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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday June 08TH 2025, 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 looked back at my Sunday blog post from exactly 17 years ago today on Sunday June 08TH 2008. I starred in a promotional video following Praise & Worship and Communion that morning that was “absolutely gut-busting hilarious (and yet strangely informative at the same time)”. That’s how I described it back then. It was done in a “Wayne’s World” style, and I was the guest being interviewed. (I played myself.)

The Pastor’s message that morning was about loneliness. Here’s what I wrote on here post-service:

Everyone has been lonely at some point in their life, but when you have a personal relationship with God you should know that although you may be alone – you are never lonely. God will never allow you to be lonely. God is our Father, our Son, and our Holy Spirit. We must have a ‘Gospel Partnership’ with Him where He is the center of all of our relationships. He must always be our # 1 priority above everything else. Our human relationships should be patterned after our # 1 relationship with God. The Good News says ‘Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26 NLT)

That’s some Good News from 2008 – back when I was nearing the end of my 2ND year of salvation. My first church met at the local movie theatre back then. We leased it out every Sunday morning for about 10 hours – from 2 AM to 12 PM. (Setup was done in shifts from 2 AM to 8 AM.)

I served with my brothers and sisters of my church family at the front door, at our information booth in the main lobby, at the door leading in to the sanctuary (one of the theatres), and in various other areas of hospitality. I learned the importance of a church family. That’s the key to avoiding loneliness – serving God and living life with others who are also serving God – and knowing that God is always there for us – and with us. He lives in us – if we believe and follow Him.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

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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My Top 10 Hits – Week 433

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday June 01ST 2025 – the 433RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 11 You Never Gave Up On Me
[1ST week @ # 1]
The Afters
2 1 10 Unashamed Matthew West
3 4 10 Oh Death MercyMe
4 5 4 The King Is In The Room Phil Wickham
5 3 18 Money Can’t Buy Cochren & Co.
6 7 7 No Fear Jon Reddick
7 9 2 God Did It Micah Tyler
8 8 9 Jesus Loves Zach Williams
9 1 I Know A Name Elevation Worship Ft. Brandon Lake
10 6 14 A Lil Church (Nobody’s Too Lost) TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Counting My Blessings” – Seph Schlueter
2023 – “This Is Our God” – Phil Wickham
2022 – “Sunday Sermons” – Anne Wilson
2021 – “Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)” – TobyMac
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Born Again” – Austin French
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

THE AFTERS – Their 4TH hit on my chart since 2018 is now their 3RD # 1 smash, as “You Never Gave Up On Me” completes its ascension to the top in its 11TH week. They were also at the top of my chart exactly 5 years ago. They are 1 of my Top 25 artists over the past 8 years.

SONG # 400 – My 400TH song of this current era enters my chart this week, and it’s “I Know A Name”. It’s the 12TH hit for Elevation Worship, and 10TH hit for Brandon Lake. My Top 25 artists represent more than half (206) of my 400 hits over the past 433 weeks.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday June 01ST 2025, 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.

It’s the start of a brand-new month of hope, joy, and peace. I’m looking forward to seeing what God has in store for me in this great new month.

This morning I’m leading Communion for my church body. Scripture from this morning’s Communion is from Romans 5, 1 Peter 3, and Matthew 26. I decided to write a short “back-to-basics” message on why we observe and celebrate Communion in the church once a month. Four words – “In Remembrance Of Him”. Every month I try to write the right Communion at the right time, and I think that this morning’s Communion is what God wants us to know about Him.

When we were utterly helpless – Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now – most people would not be willing to die for an upright person; though, someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:6-8 NLT)

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

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) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Texas Confirmation

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This is a continuation of my post from last week when I wrote about Chick-fil-A, lunch with my brother and youngest niece at her school’s cafeteria, the Australian psychological thriller movie “The Surfer” starring Nicolas Cage, and the long-awaited return to Babe’s Chicken Dinner House.

It’s my final day in North Texas – Saturday May 03RD 2025 – and it’s my brother’s 50TH birthday !

We awoke to a sparkling clear and sunny morning – the first time I had seen the deep blue sky over North Texas like that since last November. It was also chilly (in the 50s). I wish we had nice weather the entire time I was there, but the dark and gloomy and rainy skies of the previous 3 days didn’t interrupt us too much.

On this beautiful Saturday morning we drove over to the neighboring city of Rockwall Texas to Our Lady Of The Lake Catholic Church. We awoke and arrived early, as my eldest niece was getting confirmed as a Catholic along with a hundred or so other kids her age. I actually had no idea what a “confirmation” was, so I had to look it up on Google and Wikipedia beforehand. (I was only a Catholic until about the age of 10 or so.)

It was actually a complete Catholic mass from start to finish – a longer one than normal, as it included all of the confirmations during the middle of the mass as the kids formed a line leading to the altar and the Priests. By the way – the Priest that led most of the mass was a very young guy (I’m guessing – late-30s), and his homily was surprisingly interesting – about being a witness to your faith on social media. I couldn’t believe my ears. He was very relevant with his message – targeting the kids who were getting confirmed.

The mass included Communion – which I observed but did not participate in. Catholics generally don’t want non-Catholics participating in their Communion; although, since I was baptized in the Catholic Church (as a 4-day-old baby) and I received my First Communion in the Catholic Church (as a 2ND grader) – I technically could have received Communion. But I’m no longer a Catholic. Ironically – I led Communion at my own church the following morning back home in Sebring. We allow Communion for all believers and followers of our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ.

After Catholic mass – my brother drove me to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (#DFW), and I flew back home that afternoon via a packed American Airlines 737 to Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (#SRQ). We arrived so early that our gate wasn’t ready yet for our arrival, so we had to sit on the active taxiway for a little while before approaching.

I got home at around 7:15 PM EDT, and it was great to see my dream home in my dream neighborhood in my dream part of Florida again.

But wait – there’s more ! My brother visited me here just 10 days later. I’ll write about it next #TravelThursday. Let’s keep traveling together.

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