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

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
21 Michael Phelps i/c
30 Moroccan night club i/c
10 hip circles each direction oyo

The Thang

Wosey to curbing

20 Mike Tyson sit thru oyo
Incline Bolt 45

Coupons stash had vanished, so we improvised with what ever we could

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 oyo
10 kneeling squat twist  w/coupon oyo
20 Curls for the girls
10 blockes
20 Bent over rows
30 urkins

Return coupons

Decline bolt 45 (all the way up to halfway down feet 6″ apart, all the way down to halfway up feet sumo, all the way down to all the way up feet standard)

Round of Mary
Hello dolly
Lbc
Flutter kick
Lbc
E2K
American hammers

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

7 HIM showed today: Semi, Quattro, Mr Mom,
Trex, Deep Lure, Maddog, Raid

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: 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

AO: CHOP, Milton, DE

PAX: Chattahoochee, Deez, Fireplex, Motown, Probe, Quattro, Streudel

QIC: Fireplex

Warmup

SSH – 20 IC

Moroccan Night Clubs – 30 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

Mountain Climbers – 20 IC

Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC (6 Count)

Mosey to “Oh Hill No”.

1. 1^st round – All Pax Nur up the hill and mosey back down and completed clock merkins on the incline.  Each Pax completed 2 reps of 5 merkins at 12 o’clock, 3 o’clock, 6 o’clock, & 9 o’clock.  All PAX planked until the 6 was in. 
2. 2^nd round – All Pax crawl bear up the hill and mosey back down and then completed the same 2 evolutions of clock merkins as described in Round 1.  All Pax planked until the 6 was in.
3. 3^rd round –  All Pax completed the boo boo Bear crawl up the hill and mosey back down and then completed the same evolutions of clock merkins as described in Round 1.  All Pax planked until the 6 was in.
4. Pause/Break for the F3 message.
5. Final round – All Pax completed the inch worm up the hill and mosey back down and then completed the same evolutions of clock merkins as described in Round 1.  All PAX planked until the 6 was in. 

Mosey back to CHOP.

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

F3 Message 04/24/25

Got the Pain? Get the Point! – #9869

November 7, 2024

America runs on coffee! Yeah, let’s face it! Now, you might object to that, but I don’t know on what grounds. You know, there are people who drink coffee, and then there are some who mainline coffee. I have friends who do that, and it keeps people like the makers of those little quickie coffee units very busy. In fact, those little units are a good example of the importance of something called the filter.

Now, when you pour into those filters, the hot water goes straight through and enough coffee gets through to taste good, but the grounds don’t get through the filter and you don’t want them to. I mean, the reason being that most people I know aren’t fans of chewing their coffee, and what makes the difference is the filter. Of course, there’s a much larger filter around your life that makes all the difference in your quality of life.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Got the Pain? Get the Point!”

Now, our word for today from the Word of God is found in 1 Corinthians 10. I’m reading from verse 13. “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man, and God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”

Did you notice those words “God will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear”? “Not let you.” In other words, everything has to get past God before it gets to you. It’s got to have His permission. So, God is reviewing every test and every trial that comes into your life before it gets to you. Otherwise the Bible wouldn’t say that He “let it come to you.” Every problem you’re facing right now has been, according to the Word of God, Father filtered. Wow! It can’t get past your Heavenly Father before it gets to you.

Of course we know that from the book of Job don’t we? The devil wanted to bring all kinds of turmoil and anguish into Job’s life. But before he could do that, he had to check with God. He couldn’t just go do it on his own. And God, knowing that it would build Job’s life, and that ultimately he would double the blessing on his life, said, “Yes, that’s okay. You can do it.”

The pain that we have in our lives, the struggles that we have, some of it God sends and some of it God allows, but all of it has to get past Him. Now, I find the hard times in my life much less terrifying when I know that God, if He hasn’t sent it, has at least allowed it. And He will never allow something to come into your life that can break you; only what will build you.

It’s like a weight lifter who, even though he has to strain and push and it hurts to lift more than he’s ever lifted before, he’s stronger as a result of lifting greater weight. God may allow greater weight to come into your life – not to crush you, but enough to make you stronger.

So, look for the Lord and look for the lesson in that tough time you’re going through. And if you’re going to get the pain, get the point. Your Father loves you very deeply; He’s allowed that to come into your life. Don’t say, “Is this from the devil or is this from the Lord?” I don’t think we’ll ever figure that out. But you can say, “How can God use this?” Because He wouldn’t have sent it if He couldn’t use it.

What are you facing right now? I’ll tell you this, It has been Father filtered. And the filter makes all the difference, because the Father loves you very much.

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

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

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

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