Month: December 2020

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 13, 2020

Greetings my friends ! This is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us continue to praise, to worship, and to learn more about our God who loves us.

It is Sunday December 13TH 2020 – the 3RD Sunday of Advent with just 2 more Sundays remaining in 2020. I’m not preaching this morning. I get to watch my Lead Pastor preach for the first time since 4 Sundays ago. I love his preaching style. He is never boring, and I always walk away from his sermons educated, enlightened, informed, and (most importantly) – closer to God. I usually walk away with new ideas for future sermons. He gets me into the Bible to take-in more of God’s wisdom.

I love to preach, and I will never turn down an opportunity to do so. It is an honor and a privilege to share God’s Good News with my brothers and sisters of my church family, as well as anyone else who will listen to me. But an important part of my ministry is hearing, listening, and absorbing God’s Word as told by others – my Lead Pastor, my Praise & Worship Pastor, the Christ-led musicians who I feature on here every Monday, and a few select TV preachers who I enjoy watching every week.

This past Wednesday night a bunch of us gathered together at our church building to decorate the sanctuary for Christmas. We got it all done in just about an hour, and now it looks a lot like Christmas. We did a good job, but the most important part of that hour was the fellowship of our church family.

On the home front I’ve begun writing my next (untitled) sermon which will cover the second-half of John Chapter 16. It’ll be the follow-up to “Spirit & Truth” – my sermon of 2 weeks ago which covered John 16:5-15. I’d also like to simultaneously write my next Malachi sermon. (I preached on Malachi during the final Sunday of August. There’s more to reveal there.)

You see as Jesus hung on the cross the world thought it had won. The world rejoiced over what it saw. The world thought it had conquered the light. Meanwhile His disciples wept and mourned over what they saw, but Christ had revealed and promised that their grief would be short-lived. Their grief would become joy over what would soon happen.

Tags Bible, Blog, Christian, Church, God, Minister, Ministry, Scripture, Sermon

1990s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1995

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 11, 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 15, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 10TH 1995:

“Forever Tonight” – Peter Cetera & Crystal Bernard
“Back For Good” – Take That
“Til I Hear It From You” – Gin Blossoms
“Too Much Love Can Kill You” – Queen
“Free As A Bird” – The Beatles

The Beatles were the hottest band in the U.S. and the world when I was born in 1967, and they stayed that way until they broke up 3 years later. This track started as a raw 1977 recording by John Lennon. Paul, George, and Ringo got together in early-1994 to resurrect the recording and enhance it. Jeff Lynne produced it (requested by George). The result was the first new Beatles song in 25 years – and a Top 10 smash on the U.S. pop chart exactly 15 years after John’s death. It was a smash all across North America, Europe, and Australia / New Zealand.

When I rediscovered ’60s and ’70s music on the radio starting in 2010 I started enjoying the music of The Beatles all over again. I’ve actually got 28 Beatles songs in my iTunes library. My most-played songs are “Hello Goodbye”, “Lady Madonna”, and “Penny Lane”.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to December 1990.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with 3 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

Tags 1995, Beatles, Music, Radio

Blogging Driving Travel

1,000 Miles

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 10, 2020

♫ But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door ♫

No. I have not walked 1,000 miles this year. I’ve walked over 700 miles though. In 2019 (a “normal” year) I walked about 900 miles. Same for 2018.

This past Monday I hit 1,000 on my odometer of my new car – in my 116TH day of driving it. That’s an average of less than 9 miles per day. It was a tough 1,000 miles. I get the feeling that the next 1,000 miles won’t take another 116 days to do so. Looking back to earlier this year I actually drove 1,175 miles in June and 1,227 miles in July – mostly in a road-trip between South Florida and South Alabama. I don’t have any long road-trips like that one planned anytime soon; although, I am planning a trip over to Southwest Florida towards the end of March. By then I expect to be over 2,000 on my odometer.

Now that the weather is cooler, dryer, and nicer here in South Florida I plan to get out more, and drive around to various tourist attractions near me. I may even drive down U.S. 1 into the Florida Keys. The “18-Mile Stretch” is what we call the stretch of U.S. 1 between Florida City (mainland) and Key Largo (top of the Keys). I live about 3 miles from the north-end of the stretch.

I haven’t driven down to the Keys in about 6 years. (I was last in Key West not quite 3 years ago via cruise ship.)

I think that an ideal trip would be to drive southward into the Keys on a Monday or a Tuesday, spend a couple of nights in Marathon or Key West at a hotel, and then return northward on a Wednesday or a Thursday (avoiding all weekend traffic during this “high season”). Of course I’d have a list of fun places along the way that I’d want to visit.

Yeah let me get started on that list and that road-trip planning. I got excited just writing about it !

Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 199

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 7, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 06TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	8	2	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	1	10	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
3	5	4	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
4	4	15	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	2	14	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
6	3	14	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
7	7	4	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
8	6	9	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
9	9	2	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	10	2	Sparrows	Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Well that was quick. Mr. Andrew Ripp drops to # 2 this week after just a single week at # 1. “Jericho” is the first # 1 smash in 20 months to only spend 1 week at # 1. (The last to do so was “Greatness Of Our God” from Newsboys.)

Newcomer Cade Thompson is now the 4TH artist in a row to secure the # 1 spot with his very first hit (following Cain, Matty Mullins, and Andrew Ripp). All 4 artists with their respective # 1 hits occupy 4 out of my Top 5 spots this week.

Last week I featured the Official Lyric Video of Cade’s “Every Step Of The Way”. This week it’s Cade in his own voice and words explaining the meaning “behind the song”. Check it out below, or on Cade’s YouTube site.

♫ Every step of the way
You’ve been – You’ll be
Working everything for the best of me
So I’ll trust in who You are

Every step of the way
You’ve been – You’ll be
Fighting and writing Your love in my story
You’ve held my heart
Every step of the way ♫

I love how this song sounds, and I love its lyrics. It’s Cade proclaiming his trust and love for Christ – because of what Christ has done for him – “Every Step Of The Way”.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and a special edition on Tuesday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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Be blessed my friends ! May the 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.