Warm-a-Rama

15 seal jacks i/c
15 harry rockets i/c
15 mountain man pooper i/c
Capri lap
Side shuffle across parking lot, nur across to the other parking spaces, side shuffle across parking lot, mosey to start
15 seal waves i/c
15 Michael Phelps i/c
30 Moroccan night club i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo

The Thang

Mosey to bank drive thru

20 Mike Tyson sit thru oyo
Incline Bolt 45 i/c

3rd F
The Competitor’s Creed

I am a Christian first and last.
I am created in the likeness of
God Almighty to bring Him glory.
I am a member of Team Jesus Christ.
I wear the colors of the cross.

I am a Competitor now and forever.
I am made to strive, to strain,
to stretch and to succeed
in the arena of competition.
I am a Christian Competitor
and as such, I face my challenger
with the face of Christ.

I do not trust in myself.
I do not boast in my abilities
or believe in my own strength.
I rely solely on the power of God.
I compete for the pleasure of
my Heavenly Father, the honor of Christ
and the reputation of the Holy Spirit.

My attitude on and off
the field is above reproach –
my conduct beyond criticism.
Whether I am preparing,
practicing or playing;
I submit to God’s authority
and those He has put over me.
I respect my coaches, officials,
teammates and competitors
out of respect for the Lord.

My body is the temple of Jesus Christ.
I protect it from within and without.
Nothing enters my body that
does not honor the Living God.
My sweat is an offering to my Master.
My soreness is a sacrifice to my Savior.

I give my all – all of the time.
I do not give up. I do not give in.
I do not give out. I am the Lord’s warrior –
a competitor by conviction
and a disciple of determination.
I am confident beyond reason
because my confidence lies in Christ.
The results of my efforts
must result in His glory.

LET THE COMPETITION BEGIN.
LET THE GLORY BE GOD’S

Mosey to coupons

10 baby seal waves i/c
15 sprawled Curls w/coupon
10 kneeling squat twist  w/coupon
10 blockes
20 Bent over rows
50 urkins
30 derkins
20 Curls for the girls
30 wall lean toe raises
20 wall sit heal raises
5 per side Elevated side plank, lowering and raising lower leg

Some did 10 train burpees even tho that Ford did not look like a train

Return coupons

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

7 HIM showed today: Semi, Probe, Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Quattro, Coin Slot, Struedel

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

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

PAX: Chattahoochee, Coin Slot, Drago, Fireplex, Probe, Retail (Downrange), Streudel, Toy Soldier

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Bolt 45’s – 15 squats full up to half-way down, 15 squats half-way down to full down, & 15 full motion squats (4 Count).  All completed IC.

Imperial Walkers – 15 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC  6 Count)

The Thang

Mosey to “Oh Hill No”.  All Pax completed a Dragon Crawl up the hill and a Mosey back down before completing 10 SSH’s, 10 Squats, 10 merkins, & 10 Big Boy Sit-ups.  Plank for the Six.  Pax completed a Crawl Bear up the hill and a Mosey down and then completed 9 SSH’s, 9 Squats, 9 Merkins & 9 Sit-ups.  Plank for the Six.  Pax completed a Lt. Dan up the hill and a Mosey down and then completed 8 SSH’s, 8 Squats, 8 Merkins & 8 Big Boy Sit-ups.  Pax completed a Bear Crawl up the hill and a Mosey down and then completed 7 SSH’s, 7 Squats, 7 Merkins & 7 Big Boy Sit-ups.  Plank for the Six.  Pax completed an Inch Worm up the hill and a Mosey down and then completed 6 SSH’s, 6 Squats, 6 merkins & 6 Big Boy Sit-ups.  Pax completed a NUR up the hill and a Mosey down and then completed 5 SSH’s, 5 Squats, 5 Merkins & 5 Big Boy Sit-ups.  Plank for the Six.  After the 3^rd F Message Break, all Pax Completed 10 SSH’s, 10 Squats, 10 Merkins & 10 Big Boy Sit-ups before Moseying back to the CHOP.

F3 Message – Since I had nothing prepared because Deez fartsacked, I did NOT have a prepared 3^rd F message.  The 3^rd F consisted of going around the group and asking each attending Pax to talk about what F3 has meant to them and what impact it has had on their life.  All in attendance participated.

