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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God Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

Ladies & Gentlemen I present to you for your pure entertainment pleasure the continuing blogging saga that is ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’. It inspired an entire month-long message series at Life Pointe Church earlier this year. Ela stated that (aside from ‘Bedtime Stories’) this is her favourite periodic series here on this blog, and Rebecca recently demanded its quick return during an unintentional extended hiatus.

Here we go with a brand new fortune cookie message that I received earlier today at Lunch at Panda Express:

‘You will be recognized as a leader.’

Ironically I’m posting this blog entry at the same exact time that I’m watching Pastor Paul‘s excellent teaching from this past Sunday morning (that I missed). It’s all about being a leader – being salt and light – changing the world around you – being a Disciple of God. It’s on the Life Pointe Church home page if you wish to check it out again (or for the first time). Good stuff.

1 Peter 2:9 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

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Driving Politics Travel Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1.  Walt Disney World’s Pleasure Island went out of business back on Saturday September 27TH 2008. Apparently people began lining up at the entrances to the ‘Downtown Disney’ section at 9 AM that morning just so that they could get in to the joint for one last party to go. From what I’ve read at Wikipedia it was the biggest party that Pleasure Island had seen since its hey day of the mid-to-late-1990s. I believe it too. I spent a lot of time there for about a dozen years from 1994 to 2006. I saw a once-thriving nightclub district begin to diminish and die a slow death as this current decade continued on.

1989-2008
Rest In Peace: 1989-2008

2.  Back in July when gas prices were hovering right around $4 per gallon I boldly stated that they would plummet to the $3.25 to $3.50 range in time for Thanksgiving. Later on I got even more outrageous by stating that gas prices would collapse by at least a dollar per gallon. And so here we are. Average gas prices are now below $3 per gallon in 17 out of 50 states, and several cities in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas now have gas near $2.50 per gallon. Want my next ludicrous prediction ?  Tune in next Tuesday night.

3.  Get ready for a real-life wintertime cold front to sweep through South Florida this weekend. Get ready for our rainy season to come to an abrupt end. Get ready to shock everything metallic in sight as the relative humidity plummets towards arid conditions. Get ready for temperatures early in the morning in the refreshing mid-60s !  Yeah you heard me !

4.  I received my absentee ballot for the upcoming election in the mail last week. Maybe this Saturday I will declare it to be ‘Election Day’ in my living room as I vote on paper and send it on its way via the U.S. Mail.

5.  This young man is cool and smart:

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Humor

Monday Night Countdown

SSGT Me In 1994
SSGT Me In 1994

This week I present to you the TOP 5 things that were on my mind when this picture was taken of me:

5.  Do I look abnormally skinny in this uniform ?

4.  Why am I so miserable ?  Could it be that we only have Diet Coke to drink ?

3.  If it weren’t for this handy-dandy nose of mine these ENORMOUS glasses would simply fall right off of my face !

2.  One day this watch of mine is going to be a collector’s item.

1.  I just can’t wait to get home so that I can listen to my hot new Ace Of Base CD !

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Holidays Life Travel

Bedtime Stories

Good Evening My Friends,

It’s Sunday night. It’s after 9 PM, and I just felt like posting one more blog entry for tonight before I retire to bed. Tomorrow is Columbus Day – a major Federal holiday here in the U.S. – or as this cat refers to it – ‘a fake holiday’ – a normal work day for Life Pointe Church staff.

This morning as I was driving southbound along the new-and-improved ’18-Mile-Stretch’ (U.S. 1 between Florida City and Key Largo) I was trying to figure out when was the last time I had driven down into the Florida Keys. It was nearly 22 months ago – about 3 weeks before I discovered Life Pointe Church for the first time. It was back during the final few days of December 2006 when I drove all the way down to Key West with my parents who were visiting me here in Homestead for the first time in about 18½ years.

Although it’s been nearly two years since I set foot in the Keys I was a fairly regular visitor for a good decade up until 2006. I mostly went down there to party – back when I used to that. In fact I used to party pretty much within a single mile of where our new campus is located at in Plantation Key (near Mile Marker 90).

There’s a lot of places I don’t go to anymore because of who I am today as a born-again Christian. The Florida Keys (to the south) and Orlando (to the north) are two such places that I no longer have a vested interest in. Well scratch that – because of our new Life Pointe Church campus down south. It felt weird returning to the scene of the crime after all of this time – just as weird as it felt returning to Orlando for a national Christian conference last April after previously abandoning everything that I had up there. My Life (always capitalized) has changed since then. Thanks Jesus for rescuing me from the darkness and saving me. I owe it all to You.

Well that’s ‘Bedtime Stories’ for this glorious Sunday night. Thank You for allowing me to share my Life with you, and until we hang out again – REMEMBER THIS !

SLOW DOWN !
SLOW DOWN !