AO: Aegis, Georgetown, DE.

Pax: Bolt, Box Car, Bunt, Chattahoochee, Chauffeur, Cowbell, Fireplex, Klinger (Downrange), Motown, Pick, Pusher, Quattro, Ruxpin, Stutter, TRex, Yukon

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 20 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down.  15 squats halfway to full down.  15 full squats.

Windmills – 20 IC

Toy Soldier Set – 50 LBC’s, 25 E2K’s (each side), 15 Big Boys

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC (6 Count)

Mosey .47 miles to the School. 

The Thang

PAX completed the Hindenburg BLIMPS routine from the exicon. We modified the sprint portion to a straight line between FOUR light poles that were approx. .02 miles apart. Sprint to pole#1 and perform an exercise at pole #1, sprint to pole#2 & perform exercise, sprint to pole#3 & perform exercise & lastly to pole #4 & perform exercise. Plank it up until all PAX are in. That completes Round #1. Reverse directions and perform the second exercise working back to the pole where it all started. Rinse and repeat until all 6 Rounds are complete. Round # 1 – 10 Burpees, Round #2 – 20 Lunges (20 each leg). Round #3 – 30 Imperial Walkers. Round #4 – 40 Merkins. Round #5 – 50 Plank Jacks. Round #6 – 60 Squats.

F3 Message – See Below

Mosey .47 miles back to the Aegis.  

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust.  Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers.      

F3 Message 07/25/26

A Word With You

Coming Back From A Fall

June 13, 2023

Scripture:  Proverbs 24:16  Micah 7:8

Well, in the summer it’s nice to think about winter Olympics. Well, you know what? I’m not like most people who watch the Olympics. You know, like the winter Olympics, the women’s Olympic figure skating? Well, a lot of people just enjoy the grace of the “twizzles” and the “triple lutzes” (whatever those are). Not me. No, I love the stories. I’m a story guy. So I’m sitting there mulling the stories of those skaters. And thinking, “We’ve got something to learn from her.”

It happened. I remember one time, when Italy’s finalist, Carolina Kostner skated her long program. It was in the Sochi Olympics. Before she began, they showed her disastrous skate in Vancouver four years ago. She left the ice with her face buried in her hands. It was sad. I mean, in her own words, “It was breaking my heart.” And that was going to be the end of her skating career. She didn’t want to go through this again. But she did. And on the ice in Sochi, she skated a nearly flawless program and captured Olympic bronze.

Look, I don’t ice skate. But I know what it is to fall and come back again.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Coming Back From Falling.”

I’ve set personal goals and I’ve blown it – losing weight, getting to a better place financially, conquering a personal weakness. And like all of us who have tried and failed, I know the temptation to forget it and just say, “I’m not going to get on the ice” again. But then I considered these Olympic lessons that can turn a sad chapter into a comeback victory. Number one, when you go down, don’t stay down. The Bible says in Proverbs 24:16, “A righteous man falls seven times, and he rises again.”

I’ve watched three children and now our grandchildren learn to walk. They all have the same M.O. Try to walk? Fall down. The fallen baby, of course, has two choices. One, “That’s it. I tried my best. I failed. I tried to walk. I can’t do it. I give up.” Well, that didn’t happen! Every child got back up and started walking again.

I’ve decided that the only people who haven’t fallen are people who never tried to walk. I watched an Olympic skater whose falls were seen by millions. Who was devastated by the scope of her failure, but she came back with the greatest victory of her life because she didn’t stay down.

Oh, here’s the other lesson: Do it for the joy, not for the result. That’s actually what Carolina Kostner’s mother told her after the debacle in Vancouver. That’s good advice. Stop thinking about how you’ll perform. In her words, “I had to skate for the passion and the pleasure.” And that changed everything.

Way back in the 2002 Olympics, U.S. skater Sarah Hughes surprised everyone – including herself. She went into the finals in fourth place; she didn’t have much to lose. So, as the top three contenders competed, you could feel the tension. Every jump. Every landing. Each precision movement potentially could mean victory or defeat. Then Sarah skated. She was just fun to watch, because she was clearly having fun. Skating with reckless abandon. And that freedom liberated her to give the best performance of her life; a gold medal performance.

