F3 @300 6/22/19 . 6:30am
Temp: 67 degrees
Disclaimer/warmup
SSH
Alt-Toe-Touches
Merkins
Monkey-Humpers
Catcher Squats
SSH
Shoulder Circles (fwd & back)
Imperials
Peter Parker’s
Mosey to front of SCHS( grab a bench )
“Deck of Cards” – 1/2 the deck “on” the deck
Standard Dips
Incline Merkins
Modify:
X’s & O’s
Superman’s
Mosey to front Parking Lot
Bearpees: Line up across a parking lot. OYO 1 Burpee followed up by 4 count t forward. Once PAX get to other side, rinse and repeat adding another Burpee, keeping the 1:4 ratio but only increasing the number of Burpees. This is best achieved when going past 4!
Mosey to softball field(outfield)
STARWARS stations: 22each (it is the 22nd)
1 – Starjumps
2 – Thrusts
3 – AMER Hammers
4 – Rotating Merkins
1 – Werkins
2 – AMER Hammers
3 – RBCs
4 – Squats
Mosey to Block Pile(3sets:20,10,5)
Curls for Girls
Bent over Lifts
Squats
Mosey back to Start:
(on your six)
Flutter Kicks
Caitlyn Jenner’s
Dying Cockroaches
Pretzels
Rope Climbs
LBCs
Boxcutters
WW1/2
Asheville Abs
Freddie Mercury’s
COT: Sound Off, Name’o’rama, Devotion, and Prayers.
Devotion: “When Salt Loses Its Savor”
A colleague of mine was perplexed: “The annual Christian Booksellers Convention is a gigantic affair, where score of books are ordered by Christian bookstores who, in turn, sell them in droves.” And yet, the professor lamented, these books are having “so little effect.” Researchers often report that evangelicals on average live no better morally than nonevangelicals.
George Barna reports that 43% of “born again Christians” agree with the statement: “It does not matter what religious faith you follow because all faiths teach similar lessons about life.”
Such indifference is to be expected in our permissive/relativistic culture, but they are an abomination among those who claim to have been brought from death to life by the One who proclaimed, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me” (John 14:6; seealso Acts 4:12; 1Tim. 2:5). Could anyone, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, persist in such mockery of their Lord?
In days of plummeting moral standards—marked by promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, abortion on demand, senseless violence—and the forfeiture of character in all strata of society, this is nauseating news indeed. Has the salt of the earth lost its savor (Matt 5:13)?
It is not commonly recognized that the spiritual, moral, and social failings of the body of Christ today are often rooted in a lack of intellectualdiscipleship—a neglect of the life of the mind. Anti-intellectualism is eating away at the core of Christian faith, reducing it to emotionalism, apathy, and mindless activism. If we don’t love God with all our minds (Matt. 22:7) by taking every thought captive to Christ’s obedience (2 Cor. 10:5), we will be shaped by the spirit and structure of the world rather than by God’s Spirit (Rom. 12:2; 1 John 2:15-17). In other words, sanctification has a nonnegotiable intellectual component.
What is often neglected in modern Christian publishing is careful Christian analysis of intellectual and social issues based on a thorough understanding of the biblical revelation and sound reasoning. Many Christian bookstores do not even have sections on social issues, or apologetics, or theology—or if they do, they are threadbare. Many Christians, if they read at all, are hooked on intellectual junk food, and this starvation diet provides little nourishment to understand and respond to the moral challenges pressing upon them.
The joy of reading the Good Book and books of enduring value is lost on too many Christians today. Endless diversions distract us from the challenge of pondering the printed page. Neil Postman convincingly argues, television “amuses us to death” through its ever-changing, pulsating images and superficial image-deep perspectives that masquerade as profound. We must all learnto read and make the text come alive through our disciplined involvement.
But no one need learn to watch television; it is just there, seducing us to refrain from nobler pursuits. Television is literally sensational for entertainment, but it usually fails to instruct or edify.
Reading thoughtful books provides an occasion to reflect on the depth of our faith and how it can engage our decaying society. In a day of alluring surrogates for spirituality, Christians must know whatthey believe, whythey believe it, and the difference it makes.
How can we grow in this area?
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First, record the hours spent each week watching television, and ask yourself (and God), “Was it worth it?”
Second, consult well-read friends about good books, browse through a bookstore well-stocked in thoughtful books, or look through the catalogues of solid Christian publishers (Baker, Zondervan, Moody, and InterVarsity) for mind-expanding material.
Third, challenge yourself with Christian classics by Augustine, Calvin, Luther, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, and C. S. Lewis. Your interaction with the greatest minds of the ages will chiefly come through reading.
Fourth, organize or attend a Sunday school class or reading group on apologetics, doctrine, or social issues.
Fifth, encourage your pastor to recommend thoughtful books from the pulpit.
A recovery of robust reading habits won’t solve all of our culture’s crises. But it may bring some savory salt into YOUR soul, YOUR church, and YOUR world.
Prayers:
Bandcamp: father
Slingblade: Neice
Twig: Bob-the-Builders family
Pippy: personal
“Be Men of PRAYER!”
#Kleenex
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