Category: Bible

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 16TH 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.

Today marks exactly 5 months since I made a purchasing offer with my Real Estate Agent on my new home 185 miles away from my longtime home. It also marks exactly 4 months since I closed on my new home and moved in.

Before this adventure began I envisioned that out of the following three – my neighborhood (a senior community), the Sebring Historical Society, and my church family – that I would be closest to and building relationships with my church family.

That is not the case after 4 months of living here (most of the time).

I am closest with my new friends at the Sebring Historical Society. I’ve spent more time with them (by far) than the other two, and I’ve written about our organization a lot on #TravelThursday.

I am second-closest with my neighbors here in my neighborhood.

Surprisingly – I am least-closest with my church family, and aside from my Pastor (Ben) – I don’t remember anyone’s name. I have to get a refresher each Sunday morning that I’m there. Aside from a handful of Sunday morning services since the start of April – I’ve had no further interaction with my church family. That’s sort of by design. I don’t really want to reveal my ministerial credentials and experience this early – especially since I’m not yet “full-time” (every Sunday morning). I just wish to sit, relax, and absorb God’s Good News with my new brothers and sisters. Eventually – with time – I’ll start to interact and get involved with post-service and midweek activities such as small Bible Study groups.

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. (Romans 12:4-5 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 09TH 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.

You know one of the advantages of being a long-time blogger on the same platform is that I can go back in history, and read what I wrote way back when, and analyze it, and determine if it stood the test of time and still makes sense today.

15 years ago I was not yet a minster, a preacher, a Pastor. I was still a baby Christian – just under 2 years saved by Christ. I was training for the future – a future that I was not aware of at the time. Look what I wrote right here on this blog exactly 15 years ago this weekend on Sunday July 06TH 2008:

“Temptation is a fact of Life. Recognizing temptation to sin is a gift from God. It is the absolute power of the Holy Spirit in our Life. If we stray from what is right and then blow it then we must acknowledge it and move on. Even when nobody else is looking we must always act like a true follower of Jesus Christ if we claim so. We must not be a follower for a mere 90 minutes on any given Sunday morning, or just when our fellow believers are all around us. It must be always and forever. Our walk with God must match our talk about Him. It’s OK to be angry at one another temporarily. It’s never OK to be sinful. To be sinful is to be tragic.”

I took some good notes from that Sunday morning message on Temptation. I’m not sure what I was thinking near the end there when I wrote that “It’s OK to be angry at one another temporarily.” That sentence seems out-of-place to me today. Maybe I was angry at someone at that time. I don’t remember. I still get angry at people and systems today, but it doesn’t last very long. Anger leads to forgiveness, and all of us need continuous training on forgiveness.

Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember – the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. (Colossians 3:13 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 02ND 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.

Last week here on #SundayScripture I concluded my 9-part series of the transcription of my sermon on “Paul & Titus” that I preached to my church family on March 05TH 2023. I’ve recently added links to each part of that sermon over on my SERMONS page. And while I was updating over there I also added links to my 5-part series of the transcription of my sermon on “Stays & Stands” – based on the Matthew West song – “The God Who Stays”.

I’m currently writing my 55TH sermon on “Jude & Judgment” (based on the book of Jude, and I’m currently developing my 56TH sermon on “Sebring & Weigle” (which I introduced here last week).

Now that I’m settling in to a routine here in my new forever home – I’m returning to Bible studying, praying, dreaming, and sermon writing from Friday evenings through Saturday evenings. It was a very hectic first-half of 2023, and that cut in to my quiet time with God. It’s time to get back to that in preparation of Him making more of my dreams come true. (He’s got an excellent track record with that.)

Until I get there – focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them. (1 Timothy 4:13 NLT)

Until He returns – we servants of Christ Jesus must continue to read His Word to the church – the living and breathing body of believers and followers of our living God. He has chosen me as a teacher of His Good News, and He has directed me to encourage and inspire my brothers and sisters to get closer to God and to be more like Him. That’s what I hope to do with each new day that He has made.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp