Month: September 2024

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday September 22ND 2024, 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.

Last weekend (on Friday morning) I got the word to preach the sermon at my longtime home church in Homestead Florida on that Sunday morning. (It was a previously-scheduled visit that coincided with my Pastor’s vacation with his family.)

I preached on God’s “Music & Lyrics”. It was based on Psalm 40:1-3, and it included the following Scripture (in order): Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 23:34, Psalm 118:24, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 + 8:5b-6, Colossians 4:5-6, 1 Peter 3:15-16a, 1 Kings 4:32, Psalm 95:1-3, Ecclesiastes 7:14, Philippians 4:12-13, and Numbers 6:24-26 (Benediction).

It was also based on the current song “Beautiful Life” by Pat Barrett.

Due to unforeseen circumstances – I was without the use of our 3 big flat-screen monitors for my sermon, so my prepared PowerPoint Presentation was rendered useless. In fact – our Praise & Worship consisted of 3 of us singing along to selected songs via Spotify on my cell phone – with the wireless microphone placed at the end of my phone (to project the sound throughout the sanctuary).

My Pastor has some work to do when he returns from vacation – fix the laptop and its connection with the monitors. I’m not as technologically savvy as he is in that area. Electronics confuse me.

Back home here in Sebring Florida my Pastor was absent as well – on his way to a church conference in Indiana. We had a special guest Pastor preach the sermon, and I got to watch that on YouTube once I returned home. (You can watch it here.) Strangely – there were also computer gremlins in action during the service. I think one of the monitors was down, so for Praise & Worship our singers were not on stage. They were singing from the crowd, or as I like to refer to it – “the orchestra section”.

And so it was a unique Sunday morning last week at both of my churches. This morning should be normal, or as normal as God allows it to be. We know that He’s got a sense of humor, and He wants to keep us on our toes – not knowing what’s around the winding curve of His fantastic journey for us. He wants us to have faith in Him in all that He creates for us.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday September 15TH 2024, 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.

I’m in Homestead Florida this morning. I’ll be preaching a sermon at my longtime church. We’ll have a fellowship lunch after at a local area restaurant – hopefully a steakhouse. For those keeping track (only me ?) – this is my 29TH trip back to Homestead since buying my dream home in my dream neighborhood in my dream part of Florida (Sebring) 19 months ago.

Back home I’ll be missing our 10:30 AM service at Highlands Community Church, but I’ll watch it on YouTube tonight or tomorrow morning. We’re currently continuing our message series through Hebrews. Last Sunday we reached Hebrews 7:1-4, and our Pastor preached about Melchizedek – the king and priest together. He was the only such man in Scripture to hold both titles before Jesus. He foreshadowed the Messiah – Jesus Christ.

From Hebrews 5:6-10 (NLT):

And in another passage God said to Him – “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

While Jesus was here on earth – He offered prayers and pleadings – with a loud cry and tears – to the One who could rescue Him from death. And God heard His prayers because of his deep reverence for God. Even though Jesus was God’s Son – He learned obedience from the things He suffered. In this way – God qualified Him as a perfect High Priest, and He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him. And God designated Him to be a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Christ was humiliated. Christ suffered. And then – Christ was and is exalted. As the Son obeyed the Father – we believers and followers must obey Christ – the High Priest – for eternal salvation.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp