Month: November 2025

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Blogging Driving Geography Travel

My Kia K4: The First Year

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This past October 22ND marked the 1-year anniversary of the day that I drove to my local Kia dealership and showed my saleswoman who greeted me the new car that I wanted to buy. (It was featured on their web site.) She retrieved the car, drove it to the front of the dealership, and I test drove it with her for a few miles. After that I purchased it. I paid cash for it (no financing). I drove it home.

I love my Kia K4 and all of its modern features and technology. Hopefully I’ll have it for a long time as my retirement car. Hopefully nobody crashes into it (like my previous retirement car).

I drove 7,420 miles during my first year of ownership. That actually included 8 round-trips to and from Homestead Florida. The outlook for my second year of ownership is perhaps 4,000 to 4,500 miles – an average of about 350 miles per month. (I may visit Homestead once before next October.)

Looks like I’m settling into a “stay close to home” low-mileage groove. I haven’t exceeded 500 miles in a month for the past 4 months in a row – soon to be 5 months with this month. (I’d exceeded 500 miles in the previous 28 out of 29 months.) This past August I only drove 256 miles. That was the lowest in a month since September 2021. And then last month (October) I only drove 225 miles. I wonder if I can manage under 200 miles in a single month ? I haven’t done that since the year of COVID.

I do want to embark on a few road-trips here in the local area of South-Central Florida during these upcoming winter and spring months. I need more material for future editions of #TravelThursday.

Speaking of which – #TravelThursday takes the week off next week for Thanksgiving here in the U.S.A. In 2 weeks – on Thursday December 04TH – I’ll begin a multiple part series about my adventures and experiences with family in North Texas. Let’s keep traveling together.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 457

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 November 16TH 2025 – the 457TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 16 Can’t Steal My Joy
[7TH week @ # 1]		 Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2 2 6 Dusty Bibles Josiah Queen
3 6 5 How Good It Is Chris Tomlin
4 4 22 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham
5 5 23 Breakdown Andrew Ripp
6 7 3 Lift Me Up Blessing Offor
7 3 11 Still Crowder
8 8 4 Won’t Start Now Seph Schlueter
9 10 2 World On Fire for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
10 9 5 God Story Anne Wilson

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Place In This World” – for King + Country Ft. Michael W. Smith
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Ain’t Nobody” – Cody Carnes
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

JOSIAH X BRANDON – Josiah Queen and Brandon Lake remain at the pinnacle of my chart for a 7TH week in a row. It’s now my longest-running # 1 smash since last December and January when Steven Curtis Chapman spent 7 weeks at # 1 with “Do It Again”. If it can hold on at the top for another 2 weeks then it’ll tie the 9 weeks at # 1 that Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship spent with “I Thank God”.

ONE-HIT WONDER – You may not remember the band Switch – but you probably remember their big hit “Symphony”. It was all over U.S. Christian Radio during the Summer Of 2019, and it still receives recurrent airplay 6 years later. It spent 15 weeks on my chart – peaking at # 2. The band that sang “Symphony” came out of the high school ministry of the multi-campus LIFE.CHURCH.

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.

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday November 16TH 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 after our Sunday morning gathering – we’ll be enjoying our potluck luncheon. We usually have it on the 5TH Sunday of the month, and that occurs 4 (sometimes 5) times a year.

That’s something that we rarely did at my first two churches in Homestead – gather together at the church after service to enjoy food and fellowship together as a family. I really like that we do it at my current home church. It’s a great time to sit and connect with brothers and sisters who you don’t get to talk with much on typical Sundays. It’s a great time to learn more about each other. The more you know about each other – the more you care and pray for each other.

3 weeks ago I began transcribing my sermon titled “Apostle & Elder”. I preached it to my second church family on Sunday October 18TH 2020.

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Here’s Part 4:

John continues – on why the truth and love is so important to him, and why it must be important to us as well:

I say this because many deceivers have gone out into the world. They deny that Jesus Christ came in a real body. Such a person is a deceiver and an antichrist. (2 John 1:7)

Sounds like a lot of people today in this world and of this world. There are false teachers everywhere. They deny that Christ came in a real body. They mislead believers. They distract believers. They try to pull them away from God and His Kingdom.

There are even false teachers inside church buildings today. You must verify what you hear from a teacher – from a preacher – from a pastor – from a televangelist. You must verify what you hear with God’s Truth. If it doesn’t sound right to you – then verify it with God’s Truth. God’s Truth is flawless. God’s Truth is the Word.

In the latter portion of the Gospel Of Matthew Jesus predicts future events. In red letters:

Jesus told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, for many will come in My name – claiming – ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many. (24:4-5)

Don’t be deceived by the imposters who pretend to know Christ – when they don’t. Or if they do know Him they intentionally say things that aren’t the Truth.

In the next few verses of Matthew – in red letters – Christ speaks of wars and threats of wars and famines and earthquakes. Sounds like 2020. Don’t be overwhelmed by these events. They will come and go. This is not the end, but the end is near.

Don’t follow the false prophets and the miracle workers who claim they are the Messiah. Jesus Christ is the One and Only Messiah !

[TO BE CONTINUED – NEXT WEEK]

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.

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1980s Blogging Career Driving Geography Military Music Radio Travel

The Other Side Of The Ocean

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It was exactly 40 years ago this past weekend – on the 10TH of November of 1985 – that I arrived in a foreign country solo for the first time in my life – as a young 18-year-old. I was 5 months into my USAF career – having spent 6½ weeks at Basic Training at Lackland AFB near San Antonio Texas and 3 months at Tech School at Chanute AFB near Rantoul Illinois.

It was a cold Sunday morning at London’s Heathrow Airport, and I had flown all night from Washington Dulles Airport. Of course I lost 5 hours overnight with the time difference.

I made my way to the British Rail station at the airport. I took that to Reading – where I got off the train. Oops. I wasn’t supposed to get off there. I got confused. I ended-up waiting at that station until the next train arrived. That didn’t take very long. I got on it, and I continued on to Swindon. At the Swindon station I hired a cab to take me to my new home and workplace – RAF Fairford – about 13 miles / 20 kilometers away.

The cab driver was nice and friendly. He welcomed me to the U.K., and he turned up the radio for us to listen to. I think we were listening to GWR. An eerie song came on that I had never heard before. It was Talking Heads with “Road To Nowhere”. How appropriate for that song to play on the radio as I was being driven on the left along narrow and winding country roads from Swindon in Wiltshire to RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds of Gloucestershire.

That was the start of my 2-year and 1-week adventure in the south of England as an 18, 19, and 20-year-old. I got to see a lot of England, Scotland, Wales, France, Belgium, and Netherlands. I wish I had seen more of the European continent, but I’m grateful for the areas that I did get to experience while I was over there.

I’ve attended over 150 concerts and live events in my life (115 since 2000), and the first 17 all occurred during those 2 years in England.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about my driving – or lack of it – over the past year. Let’s keep traveling together.

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