DEVOTIONALS

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: 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 Essential: Transformation Reading: 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 When you begin a fitness journey, you’re climbing a mountain few dare to climb. Along the way, you encounter habits, environments, and limiting beliefs that must be reshaped if you want to go far. You can make real progress through discipline and grit, but the biggest barrier often isn’t your effort, it’s your focus. What are you beholding? What are you fixing your eyes on? It’s been said , “Where focus go

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

Spiritual Training Cycle: Foundation (wk. 5/13) Reading: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 In July of 2013, a few months into my new journey of faith,...