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Ragamuffin Barbell
by Crossfit Coach Kris & Pastor Tim Morey
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, and how God may be speaking and teaching us personally from either direction.
Episodes
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“How to Follow a Rabbi,” EP: 026
How do we teach a person to overhead squat? How do we teach a person to pray? The two processes can often look very similar. In this episode, Koach Kris and Pastor Tim sit down with Logan White, youth minister extraordinaire to talk about discipleship – how we come alongside another person to…
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“Games Athlete Kelli Holm: Grace in Adversity,” EP: 025
Where do we develop the fortitude to get us through life’s unexpected difficulties? In today’s episode, CrossFit Games competitor Kelli Holmes joins Kris and Tim to talk about how her faith and the lessons forged in the gym helped her through a failed drug test, how she eventually proved her...
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“Becoming Who We Are,” EP: 024
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...
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“David Hippensteel: Our Bodies are Made for This,” EP: 023
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...
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“Community is the Secret Sauce,” EP: 022
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...
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“When Our Bodies or Workouts Become an Idol,” EP: 021
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...
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"Understanding Recovery," EP: 020
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…
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“Learning How to Trust,” EP: 019
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…
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"A Brush with Death," EP: 018
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…
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"Fitness as Worship," EP: 017
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…
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"Filling Up the Goal Buckets," EP: O16
Goals. We all make them, especially as a new year rolls around. On today’s episode, Kris and Tim talk about do’s and don’t’s they’ve learned in goal setting, and about their own physical, spiritual, family, and vocational goals as they head into 2019.
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(A Brief Addendum to EP 015)
Testing 1, 2, testing . . .
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“Fitness as Spiritual Discipline,” EP: 015
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...
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"Fitness As Stewardship," EP: 014
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…
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"Making Time Count," EP:013
This week Koach Kris and Pastor Tim sit down with Jeremy Brandt – actor, airline pilot, and all-around tall handsome dude. The topic: how, in the midst of all the busy, do we make sure we’re doing what’s most important? How do we use time in a way that honors God? This too is spiritual.
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“Fitness As Ministry,” EP: 012
Can helping people find greater physical health be part of our service to God? And can it open the door for spiritual health as well? Today Tim and Kris discuss the ways that our work in the gym can be a means of bringing God’s work of grace into people’s lives.
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"Making Wonder Women," EP: 011
What if you decided to start a CrossFit box, and accidentally discovered it was a ministry too? This week Tim and Kris sit down with Betsy Chou and Britt Faris, two women who are making ordinary moms into Wonder Women.
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"Reaching For the Secret Sauce," EP: 010
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…
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“Embodied leadership,” EP: 009
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…
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“Living with Purpose,” EP: 008
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...
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Episode 007, “Growing the Body and Growing the Soul”
How can physical exercise help us grow spiritually? Dr. Tim Morey and Koach Kris Germain are joined again by Pastor Nick Tawa, as he weighs in on meeting God in the midst of injury, discovering who we truly are, and shares from a class he recently taught on exercise as a spiritual discipline.
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"Grappling with God and Grappling with Life," EP: 006, Alex Stuart
This week Tim and Kris are joined by Alex Stuart, 2nd degree black belt and instructor at the world-famous Gracie University jujitsu school. Alex goes deep, reflecting on how God has met him in some of the hardest fights life can throw at a person.
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"How Growth Really Happens," Episode: 005, Nick Tawa joins the show to talk about the surprising, counter-intuitive factors that contribute to our growth as athletes and as people.
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…
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"Alas, poor Yorick", EP: 004, Dan Harty talks about a unique place to meet with God, living life as an AMRAP, and the drive to remind everyone of our 100% mortality rate.
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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"Training vs. Trying", God has a very personal training plan for you spiritually, and he's ready to free you from the burden of just trying harder.
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…
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"The Goal is Transformation", How progressions and growth in the physical can help build a Functional Spirituality, with Doug Lee.
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...
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"Athlete, Ragamuffin, Child of God!", wrestling with your identity as an athlete and child of a loving God.
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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, and how God may be speaking and teaching us personally from either direction.
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Crossfit Coach Kris & Pastor Tim Morey
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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...
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