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Titanic

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 1, 2024

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Last Friday afternoon and evening I visited Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition on Orlando Florida’s famous and thriving International Drive. I went with a bus of 40 fellow passengers. It was a Sebring Historical Society hosted daytrip that left our own museum in downtown Sebring at 3:15 PM and returned by 10:45 PM. (We were at the Titanic museum, dinner, and show for 3½ hours.)

The entire experience from start to finish greatly exceeded my expectations. The museum tour / show technically starts the moment you walk through the front entrance, and it continues on through the multi-course dinner (which plays out like a fun singing and dancing revue). As you can imagine it’s a happy and joyful gala at the start of the journey (and through dinner), but then after dinner – disaster strikes, and the show and its players take a solemn and somber tone out of respect for the real-life victims of that cruise. (Out of 2,240 passengers and crewmembers – over 1,500 perished at sea.)

You can actually visit the museum during the daytime for your own self-guided tour, or you can visit the museum as part of the overall 3-hour dinner and show experience. It is definitely worth the admission price. Check out their official web site (hyperlinked at the top) for all of the details.

You know – not once during the dinner experience did I hear Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (from the 1997 Titanic movie). And that’s a good thing. The show’s players kept it to the life and times and sights and sounds of April of 1912.

Next #TravelThursday – it rhymes with Florida – or does it ? Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 363

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 29, 2024

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 January 28TH 2024 – the 363RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	12	I Believe [1ST week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham
2	1	24	Hallelujah Feeling	Caleb & John
3	3	15	I Thank God	Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
4	4	8	Strong	Anne Wilson
5	5	8	Lead On Good Shepherd	Patrick Mayberry
6	6	5	Hallelujah Anyway	Rend Collective
7	7	4	Crazy About You	Tauren Wells
8	8	25	Praise The Lord	Micah Tyler
9	9	22	Parking Lot	Cochren & Co.
10	10	9	Grave Robber	Crowder

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Rescue Story” – Zach Williams
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard

PHIL WICKHAM – ♫ All praise to God the Father. All praise to Christ the Son. All praise to the Holy Spirit. Our God has overcome. The King who was and is and evermore will be. In Jesus mighty name – I believe ! ♫ I love that chorus, and I love all of the lyrics of that great song about our great God. “I Believe” is my new # 1 smash this week. It’s Phil’s 2ND # 1 smash in a row – following-up “This Is Our God”.

CHARTBUSTERS – Sitting just outside of my Top 10 this week are 7 new songs from Shane & Shane, Terrian, Consumed By Fire, Jeremy Camp, Matthew West, Brandon Heath, and Cory Asbury. I like them all, and perhaps 1 or 2 of them could enter my chart next week – like this one:

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.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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.

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 28, 2024

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday January 28TH 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.

Today I’ll be missing church service for a rare Sunday morning. I’ll be staying at home preparing for a medical procedure tomorrow afternoon. The Good News is that my church (here in Sebring Florida) records and broadcasts LIVE all of our services, so I can watch it at home.

Before COVID some churches were already livestreaming their services, but during COVID that strategy expanded exponentially. It’s a great way to get the Gospel out to the masses in any way and at any time. But watching a church service online is definitely not a substitute for attending a church service LIVE and in-person. I don’t believe that you can grow as a mature Christian unless you are in fellowship with other mature Christians. I believe that it’s crucial to be a physical part of a church family – not just on Sunday mornings – but on other days of the week as well – with small groups, and bible studies, and other activities – in and out of the church building. We must remember that the church is not the building. The church is the living and breathing body of Christ.

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)

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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All Aboard !

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 25, 2024

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. You know I love the sound of train horns in the distance. And in my new home in the Heartland of Florida I hear train horns from afar. When it’s really quiet outside (and inside my own home) – particularly at night – I can actually hear (and almost feel) the sound of the train as it moves along the track. Those are sounds that I never heard down in my former home in deep South Florida. (Trains didn’t go that far south.)

At its closest point the active railroad track (used by AMTRAK and other trains) is just 2 miles to the north-northeast. My home office in the front of my home also faces in that direction, so when I’m sitting here at my desk writing this blog, or writing a sermon, or working on Excel spreadsheets – and I hear the train – it’s a beautiful sound, and it makes me wonder how many people are on that train, or what material and supplies are being hauled, and is it headed northward or southward. It’s a welcome distraction for a few minutes.

FLASHBACK – I wrote about AMTRAK on the July 13TH 2023 edition of #TravelThursday.

I want to ride a train sometime in the future to see America. There’s a vast part of our country that I’ve never seen before (such as California, and the Pacific northwest, and the Rocky Mountain states, and the Great Plains, and even most of New England.)

There’s actually a train that does short sightseeing trips right here in the Heartland of Florida – Sugar Express. That would be a good start to see America – starting right here in my backyard. I may do it in March. That would make for a great #TravelThursday blog post !

Next #TravelThursday – My Heart Will Go On. Let’s keep traveling together.