Ep 107: What to Wear While Running (w/ Adam Faughn)

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What can an interesting world 
record teach us about how we run

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our spiritual race? 
Well, our guest this morning 

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will tell us all about that here
in a bit. 

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Welcome to the show. 
I'm Daniel Dalp and this is for 

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your Sunday morning drive where 
the short podcast with the goal 

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of providing some motivation, 
Dr. and encouragement on your 

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way to worship and helping you 
recenter your mind on those 

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spiritual things on a hectic 
Sunday morning. 

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And Speaking of guests, I'm 
excited to have Adam Thon with 

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us here today. 
Adam, welcome to the show. 

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Adam is the minister at the 
Central Congregation in Paducah,

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KY. 
I see you post Adam all the time

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about your work and your 
excitement for the church and 

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the Christians there. 
Can you tell us a little bit 

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about yourself and the Central 
Congregation and and what makes 

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it such a special work? 
Well, what makes a special work 

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is of course, the the twofold 
thing that nearly any preacher 

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you expect any preacher to say 
is one side of course, is we're 

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following Jesus. 
And the other part is the people

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are just wonderful people, but 
we're we're blessed to be here. 

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I'm married to, we have two 
children who are young adults 

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now. 
So we're sort of quasi empty 

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nesters. 
And the congregation here at 

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Central has been just a blessing
to us. 

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We've been here just shy of 
eight years and we we absolutely

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love it. 
It's a wonderful, wonderful 

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place and has been for a long 
time. 

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Man, I just wish more people, 
especially more ministers and 

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preachers, could be as positive 
and loving about the places 

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where they serve as I see you 
being. 

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So I think that's a wonderful 
thing for your work and for the 

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the church that you serve at to 
see. 

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And I'm invested. 
So I think that's wonderful. 

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I appreciate that we central has
problems, every congregation 

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does, but sure, we we can deal 
with those internally. 

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The world needs to see the good,
because there's a whole lot more

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good than there is bad. 
Amen, Amen. 

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Adam also has a blog called 
Legacy of Faith and it's been 

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built over the years and I've 
read post contributed by you and

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your family. 
Tell us a little bit more about 

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Legacy of Faith, where it can be
found, and how long you've been 

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doing. 
It we decided a long time ago, 

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we had several family blogs and 
things we said, Hey, let's just 

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put these all under one roots. 
So I agreed to kind of be the, 

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the editor and chief bottle 
washer and all sorts of thing. 

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But, but it actually helped in a
way because I was trying to keep

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a, A blog for myself writing 3-4
times a week. 

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And that also cut it down to 
where I was just writing once a 

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week, but editing the other 
things. 

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And so for the I I care when we 
started now it's probably been 

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10 years, maybe more than that. 
And I tell people we were 

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serious. 
Our goal was if we could have 

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500 readers, that would be 
beyond anything we could ever, 

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you know, dream of having. 
And, you know, thankfully, 

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because of good people and 
because God just bless the work,

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we have blown way past that. 
And I forget the numbers now. 

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It's, it's not, it's not in the 
millions. 

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It's nothing along those lines. 
But, but Dad writes every week. 

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So my nephew Luke Tatum, who's a
youth and family minister in 

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Virginia, writes every week. 
I write every week. 

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And then one of the wives, they 
rotate writes every week. 

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And every so often be an article
by one of the grandkids or Leah 

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or someone else just sort of 
randomly stuck in there. 

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And so it's a 
legacyoffaith.substack.com and 

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obviously it's free. 
We just love doing it for. 

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People, I'll make sure that a 
link to that is in the show 

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notes of today's episode and 
also on for your Sunday morning 

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dr.com so people can make sure 
to find that and see the great 

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things that you and your family 
are doing. 

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But Adam, welcome to the show. 
I'm so thankful that you decided

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to be on this morning. 
Got some great thoughts to share

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with us coming up. 
Let's go ahead and get the show 

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on the road. 
This is episode one O 7. 

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What to wear while running. 
Adam, let's go to church. 

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Are we there yet? 
Some people love running long 

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distance races. 
Others, like me, can hardly 

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imagine it. 
For those who do run those 

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longer races, 10 KS, half 
marathons, even full marathons, 

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it's something they greatly 
enjoy and for the most part, 

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something they do to feel a 
sense of accomplishment. 

