Faith Workout

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 John 4

REFLECT:  How can we know...that we know God?
 
RESPOND:  
1 - Evaluate your daily routine.  Identify any regular habits that tend to distract you from the message of Christ.
2 - Evaluate your goals.  Identify any that are merely designed to create comfort and/or fame for yourself.
3 - List regular habits and goals that help you hear and share the message of Christ.

*Share your thoughts on comments and with your Faith Rx'd Chapter.

"So, my dear children, don’t let anyone divert you from the truth." (1 John 3:7 - The Message)

Faith Workout

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  Hebrews 13

REFLECT:  What is the motivation for the directives found in this chapter?

RESPOND:  
1 - What is "brotherly love?"
2 - Why are you drawn to love some people more than others?
3 - How can you be someone who draws others to love?

*Share your thoughts on comments and with your Faith Rx'd Chapter.

"And because we are thankful, we should worship God in a way that will please him. We should do this with respect and fear." (Hebrews 12:28)

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  2 Timothy 1

REFLECT:  Why was Paul unashamed?

RESPOND:  
1 - What hinders you from sharing your faith?
2 - What experiences have led you to be more bold in sharing your faith?

*Share your thoughts on comments and with your Faith Rx'd Chapter.

"God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." (2 Timothy 1:7)

Rich Froning to Share his Faith at Tennessee Tech University Monday, March 31st

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 John 3:11-24

REFLECT:  What is "the message we have heard from the beginning?"

RESPOND:  List 3 practical ways you have seen God share His love with others through you.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves."  (The Message)

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS

READ:  Romans 1:1-17

REFLECT:  Why does Paul call the gospel - "the power of God?"

RESPOND:  Name one person who has used the Gospel to break through a seemingly unbreakable barrier.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.


"I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome." (Romans 1:14-15)

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 John 2

REFLECT:  What does it mean to "walk in the same manner as Jesus walked?"

RESPOND:  List the barriers that make it difficult for you to love those who are difficult to love.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked." (1 John 2:5-6)

*A New Journey begins on January 1st:   

Living in Step With the Gospel

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  Colossians 2

REFLECT: How do we truly recognize the "powerful working of God?"

RESPOND: Identify the statements in this passage that originate from an improper view of God's power.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him."

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 Corinthians 13

REFLECT:  How long will love remain?

RESPOND: Identify one aspect from the definition of love in this chapter that you saw in someone else today.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"There is no fear in love..."

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Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 John 4

REFLECT:  What is the true source of love?

RESPOND: Identify three predominant sources of your personal fears.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"There is no fear in love..."

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Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 Timothy 1

REFLECT:  What was the goal of Paul's instruction to Timothy?

RESPOND: Locate one passage of Scripture that specifies God's love toward us.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  1 Corinthians 13

REFLECT:  How is LOVE defined?

RESPOND: Identify three places you have experienced the kind of love defined in this passage.

*Share your thoughts on Comments.

"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

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Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS

READ: 1 John 4

REFLECT:  How are we capable of genuine love?

RESPOND:  After meditating on this passage - Ask for strength to forgive someone specific who has been on your heart.

"We love because He first loved us."

Faith WOD - 9/27/2012

Read 1 John 3:1.  Write the verse on a note card and carry it with you all day.  Read it every time you think of it.

*Share your experience on Comments.

"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. ¹² It teaches us..." (Titus 2:11-12)

Faith WOD - 9/12/2012

Identify 3 people who are "tough to love."  Using paper and pen, write this statement & place their names in the blank:

"God made  ____________  in His own image." 

*Share your experience on Comments.

"Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. ⁵ You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain." (Psalm 139:4-6)

Faith WOD - 7/16/2012

Designate your "circle of influence."

1 - Identify 5 people you spend the most time with every day.

2 - Identify 5 people you see every day that you may, or may not, spend time with.

3 - Identify 5 people you communicate with regularly over the phone or internet.

4 - Identify 5 people not among the previous 15 who witness your life, speech, and actions on a regular basis.

*You should have gathered 20 names through this exercise.  If there was some overlap, expand your list, so that you have 20 names.

*Share thoughts on Comments.

"We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Corinthians 5:20)

 

Faith Weekend WOD - 6/15/2012 to 6/17/2012

Add to your knowledge...

Commit this passage to memory:  "Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. ⁶ Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord." (Psalm 25:5-7)

*Share thoughts on Comments.

Here is a song that has inspired us this week, as we welcomed our new addition "Reagan Mercy" to the family.  With our other daughter, God has truly given us "Love & Mercy."

Faith WOD - 5/31/2012

Consider the five words you chose yesterday.

Today:  Apply them to everyone you meet - especially the "tough to love!"

*Share thoughts on Comments.

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. ⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus..." (Philippians 2:3-5)

 

 

Faith WOD - 5/9/2012

"Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in...LOVE..." (1 Timothy 4:12)

List 3 ways we can set a godly example in our love.

*Share thoughts on Comments.

 

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Faith Weekend WOD - 4/27/2012 to 4/29/2012

Add to your knowledge...

Commit this passage to memory:  "Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them." (James 4:13-17)

**Let us know if you can join us for the CrossFit Faith Event at the Central East Regional on May 12!  Link here

Faith WOD - 4/26/2012

Keep your eyes open for a need around you today.  Pray and commit financially to this need.

*Share your experience on Comments.

"'Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?'  The expert in the law replied, 'The one who had mercy on him.'  Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.'" (Luke 10:36-37)