You know, as we look back on our life and we think of the places where we blew it or we failed, especially those we love, I begin to turn to the pages of God’s Word to find hope for our falls. And I find it in Micah 7:8 that says, “Do not gloat over me my enemy. Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

You know how that could happen? Because it says later in the chapter, “Who is a God like you who pardons sins, forgives the transgressions?” And then it says, “You hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.” To know that every mistake, every fall, every wrong thing, every hurting thing I’ve ever done has been erased because God’s Son died for it on a cross. That is the ultimate freedom for a new beginning.

This might be your day for that new beginning. I’d love to help you get started with Jesus. That’s why our website’s there – ANewStory.com. Check it out.

I saw one skater come back with Olympic redemption, because she knew that coming back was getting back up, no matter how ugly the fall. So in a way, you win when you just put your skates back on.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Warm-a-Rama
20 Michael Phelps  i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo
15 seal waves i/c
20 plank jacks i/c
Capri lap around circle, side shuffle halfway, switch directions for other half

20 seal jacks i/c
30 marocan night club i/c
10 mountain man pooper i/c

The Thang

Each HIM grabs a large coupon and 2 small coupons

Coupon Tabata :20/:10

halos each direction
monkey grabs

floundering blocks
block cliff hanger

toe touches
press jacks w/coupon

squat front raise w/coupon
halos

coupon chops per side
sprawled coupon curl

Flys (laying on back)
bridge chest press

backwards lunge to block crusher per side       rows

3rd F
Stand Firm and Act Like Men

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

8  HIM showed today: Semi, Boxcar, Bunt, Probe, Yukon, Chauffer, Fireplex, Motown

AO: Aegis, Georgetown, DE

PAX: Bunt, Chattahoochee, Chauffeur, Fireplex, Quattro, Semi, TRex

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 30 IC

Bolt 45’s – IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down.  15 squats halfway to full down.  15 full squats.

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Windmills – 15 IC

Mountain Climbers – 20 IC

Jiminy Crickets – 10 OYO

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC (6 Count)

The Thang

At the Aegis, Pax completed the Route 66 routine at the County Building.  1 lap around the County Building and complete 1 burpee.  A second lap around the County Building and complete 2 burpees.  Rinse and repeat until reaching 7 burpees.

Pax moseyed to the Georgetown Firehouse to complete a Mike Tyson set of 7’s in the back parking lot utilizing a bear crawl to traverse the distance between the station wall and a set of parking bumpers.  Pax completed 1 Mike Tyson at the wall and bear crawled across to the parking bumpers to complete 6 Mike Tyson’s, then bear crawled back to the wall for 2 Mike Tyson’s and back to parking bumpers for 5 Mike Tyson’s.  Rinse and repeat until the number of evolutions was reversed from where it began.

Pax moseyed back to the County Building Parking Lot.    

Spartan Run Routine – Run/sprint approx. 50 yards or so across the County Building parking lot light and drop and do 10 merkins.  Plank until all PAX are complete.  Run/sprint 50 yards back to the starting point and complete 10 merkins.   Plank for the 6.  Pax completed 6 reps for 60 merkins for the exercise.

Pax finished strong with a Toy Soldier set consisting of 100 LBC’s, 50 E2K’s each side, and 25 Big Boy ‘s.

F3 Message 01/31/26

Sick of Winter, Ready for Spring

March 14, 2024

There I was, digging out the sweaters again, turning up the thermostat, and hoping the weatherman was wrong about snow and ice.

But, I had no right to gripe. That year, some cities ran out of salt for their streets, were “whomped” with storm after storm, and some places even got mountains and mountains of snow.

If you moved to one of those snow-swamped places, it would be easy to say, “It’s always going to be winter. This much snow is never going to melt. It’s just going to keep coming.”

But nope. It won’t always be winter. There’s hope. And hope has a name – spring. No matter how high the snowdrifts are, how endless the parade of winter storms, spring always comes. And that helps me grasp just what that precious word “hope” is all about.

Hope-less means things can never change. But hope means things you’ve never been able to change can change because hope has a name. His name is Jesus. He’s the One of whom the Bible says in Hebrews 6:19, “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”

As a follower of Jesus, I can be – for the hope-starved people around me – living proof that He could change what I could never change. Because of Jesus, a parent can change. A husband or wife can change. A family can change. Because of Jesus, a temper can change, a life of depression, or a fear of death. Jesus changes control freaks, chronic worriers, fearful people, and people who have always been defined by their pain.

There’s a magnet in us that attracts people to our Jesus. It’s not our beliefs, the meetings we go to, the bad things we don’t do. It’s our hope. The Bible says folks will want to know “the reason for the hope you have” (1 Peter 3:15).