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.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

WARM-A-RAMA

14 All i/c
Seal jack
Plank jack
Windmill
Seal wave
Harry rockets

THANG

Mosey to HOB entrance

Bear crawl from first light pole to the next light pole
Nur to next light pole
Lt. Dan to next light pole

Mosey to playground

2 rounds of 14
Swerkins
Alternating wall leg arounds
Hanging knee raises
Bulgarian split squats – each leg
Alternating wall toe touches
Elevated side plank

3rd F
When GOD wanted;
To make David king, He didn’t give him a crown, He gave him a Goliath

To raise Joseph to the palace, He didn’t give him a short cut, He gave him a prison

To make Ester a queen, He didn’t give her comfort, He gave her a crisis

To make Moses a leader, He didnt give him a stage, He gave him a wilderness

A lot of times when you feel like God is breaking you, He’s actually building you. And what you have to understand God doesn’t give us what we expect in life, He gives you what you need. To become everything that He needs you to be to fulfill the calling on your life.

Mosey back to CHOP

Number Rama
Name rama
Cot

5 HIM showed today: Semi, Probe, Toy Soldier, Struedel, Chattahoochee

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

PAX: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Mad Dog, Probe, Streudel, Toy Soldier, Woodstock

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

Bolt 45’s – 15 squats full up to half way down, 15 squats half way down to full down (Monkey Humpers were substituted to welcome the late arrival of Streudel), & 15 squats full motion.  All completed IC as a 4 count.

SSH – 15 IC

Windmills – 15 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC – 6 Count

Captain Therkins – 1 Big Boy to 4 American Hammers: 5 merkins.  Ascending up to 10:40

Imperial Walkers – 20 IC

The Thang

1^st & 10 Routine per the Exicon…Well sort of….:)…..Perform 10 burpees and 1 merkin.  Nur up the Chestnut Street Hill and run down.  Perform 9 burpees and 2 merkins.  Nur up the hill and run down.  Perform 8 burpees and 3 merkins.  Nur up the hill and run down.  You recognize a pattern developing here.  Pax took a break for the 3^rd F (see below) after completing the round of 5 burpees and 6 merkins.  After the break for the message, all HIM completed the rounds down through 1 burpee and 10 merkins with a final Nur up the hill and the run down.      

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.   

Going Back To Where It Started

Scripture:  Mark 1:16

From: Monday, March 4, 2002

Anniversaries can throw another log on the old romantic fire. Our kids watch the video of their wedding. They didn’t have video in those primitive days when my wife and I were married, but we do have an audio tape of our wedding. And it’s great to revisit the day that our marriage began and to hear what we promised each other, and to remember the passion of our first love.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Going Back To Where It Started”.

Something renewing happens when we go back to where our marriage began – you’re reminded of the wonder of your relationship. That may be the kind of touch your relationship with the Lord Jesus needs right now. And right now He may be calling you back to where it all began.

He did that with His first disciples in our word for today from the Word of God. It begins outside the empty tomb of Jesus, where He has just walked out of His grave under His own power. His disciples don’t know it yet. They’ve watched their dreams turn to nightmares, their hopes turn to despair as the Man to whom they’ve given their lives was nailed to a cross.

As the women who were the first to see the risen Christ fall at His feet to worship Him, He says, “Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee; and there they will see Me.” Galilee? That’s some 90 miles away – on foot! Why not Jerusalem where they already are? Well, the Bible says, “The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'”

Jesus is preparing them for a mission and for a spiritual greatness that they could never have imagined. But He asks them to go to Galilee for that. So why Galilee? Well, the Bible doesn’t spell out the reason, but I can tell you at least one reason. Galilee is where their whole walk with this amazing Savior began. It was in Galilee that most of them met Him. It was in Galilee that they first saw what Jesus could do. It was in Galilee that they first heard – and answered – His call, “Come, follow Me” (Mark 1:16-18).

So something very exciting is happening here. Jesus takes His disciples back to where it all started so He can take them where they’ve never been before! He may be wanting to do the same for you. You’ve gotten entangled with all those responsibilities you have, those scars you’ve gotten – maybe from other believers, those frustrations, and all that busyness. Jesus knows you need to go back to Galilee. In your heart, would you let Him take you back to how He rescued you from your sin, to that time He spared you, to the time He healed you, and to the time He first showed you that He was calling you to serve the King of Kings.

Remember the passion of your first love for Him – the promises you made to Him – the wonder of belonging to Jesus. Maybe you’ve lost your focus. It’s time to go back to Galilee – back to where you knew what you have forgotten recently – that it’s all about Jesus. Its not all about church or Christianity or Christians or Christian work. It’s all about Jesus. You knew that back then. He wants to take you back to where it all began – so He can take your life where it’s never been before!

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Warm-a-Rama
15 Seal jacks i/c
15 Seal waves i/c
15 Imperial walkers i/c
Capri lap
Side shuffle across parking lot, nur to next parking spaces, side shuffle across parking lot, mosey back to start
15 Mountain man pooper i/c
20 Michael Phelps i/c
30 marocan night club i/c

Mosey to park

The Thang

Chest/ABS Tabata
20/10

1 up, 1 down
Around the world

High Plank
Modified merkin

Time under tension
Flys

Kneeling heel taps – outside
Kneeling elbow to knee

3rd F
Stand Firm and Act Like Men

Modified diamond merkin
Modified wide merkin

Kneeling heel taps – inside with opposite hand
Reverse plank walk

Mosey back to AO

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

7 HIM showed today: Semi, Fireplex, Chattahoochee, TRex, Mr. Mom, Struedel, Flipper

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
15 mountain man pooper i/c

The Thang
Each HIM grabs a coupon

Tabata – 25/12

Modified merkin
Squat to coupon

Lung
Split squats

press jacks w/coupon
squat front raise w/coupon

3rd F
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14ZnESEgYci/

Modified merkin
Squat to coupon

Coupon chops
sprawled Curls coupons
(3/4 round due to time)

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

9 HIM showed today: Semi, FNG (Flipper), Probe, Struedel, Fireplex, Quattro, Motown, Chattahoochee, TREX

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: CHOP, Milton, DE

PAX: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Probe, Streudel, Woodstock

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 20 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

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

Mountain Climbers – 15 OYO

Windmills – 15 IC

The Thang

Pax completed the Hindenburg BLIMPS routine from the Exicon at the CHOP.  From the FD Flag pole mosey to Strawberry Alley and perform 1^st exercise, Mosey to Union Street/Strawberry Alley and perform 1st exercise, mosey to Union Street/Front Street and perform 1st exercise.  Mosey back to the FD Flag pole and perform 1st exercise.  Plank it up until all PAX are in.  That completes one round.  Rinse and repeat until all 6 Rounds are complete with the other identified exercises. Round # 1 – 10 Burpees, Round #2 – 20 Lunges (10 each leg). Round #3 – 30 Imperial Walkers. Round #4 – 40 Merkins. Round #5 – 50 Plank Jacks. Round #6 – 60 Squats.

F3 Message 01/22/26

The Jobs We Don’t Want To Do – #3008

As our kids were growing up, Saturday was always chore day at the Hutchcraft house. It was the day we got our leaves raked and bagged, rooms got cleaned – or hosed out like a monkey cage – it was the day the garage got dug out, the dirty clothes got clean, broken things got fixed, you know. Now it wasn’t that kids jumped out of bed on Saturday morning saying, “What do you have for me to do today, Dad?” No, Saturday mornings often involved some delicate labor negotiations – especially when it came to someone getting a job that meant more time and more dirty work than some of the others. That child might say, “I don’t want to do Job A. I want Job B.” To which I would reply, “I pay the allowances and the bonuses around here. (See, usually there was extra pay for extra work). Don’t forget lesson #1 of working – you don’t pick your jobs. The person who pays you decides the jobs you’ll do.”

Well, I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You about “The Jobs We Don’t Want To Do.”

Now our word for today from the Word of God comes from Acts 10, where Simon Peter is being assigned by His boss to do an unpleasant chore. Peter has been preaching Christ to Jewish audiences who knew the Scriptures and respected God’s laws. Now, God wants Peter to now reach out to go to the house of Cornelius, a Roman military leader, to reach out to this Gentile. Now Peter’s lifelong feeling about Gentiles could be summed up in one word – “yuck!” They didn’t know the Bible; they ate what the Jewish law called unclean foods; they lived outside God’s laws. Well, God sends Peter a vision to prepare him for this job he is not going to want to do. It’s a vision of a sheet with animals that Peter, as a Jew, considers unclean to eat.

Acts 10:13 – “Then a voice told him, ‘Get up, Peter, Kill and eat.’ ‘Surely not, Lord!’ Peter replied. ‘I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.’ The voice spoke to him a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.” Well, immediately Peter finds at his door men who have come to invite him to the house of Cornelius, the Gentile. The Bible says, “Peter said to the men, ‘I’m the one you’re looking for’…Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.” And the next day he’s off to meet Cornelius.

God gave Peter a job he really didn’t want to do. But Peter knew who the Boss was, and that the One who pays you decides the job you’ll do. Peter obeyed, and it led to some amazing results. Now maybe God has given you an unpleasant chore, and you’re balking, just like my kids on a Saturday morning.

It could be God is leading you to befriend a person who isn’t very attractive, who may be pretty demanding. Or the assignment may be to share Christ with someone who isn’t much fun to be around or is hard to talk to; or to minister to a group of people that you find irritating or even repulsive; possibly to work closely with someone who is definitely not your type. Whatever the job you don’t feel like doing, tell the Lord your reservations – like Peter. Then go ahead and do it anyway – like Peter. And like Peter, you’ll probably get some important results – in what it will do for them and how it will grow you.

