Lesson #2: Strengthen Your Core

Our kids, 2004

"But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit." (Jude 1:20) 

Spring 2004, Ben was at Tusculum College on a new football scholarship, Rebecca was preparing for her wedding day, and Dan was a new recruit in the US Marine Corp. Needless to say, my highly-motivated kids were work-out/strength-training maniacs.

Two lessons I'm learning in lower back rehab:

Lesson #1: Bend the knee (Monday's blog post).

Lesson #2: Strengthen your core.

In the New Testament book of Jude, Jesus' half brother urged believers to contend for the faith and warned of worldly teachers denying the Lordship of Christ that had crept into the unaware church. Jude beseeched true Jesus followers to build up their most holy faith and lift high the cross of Christ.

In this godless world of ungodly acts, ungodly ways, and bold contradictions to the Word of God, I beseech you, true Jesus followers, to bend your knee to Christ, lift high His cross, and strengthen your core faith! 

"For He is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless, and with great joy. To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all times, now and forever. Amen." (Jude 1:24-25)