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[ The Scene ]

• 60s
• Slight chill to the air

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

• Welcome to F3: Fitness-Fellowship-Faith

• Name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning

• Couple of things before we begin
  • I’m not a professional
  • You’re here on your own volition
  • And I don’t know any injuries you may or may not have so if you do need to modify anything this morning feel free to do so but push yourself and the men around you

• FNGs? – None

[ Warm o Rama ]

• Cherry- Pickers: 10 x 4 IC

• • Run to the rock pile and back

• Rockette: 10 x 4 IC

• • Run to the rock pile and back

• Imperial Walker: 10 x 4 IC

• • Run to the rock pile and back

• Baby Arm Circles: 10 x 4 IC

• • Run to the rock pile and back

• Baby Arm Circles: 10 x 4 IC

• • Run to the rock pile and back

• Squat: 10 x 4 IC

• • Run to the rock pile and back

[ The Thang ]

(Mosey to big field)

(1) 4 Corner Scramble (200 total reps)

• 25 reps each corner (1 count)

(Counter clockwise)

• C1: Squats
• C2: Merkins
• C3: V-Ups
• C4: Lunges

• R & R once for a total of 2 laps

• Done? — Flutter kicks right back here

(Mosey to WFP track)

(2) Battle Buddy 50

• Battle-Buddy Up
• HQ (bottom of the track)
  • 10 merkins – 1 count
    • Hold plank when done
  • 10 squats – 1 count
    • Hold al gore when done
  • 10 flutter kicks – 1 count
    • Hold legs 6inches when done
  • 10 Carolina dry docks – 1 count
    • Hold starting position when done
  • 10 American hammers – 1 count
    • Hold Iron cross when done
• Each BB will complete all 5 exercises
• When 1 BB is completing 1 X, the other will take a lap – and vice verse until all each BB has completed all 

(Mosey back to the AO American Indian Style)

[ Mary ]

—Core 4 (5 in reality)

• 25 American Hammers (4 count)
• 25 LBCs (4 count)
• 25 Hello dolly’s (4 count)
• 25 Freddie mercury’s (4 count)
• 10 Bus Drivers (4 count)

[ COT ]

• # off

• Name o Rama

• FNGs
• BOM

When you hear your own name // The Importance of hearing your own name 

I want to dive into hearing our true name this morning. I was reading in Isaiah 43 yesterday and it reminded me of this, and how much we all need to remember who gives us our true name.

Isaiah 43: 1-2 — “But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”

Right off the bat, when you first come into the world, you’re given a name. You’re known and called by that name (or some abbreviation of that name sometimes) for all the days you walk this Earth. Likewise in F3, you’re given a name after you complete your first workout as an FNG. From then on out – that’s your F3 name and what you’re known and called by inside F3 and sometimes outside of F3 in public too (I do that for sure).

Now somewhere along the way through life, you’ve also probably been given a name or names that you don’t like or don’t want to be associated with. There could be deep wounds associated with this name, deep cuts and memories that you remember. These can be names that are spoken audibly, or names that the enemy plants in our minds. Here are some of mine I’ve wrestled with and fought with: Dumbass, retarded, not enough, failure, unworthy, regret, and not worth it. I’m sure you have your own as well. They can be hard to shake and it can be hard to live life authentically with these names rolling around in the back of your mind.

Until you start to hear whispers of your true name. Your new name. Your real name. In the book “Wild at Heart” John Eldridge covers this beautifully — “Who can give a man his name? George MacDonald asks. God alone. For no one but God sees what the man is. He reflects  upon the white stone that Revelation includes among the rewards God will give to those who overcome. On that white stone there is a new name. It is “new” only in the sense that it is not the same name the world gave to us, certainly not the one delivered with the wound. No man will find on that stone “mama’s boy” or “fatty” or “seagull.” But the new name is really not new at all when you understand that it is your true name, the one that belongs to you, that being whom he had in his thought when he began to make the child, and whom he kept in his thought throughout the long process of creation and redemption. Psalm 139 makes it clear that we are personally, uniquely planned and created, knit together in our mother’s womb by God himself. He had someone in mind and that someone has a name. That someone has also undergone a terrible assault. Yet God remains committed to the realization of that same someone.

We need to hear our true name! We need to remember that we are sons of the most high God and that he has called us by our name. We also need to do that for each other as well. Maybe it’s not an actual name the way we would think of it such as “Hey Jeremy!” But maybe it’s more of affirming and calling out the champion in our brothers and sisters around us, so that we can help remind them of their true name in Christ as well.