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Happy New Year 2020 !

It’s time to kickoff a fresh new weekend, month, year, and decade of blogging here on WordPress. I don’t know if I’ll still be here at the end of this new decade, but I was here at the start of the previous decade. (I just didn’t stay very long.)

I blogged 171 times in 2010, and that dropped down to 6 in 2011 and 4 in 2012. After that I abandoned WordPress in favor of Facebook. I returned in 2018 with 167 blog posts, and that went up to 191 in 2019.

As was the case last year I’ll blog every Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday – with a few special Tuesday blog posts thrown in as well. Weekends start on Thursdays here, and my Thursday blog posts can be about anything that comes to my mind at the moment that I’m writing them. My Friday and Monday blog posts are music-centered, and my Sunday blog posts are inspired by Scripture.

My blog posts can be read in 3 minutes or less, and I never write about politics. This is a political-free zone in an election year that will be full of politics everywhere you look.

My other social media accounts include Twitter and Flickr – both of which you can link to here on the front page of this blog.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my regular Friday blog post. I’ll be going RETRO back to January 2010.

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 1, 2019

WELCOME to the “Winter Season Premiere” of my blog. Today – December 01ST 2019 – is the 12TH anniversary of this blog here on WordPress. It officially began on this date in 2007, but it was actually a continuation of my blog that started on Myspace a little more than 6 months earlier.

I’ve been on hiatus since my last post was published almost 2 weeks ago, but now I’m back. I got to spend quality time with immediate family over in North Texas, and we celebrated our annual tradition known as #ThanksChristmasGiving – 8 fun-filled days and nights of Thanksgiving and Christmas combined leading-up to the traditional Thanksgiving Day Dinner.

Over the next 3½ weeks I’ll celebrate Christmas here in South Florida with church family and work family. I’ll also be here online resuming blog posts every Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday – starting today – with a special end-of-year post on New Year’s Eve.

Today I preached my sermon on the prophet Habakkuk to my church family.

Here’s how I started today’s sermon – before preaching on Habakkuk:

Well Good Morning (again) Church Family ! It is so great to be here – in the house of the Lord. You know this is a nice sanctuary that we have here – with this nice pulpit – on this nice big stage – and we have nice new chairs on our nice new carpet. We have an A.C. that works great. We have a roof that doesn’t leak.

This is the Lord’s house – but only because – we are here right now, and the Lord is with us. You know our bodies are the Lord’s house. That means that everywhere we go – is the Lord’s house. God’s presence – is there – right where we are. God lives within us – in our hearts. The Bible says that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit – who lives in you – and was given to you by God. You do not belong to yourself. (1 Corinthians 6:19)

I like Psalm 27 & 4:

The one thing I ask of the LORD – the thing I seek most – is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life – delighting in the LORD’s perfections and meditating in His Temple.

That’s why we praise and worship Him. That’s why we have faith in Him.

Here’s how I closed today’s sermon:

As today’s prophets – with the temple of the Holy Spirit living within us – we must continue to go forth – together – as a church body – towards His bright light. We must remember what He has done for us in the past. We must accept what He is doing for us right now. We must trust what He will do for us in the future. We must believe in Him, for He is the only way. And we must invite our loved ones to join us for this journey. We want our loved ones to know the God that we know. That’s how we bring the church in everything we do – and in everywhere we go.

(And that Conclusion was actually a hidden “sneak-preview” of my next sermon to preach.)

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Weekend Kickoff Mini-Thoughts

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 14, 2019

Let’s try this again – a rapid-fire session of thoughts on my mind right this minute:

It’s been awhile since I last did this.
In fact it’s been 5 weeks.
I enjoy writing these spontaneous off-the-top-of-my-head “Mini-Thoughts”.
Let’s get started, as I look at my wall calendar.
Can you believe that November is nearly half-over ?
Thanksgiving Day (here in the U.S.A.) is 2 weeks from today !
This will be my final Thursday blog post of November.
I’m going offline again next week, so no new blog posts.
I’m going on a 12-day hiatus from blogging and social media.
After this weekend’s full slate of posts I won’t post again until December.
That’s December 01ST when I return with “Sunday Scripture”.
This has been a big year for attending shows and concerts.
My 9TH concert of 2019 was this past Sunday night.
I enjoyed Casting Crowns, Hillsong Worship, and Elevation Worship.
I wrote a nice review of it this past Monday here on the blog.
My 10TH concert is coming up on December 22ND.
I’m seeing comedian Jim Gaffigan LIVE in concert in West Palm Beach.
10 shows and concerts in a single year makes it one of my biggest years ever.
33 years ago tonight I was at the Oxford (England) Apollo at a concert.
I saw Ultravox back when they were big in England.
I still have my original tee-shirt that I bought at the concert !

That tee-shirt doesn’t fit me anymore.
I weigh over 40 pounds more now than I did back then when I was 19.
Ultravox scored with a minor Top 40 hit at the time – “Same Old Story”.
I always thought that the song underperformed.
It didn’t get much airplay on national radio, and that stunted its growth.
I think it’s one of the greatest songs of my life.
I still love it 33 years later.
Its style of music wasn’t particularly popular in the U.K. in 1986.
Check out lead singer Midge Ure practically inventing the “selfie stick”:

I don’t think I’ve ever featured a music video as a “Mini-Thought” before.
That was Midge Ure at 33 – half his age than he is now.
I had a wonderful 2-year stay in the U.K.
This weekend marks 32 years since I left and moved back home stateside.
I haven’t been back since, but sometime I’ll make it back.
Well the Arctic Blast has avoided South Florida so far.
Our lowest temperature recorded so far is a mere 67°F.
But much cooler air should invade us this weekend.
We could actually drop into the upper-50s by Sunday morning !
The natives will be breaking out their flannels, coats, and hats.
We may not reach 80°F all weekend !
Incidentally I live in Homestead Florida.
This is the home of the NASCAR Championship !
The Homestead-Miami Speedway is just 3 miles from my home.
I’ll actually be able to hear the echo of the cars racing this weekend.
You can watch all of the action LIVE on NBC-TV this Sunday at 2 PM.
Well that’s gonna do it for this edition of my “Mini-Thoughts”.
I’ll be back again tomorrow for my regular Friday feature. #RETRO

Blogging

250,000 Hits

Well it took a little over 12 years to do so, but I’ve finally done it – or I will do it later today or possibly tomorrow. What did I do ? Well it’s not really what I did, but it’s what you helped to do, and that is – record a quarter of a million hits to this blog !

250,000

The first 200,000 hits were easy. I did that within the first 2 years of this blog – back when it was far more popular than it is today (especially with busy web robots). It’s since taken over 10 years to get the next 50,000 hits. So I went from averaging 100,000 hits per year to a mere 5,000 hits per year.

That’s one big difference. Another difference is the fact that I’m having more fun with this current era of my blog than I ever did previously on both WordPress and Facebook. Thank You my friends for continuing to support this blog by checking it out and reading it. It’s my pleasure to share this blog with you each week.

I’ve got some fresh new ideas for 2020, so you’ll see those soon. I plan to continue posting 4 blogs per weekend indefinitely, but this weekend (and other select weekends) I’m adding an extra one on Tuesday !

Your time is precious on the web, and my blog posts are designed to be read in about 3 minutes or less. I don’t like reading long blog posts, and I think that most of you feel the same as I do.

Tomorrow on the blog it’s my normal Friday feature, as I go RETRO back to November 07TH 2004. New posts go online at 3 AM EST (U.S. East Coast Time) on Thursdays, Fridays, and Mondays. My “Sunday Scripture” posts go online at around 3 PM EST (after I return home from my church family).