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Welcome To My Blog

Greetings my friends. It is Wednesday May 29TH 2024, and with this special edition I begin a new weekend of blog posts. Normally I publish new posts 3 times per weekend – on Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays at 0300 U.S. east coast time.

Each day has its own unique theme. My Thursday posts center on travel. My Sunday posts center on Scripture and the Gospel. My Monday posts center on current Christian pop music. So – my hashtags are #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

A few times per year I’ll publish a special post on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday. It all adds up to over 150 posts per year. Each post is about a 2-to-4 minute read.

If you’re new here – then welcome to my blog. Thank You for checking it out. You may have clicked on my link on my Facebook, X, Flickr, or Spotify profile. Perhaps Google or Feedspot sent you here awhile back, and you’ve been returning on a regular basis. Maybe you only read my posts on #TravelThursday, or you’re only interested in my Gospel messages on Sundays. Either way I’m glad you’re here. This is a no-judgement zone. This is also a political-free space online. There’s plenty of judgement and politics elsewhere. There’s lots of hate in this world. I try to shine light and bring encouragement and love into this world.

Feel free to comment with relevance on any post. You can also reach out to me on X @ChrisMDay. Some of you have your own blogs that I check out on a regular basis. Keep doing what you do. Keep blogging alive !

I’ve been blogging since 2007, and really – I was blogging for 14 years before that via my own dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) and its spinoffs on the early World Wide Web of the late-1990s into the early-2000s. It’s my favorite hobby online.

I have some exciting news to share with you. After 6 months of inactivity – I’ve started posting photos again on my Flickr site. And over on Facebook – I’m posting new material for the first time in 6½ years. My #TravelThursday posts will now be available same day on Facebook, and I’ll also highlight one of my 67 albums on Flickr every Monday on Facebook. You can check it all out at: https://www.facebook.com/countup.308858/

A new #TravelThursday is up next in less than 24 hours. I hope that you’ll check it out sometime during the day tomorrow.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 380

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday May 26TH 2024 – the 380TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 10 Counting My Blessings
[4TH week @ # 1]		 Seph Schlueter
2 2 25 Lead On Good Shepherd Patrick Mayberry
3 4 14 You’ve Already Won Shane & Shane
4 3 5 Unsung Hero for King + Country
5 5 5 Somebody Like Me Caleb & John Ft. Cain
6 6 3 Beautiful Life Pat Barrett
7 7 14 He Does Brandon Heath
8 10 2 Always Only Jesus MercyMe
9 9 8 The Prodigal Josiah Queen
10 – 1 God Is With Us The Afters

# 1 This Week In:
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

PATRICK MAYBERRY – His “Lead On Good Shepherd” continues to amaze at the top of my chart, as it spends its 12TH week at # 2 – before and after its 2 weeks at # 1. There’s actually a slight chance that it could return to # 1 next week. After 25 weeks on my chart it’s now the 13TH biggest hit of the past 7+ years of this current era. It’ll obviously be one of the top songs of 2024.

SUMMER OF 2024 – Summer has begun here in the Northern Hemisphere, and as is tradition for me – I’ll be tracking the hottest songs of the 15 weeks of summer from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend here in the U.S.A. Once it’s over – I’ll present a special chart featuring “My Top 10 Hits” of the Summer Of 2024.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by heading over to 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 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) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Bible Holidays Military Scripture

Memorial Day

2008 Memorial Day Poster #3.

It’s Memorial Day here in the U.S.A. It’s not appropriate to say “Happy Memorial Day”, for this is a truly solemn holiday. It’s the day each year that we honor our fallen heroes – those military personnel who served their country in a time of war – and who gave the ultimate sacrifice to keep our freedom strong. They gave their life.

This is not a day for those like me who once served in the U.S. Armed Forces, for I am still alive. My day is Veterans Day on November 11TH. It is not a day for those who are currently serving in the military. That day is Armed Forces Day – the 3RD Saturday of May. In fact – the entire month of May is National Military Appreciation Month here in the U.S.A.

On this day – I remember our fallen heroes. I will never forget.

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13 NLT)

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday May 26TH 2024, 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 got to host / entertain my little brother (age 49) for 7 days recently, and one of those days was a Sunday – last Sunday. He attended our service at my home church here in Sebring. It was the first time ever that he attended a non-Catholic service with me, and it may have been his first-ever non-Catholic service. My dream remains. I want him to see and hear me preach a sermon in-person either in Sebring or Homestead or elsewhere.

For the next several months – I’m presenting the full transcription of my recent Jude message series consisting of two sermons – “Jude & Judgment” (Verses 1-11), and “Jude & Jury” (Verses 12-25). I preached them to my Homestead Florida church family on November 26TH 2023 and December 03RD 2023 respectively. Here’s Part 8:

[CONTINUE SERMON]

Back to Jude’s letter – and Verses 8 to 11:

In the same way – these people – who claim authority from their dreams – live immoral lives, defy authority, and scoff at supernatural beings. But even Michael – one of the mightiest of the angels – did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said, “The Lord rebuke you !” (This took place when Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses’ body.) But these people scoff at things they do not understand. Like unthinking animals – they do whatever their instincts tell them, and so they bring about their own destruction. What sorrow awaits them ! For they follow in the footsteps of Cain – who killed his brother. Like Balaam – they deceive people for money. And like Korah – they perish in their rebellion.

OK. Let’s talk about Michael – the mightiest of the angels – and this will wrap-up the first sermon of my Jude message series that continues next Sunday morning.

So Michael is an archangel. That’s the highest rank of angel. That’s like General in the Military. At the start of my message today I told you that Jude’s letter was second-to-last in the Bible – right before the Book of Revelation. Well – the only place in the New Testament that Michael the archangel is mentioned – is Revelation.

As the Bible says – Then there was war in Heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. This great dragon – the ancient serpent called the devil – or Satan – the one deceiving the whole world – was thrown down to the earth with all his angels. (Revelation 12:7-9 NLT)

Satan is defeated. God does not have to engage in the battle Himself.

So Michael the archangel is in Jude, and Revelation, and also one more place in the Bible – the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. He’s in the Scripture on Israel’s rescue from destruction. God was over Israel, and Michael was Israel’s spirit prince. He was Israel’s patron angel. He was the great prince. He stood guard over the nation of Israel.

Today – in these last days – God is over Israel – and as believers and followers of Jesus Christ our Lord + Savior – we stand with Israel.

[TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK]

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, 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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