I’m really glad Jesus doesn’t just hang around with people who are His type – you and I wouldn’t stand a chance. No, He will reward you generously for doing the unpleasant chores, the ones that will stretch you. So if your Lord is giving you a job you don’t want to do, will you trust His judgment over yours? Then start on it today without delay. It is an assignment Jesus has been preparing for you long before today. Believe me, doing what the Boss says to do will pay off!

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

Date: 12/25/2025

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

PAX: Chattahoochee, Fireplex, Motown, Probe, TRex

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

12) Side straddle hops – IC (4 Count)

11) Big boy sit-ups OYO

10) Jiminy crickets OYO

9) Donkey kicks – OYO

8) Windmills – IC (4 Count)

7) Mountain climber IC (4 Count)

6) Goofballs (ladder climbers) – IC (4 Count)

5) Cherry pickers – IC (4 Count)

4) American hammers (4 Count)

3) Mountain man poopers – IC (4 Count)

2) Tempo merkins (4 Count)

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

The Thang – 12 Days of Christmas Part Three or Doce Dias de Navidad La Parte Tres.  Each exercise was completed and repeated in descending order just as the Twelve days of Christmas Song would be sung.  After the Tuck Jump at the end of each evolution Pax completed a Nur across the Fire Department parking lot and a run back before starting the next exercise.

1– Tuck jump

2 – Mountain climbers (4 Count)

3 – Hand release, diamond, wide & ranger merkins

4 – LBC’s (4 Count)

5 – Burpees

6 – Donkey kicks

7 – Iron Mikes

8 – SSH’s (4 Count)

9 – Apolo Ohno’s

10 – Shoulder tap merkins – ATM’s

11 – Full motion squats

12 – Big boy sit-ups

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 12/25/2025

How Christmas Rightsizes the World – #10160

December 19, 2025

One of the amusing sides of Christmas is people shopping in departments they never otherwise shop in – generally clueless. Let me give you an example that I can relate to – men shopping in the ladies clothing department. Oh, we’re a mess. Now, if you need a good laugh; you’re feeling a little down, you ought to go to the ladies garment department somewhere; especially the more personal the item is, the funnier it is to watch men shopping. They’re slightly embarrassed, generally incompetent at what they’re doing, and it’s very important if you’re going to go shopping for a woman during the Christmas season that you get the woman’s size: your wife, your mother, your sister, your girlfriend, or whatever. And you trust that the tags are right, of course, on the size. You know that a small had better be a small, because you don’t know anything. A large had better be a large. Now, you want to know how to sow some confusion and have some fun? (Don’t anybody do this, please.) Imagine if someone snuck into that store late one night and just changed the tags around. Well, people would make a lot of wrong choices, all because the sizes were wrong. Now, that doesn’t happen to clothes, but it does happen to people, and it takes the Christmas Story to straighten out small and large.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “How Christmas Rightsizes the World.”

Our word for today from the Word of God is found in Luke 1:52-53. Mary is pregnant; she’s carrying the baby Jesus, and we get a little idea of the insight God has given her as she prays this prayer, what is often called The Magnificat. She says, “God has brought down rulers from their thrones, but He has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things, but He has sent the rich away empty.”

You know, Mary has the right sizes on the right people. She has the smalls on the small, and the bigs on the big. You see, the world would call these the big people – those people who are called rulers and rich. But she says, “the rulers have been brought down. The rich have been sent away empty.” God’s heroes – the people the world calls small. They’re identified as the humble, who He lifts up, and the hungry, who He fills up.

You see, what is a big deal to men is a little deal to God – big deal like money, gifts, title, fame. That’s a little deal to God. Conversely, what’s a little deal to men: “You don’t have much money. You don’t have much influence. Not many people know you. You’re average.” See, that’s a big deal to God. You hear people say all the time, “Well, I’m just a… I’m just a student. I’m just a mother. I’m just a secretary. I’m just a helper. I’m just a Sunday school teacher. I’m just a laborer. It’s just a small church. It’s just a little class. I’m just a choir member.” With God, there are no “just a’s,” not in God’s value system.

Bethlehem, we’re told, was “little among the villages, but out of you (little village) will come the Prince,” Mary, the peasant but the Mother of God’s Son. Shepherds, the outcasts of their society, the first evangelists. I wonder if you have the two qualifications for God’s heroes: humble, which means you are totally depending on the Lord, and hungry, restless to know and serve Him more. God likes to make folks like that big for Him – the humble and the hungry.

Remember to give attention to the people others ignore. They’re the big people to God – children, the poor, the powerless. Oh, by the way, don’t ever call yourself “just a…” again. God does His biggest things through the smallest instruments. Call big what God calls big. Make sure you’ve got the right size.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex