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Pastor Tim Morey & Crossfit Coach Kris Germain

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A Pastor and a CrossFit owner walk into a coffee shop. Pastor Tim Morey and CrossFit 310 owner Kris Germain share a love for CrossFit, training, leadership, and all things gospel. They have been getting together for years over a cup of coffee, to wade deep into the conversational waters of the Bible and barbell, grace and conditioning, the heartbreaking love of the Father and our identities as his adopted children. Listen in as they discuss the mysterious push and pull of Faith and Fitness, ...
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A newbie wanders into your CrossFit gym, watches for a while, decides they want the life they see, and signs up. Are they now a CrossFitter? Yes. Are they any fitter? Not yet. But as they move forward, over time they will be. Their outer reality will match the identity that is now theirs. It happens the same way in the spiritual life. Today Kris an…
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Dave Hippensteel is one of CrossFit’s most accomplished athletes, having competed seven times as a master in the CrossFit Games, and winning three (count them!) gold medals. As both a competitive athlete and a medical professional, Dave has a deep appreciation for the human body. In today’s episode, he joins Tim and Kris to talk about his journey i…
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Matt Lodin coaches the coaches. As one of the senior-most trainers (CFL4) in the CrossFit organization, he spends his weekends training Level 1 and Level 2 CrossFit instructors, and his weekdays running the on-site box at CrossFit’s San Diego headquarters. At this point he has done just about everything in CrossFit that one can do, and seen about a…
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Is there a point at which good care of our bodies crosses over and becomes a bad thing? Ragamuffin Barbell says “yes.” In this episode, Tim Morey and Kris Germain speak of their own understanding and experience of the idolatry that can pop up around body image, athletic performance, and being enslaved to our workouts.…
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It is one of those counterintuitive truths in training: rest is essential to growth. In other words, if you work out too much and don’t take time to recover, your body will actually get weaker, not stronger. The same is true of the other dimensions of our lives – without adequate time given to rest and recovery, the quality of our spiritual lives a…
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Dave Pabalate wears a couple of different hats. He is the owner of CrossFit Loomis, and the Worship Pastor at Rock Harbor Covenant Church. Turns out those two worlds overlap a lot – in ways that are bringing both spiritual and physical health to Sacramento. In this episode Dave sits down with Kris and Tim to talk about what happens when life in the…
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Jared Cave had a heart attack at age 31. As a campus minister with a wife and a baby daughter, his brush with death motivated him to rethink what life and ministry needed to look like. In this episode, Jared sits down with Kris and Tim to talk about the physical, emotional, and spiritual practices that keep us moving toward long-term health and lon…
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One of the earliest heresies the church faced was Gnosticism – the belief that only spirit was important, and that what we did in the body didn’t matter. Twenty centuries later, we still struggle to understand how our bodily life relates to our spiritual life. In this episode, Pastor Tim Morey and Koach Kris Germain talk about how physical exercise…
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How can what we are experiencing in the gym translate into a richer life with God? This week Kris and Tim talk through the second of their three lenses for looking at the spiritual side of fitness: physical exercise as a spiritual discipline (aka, a means by which we grow in our relationship with God). Along the way they talk about their hits and m…
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How is fitness spiritual? In this episode Pastor Tim Morey and Koach Kris Germain approach this question through the lens of stewardship. Everything we ever do in this life, we do through the use of our bodies. Determining to intentionally care for the gift of our physical well being can be one way we “honor God with our bodies.”…
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An often underrated component to the secret sauce we find both in the CrossFit box and in the spiritual life is encouragement. A word of sincere, honest, and well-aimed encouragement can give a person strength to keep going when they think their strength is gone. In today’s conversation, Koach Kris Germain and Pastor Tim Morey reflect on what it lo…
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Leadership can happen from a safe distance, or it can happen in ways that are personal and dirt-under-the-fingernails close. In this episode Koach Kris Germain and Dr. Tim Morey reflect on the ways their leadership has been informed by the Incarnation, and the ways they are learning the importance of generosity, hospitality, and proximity as leader…
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So there’s this guy named Eric Chang. He’s obsessed with making the people around him better. He does this as he coaches at CrossFit Reason, and he utilizes his box’s resources to make a difference in as many lives as possible. In today’s episode, Eric sits down with Tim and Kris and shares his story, which leads to some good conversation around wh…
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How does growth happen? In the spiritual life, as in the gym, growth is often the slow accumulation of small gains. In this week's episode, pastor and author Tim Morey and fitness expert Kris Germain are joined by pastor and CrossFitter Nick Tawa for a free-wheeling conversation about consistency, progression, vulnerability, parenthood and leadersh…
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What if we could learn to live our lives like an AMRAP? In this episode, pastor and author Tim Morey and fitness expert Kris Germain are joined by Pastor Dan Harty, who shares a spiritual discipline that is helping him learn to live his life with "intentional urgency."
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Pastor and Author Tim Morey, and Fitness Expert Kris Germain welcome back Pastor and CrossFitter Doug Lee to continue working through the idea of a "Functional Spirituality". In this episode our guys work through the similarities of biting off more than you can chew in the training world and in the spiritual world. Does the God of the universe meet…
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In this episode Pastor and Author Tim Morey, and Fitness Expert Kris Germain welcome Pastor and CrossFitter Doug Lee to gnaw on the meaty bone of "Functional Spirituality". We use progressions in CrossFit, and just about any athletic discipline or sport, to get more out of our bodies, and to be able to do more things, and do them well. We talk and …
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A Pastor and a CrossFit owner walk into a coffee shop. Pastor Tim Morey and CrossFit 310 owner Kris Germain share a love for CrossFit, training, leadership, and all things gospel. They have been getting together for years over a cup of coffee, to wade deep into the conversational waters of the Bible and barbell, grace and conditioning, the heartbre…
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