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Kris Germain

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...

Episodes

20 of 27 episodes

“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...

00:57:07Feb 16, 2020

“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 Holm...

00:57:19Jan 10, 2020

“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?...

00:59:34Dec 7, 2019

“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...

00:58:32Nov 5, 2019

“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 Leve...

00:53:41Oct 13, 2019

“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...

00:43:22Sep 15, 2019

"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...

01:11:06Aug 7, 2019

“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. T...

01:02:27May 30, 2019

"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...

00:50:31May 6, 2019

"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 d...

00:52:21Mar 10, 2019

"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...

01:06:21Feb 2, 2019

(A Brief Addendum to EP 015)

Testing 1, 2, testing . . .

00:02:10Dec 31, 2018

“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 t...

00:54:27Dec 30, 2018

"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. Ev...

00:39:08Dec 7, 2018

"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, i...

00:46:13Nov 16, 2018

“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...

00:49:09Oct 12, 2018

"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 C...

00:45:38Sep 6, 2018

"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 sin...

00:44:08Aug 3, 2018

“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...

00:59:34Jul 11, 2018

“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,...

01:08:35Jun 22, 2018