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But talk to those who run those 
longer races and they're going 

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to be able to give you a lot of 
tips about how to prepare 

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safely, about what to do to make
sure you maximize your chances 

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of running a good time. 
Some who are very serious even 

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talk about the style, the fit, 
maybe even the brand of clothing

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you should wear. 
Well, a woman in Arkansas 

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recently went against all that 
advice, but she did so 

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intentionally. 
In 2013 as a way to help her 

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lose weight, she began running 
and she has kept at it. 

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And over the intervening years 
she has done just that, losing a

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lot of weight and growing in her
health journey. 

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And so in 2025, she decided to 
run a half marathon in Fort 

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Smith, AR, but to run it in a 
way that honored her weight loss

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journey. 
And So what did she do? 

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She ran the entire race 13.1 
miles while wearing 55 T-shirts.

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All 55 were layered one on top 
of the other so they formed what

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sort of looked like a large 
cocoon around her body. 

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And so as she ran, she had all 
that weight, but also the 

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constriction of those T-shirts 
all working against her. 

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But still, though it wasn't a 
fantastic time, she finished the

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half marathon doing so in 3 1/2 
hours, all while wearing 55 

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T-shirts. 
By the way, one reason the story

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is just making the rounds in 
recent weeks is because it took 

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that long for her race to be 
certified as a world record. 

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The record for the female who 
ran 1/2 marathon while wearing 

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the most T-shirts. 
There really is a world record 

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for everything. 
But there are two things about 

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her story that got me to 
thinking. 1 is the connection to

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a passage of scripture we often 
cite when we think about running

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the Christian race. 
Hebrews chapter 12 verses one 

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through three. 
That passage reminds us that we 

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must lay aside every weight and 
the sin which clings so closely 

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so that we will be able to run 
our Christian race with 

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endurance. 
When you watch serious runners, 

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they do not put on any more 
clothing than absolute necessary

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because they do not want to be 
encumbered at all. 

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Yet. 
How often do we allow sin to 

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hang around us while we try to 
run our spiritual race? 

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Or how often do we allow things 
that aren't necessarily sinful, 

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but they're holding us back from
doing our very best to stay 

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right with us? 
Our focus, instead, must be on 

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Jesus. 
Exclusively on Jesus, as that 

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passage reminds us, that we're 
to be looking to Him. 

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Anything that threatens to take 
our eyes off Him, we need to set

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it aside, or as the Hebrew 
writer puts it, lay it aside. 

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But another observation comes 
from an image of the woman in 

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the race. 
Of all those T-shirts wearing 55

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T-shirts, the one that was on 
the outside was a very simple 

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white T-shirt that had almost 
nothing on it. 

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The only thing written on the 
T-shirt in very small sort of 

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block lettering was a reference 
to a Bible verse. 

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You see the T-shirt simply read 
Colossians 312. 

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Now if that passage doesn't ring
a bell, that reference doesn't 

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ring a bell in that verse. 
Paul wrote these words, put on 

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then as God's chosen one's holy 
and beloved, compassionate 

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hearts, kindness, humility, 
meekness, and patience. 

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While we often talk about how 
there are things that we need to

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shed in order to run our race, 
it is equally true that there 

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are things we not only can put 
on, but we must put on if we are

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going to run that race in a way 
that is faithful to God. 

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And here's the amazing part. 
Those things that God has 

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demanded that we put on while we
run our race, they don't slow us

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down a bit. 
In fact, they only make the 

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journey sweeter and smoother as 
we all seek to do these things 

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together, or maybe we should say
as we all seek to put on these 

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things in our own lives. 
And so as you worship today, 

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think about the race you are 
running. 

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Are there well 55 T-shirts worth
of things you're trying to carry

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while you strive to live for 
God? 

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Or are the things you have put 
on the things of God and thus 

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the things that make the race 
more enjoyable and more 

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effective? 
Your worship today should help 

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you reflect on those questions 
and should help you think more 

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clearly about knowing what God 
would have you to wear as you 

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run your race. 
Always, always looking to. 

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Jesus Adam shared some fantastic
thoughts with us for our Sunday 

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morning drive. 
Now it's time for you to share 

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yours. 
Our discussion questions for 

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this week are what do we allow 
to hinder us in our race that 

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would be better left behind? 
What keeps us from letting go of

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those things that weigh us down 
and what aspects can we build up

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or put on to aid us in our 
spiritual race? 

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Adam, thanks again for being on 
the show today. 

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I so appreciate what you shared 
with us and to our listeners, 

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thanks for tuning in this week. 
Keep running that spiritual 

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race. 
Look forward to the goal and 

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I'll see you Sunday. 
We're here.