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Why workout?
Hey guys, I’m trying to work on an essay/course on the purpose of physical exercise and could use your input. What are your personal reasons for going to the gym and training? What helps you stay consistent?
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I put an emphasis on physical fitness to be a good steward of the body that I’ve been given, as well as just feeling better each day and being able to active. @Travis Redmon I appreciate what you said about physical fitness and discipline being important, and that they bleed into other areas of your life. I am realizing more how important discipline is at the micro level as well as the macro. If you’re extremely disciplined in the daily activities, but don’t have any long term goals to use them for, likely you’ll stay about where you are. And if you have big goals, but can’t perform the daily discipline, you still won’t grow, and potentially be in a worse place. I think I need to set more goals, even smaller ones, in the gym. I’m getting married in June, and that motive for working out has helped me break out of the plateau that I was in and enjoy my gym workouts more.
Defending your beliefs vs being open-minded. How to balance the two?
Context: Moses was living in the house of Pharaoh. He had survived being killed as a newborn baby, thanks to his mother and the daughter of Pharaoh. As he grows up, he seems to have a sense that he doesn't belong in the house of Pharaoh and that the Hebrews are actually his people. One day he goes out and sees an Egyptian attacking a Hebrew. Moses slays the Egyptian and buries him in the sand. Shortly after that, Moses witnesses two Hebrews fighting with one another. He goes to mediate the fight, but when one calls him out for killing the Egyptian, he flees into the desert to a well. There he meets his wife, a Midianite, and protects her and her sisters from thuggish shepherds. Shortly after this, he encounters God on Mount Horeb in the burning bush. Analysis: Defending your Brother, Home, Faith, Tradition. In this story, Moses is a Hebrew disguised as an Egyptian. He dresses like them, lives with them, eats with them. By all appearances, He is an Egyptian. However, we know his true heritage is with Hebrews. Moses also seems to have an inclination of that as well. Moses being confronted with the Egyptian attacking the Hebrew is a decision point for him. Does he choose to sit back and watch his true brother get attacked and even killed? Or does he make his decision to identify with the Hebrew and defend him? We face challenges like this all the time. When your tradition, your home, your beliefs are attacked by an outsider seeking to destroy, how do you respond? Some people choose to respond by ignoring it. Others choose to respond by assuming they deserve it. The way Moses responds is to defend. Healing Conflict inside the tradition, home, mind. The second situation is a little different. In the second fight Moses comes across, it is not between an Egyptian and a Hebrew, but between two Hebrews. How do you respond when there is fighting inside the home? One way to think about the difference between the two is to think about the difference between your home and your work. At work, if there is someone attacking (verbally or physically) another co-worker, the boss is warranted in cutting them off from the company and kicking them to the curb. However, if the same situation is happening between your kids or another family member, it is not wise to banish them into exile or death. (No matter how bad you may want to sometimes)
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New comment Mar 10
Defending your beliefs vs being open-minded. How to balance the two?
1 like • Mar 9
Alec, I think you are spot on with this. A common arena that comes to mind for so much conflict today is social media. There are so many instances of insiders (believers) posting their grievances with other believers, denominations, etc in the online courts of social media. They damage the testimony of Christ before the world by doing so with so little a possibility for there to be an opportunity for actual growth for themselves or the other party or any type of fellowship between them. Before engaging in conflicts externally or internally, we must be sober and vigilant, walking with the Holy Spirit to be aware of the type of fight we might find ourselves, and which response we ought to have. 1 Cor. 6:1-11
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Chase Swanson
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He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. Psalm 112:7

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