Tag: Venus

THE SCENE:   Mid 40s and drizzly.  Perfect for a beatdown.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

RFTS/LIH

KCP

Grady corns

Projectivator

Tempo Merkins

Down/Up dog

Mosey to the back lot

THA THANG:

Separate into two teams.  Each team has half the parking lot and cones grouped into one group of 2, one group of 3, one group of 4, and one group of 5.  At “go” PAX grab a tennis ball, run to touch the far curb, then run to one of seven battle stations.  Perform the exercise at that station, then throw the ball at the enemy’s ships.  Work at each battle station before you repeat one.  Continue until one team’s ships are sunk.

Exercises were;

• 25 Merkins
• Lunges 10 each leg
• 20 star jacks
• 25 Mountain Climbers
• 25 hello dolly
• 20 flutter kicks
• 15 carolina dry docks

Team 2 won the battle!

Rehabilitate your fleet (set the cones back up – this time a little further away).  Play another round.  Flip the cards over for new exercises – these were;

• 20 diamond merkins
• 15 Bobby Hurleys
• 20 shoulder taps
• 15 smurf jacks
• 25 plank jacks
• 15 BBS
• 10 box cutters

Team 1 won this time!

Line up at one end of the parking lot.  10 parking lot lines.  Bear crawl 1 line, do 10 merkins mosey back.  Bear crawl 2 lines, 9 merkins, mosey back.  Repeat until 10 lines, 1 merkin.

PAX huddle for exercises led by YHC.  2 men at a time take turns hurling the 60# sandbag toward the shovelflag.  After 10 throws each, PAX rally on the bag and start again with a different 2 men throwing the bag.  Repeat until we reach the shovelflag.

MARY:

Just in time for a massive Guantanamo and 1 minute of plank.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 12 of the best men I know.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
On Monday, Anchorman talked about a line from the Lord’s Prayer that jumped out at him, “Your kingdom come…”.  I followed his lead and also talked about a line from the Lord’s Prayer.

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, a but deliver us from the evil one.”

After He finishes teaching this prayer, the very next thing that Jesus says to his disciples – as if this is the point that He needs to hammer home – “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

Our forgiveness for the people who have done us wrong is critical to our relationship to the Heavenly Father and a prerequisite to our forgiveness.  What’s more…if you harbor unforgiveness for a wrong done to you long ago – or a perceived wrong – who do you hurt most?  You are harming yourself.  Unforgiveness is poison in your heart.

In the original Greek, the word rendered “forgive” in this text is aphiemi.  It does not mean to sweep it under the rug or pretend like you were not hurt.  In the Greek, aphiemi can literally mean, “to hurl”.  Like we did to the sandbag this morning.  Hurl away the offense, and in doing so heave that poisonous resentment as far from your heart as you can.  Aphiemi – hurl it!  That is how our Father forgives our trespasses – and it’s how we are to forgive those who trespass against us.

Here’s the hardest thing you’ll do yet today.  Search your heart for forgiveness that you’ve been withholding and that resentment is staining your soul.  Now…HURL IT AWAY!

MOLESKIN:

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. – Francis of Assisi

Nice to meet “Fire” and “8 Seconds” today!

T-Claps to the men who cleaned up our battlefield for me this morning!