41 Days Until Bataan....7 pounds lost.

Day 5 of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge. Weighed in this morning at 193. Started the program at 201 pounds. Love it.

The training for the "Mission" is going to plan. Since I was out of town on Saturday, which is usually my long ruck day, I elected to do a Cross Fit WOD (workout of the day) with my wife at Comal Crossfit instead of trying to make it up on Sunday. Last Sunday I did about 19 miles (with a 35 pound ruck on), and feel very confident that I am on pace to be race ready come March 25th.


Some of my teammates did get out and beat the pavement this weekend. Mike and Jason did a 20 mile ruckless run in under 4 hours, and on Sunday, Clay did a 18 mile ruck in 4:54. Clay has really been working hard at his Bataan training and will kill the course come race day. He is also one funny SOB, and stopped along the route to pose with this llama.

In my last post I wrote about how art and even modern religion has painted this "picture" of who Jesus the man actually was. I sincerely do not understand how you can actually read the primary sources written about Jesus and picture him in your mind like this:

This looks like a woman. Read about what Jesus the man actually did. He did hard labor as a young man. He was out in the sun constantly. He walked everywhere. He got dirty. He got hungry. He got thirsty. He got physically tired. He was a human being just like you and I, and truth be told he hung around with some pretty rough ol' boys too. If you are a believer or not, these historical facts simply can't be argued. Jesus was a man.

It's really gotten under my skin for a long time now how religion and art has not only feminized Jesus the man, but made him "un-human". Do you really have anything in common with whoever that is supposed to be over on the left. I wouldn't follow that feminine looking guy across the street much less let him tell me that he is the way to true life.

I am a believer. I believe that Jesus was completely human and completely God. If you take either one away you lose him.

I read a book not too long ago called Beautiful Outlaw. Using the actual Scripture, it helped remove much of the fog that "religion" has covered Jesus in. I highly recommend this book.It will change the way you look at Jesus. I would especially recommend it to those who don't know Jesus because you have been turned off, not by something you read in the Bible, but by something you were told by a "religious" person.

I'll even send the first person that emails me their mailing address a brand new copy of the book completely free. Hit me up: levimontgomery1976@gmail.com

The following quote is from Beautiful Outlaw concerning whether or not Jesus had a sense of humor:

"Well, he created laughter. And think of the crowd he dined with. These rabble-rousers quickly earned Jesus a reputation as a drunkard and a glutton, and it wasn’t because they served water and crackers. This was a wild group, and surely such a crowd got rolling in laughter from time to time, if only from the joy they were experiencing being with Jesus. Now, surely the creator of these colorful characters didn’t sit there frowning, looking pious, Mr. Killjoy, Mr. I’m-Above-All-This."