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Fall Walk With 3 and 5

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:37:19 -0700

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Race Day: Take 2

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:12:50 -0700

Race Day

I'm racing in the Lake Front Days Triathlon tomorrow. I'm nervous and excited. Should be a lot of fun.

Here are my goals for tomorrow:

Swim. 1/4 mile under 10 minutes

Bike. 13.5 miles under 60 minutes (shorter than the MPLS TRI but a much more challenging bike course)

Run. 3.3 miles. 33 minutes

Total time with transitions: 1 hour and 45 minutes

My #1 goal is to run the whole run this time. During my first triathlon, I ran out of steam and ended up walking and running the run portion of the race. Thr run is what I've focused on most in this month of training. It'll be interesting to see if I can pace myself better and run through the pain at the end.

Start/Finish

The Cleary Lake Regional Park Pavilion in Prior Lake is where the race with start and finish. I'll be starting about 8:10 and so if all goes well I'll be finishing about 9:50 or so. Maybe a bit before or a bit after.

See you at the finish!

Here are my results from the Minneapolis Triathlon

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They don't want to waste their life, yo!

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:11:00 -0700

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Phoebe and Ellie singing a Lecrae song on our walk

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Exciting Conclusion

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:24:00 -0700

Here's a link to the video clip of the exciting conclusion to my Triathlon 4 Orphans. Riveting. Simply riveting.

http://www.asiorders.com/view_user_event_video.asp?EVENTID=87077&BIB=3133&VLOC=Finish

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Final T4O Vlupdate 14: Thank You and Prophecy!

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:18:43 -0700

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Twinkies Game With The Boys

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:34:00 -0700

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Apparently, all I did at the game was eat!

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And a post about going to the Twins game with the guys would not be complete without a picture Matthew took to remind us where we parked. Thanks, Matthew!

And thanks, Richee and Matthew, for the extra pics!

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I'm a finisher!

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:57:00 -0700

Finisher. This is is what it says on the back of this metal. I couldn't have said it better myself.

I had so much fun competing today. I hope to do it again soon. This does feel like the start of a journey. I loved racing and I loved raising money for adoptions.

Thank you all so much for your prayer support, donations, supplies, encouragement. I truly could have or wouldn't have done it without all the help. The Holy Spirit truly does give grace to the weak. It's awesome!

Janet did a great little recap on her blog. I met my goal! She gives the details.

And Dave Willcock, who was a big help along the way, caught this video moments after I crossed the finish line. Classic stuff.

Here are the official results:

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Tomorrow We Race! Watch Out For 3133

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:12:50 -0700

Tomorrow morning at 8:46am CDT, I will be getting in the water and starting something I honestly thought I would never do. As a kid I used to watch the CBC on Saturdays as they showed Ironmans. I always thought it would be so cool to ride/run through a water station, grab a cup of water and dump in on my head. Tomorrow with number 3133 on my chest, I will actually do it! What a blast it will be. The last six weeks have been a great journey and, I'm asking the Lord to help me make this just the start of a new pattern of being more healthy.

My goal tomorrow is to finish in under 2 hours. So that would be about a 20min swim, 60min bike ride, 35min run, and 5min in the transition area. To see me finish you'd have to get to the Start/Finish by about 10:30 or so. There are also great places to watch the race all along the course. I'd recommend somewhere along the St.Paul side of the bike portion of the course. It's gorgeous all along the Mississippi River there.

This picture is a hint to the sweet accessory I will be sporting as I run tomorrow so you really can't afford to miss that. And I just might have my shirt off so you really should miss that. I guess you'll just need to weigh the pros and cons of it all.

The document below has all the details you need if you want to come down.

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One more more thing. You can track me as I race by getting periodic text messages as I progress along the course. You'll be able to know exactly where I am and make sure I haven't passed out in a ditch somewhere. My bib number will be 3133 and I can be tracked here: http://www.peaktiming.com/sms/mplstri2011/

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T4O Vlupdate 13: Weigh In!

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:28:00 -0700

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2 days to go and so I wanted to see how close I was to my goal of 250lbs for race day. Join me as I step on the scale LIVE!

Update:
All the Triathlon 4 Orphans race day info you need: http://djhorse.posterous.com/tomorrow-we-race
You can still donate: http://djhorse.posterous.com/donate

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July Global Bridegroom Fast

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:16:00 -0700

We are in the middle of this month's Global Bridegroom Fast. Be encouraged that the Lord sees your desire to love Him with all that you are. Wherever you are in your journey, His mercy is new today for you and His grace is available to you to love Him!

