DEVOTIONALS

Spiritual Essential: Obedience Reading: John 14:15-24 “If you love me, keep my commands.” (John 14:15) Everybody loves the idea of fitness. But not everybody loves the process. It’s easy to sign up for a gym membership, buy new shoes, or tell your friends you’re going to get in shape. It’s much harder to show up on a cold morning when your alarm goes off at 5:00 a.m. It’s one thing to say you want to train. It’s another thing entirely to actually train. In fitness, we

Spiritual Essential: Sacrifice Reading: John 15:9-17 Doing Extra Reps I’ve spent enough time in a CrossFit gym to notice something surprising. The strongest person in the room is not always the one lifting the most weight. Often, it’s the one who sacrifices the most. It’s the athlete who finishes her workout and then turns around to count reps for the person still grinding through theirs. It’s the competitor who gives up the chalk bucket so someone else can finish a lift

Spiritual Essential: Purpose Reading: 1 John 4:7-12 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God… This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.” (1 John 4:7, 9) In the CrossFit Level 2 course, one of the foundational pieces of effective coaching is demonstration . Before an athlete can move well, they need to see what “good” looks like. A coach doesn’t just explain the points of pe

Spiritual Concept: Heaven (wk. 4/13) Reading: Philippians 3:7-21 During the golden era, Gold’s Gym Venice was the mecca of bodybuilding...