When you meet Jesus, you experience the ultimate makeover miracle: “If anyone is in Christ,” the Bible says, “he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). So we have hope to give! Hope of Jesus changing our dark side, our fears, our relationships, our eternity.

The most powerful tool I have to open a heart to Jesus is my story – my Hope Story. Because what people want to know about Jesus is, “What difference does He make?” Your Hope Story tells about how your stressful times are different because of Jesus – and your lonely times, your sad times, your wounded times. The difference Jesus makes when there’s bad news from the doctor, when your family’s in chaos, when the one you were counting on walks out the door, or when you stand by the casket of the one you love.

People can argue with your beliefs. They can’t argue with your Hope Story. Once you were “blind.” Now you “can see.” The only explanation is Jesus.

I always want to be looking for natural opportunities to share some part of how my life is different because of Jesus. As you listen to a person’s story, the door opens for you to tell your story. And how His story – His dying for you – has changed your story and could change theirs forever. I am, and all my spiritual brothers and sisters are, living proof that it doesn’t always have to be winter.

Spring comes when Jesus comes. And maybe you’ve never experienced that hope for yourself. Today Jesus stands ready to give you the new beginning that your heart is hungry for. I’d love to introduce you to Him and help you know how to get started with Him. If you’d like to learn more about how to get started with Jesus, I encourage you to head to ANewStory.com. It’s time for spring.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

AO: Aegis, Georgetown, DE

Pax: Bunt, Chattahoochee, Chauffer, Fireplex, Motown, Pickles, Probe, Quattro, Semi, Toy Soldier.

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Windmills – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down.  15 squats halfway to full down.  15 full squats.

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC   

The Thang

Explanation of the Directive God gave Joshua in regard to the wall of Jericho and the number seven.  Pax conquered Jericho this gloom in F3 fashion thanks to a phone call from Quattro on December of 2019 planting a seed for the original beatdown on 12/2019 and quoting the verses from Joshua 6:4-5,20-21 New King James Version (NKJV).  Round #1 – Karaoke around the circle switching directions at halfway and complete 7 hand release merkins.  Round #2 – Nur around the circle and complete 21 LBC’s.  Round #3 – side shuffle around the circle switching directions at halfway and complete Aiken legs – 7 squats, 7 box jumps, 7 lunges (10 each Leg), 7 split Jacks (7 each Leg).  Round #4 – high knees around the circle and complete ATM’s – 7 alternating “merkin” shoulder taps, 7 tempo merkins, and 7 fast merkins.  Round # 5 – Lieutenant Dan around the circle and complete 7 four count mountain climbers.  Round #6 – Toy Soldier march around the circle and complete a set of 7’s.  1 big boy to 1 merkin, two big boys to 2 merkins ascending to 7 of each.  Round #7 – mosey 7 laps around the circle and complete ascending Burp & Merks up to seven merkins.  The twist is we are going to repeat each of the previous exercises before starting the next lap around the circle.

F3 Message – 11/08/25

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust.  Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers.      

F3 Message 11/08/25

Joshua 6:4-5,20-21 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴ And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. ⁵ It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” ²⁰ So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. ²¹ And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

The Power of Powerlessness – #8890

February 5, 2021

I had just finished speaking. I was talking with two men, and the subject was manhood and what it really means. In the course of our solving many of the world’s problems, I learned that one of the men had a black belt or its equivalent in three different forms of martial arts. I hired him as my bodyguard. Well, almost. The man has the ability to take control of most any hostile situation – except for one. He told me there is only one position in which a person is totally powerless, no matter how strong or how skilled they are: lying face down on the ground. You’re absolutely powerless there.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “The Power of Powerlessness.”

When Mr. Black Belt told me about the total vulnerability of being face down on the ground, General Joshua flashed into my mind. That’s Joshua as in the Book of Joshua in the Bible. In fact, there’s a wonderful blueprint for winning life’s unwinnable battles in the account of Joshua’s most powerless moment. It’s recorded in Joshua 5, beginning with verse 13, and it’s our word for today from the Word of God.

Joshua is leading the Jews into the Promised Land that God has said He would give to them. But immediately, they come upon this massive, seemingly impregnable city; the walls are looming toward the sky. It’s the world’s oldest city, Jericho. There’s no way Joshua’s going to breach those walls with anything he knows how to do. You know what? You may be facing one of those “Jerichos” in your life right now, where the size of the challenge is a lot greater than the resources you have.

