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Labor Day

It’s #LaborDay here in the U.S.A. (and also in Canada) – a day set aside to honor all working Americans / Canadians. If you work for a living – then this day is for you.

It’s also the unofficial end of Summer and the start of Fall; although, astronomically Fall is still 15 days away. (This year’s Autumnal Equinox occurs on September 22ND 2025 at 8:05 PM EDT.)

Enjoy this day off (for many of us), and get ready to go back to work tomorrow. (Not me. I’m retired now.)

#MusicMonday is taking the day off today. My Top 10 Hits will be presented tomorrow – Tuesday. And then on Wednesday – I’ll present My Top 10 Hits of the Summer Of 2026 !

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday September 06TH 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 28, Edition 428
“20 Years Of Salvation – Part 4”

No 20TH anniversary celebration of this fantastic journey would’ve been complete without a trip back to where it all started – Homestead Florida. I spent 3 days and 2 nights there last weekend.

On Friday I enjoyed both lunch and dinner at Longhorn and Outback respectively. At each place I reminisced about the past and shared the current and future with a different former coworker friend. In-between the two meals I visited the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center inside Everglades National Park – a place where I volunteered as a museum docent for the very first time a decade earlier (2015-2017). I also visited (for the very first time) the Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum in downtown Homestead. I thoroughly enjoyed my docent-led guided tour of the place, as well as our friendly conversation about our respective museums and lives in Homestead.

On Saturday I visited my longtime traditional shopping mall of 35 years (Southland Mall in Cutler Bay), and then that evening I enjoyed a spaghetti dinner fundraiser in the fellowship hall at my longtime second church (2015-2024).

On Sunday I watched as my former Pastor preached one of his classic topical long-winded 65-minute sermons. (I preached differently than him, and he appreciated that.) Afterwards 6 of us (including Pastor and his wife) enjoyed lunch together at Texas Roadhouse.

It was a wonderful weekend back in Homestead. I got to drive through torrential downpours, flooded roadways, and bumper-to-bumper traffic jams in-between all of the fun.

Last #SundayScripture I wrote about my current church here in Sebring Florida – Highlands Community Church. Today is my 3RD anniversary there. I’ll be leading Communion this morning.

Let’s continue my story:

I was rescued and saved by God during the week of August 20TH 2006. Gradually – as I got closer to Christ and I learned more about Him and His ways – and I matured on my journey – I realized that salvation was not that single event that happened on that day when I turned that radio dial and started hearing songs about God. Salvation is not a single event. Salvation is an ongoing event. My salvation started back then on that otherwise mundane morning during my drive to work. And salvation continues to this day. And salvation will continue tomorrow. The salvation that we know now will continue until the ultimate salvation on the last day.

You know lives are being saved all around the world – one life at a time. When one of God’s children turns from the darkness – and moves towards the light – that’s another miracle. He or she was facing the devil, but now – he or she is facing the Savior of the world.

Sometimes it happens solitary – with nobody else assisting. God intervenes, and He reaches out to the lost soul in the pit of despair – out of the mud and the mire.

But I think that most of the time a life is saved because one of God’s Messengers – one of His royal priests – evangelized. When you evangelize – you spread or preach the Gospel that you know. You bring God’s Good News. And God commands all of us to do just that.

(I’ll continue this story – next #SundayScripture.)

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The Scenic City

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This week I’m writing about Chattanooga Tennessee. I’ve only been there once – back in August 1992 with my brother. We were on a road-trip from Huntsville Alabama to Atlanta Georgia by way of Tennessee. We spent the night in “Chatt” after crossing The Great Smoky Mountains earlier in the day via U.S. 441 (Newfound Gap Road).

34 years later I’ll be visiting Chattanooga for the 2ND time in my life, and I’ll be spending a single night at a hotel (just like the first time). The next morning I’ll be at Ross’s Landing to board my American Cruise Lines paddlewheeler ship with about 180 fellow passengers. It’s about a 15-minute walk from the hotel that the cruise passengers will be staying at the night before embarkation. (We’ll actually get a luxury coach bus ride over to the ship with our luggage.)

If my plane arrives on time (or earlier) at Chattanooga Airport (#CHA) then I should have about 4 hours of daylight in the afternoon and evening to check out the downtown area and riverfront (and also eat dinner). I hear that City Cafe Diner is a good place for any meal at any time.

Fun Facts: U.S. 27 runs right through downtown Chattanooga about 670 miles north of my home (which is also located along the historic route). Chattanooga is a border town, as its southern city limits straddles the Tennessee / Georgia State Line. Chattanooga shares the border with the city of Rossville Georgia. Much of downtown Chattanooga sits at an elevation of about 620 feet (along the river) to about 680 feet. Southwest of downtown elevations climb substantially to about 2,369 feet above sea level along the slopes of Lookout Mountain.

Next #SundayScripture – I’ll share more about my visit to Homestead Florida last weekend. Check it out on Sunday here at revchrismday.com.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about Decatur and Huntsville Alabama. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 498

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 31, 2026
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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 August 30TH 2026 – the 498TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	8	Breathe On It [2ND week @ # 1]	Tauren Wells
2	2	4	God I’m Just Grateful	Chandler Moore
3	4	9	Gonna Be Alright	Matt Maher
4	5	4	It Really Is Amazing Grace	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
5	3	14	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
6	9	2	Living Water	Cain
7	10	2	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
8	8	9	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
9	–	1	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
10	–	9	Perfectly	Micah Tyler

2025 – “Breakdown” – Andrew Ripp
2024 – “Take You At Your Word” – Cody Carnes
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “Hold You Tight” – Dan Bremnes
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “Miracles” – Colton Dixon
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

PHIL WICKHAM & CROWDER – Phil’s 14TH song on my chart – and Crowder’s 12TH – is a bonafide certified # 1 smash on the radio from coast to coast. Believe it or not – “It Really Is Amazing Grace” – was released way back in January. It took a while to start receiving spins on the radio, and some Christian radio stations have just recently added it as a new song to their rotation. Imagine my joy last Sunday morning when the Praise + Worship band at my home church kicked-off their four-song set with this song !

I’m up to my # 14 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010, and Stellar Kart are back. They were at # 12 with “Procrastinating”. 3 weeks after it fell off my chart in June 2007 – “Finding Out” entered my chart. It spent 17 weeks on my chart and went to # 1 – just like “Procrastinating” (on both counts). “Finding Out” is about learning more about God’s ways, and that’s exactly what I was doing back then, as I continue to do with each new day.

Next week it’s my # 15 hit, and as an amateur meteorologist I can almost relate to it.

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.