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. (Galatians 5:5)

It is only by the Holy Spirit in us that we are able to fight the good fight and love God and others when so much wars against us. Only by the Spirit can we "eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness". We are pulled to desire and pursue things that will not endure into the age to come. The resurrection of our bodies is our "hope of righteousness"! If we endure, we will live forever when Jesus returns. We eagerly wait now and hope in the Lord and in the promise that He will return and make all things new!

Here are some thoughts I wrote last week on my journey with fasting.

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It Begins With The Belly

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:30:00 -0700

I've been on this journey of living a fasted lifestyle* for about 6 years now. I have had ups and downs all the way along. I heard someone say once that the benefits of fasting are not measured by weeks or even months but in years. As I look back over the last 6 years, I couldn't agree more. Most of my fasting has been uninspiring, grumpy times but as I look back I see a heart that is getting a bit more tender to the Lord and His Word is becoming alive to me.

Fasting is about way more than just not eating a few meals a week. Fasting as a lifestyle is about staying in touch with our daily, minute by minute need of God's grace (divine favor, divine enabling to persevere in our calling as faithful witnesses to God's appointed Messiah, Jesus, and His coming kingdom). As the psalmist says, "...You are my Lord; I have no good apart from You." (Psalms 16:2). We truly have no chance of being faithful to the end without grace. The Holy Spirit has been given as a deposit of the grace that will be given to us fully at the revelation of Jesus. At the resurrection. We must daily access this grace by asking for it. Prayer is the means by which we access the grace we need to walk out our calling faithfully.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you (i.e. resurrected body, cf. vv.3-5), searched intently and with the greatest care… Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:10-13

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16

So then fasting from food is just a small, albeit essential, piece of living a life of dependence on the Holy Spirit, the fasted lifestyle. If we are fasting a few meals a week but then stuffing our selves the rest of the week with whatever we "want" (food, media, etc.) we will not be well positioned to respond to the Spirit. Being self controlled and restrained is essential if we want be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, if we want to be watchful and awake and in the light at the end of the age. I am called to live restrained and in light of the Day of the Lord. Wether I am alive and on the earth when Jesus returns or if I am coming with Him from the height of the heavens, I am called to watchfulness and sobriety.

The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert (watchful) and of sober mind so that you may pray.. 1 Peter 4:7

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and self-controlled. 1 Thessalonians 5:6

Another piece of living a fasted lifestyle is seeing our need to be one with Jesus in His suffering. There is no other way to be included in His kingdom. The cross is essential to our being joined to Him and included in His kingdom when He returns. We will be an equally yoked bride with Jesus. If Jesus needed to suffer first before entering into His glory, we should not expect anything different.

And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.” Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? Luke 9:22-25

Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12:25

Therefore it is very interesting to me that Paul says one of the key things that distinguishes the enemies of the cross from those that will be resurrected to be like Jesus is that their belly is their god. This has been a verse of dread for me. I have felt and still do feel the pain of addiction to food. I am so easily distracted from living in light of that Day and filling the void with stuff that, in the end, will not satisfy.

For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself. Philippians 3:18-21

I've found in my experience that living a life of restraint, the fasted lifestyle, really begins with the belly. I find it very interesting that Jesus says that the river of the the life of the Spirit comes from deep within...from our bellies (John 7:37-39). So we can either have a life of restraint and dependance on the Holy Spirit from our bellies our we can have our bellies run the show and lead us down a path of self indulgence and self reliance. As long as the bridegroom is away, I will fast and pray in eager expectation of the day of resurrection when I will be raised to be like Him and He will make all things new!

"And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast." Matthew 9:15

*The fasted lifestyle means taking the realities of fasting and prayer and letting them touch and have impact on all areas of our lives.

More on the Fasted Lifestyle:
http://bit.ly/Intro2FastedLifestyle

More on Accessing Grace Through Prayer:
http://bit.ly/GracePrayer

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Donate

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:46:00 -0700

Even though the inagural Triathlon 4 Orphans is finished and I reached my goal, you can still give to the Olive Tree Adoption Fund

How can I donate?
1. Online. Go HERE and then choose option #1. Just mention Olive Tree Adoption Fund in the comment section when given the opportunity at the end of the PayPal payment process.

2. Send a check made out to Olive Tree Adoptions to Bethany Church, 6900 Auto Club Rd., 55438. Add a note that says Dave's Triathlon.

A recap of the Triathlon 4 Orphans can be found here:
http://bit.ly/tri4orphans

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