Month: January 2020

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 5, 2020

On this 1ST Sunday of the new year, the new decade, and the new season our Living Waters church body came together corporately to praise, worship, and celebrate our living Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. It was one of our biggest attended services in recent memory, and 2020 looks like a brighter year for the expansion of God’s Kingdom in Homestead Florida.

Our Lead Pastor Bob kicked-off a new message series today about Noah, the ark, the raven, the dove, and the olive tree. We are descendants of Noah, the ark represents the church, the raven represents death, destruction, and Satan, the dove represents life, love, and God, and the olive tree represents peace. Pastor Bob said that we’ll explore the story of Noah from mostly Genesis 7 and 8 over the next few weeks. I’m looking forward to it. I loved today’s clear and concise introductory message. It’s actually inspired a few future sermons of my own.

After another forty days – Noah opened the window he had made in the boat, and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. He also released a dove to see if the water had receded, and it could find dry ground. But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside. After waiting another seven days – Noah released the dove again. This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. (Genesis 8:6-12 NLT)

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2010

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 3, 2020

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 10, 15, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 10 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 03RD 2010:

“Trying” – Eleventyseven
“Rolling With The Punches” – Ruth
“Where To Start” – Philmont
“Forget And Not Slow Down” – Relient K
“Forest” – Number One Gun

This is the week that I reduced my chart down to a Top 10 (from a Top 15). The end was near. I would go on to compile and publish 4 more weekly hit music charts after this one (through the end of January 2010). Once February 2010 rolled in this hobby had ended after 14 years in a row (and over 30 years overall). The “Salvation Era” of my weekly hit music chart lasted not quite 3½ years.

On the 1ST Friday of the month next month I’ll reveal the never-before-told story of how and why this chart came tumbling down, and why I quit listening to Christian music on the radio. The story has a happy ending (obviously) – because here I am in 2020 listening to and promoting Christian music again.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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Happy New Year 2020 !

It’s time to kickoff a fresh new weekend, month, year, and decade of blogging here on WordPress. I don’t know if I’ll still be here at the end of this new decade, but I was here at the start of the previous decade. (I just didn’t stay very long.)

I blogged 171 times in 2010, and that dropped down to 6 in 2011 and 4 in 2012. After that I abandoned WordPress in favor of Facebook. I returned in 2018 with 167 blog posts, and that went up to 191 in 2019.

As was the case last year I’ll blog every Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday – with a few special Tuesday blog posts thrown in as well. Weekends start on Thursdays here, and my Thursday blog posts can be about anything that comes to my mind at the moment that I’m writing them. My Friday and Monday blog posts are music-centered, and my Sunday blog posts are inspired by Scripture.

My blog posts can be read in 3 minutes or less, and I never write about politics. This is a political-free zone in an election year that will be full of politics everywhere you look.

My other social media accounts include Twitter and Flickr – both of which you can link to here on the front page of this blog.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my regular Friday blog post. I’ll be going RETRO back to January 2010.