Author: Chris M. Day

I'm 59 years old. I've been online for 33 years - starting with my own dial-up bulletin board system in 1993 - and continuing with AOL, my own dot.com web site, Myspace, WordPress, Twitter / X, Flickr, and Facebook.

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 20, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 20TH 2023, 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.

This is the day that our LORD has made for me – the 20TH of August. This is the day – 17 years ago – that our LORD rescued and saved me from the darkness – a darkness that I didn’t even know that I was in. He saved me on that day in 2006, and I didn’t even know it until I realized what he had done for me days and weeks later once I began hearing, reading, and understanding His Good News. August 20TH is the most important date of the calendar year – and of my life. This is my #SalvationDay.

I absolutely love the start of the 40TH Psalm:

I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair – out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing – a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what He has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the LORD.

I’ve said it often over the past 17 years – online and offline – in writing and out loud. I would not be here today – and you would not know me today – and this blog would not exist today – if it weren’t for what my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ did for me on that cross and on that day – and on that day 17 years ago today when He asked me to follow Him, and I did.

For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal living word of God. (1 Peter 1:23 NLT)

This is the 269TH edition of #SundayScripture here on my blog. I previously testified my fantastic journey in Christ on Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, and the real world out there. I’m going to keep on doing that online and offline. I invite you to stay with me as I move closer to God with each new day that He has made. I pray that you move closer to God as well.

There is salvation in no one else ! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12 NLT)

I’ll continue the refresh, renew, and reboot of my sermon on “Pray & Believe” next – #SundayScripture.

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

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My First Caribbean Cruise

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 17, 2023

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. 32 years ago tomorrow – the 18TH of August of 1991 – I stepped foot on a cruise ship for the first time ever. It was my Dad’s idea at the time to go on a family vacation at sea. He worked with a local travel agency in our hometown of McLean Virginia. He selected the Norwegian Seaward out of #PortMiami. It was a fairly new cruise ship at the time – about 3 years old.

I did not know what to expect prior to stepping foot in a brand-new world at sea. Remember there was no Internet 32 years ago – as least no Internet that normal people like You and I could use. But once I entered that cruise ship – it was love at first sight.

I don’t remember much from that first cruise. It was 7 days and 7 nights – a Sunday afternoon to Sunday morning. There were several ports-of-call including Ocho Rios Jamaica and George Town Grand Cayman. I think we also visited The Bahamas and Cozumel Mexico. It was my first time in those 4 nations. In fact – I haven’t been to Jamaica since then.

We had our family portrait taken on formal night, and I actually wore my military service dress blues for that photo session.

I think I had determined during that first cruise that there would indeed be a 2ND cruise, and a 3RD cruise, and so forth and so on. That 2ND cruise arrived almost exactly 3 years later – on the exact same cruise ship. Just 8 months after that I was on my 3RD cruise – on another NCL ship out of Miami. This past January I sailed on my 24TH cruise – and my 16TH on Carnival. (I sailed 6 times on NCL, once on Royal Carribean, and once on Disney.)

As I approach retirement (and much less income) in the months to come – I don’t know what the future holds as far as cruising is concerned. I’m looking at my 24TH cruise (which was a great one – on a great ship) as perhaps “The Grand Finale” – my last cruise – at least for a while. But I’ll never say never for a 25TH cruise.

Next #TravelThursday is the 32ND anniversary of Hurricane Andrew in Homestead Florida. I won’t discuss that hurricane on this platform or offline, but I will share my travel experiences that occurred in the 6½ months after Andrew. Let’s keep traveling together.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 339

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 14, 2023

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 August 13TH 2023 – the 339TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	Big God [4TH week @ # 1]	Terrian
2	2	6	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
3	3	4	Praise You Anywhere	Brandon Lake
4	4	5	The King Is Alive	Jordan Feliz
5	5	9	Every Hour	David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
6	6	20	Fingerprints	Dan Bremnes
7	7	24	This Is Our God	Phil Wickham
8	9	2	Heaven Changes Everything	Big Daddy Weave
9	–	1	Praise The Lord	Micah Tyler
10	–	1	Jesus Does	We The Kingdom

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
2021 – “When We Fall Apart” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
2020 – “There Was Jesus” – Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

# 1 IN 2021 – What a great and unique song that was at # 1 on my chart exactly 2 years ago. It spent 2 weeks at the top – and 14 of its 15 weeks in my Top 5. That was quite the remarkable achievement considering it received lackluster airplay on the radio (K-LOVE), and then suddenly no airplay at all. I don’t think I’ve heard it on the radio once over the past 2 years. The touching song that may bring tears to your eyes are the words that Ryan’s own mother said to her son right before she passed on to her Creator in 2009.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

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, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 13, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 13TH 2023, 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 with my longtime Homestead church family for the 3RD Sunday in a row. That hasn’t happened since I closed on my new home in Sebring in March. Next Sunday I’ll be with my new Sebring church family, and – as long as it’s not canceled again – I plan to attend the welcome lunch for new church attendees where leadership and others meet and greet us, and we formally introduce ourselves to them. (That should be very interesting.)

And now here on #SundayScripture it’s the continuation of the refresh, renew, and reboot of my sermon on “Pray & Believe” – originally preached on Sunday June 16TH 2019. Here’s Part 4:

[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK]

So who has this confident hope ?

The Bible says – We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something – we don’t need to hope for it. [We don’t need to wait for it.] But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have – we must wait patiently and confidently.) And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example – we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. (Romans 8:24-8:27)

The Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings. I like that. That’s kind of like that hemming and hawing and stuttering and stalling when we pray. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense what comes out of our mouths. Sometimes the words become gibberish – gobbledygook. That’s the Holy Spirit within our hearts. He’s intervening for us before God. He’s pleading for us – His holy people. And the Father knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Father knows what’s on our hearts.

Don’t you just love that ? You see – we may not make sense sometimes to each other or even to ourselves when we pray, but we make perfect sense to our Father through the Holy Spirit.

Prayer is powerful. It’s the most powerful thing that we can do. It’s the most important thing that we can do. Sometimes – it’s the only thing that we can do – pray – and believe.

The start of Acts Chapter 12 tells us the story of King Herod Agrippa. He was the grandson of Herod The Great – King Of Judea. He too was the King Of Judea about 45 years after his grandfather – or about 10 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was King for just a short period of time – about 3 years. He was very popular with the Jewish people. He persecuted some of the believers of the church in Jerusalem. Jesus had predicted persecution for His followers. God said:

“I will send prophets and apostles to them, but they will kill some and persecute the others. As a result – this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God’s prophets from the creation of the world – from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah.” (Luke 11:49b-11:51a)

[TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK]

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.