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Monday Night Countdown

For over 23 years now (since the end of 1985) I’ve been compiling my favourite hit songs of the week. At this hobby’s peak I was compiling two TOP 40 music charts every week. At one point it even became a TOP 50 music chart. For nearly a dozen years (1995 to 2007) these weekly hit music charts appeared on the web at MASSIVESMASH.COM (my former popular web site). Nowadays I simply compile a TOP 15 music chart every week (offline). The TOP 5 out of the TOP 15 is posted here on the blog at this location.

Here are my TOP 5 current favourite songs:

5.  The Unavoidable Battle Of Feeling On The Outside – FM Static

4.  Control – Clemency (former # 1)

3.  Back To The Five – Ruth (former # 1)

2.  The Difference – Philmont (former # 1)

1.  Set The Dial – Run Kid Run

I’m a big fan of Run Kid Run out of SE Illinois / NW Kentucky. I like their style. Every single song that they’ve released to the radio since I’ve been on this journey with them has been a great song – “I’ll Forever Sing”, “Sing To Me”, “Captives Come Home”, “Sure Shot”, and “Set The Dial”. This is a band that I would love to see LIVE in concert. I’m a fan. Oh yeah – this is the most important part of it all:  They love and follow Jesus Christ. That makes them rebels. I dig that.

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

– Happy Easter Sunday !
– It was extremely foggy early this morning in Homestead.
– Visibility was near zero for several hours.
– I could barely see the dozen or so signs along the road for Life Pointe Church.
– Those signs worked.
– The main lobby of the movie theatre was crammed in between services.
– The parking lots had traffic jams developing.
– People were pouring in for the 2ND service as much as 40 minutes after its start.
– I hugged Ela LIVE and in person.
– That alone made it a very special Sunday morning.
– Ela is perhaps the most inspirational person that I’ve met in my entire Life !
– Tom greeted me at the front door upon my arrival.
– Tom was rescued and saved by God from evil and darkness.
– Jesus Christ saved Tom’s Life !
– We watched his totally awesome testimonial at the start of the service.
– I want that video to be available on You Tube so that I can show it on here.
– I hope to walk with Tom for a very long time as we both follow God.
– Pastor Travis kicked-off a fresh new message series this morning.
– It’s the first week of an 11-week series based on 1 Peter.
– Simon Peter was a mad crazy rebel.
– This week’s teaching was based on the following 23 verses of The Good News:
   – 1 Peter 1:1-12
   – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
   – John 20:1-9
– Everything that we need for Life and Eternity is in The Good News.
– It’s the rebel’s handbook.
– We do not follow what the world is saying and doing.
– We do not follow false idols.
– We follow and obey Jesus Christ and His Good News.
– Walk with us.

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Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

It’s the fastest-growing weekly series in the entire history of this blog:

– You know how we do this.
– So let’s get this party started.
– Complete sentences not required here.
– It was another interesting and exciting day at work.
– I even got into heated discussions with one of my closest coworkers.
– It’s all good.
– My worst day on this journey – far greater than my best day beforehand.
– I love going to work in the morning.
– I’ve been able to state that for only the past 20½ months.
– My career renaissance began at the end of July 2007.
– That’s when I moved from my previous job to my current job.
– I physically moved one-tenth of one mile south to my current job.
– The difference is that of night and day – dark and light – evil and good.
– Dear Lord I pray to you that I don’t spend any money at all next Monday.
– I currently have one of the largest VI$A bills in modern recorded history.
– The cold air outside is almost gone, and my A.C. is back on again.
– We hit 52°F early this morning with an identical wind chill.
– It was 53°F early on Wednesday morning with a wind chill in the 40s.
– Get ready for the mid-80s to return this weekend and stay indefinitely.
– We’re gearing up for a busy Easter Sunday at Life Pointe Church.
– This is the Sunday that you need to wake up early and get to the theatre.
– Gather up the crew, stuff them into the soccer-mom minivan, and get there.
– I can’t wait to see Ela before the first service.
– Ela is one of God’s many miracles.
– Here’s a video for a song that I discovered quite early on during this journey.
– It’s from Watashi Wa.
– They were from Southern California.
– They were together as a band from 2000 to 2004.
– They were rather dysfunctional as a band.
– They loved Jesus.
– They managed to release this gem during the Summer Of 2003.
– I was far from God during that Summer.
– Watch this video and listen intently to what the’re singing.
– I’m not a lot, but you can have “All Of Me”.

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Wednesday Quotable

Every single Wednesday from the end of June 2008 through the start of April 2009 my good friend LL Phil J / The Citizen Cane posted a ‘Wednesday Quotable’ over on his award-winning blog. It’s one of his few original ideas. 😆 (I joke.)

Just because he’s livin’ it up out on the high seas and his blog is on temporary hiatus doesn’t mean that we need to be without a ‘Wednesday Quotable’, so I present to you a collection of 5 fine quotes to keep you thinking until P.J. returns back to the blogosphere with his own quote(s) next Wednesday:

– Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. (Theodore Epp)

– A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. (C.S. Lewis)

– Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God’s Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy. (R.C. Sproul)

– Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. (George Mueller)

– Never underestimate Jesus, because He will just prove you wrong. (Brian Gurney)