Month: February 2025

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 9, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 09TH 2025, 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.

What a weird week it was, but it’s wrapping-up nicely.

I got the “3-day flu” on Monday night. It came out of nowhere, and it hit me like a rock in the head – specifically from behind my right nostril to behind my right eye (sinus infection). I had nearly all of the classic symptoms (aside from fever). I was pretty much out-of-commission on Tuesday (the worst day), Wednesday (starting to feel a little better), and Thursday (starting to feel closer to normal). And then by Friday I was totally back to normal with an unusual amount of energy (after having lost at least 6 pounds of body weight over the previous days). Saturday was another high-energy day of great productivity.

He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. (Psalm 103:3 NLT)

Over the past few days I’ve been able to write the final third of my upcoming sermon titled “63 & 34”. I’m currently working on the PowerPoint Presentation that supplements it. I’ll be preaching it down south at my former home church in Homestead Florida 2 weeks from today. I’ll explain the significance of the title on that Sunday morning both here and there.

Today at Highlands Community Church our Senior Pastor’s sermon will be based on Revelation 2:18-29 NASB – God’s Message to the angel of the church in Thyatira. This is where Christ writes about the false prophet Jezebel. It’s the only place in the New Testament where Jezebel is written. (This is a different Jezebel than the original Old Testament Jezebel – wife of King Ahab.) You can watch the entire service from Praise & Worship to Closing Prayer via our Facebook page. It starts LIVE at 10:30 AM U.S. East Coast time.

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.

Tags Bible, Blog, Christ, Christian, Church, God, Jesus, Message, Minister, Ministry, Pastor, Preacher, Reverend, Scripture, Sermon, Sunday

Blogging Driving Geography History Music Travel

South Florida State College Arts

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 6, 2025

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It occurred to me today (as I’m writing this) that I’m coming up on 32 years of online activity here in Florida. It all started in a cozy studio efficiency apartment in Melbourne Florida during the Spring of 1993. Back then I was posting on a friend’s BBS (bulletin board system) before I created my very own – “MANx CAT BBS” (named after my childhood cat). It was a lot of fun back then, and perhaps the only subject that I posted about then – that I’m still posting about now – is travel. Back then I posted in “Fluffy’s Travel Bureau”. Today – it’s the simpler-named #TravelThursday.

Last Thursday I headed a couple of miles up the road to the Avon Park campus of South Florida State College (#SFSC).

My first stop was their Museum of Florida Art And Culture. It was my second visit to the museum. It’s a small museum – perhaps about one-third historical and two-thirds art gallery. They feature temporary exhibits throughout the year, and they had one this time titled “Echoes Unveiled” by Katya Neptune. It’s portraits of women and children that Neptune captured in Rwanda Africa in 2012 and 2014. The art pieces include matte medium, watercolor, polyurethane, thread, pencil, markers, and yarn on paper and fabric to embellish the large-scale photo-transfers.

There was actually a second temporary art exhibit adjacent to the museum inside the lobby of the concert venue. It was titled “Whiskers And Tales” by local 92-year-old resident Mary Seigfreid. It’s an exhibit on fluffy cats. And that brings this post full circle. (I saw a cat in her exhibit that kind of sort of looked like Fluffy from 35 years ago.)

Inside the concert venue – formally known as the Alan Jay Wildstein Center For The Performing Arts – I attended a free afternoon / matinee concert with the Charlie Redd Band LIVE. The 4-piece band (lead singer, guitarist, keyboardist, drummer) was very good. They performed mostly ’60s and ’70s pop classics – nearly all of which I knew and sang along with. Their encore was “Sweet Caroline” (Neil Diamond), and that was a lot of fun. They performed over 20 songs in 100 minutes.

It’s great to have #SFSC so close by so that I can enjoy LIVE concerts, and history and art in the same building.

Today I’m spending the day visiting Arcadia Florida for the first time ever. I’ll write about it – next #TravelThursday – Let’s keep traveling together.

Tags Avon Park, Florida, SFSC

Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 416

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 3, 2025

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday February 02ND 2025 – the 416TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	7	Running Back To You [3RD week @ # 1]	Seph Schlueter
2	2	10	In The Name Of Jesus	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
3	3	25	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
4	4	21	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
5	5	18	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
6	7	5	Goodbye Yesterday	Elevation Rhythm
7	8	4	A Thousand Times	We Are Messengers
8	9	3	Never Get Used To This	Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
9	–	1	Money Can’t Buy	Cochren & Co.
10	–	1	Desperate	Jamie MacDonald

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “I Believe” – Phil Wickham
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Rescue Story” – Zach Williams
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard

GRACEFULLY BROKEN – It was my favorite song on the radio exactly 7 years ago, and I still love it today. I’ve sang it quite a few times as part of the Praise & Worship band, and it’s the first of 3 songs that I’ve selected for Praise & Worship in 3 Sundays when I lead our Sunday morning service at my former home church in Homestead Florida:

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.

Tags Blog, Chart, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, Spotify, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 2, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 02ND 2025, 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.

Today I’ll be leading Communion after Praise & Worship and before our Senior Pastor’s sermon. My Communion will be based on Romans 3:22-26 (NLT) – which we read and discussed this past Friday Night Bible Study.

We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes – no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned. We all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God – with undeserved kindness – declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life – shedding His blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when He held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for He was looking ahead and including them in what He would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate His righteousness, for He Himself is fair and just, and He declares sinners to be right in His sight when they believe in Jesus.

My Communion was already written earlier in the week, so being able to read it in a different translation (NASB) and also discuss it with about 25 of my brothers and sisters was awesome. (We actually read and discussed the entirety of Romans 3:1-31.)

Today our Senior Pastor’s sermon will be based on Revelation 2:12-17 – God’s Message to Pergamum – a compromising church full of sinners who engaged in immoral activities and worshiped false gods. This Scripture complements our Friday Night Bible Study Scripture nicely.

At home – I’ve been writing my next sermon titled “63 & 34”. It’s about two-thirds complete. I’ll be preaching it down south at my former home church in Homestead Florida 3 weeks from today. I’ll explain the significance of the title on that Sunday morning both here and there.

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.