DEVOTIONALS

Spiritual Essential: Grace Reading: 1 Peter 4:7-11 “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” (1 Peter 4:10) Every athlete has a wheelhouse. It’s that movement or workout that just clicks. Maybe it’s a heavy barbell, a long grinding engine piece, or high-skill gymnastics. When it shows up for you on the board, you know — this is my lane. It’s where your strength, experience, and conf

Spiritual Essential: Grace Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) Every athlete knows about weak points. It’s the place in a lift where the bar slows down or stalls out. Maybe it’s coming out of the bottom of a squat, locking out a deadlift, or stabilizing overhead. You can’t ignore weak points. They show up every time the load gets heavy. And if you want to grow, you don’t avoid the

Spiritual Essential: Grace Reading: Ephesians 2:1-9 Anyone who’s ever started a fitness journey usually says they want to become a better version of themselves. So, we build the plan. We train, prep meals, wake up early, push through workouts we don’t feel like doing, all chasing that future version. But if you sit down with enough people as I have, you start to notice a pattern. Before the plan, before the structure, their life was already heading somewhere. Not by cha

Spiritual Essential: Grace Reading: Titus 2:11-14 There’s something powerful about just being in the room. In the gym, you feel it the moment you walk in. The music’s up, the whiteboard’s full, people are moving, working, getting after it. And no matter your fitness level, there’s a quiet thought that hits — I get to be here . Not because you’ve mastered every movement or hit every PR, but because you showed up. There’s a sense of gratitude just for being present. That’s

Spiritual Essential: Grace Reading: Colossians 1:3-14 Grace Before the Weight Bad hips. They were an issue for me for almost ten years. Doctors told me it was likely genetic - just a matter of time until they wore out. Eventually, the pain and limitation became so severe that eight years ago I had surgery on each hip, four months apart. Today, I’m a double hip-replacement athlete. And thankfully, the hips are doing great. Like many people, I found my way back into the gym

Spiritual Training Cycle: Foundation (wk. 11/13) Reading: Micah 6:1-8 I have a friend who recently went through a difficult loss. When...