So, this one’s for you. Joshua 5 says, “When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and he saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword. Joshua went up to him and asked, ‘Are you for us or for our enemies?’ ‘Neither,’ he replied, ‘but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.’ Then Joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence, and asked him, ‘What message does my Lord have for His servant?'”

Here’s Joshua, the man who has never lost a battle, going face down on the ground in the most powerless position a man can be in. I don’t think Joshua ever surrendered to anyone. But standing before the Commander of the Army of the Lord, he falls down in total surrender. Most Bible scholars believe this “Commander” is actually the Son of God making one of His pre-Bethlehem appearances in the Old Testament.

Face down before Jesus. Could that be where He wants you right now? Maybe that’s the only way you’re ever going to conquer your Jericho; the only way you’re ever going to have peace. When Joshua surrendered, God gave him the miracle plan that pulverized the walls of Jericho. The issue wasn’t really the conquest of Jericho; it was the conquest of Joshua. The issue in your life really isn’t the conquest of your impossible challenge; it’s the conquest of you. It sometimes takes a “Jericho” to level some of us Joshuas.

It could be that you’ve given Jesus everything: your talent, your time, your money, your service; everything but one thing. Control. It’s still my way, my will, my agenda, my plans, my timing. There’s someone or something that you’re still holding tightly in your hands, and you’re afraid or you’re unwilling to surrender control. And, consequently, your Jerichos will remain standing.

The most powerful position in the world is powerlessness. The secret of peace; the secret of the release of God’s power into your situation is total surrender. At that point, He will commit all His forces to the battles in front of you. To finally surrender is to finally win.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Warm-a-Rama
20 Michael Phelps  i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo
15 seal waves i/c
20 seal jacks i/c
30 marocan night club i/c

The Thang

Chappie run (water in mouth) to ball fields. Find stack of coupons. Each HIM grabs 2 coupons.

home plate
10 standing twist with coupon
10 coupon chops per side

Nur w/coupons to first base
10 merkins rows w/2 coupons
10 sprawled Curls coupons
15 knee up to squat jump
10 reverse lunge into knee drive w/coupon
20 iron mikes

Bear crawl w/coupons to second
10 ballistic row per side
10 goblet clusters (squat to overhead press)
10 reverse lunge into knee drive w/coupon

3rd F

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/tVBJH589anv6n7VU/?mibextid=D5vuiz
What is your pre game routine?

Crawl bear w/coupons to third
20 press jacks w/coupon
10 squat front raise w/coupon

Nur w/coupons to home plate

Mosey back to AO

Round of Mary

flutter kick, gas pumpers, v ups, 4 count Freddie, and American hammers

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

9 HIM showed today; Semi, Probe, Chauffer, Toy Soldier, Fireplex, Quattro, Bunt, Chattahoochee, Motown

Warm-a-Rama
15 seal jack i/c
20 mountain man pooper i/c
15 plank jack i/c
Capri laps around circle
Side shuffle, switch directions half way
Nur, switch to mosey half way
20 windmills i/c
15 seal waves i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo
20 shoulder taps i/c

The Thang

Mosey to coupons
Everyone grabs 2 coupons, 2.0 grab one
Farmers carry/blockee
Mosey The long way around circle, to behind the courthouse
  If you set the blockes down, 2 blockes
  Add 2 blockes ever time they are set down

Timer is sled going the length of the parking lot and back

Murder bunnies across parking lot
Overhead press across parking lot
Man makers
Abyss merkins
Sledge hammer side of tire
American hammers
Curls
Block swings
Rows
Navy seal burpee

Engage to Impact
Think about your everyday interactions. Are you engaging people to make an impact?

Flutter kick
Gas pumpers w/coupon in the air
Superman Banana
Not so easy lazyboy

Return coupons
Return to AO

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

15 HIM showed today: Semi, Probe, Chauffer, Toy Soldier, Quattro, Bunt, Fireplex, Sink-O, Doodle, Pickles, B Side, C Side, Squirm, Hideous, Chattahoochee

Warm-a-Rama

15  seal jacks i/c
15 mountain man pooper i/c
15 seal waves i/c
Side shuffle around circle, switch directions half way
15 plank jacks i/c
10 mountain man pooper i/c

The Thang
Mosey to grass area north of church on n. Bradford str.

Disintegrating frisbee golf
Team up and alternate throwers. Count throws to called out “holes”. Complete excercises called out at completion of hole.
Excercises that were called out:
Monkey humpers
Merkins
Squats
Curls
Burpees
Lt. Dan
Navy seal Burpees
Mosey
Nur

3rd F

https://bible.com/reading-plans/14159/day/1?segment=0

Got back to the AO in time for a Toy Soldier lead not so easy lazyboy.

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

11 HIM showed today: Semi, Hideous, Fireplex, Quattro, Bunt, Probe, Chauffer, Toy Soldier, Reptile, Deez, Shutter

Warm-a-Rama
15 seal jacks i/c
15 mountain man pooper i/c
15 seal waves i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo
15 windmills i/c
15 harry rockets i/c
15 Michael Phelps i/c

The Thang
Mosey to Woodstock’s coupons

Single awareness
15 per side
L – lunge backwards
O – Overhead press, single arm
V – v up, single leg
E – E2K

S – single leg Squat to coupon
I – irkin
N – navy seal burpee
G – goblet Bulgarian Squat
L – lunge
E – E2K

Round 2
With 10 train burpees

Mosey back to AO

Number Rama
Name a Rama
COT

11 showed today: Semi, Probe, Yukon, Bunt, Pick, Ruxpin, Hideous, Reptile, Chauffer, Chattahoochee, Motown

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE.

PAX: Looney Tunes, Quattro, Whirlybird, Bunt, Probe, Streudel, Fireplex

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 20 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down.  15 squats halfway to full down.  15 full squats.

Imperial Walkers – 20 IC

Windmills – 20 IC

The Thang 

B.O.M.B.S. – 50 Burpees,  100 Overhead Claps while doing a wall sit, 150 Merkins, 200 Big Boy Sit-ups, 250 Squats.  From the side wall of the firehouse, each Pax will complete 25 of each exercise and then run up the steps behind the firehouse and down before moving on to the next 25 reps.  A break for the 3^rd F will be after all the merkin reps are complete.

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust.  Prayers were offered for multiple needs within the attending PAX, but please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers.   

F3 Message 12/05/2024

Where to Take Your Complaints – #9780

July 5, 2024

Ken really felt he got a promotion when he left the business world to enter full-time Christian ministry, and I think he did. But it wasn’t so much because of the salary. Oh, I’m sure you thought it was because of the great money that he would make in Christian ministry. No, it wasn’t because of the great benefits, but his job before had been handling consumer complaints.

Now, he was definitely a candidate for a lot of antacids. Can you imagine getting calls all day long from people whose whole thing is to tell you what they didn’t like? He’s in ministry now, so Ken deals with a lot of people’s burdens, but it’s a whole lot better stress than that old job was. How would you be able to listen to people dump on you for eight hours a day? It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it, and somebody wants to.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Where to Take Your Complaints.”

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Psalm 142. David says, “I cry aloud to the Lord.” Sure sounds like he’s hurting. “I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. I pour out my complaint before Him. Before Him I tell my trouble. When my spirit grows faint within me, it is You who knows my way.” That’s a very interesting portrayal of where our complaints ought to go. God’s Throne Room – that’s where you ought to take your complaints. David said, “I pour out my complaint to Him. It’s before the Lord I tell my trouble.” “He’s the One where I, in a sense, dump all of this hurt, anger, and frustration.”

Of course, we have a tendency to take our complaints to other places, don’t we? We complain to our friends, we complain about the other guy to everybody else except the guy, we complain to our family, we complain to our co-workers, and the only thing we accomplish is we get to drag them down with us. They were feeling great until we came along. And then, all of a sudden, this big, dark cloud came in with us. We start them thinking negatively about it too. And we sound like squeaky chalk.

Well, the Bible tells us in 1 Peter 3:15, as believers, to “be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us.” A lot of folks can’t hear our hope because they hear more about our hassles. Listen to yourself. Step outside of yourself and just try to listen. Are you becoming a complainer? God doesn’t say, “Don’t complain.” That would be denying the pain – denying your real feelings. He invites us to complain all over Him. He’s the One who can do something about it.

David said, “It is You who knows my way.” You know, that’s why people bypass the complaint department sometimes and go right to the president. They say, “Hey, I want action! So forget the complaint guy; I’m going straight to the top!” Well, that’s actually the place to go. Sometimes it’s appropriate to go to an offending person and confront them in order to seek healing. And, of course, it’s appropriate to share our burden with other people and ask them to pray for us. But first, dump all your garbage at your Lord’s feet. Go to the top! Get the emotions out before Him. Get some objectivity, some perspective that comes from being in God’s presence with all that stuff.

