Author: Chris M. Day

I'm almost 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.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 267

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

#TOP10MONDAY WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY MARCH 27TH 2022 WEEK 267
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 9 Brighter Days
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Blessing Offor
2 3 9 Holy Spirit Come Patrick Mayberry
3 2 9 See Me Through It Brandon Heath
4 4 20 Weary Traveler Jordan St. Cyr
5 5 16 Jesus Is Coming Back Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
6 7 7 Sunday Sermons Anne Wilson
7 – 1 Wonder Working All Creatures
8 – 1 Fill My Cup Andrew Ripp
9 9 3 Egypt Cory Asbury
10 10 2 Fake It Tauren Wells

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

WONDER WORKING – I love a debut artist on my chart. This week it’s the duo known as All Creatures with their poppy uplifting track that proclaims that our God is the God of wonders. He’s the God of miracles. He’s the Exodus 15:11 God – glorious in holiness – awesome in splendor – performing great wonders. “Wonder Working” (stylized as “[wonder working]”) is a potential # 1 smash on my chart if it can garner enough momentum and airplay on the radio. It’s good to hear it on K-LOVE !

HOLY SPIRIT COME – Another debut artist on my chart is close to scoring a # 1 smash with his anthem “Holy Spirit Come”. I love Patrick Mayberry’s voice in it. You can hear his passion. You can tell that he truly loves Jesus. What a great and powerful song. And what a cool music video to boot:

This blog is # 36 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 2 new entries on Thursday and Friday.

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 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.

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday March 27TH 2022, 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.

I’m getting ready for a fun day with my church family. Following service we’ll be celebrating the 50TH wedding anniversary of our Pastor and his wife in our fellowship hall with pizza, garlic bread, soda, and cake. And – there will be balloons and banners too !

I’m not preaching today, but I am preparing for my next sermon in a few weeks. I’m actually working on 3 sermons simultaneously. My next sermon will probably be “Ways & Memes 3”. It’s the 3RD edition of my recurring message series that’s illustrated entirely by memes found on Facebook.

One of the main reasons why I never deleted my Facebook account when I stopped posting over 4 years ago is that I still check it out for a few minutes on most days to look for memes I can utilize for #SundayScripture on here, and for my “Ways & Memes” messages.

Normally I stand behind the pulpit on our stage and preach from there. “Ways & Memes” allows me to get from behind the pulpit and off the stage and onto the floor where I can walk around our sanctuary with clicker in hand and just speak at what’s on my mind right then and there based on the meme that’s on the big screens (TV monitors).

That’s similar to the meme that I featured last #SundayScripture. Ain’t nobody perfect in our church. I know a lot of Christians (even those who identify as “born again”) avoid church because of all of the imperfect hypocrites found inside church buildings. Incidentally if you’re still searching for a church, and you finally find that elusive perfect church – then don’t go there and ruin it for them.

I am part of a church family that is flawed. Each one of us in flawed in our own unique ways. God put us together intentionally – a small group of flawed imperfect creations in His image – and we gather on Sunday mornings to celebrate Him, to get closer to Him, and to be more like Him – who is perfect in every way.

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. (Romans 3:22-24 NLT)

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 Music Radio Travel

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1987

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 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday March 29TH 1987:

  1. “Let It Be” – Ferry Aid
  2. “Lean On Me” – Club Nouveau
  3. “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)” – The Beastie Boys
  4. “I Get The Sweetest Feeling” – Jackie Wilson
  5. “Respectable” – Mel And Kim

During the early evening hours of Friday March 06TH 1987 the MS Herald Of Free Enterprise car and passenger ferry – on its way to Dover England – capsized off the coast of Zeebrugge Belgium in the North Sea. 193 passengers and crew perished in shallow frigid water. There were 346 survivors.

A little over a week later a large ensemble of mostly British musicians got together to record a special version of The Beatles’ classic “Let It Be”. It was released as a single a week after that, and it went straight-in at # 1 on the British pop chart. All proceeds of the single went to a charity that supported the victims of the disaster and their families.

Here’s the official music video of this single:

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 15 years ago to April 2007. It’s when my favorite pop-punk band scored a # 1 smash with a fast-paced song that can wait another week.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going retro with me !

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Blogging Driving Food Music Nature Photography Shopping Travel

My Spring Break Vacation 2022

And now – Week 3 of my 4-week series on my 6-day / 626-mile road-trip adventure here in South Florida and also up in Central Florida.

So my family flew in to South Florida (from North Texas) on a Thursday evening, and they arrived at their hotel at around Midnight. The next day – Friday – they did their own thing, as did I. (See my blog from last #TravelThursday.)

On Saturday March 05TH 2022 we spent the entire day together in Fort Lauderdale and adjacent Dania Beach. We enjoyed Breakfast at TooJay’s (one of my favorites). After that we went shopping at Five Below. (My nieces love that store.) From there we all proceeded over to the Broward County Convention Center where gymnasts from South Florida and beyond competed in various tournaments. My (almost) 12-year-old niece was one of the competitors from beyond – representing Allen Texas (near Dallas) – and she won awards. We were at the tournament for over 4 hours, and it was actually very interesting to watch. (I had never been to one before.)

That night we ate dinner at Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, and then we went shopping at T.J. Maxx. I had no idea that my sister-in-law absolutely loves that store. I think we spent over an hour there. I was bored after the first 10 minutes, but I was with my family, so that beats any other normal Saturday night for me.

The next day – Sunday – they did their own thing, as did I.

On Monday March 07TH we all cruised-up U.S. 27 (in 3 separate vehicles), and we all met at – LEGOLAND !

I’ve wanted to visit Legoland for the past decade, and just after opening time at 10 AM on that day I finally made it. (My family arrived about an hour later.)

Legoland greatly exceeded my expectations. I thought that I would just enjoy watching my nieces have lots of fun, but I had fun too. I even rode some rides including a scary rollercoaster !

My favorite part of Legoland is Miniland U.S.A. which features realistic Lego displays of various U.S. cities and their famous landmarks underneath several MASSIVE white canopy shade covers. You can walk around in this giant centerpiece of the park for a couple of hours enjoying it all and snapping photos all around.

I also appreciated the tribute to Cypress Gardens which was the original tourist attraction (and later theme park) at this location for almost 75 years starting in 1936 and peaking during the 1950s and 1960s. A portion of the original park has been preserved exactly as it used to be, and you can walk around and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. Me and my brother actually visited Cypress Gardens on April 02ND 2005 when they had already converted over to a theme park (adjacent to the botanical gardens). We enjoyed the park during the day, and then we attended a Switchfoot concert that night at the park. The concert was quite memorable for us in that Switchfoot were at their mainstream peak back then, so a good crowd came to see them. Also a strong cold front had swept through the region during the day, so it turned cold just in time for the concert after dark. There were swarms of bugs flying around in the cold. It was quite eerie.

It was a fun day at Legoland. We were there from opening to almost closing. I would actually consider purchasing a limited annual pass to the park after I retire and relocate close to that local area. (It’s about an hour up the road from Sebring.)

Next #TravelThursday I’ll conclude my recap of this fun road-trip, and I’ll reveal the location of my next vacation (and series of blog posts).

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