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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday March 22ND 2026, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

Volume 9, Number 4, Edition 404
“Returning To My Former Home Church”

This morning I’ll be returning to my former home church of almost exactly 9 years – from March 2015 to March 2024.

It’s the church that I went to the following Sunday after I left my first church of 8 years. It’s the church where I knew exactly one person when I arrived. It’s the church that was perhaps 40 times smaller in attendance than my first church (800 vs. 20). It’s the church that I went to for peace and quiet and recuperation and restoration. It’s the church that I sat in the back pew and kept quiet for more than a year in the beginning. It’s the church where the Pastor asked me to preach in that first year, and I politely turned him down. It’s the church where the Pastor asked me to take over Communion on the first Sunday of each month 17 months after my arrival, and I accepted the honor to do so. It’s the church where the Pastor asked me to preach (again) less than 2 months after my first Communion, and I said “YES”, and I did so in a hotel room in Hattiesburg Mississippi while driving home from visiting my families in North Texas. It’s the church where the Pastor let me preach over 60 sermons from 2016 to 2025. It’s the church where I was part of the Praise + Worship band for my final few years. It’s the church where I received my ministerial credentials.

Yeah – that church. It’s good to “go home” to my former home church. I no longer live in Homestead Florida. I moved away 3 years ago. But there’s still a home for me at Living Waters Full Gospel Church. I’ll be there this morning for the first time in almost 9 months. And then after our church service several of us will go out to lunch together and fellowship.

I was glad when they said to me – “Let us go to the house of the LORD.” (Psalm 122:1 NLT)

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know – then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

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Ag Tour

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Last week I wrote about the first 2 hours of my 9-hour “ag tour” that I went on 3 Thursdays ago – hosted by UF IFAS Extension – which stands for University Of Florida Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences. They have Extension offices in all 67 of Florida’s counties. (I’m in Highlands County.)

After our first stop a few miles east of Fort Meade along U.S. 98 at the Dundee Citrus Growers Association (CGA) Citrus Under Protective Screen (CUPS) farm – we headed east and then south back into Highlands County to the Avon Park area where we would make our next 4 stops.

Our next stop was a citrus grove east of Avon Park. We met 3 members of Biotech Applied Research (BAR) – including Zack Farr (Co-Founder, President, & CEO) and Jeff Williams (Owner of J.W. Harvesting – comprising of about 100 acres of citrus groves).

Jeff’s groves used to be healthy and abundant before greening swept across them in 2013. That’s where BAR comes in. They convert dead citrus (bio-waste) into biochar. What’s biochar ?

Biochar is a soil-focused charcoal made by heating organic material (like wood or agricultural waste) at high temperatures with very little oxygen. The result is a lightweight jet-black material filled with microscopic pores that hold water and nutrients in the root zone, create habitat for beneficial soil microbes, improve long-term soil structure, and stay in the soil for decades. It is not a fertilizer. It does not feed plants directly. Instead – it improves the soil so the nutrients and water you already add work better and last longer.

We all got a free bag of biochar along with an information sheet all about it. (I used some of that information above.) As a non-gardener / non-grower living inside a condo neighborhood – I had no use for it. So – I brought it to the Charles F. Weigle House Museum & Gift Shop earlier this month for one of our Wednesday Morning Socials, and I did a “show-and-tell” on it. I said that whoever wants it can have it, or else I would use it in our front garden of the museum. One of my friends there accepted it. He will use it in his home garden.

After learning all about biochar – we headed into town (Avon Park) to enjoy lunch inside at the Community Center (which I had never been to before). It’s actually located right next door to the Avon Park Historical Society and their Depot Museum – a place that I have visited and written about often.

We enjoyed a plate of steak (grilled outside), scalloped potatoes, veggies, and cookies for dessert. It was pretty good. The steak wasn’t the best quality cut, but it wasn’t bad at all. It was all served on paper plates (doubled-up) with plastic forks and knives, so that was not ideal. I lost part of a prong of my fork, so I had to find it to be careful not to eat it.

Next #TravelThursday – The Ag Tour concludes with caladiums, blueberries, and a geology lesson. Let’s keep traveling together.

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

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Post date March 17, 2026
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Enjoy this day my friends. Make it a good one. Make it a day that you can look back at fondly in the future.

May the LORD richly bless you today and every day.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 474

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday March 15TH 2026 – the 474TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	Where Would I Be [7TH week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	2	9	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
3	3	11	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac X Forrest Frank
4	5	3	I’ve Got A Fire	Pat Barrett
5	4	9	Finished	Caleb & John
6	6	22	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
7	7	8	The Love I Have For You	Colton Dixon
8	8	3	Keep Holding On	Jeremy Rosado
9	9	7	Make It Well	MercyMe
10	10	6	Good	Matthew West

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Never Get Used To This” – Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
2024 – “Hallelujah Anyway” – Rend Collective
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Brighter Days” – Blessing Offor
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

ELVIS – Last Tuesday I saw “EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert” at my local movie theatre. It far-exceeded my expectations for it. Director Baz Luhrmann did a fantastic job, and I loved every minute of it. I saw it in a surprisingly crowded theatre for a Tuesday afternoon, and I wasn’t the only one who was subtly dancing in my heated reclining chair. I was not a fan of Elvis or his music until just recently – during my 1970s rejuvenation in the 2010s. He was at the end of his career (and life) during the 1970s, and “EPiC” thoroughly covers those years of his Las Vegas residency.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Housefires scored a surprise runaway # 1 smash at the end of 2023 with “I Thank God” – also featuring JWLKRS Worship. It spent 9 weeks at the top of my chart, and it was my # 10 hit overall of 2023. (It was also my # 21 hit overall of 2024.) In 2026 our Praise + Worship band at my home church performs their version of the song on a regular basis. Before 2018 Pat Barrett was part of Housefires. His 5TH solo single is currently in my Top 5.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

Your likes, follows, and comments are always appreciated. Thank You for being part of my online ministry to share God’s Good News and win souls for Christ through His music. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

Be blessed my friends ! May our God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.