from the famous organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude.

How often are we willing to put in the work spiritually, professionally, or personally? Bach was a prodigy and was willing to do it. Part of today’s workout was to come out and sweat. The guys that completed the real Bataan Death March were surviving…so today wasn’t about time or racing but about finishing…and a lot of guys did.

Great work today men!

[the-pulpit] I Need a Hero

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Trojan
PAX: Voodoo, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Ike, Sawdust, Betty, Leland Robbins (Geiger), Smoked Pickle, Jesse Denton, Chitchat (Pana)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Picker, Merkin, Stretch OYO

THE THANG:
Fellowship mosey to LS picnic tables with coupons
5 minutes Up and over picnic tables with coupons
fellowship mosey to playground with coupons
5 minutes burpee pullups
fellowship mosey to bottom of the big hill with coupons
ascend with coupons
scenic route fellowship mosey back down with coupons
ascend with coupons
scenic route fellowship mosey back to US picnic tables
2 minutes step ups at picnic tables

MARY:
a handful of flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape from Haw Ridge March 28th

COT:
Chapter 6 of Kent Evans’ book The Manhood Journey is about serving others. Kent talks about three reasons we serve: Duty, Devotion, and Delight. While serving out of duty and devotion is good, we should strive to serve out of delight. We should take joy in using our gifts to serve others as God’s Word commands.

Scripture references: Matthew 20:28/Mark 10:45, 1 Peter 4:10, Galatians 5:13-14, John 13:14, Philippians 2:3-4