Hebrews 4 tells us that we can go to the throne of God’s Grace and there we can “obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” How about trading your gripes for grace? The Throne Room of God is the complaint department of the universe. So, let God deal with your complaints. You won’t get action by complaining to all the employees. Skip them and go straight to the top.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

AO: Aegis, Georgetown, DE

Pax: Bunt, Chattahoochee, Chauffeur, Fireplex, Motown, Pick, Probe, Pusher, Ruxpin, Semi, Yukon

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Windmills – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down.  15 squats halfway to full down.  15 full squats.

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 (6 Count)   

The Thang

Round #1 – Karaoke around the circle switching directions at halfway and complete 10 hand release merkins.  Round #2 – Nur around the circle and complete 20 LBC’’s.  Round #3 – ass kickers around the circle and complete Aiken legs – 10 squats, 10 box jumps, 10 lunges (10 each Leg), 10 Iron Mike’s (5 each Leg).  Round #4 – high knees around the circle and complete ATM’s – 10 alternating “merkin” shoulder taps, 10 tempo merkins, and 10 fast merkins.  Round # 5 – Lieutenant Dan around the circle and complete 10 four count mountain climbers.  Round #6 – Toy Soldier march around the circle and complete a set of 11’s.  1 big boy to 1 merkin, two big boys to 2 merkins ascending to 11 of each.  Round #7 – mosey 10 laps around the circle and complete ascending Burp & Merks up to 10 merkins.  The twist is we are going to repeat each of the previous exercises before starting the next lap around the circle.

F3 Message 11/02/24

A Strong Sense of Season – #9721

April 15, 2024

On the first warm day of spring I can remember my son saying, “Ready for a little baseball, Dad?” Well, ’twas the season, although that early in the season we usually ended up stuck in the mud somewhere between home plate and first base. Now, he didn’t ask about playing baseball if it was fall or winter. Now, he always had a like a strong sense of season. By the same token, the first cool day of late summer, of course, that brought a predictable question, “Ready for a little football, Dad?” This is the same son, of course, that got upset when he saw Christmas items up before Thanksgiving, or phone calls when he was studying or homework that you had to do on weekends. See, this kid had and actually still does have for that matter, a strong sense of what season it is, and there’s actually a lot of sanity in living that way.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “A Strong Sense of Season.”

Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from Ecclesiastes 3, and let me read some excerpts to you: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” It goes on with a list of life’s times, and then concludes in verse 11, “God has made everything beautiful in its time.”

Well, the message of Ecclesiastes 3 to me is this: Know what time it is. Know what season it is at this point in your life, or your month, or your week. And then really do what it’s time to do and don’t mix up your seasons. When it’s time to work, really work; when it’s time to fellowship, really fellowship. Just don’t mix everything up.

Now, I know some people who talk for half of their work day. Well, when it’s fellowship time, do that, but don’t mix that with your work and vice-versa. When it’s time to play, really play. When it’s time to be home, don’t bring your work home with you; really be home. When it’s time to be at work, don’t keep doing personal stuff. When it’s time to pray, block out everything else.

Maybe that’s why Jesus told us to go into a closet to do it. When it’s time to listen, drop everything else and focus on that person. If it’s time to finish something else before you listen, get that done and schedule a time when you really can listen. When it’s time to study, don’t talk. When it’s time to unwind, don’t study. Get the idea? It’s like the Bible says in Colossians 3, “Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.”

I have a friend whose employees’ wives are on the warpath because their husbands are coming home forever late from work. Guess who they blame? The boss and the company for overworking their men. Well, the fact is what the wives don’t know is that these men are taking extended lunch hours for gym time and shooting the breeze much of the day. They waste as much time as they work, and then they have to work like crazy at the other end of the day. And then, guess what? They can’t be the fathers they need to be.

I like what the Bible says again, “Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.” And I really like what Jim Elliott, the missionary martyr said, “Wherever you are, be all there.” See, things don’t work as well when you do them “out of season.” Each day, each week has seasons in your life. Well, do with all your heart what it’s time to do at that moment and then God makes everything beautiful in its time.

I’ll tell you, life is a lot more peaceful when you live with a strong sense of season.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex