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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 12, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday November 12TH 2023, 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 was honored yesterday morning by my neighbors at our Veterans Day Breakfast. We had an excellent turnout (90+), and I am grateful for the recognition. I am also thankful that I finally live in a military-friendly community. I am my neighborhood’s youngest resident – and youngest Veteran (by default).

I’m back with my Sebring (Florida) church family this morning. Our service starts at 1030, and it runs for about an hour. I always look forward to praising and worshipping my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ and learning more about Him alongside my new brothers and sisters of my church family. I’m hoping to assimilate myself even further into my new church by joining in on weekly Bible Study every Friday night starting in the new year.

I’ll be leading services from start to finish for 4 Sundays in a row starting in 2 weeks at my longtime Homestead church. That includes Praise & Worship (music videos), Sermons, Communion on the first Sunday of December, and everything in-between. I’m looking forward to it all, but I have a lot of work to do to prepare for it. I’m getting ready to fly away on vacation. It’ll be a great time to prepare for my 4 Sundays (in-between family-time).

Here’s why it’s so important to be an active part of a church body:

But you – dear friends – must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ – who will bring you eternal life. In this way – you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love. And you must show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution – hating the sins that contaminate their lives. (Jude 1:20-23 NLT)

That’s from my 2ND of 2 sermons from Jude’s letter, and I wrote a lot about that Scripture right there, and I’m still writing about it. Every time I review what I’ve written – God gives me new ideas and sometimes even sends me in a different direction. I love and cherish those moments. I want more of those moments. My sermons must always reflect what God has placed on my heart, so I must always listen to Him and not be distracted by the world.

My testimony is featured here each week 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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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 5, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday November 05TH 2023, 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.

This is “Fall Back Weekend” here in the U.S., as we set our clocks back one hour last night with the end of Daylight Saving Time. We are now in Standard Time – the real time zone. This is my favorite time of the year with earlier sunrises and sunsets. I wish we stayed on Standard Time all year round.

I’m back in Homestead (Florida) for a few days, and I’m back at my longtime home church for Sunday morning service and fellowship. I’ll be leading Communion this morning with the 100TH Psalm as my Scripture.

I finally finished my sermon titled “Jude & Judgment” based on Jude 1:1-11. I’ll preach it to my Homestead church family 3 weeks from today. I’ve also started writing my next sermon after that (tentatively titled “Jude & Jive”) based on Jude 1:12-25. I’ll preach it the following Sunday.

This meme appeared on a recent Facebook feed, and it’s one of my favorite verses of Scripture. I actually incorporated 2 Timothy 4:2-3 – the NIV translation – within my “Jude & Judgment” sermon, as it fit perfectly. This meme represents the ESV translation:

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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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 29, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 29TH 2023, 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’m in Sebring Florida this morning for the 3RD Sunday (out of 5) this month. I’m with my new church family at Highlands Community. I look forward to each new Sunday morning service – led by Pastor Tim. This morning the kids of #HCC will be praising and worshipping our Lord !

Here at home – I continue to work on my sermons. It’s a lot of writing, and it’s a lot of praying. I’m about 7½ pages into my 10-page manuscript (via Microsoft Word, Calibri, 16). So – it’s theoretically about 75% complete. I mention the number of pages in Word and the font type and size because I do preach via full manuscript.

I’m an active participant on a private Facebook group called “Pastors For Pastors”, and it’s exactly what you may think it is. It’s Pastors communicating with Pastors and asking questions and providing and receiving feedback. In a recent poll – “I preach from a manuscript” was a close second place to “I preach from an outline”. To know that many other Pastors – both younger and older than me – preach the way that I do – that made me feel good. I thought that I was archaic – not that there’s anything wrong with that. I tend to be “old-school” in a lot of things that I do. (I write a blog. That’s pretty “old-school”.) I’m an early Gen-Xer (born in 1967). I’ve seen a lot of (mostly) younger Pastors preach via limited notes or no notes at all. I’m not that good. I have preached a handful of sermons with limited or no notes (to mixed results), but my best sermons are the ones that I’ve written over a period of time and rehearsed. I call them my “traditional” sermons.

So – let me get me back to completing my traditional sermon titled “Jude & Judgment”, as it leads to my next sermon after that – also from Jude’s letter.

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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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 22, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 22ND 2023, 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.

Looks like for the first time in my pastoral ministry I’ll be leading my longtime church family in Homestead – and preaching for 4 Sundays in a row between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’ve done it 2 and 3 Sundays in a row, but never 4 in a row. I’m up for the challenge, and I’ll be looking solely to God for His guidance, direction, wisdom, and encouragement.

I plan to preach 4 traditional (well-prepared) sermons. The sermon that I’ve been writing (and stalling and struggling with) for over 5 months now on Jude’s letter to the Christians near the end of the New Testament is now going to be a 2-part message series on consecutive Sunday mornings. God gave me clarity on this sermon, and I’m back on-track now. He gave me so much clarity that He gave me 2 sermons worth of clarity. I don’t even have a title yet for the 2ND week of my Jude message, but God will reveal it to me in His time.

I’ll also be preaching my “Pray & Believe” sermon that I rejuvenated here on #SundayScripture for 10 weeks this past summer. If you missed any part of that sermon series then you can catch-up over on my SERMONS page. It’s listed as my 58TH sermon, and I’ve provided hyperlinks to each of the 10 parts. (Remember these are transcripts – not videos or podcasts.)

I have a few ideas for my 4TH of 4 sermons a week before Christmas. I’ll need to pray about it so that I preach the right sermon at the right time.

So – as you can see – I have a lot of work to do over the next month to prepare myself mentally, physically, and spiritually for these 4 sermons in a row. If God ever gives me the opportunity to be the Lead Pastor of a church family in my new hometown (or even my new neighborhood) – then these 4 sermons would be reflective of what Sunday morning services would be like.

Sing to the LORD. Praise His name.
Each day proclaim the Good News that He saves.
Publish His glorious deeds among the nations.
Tell everyone about the amazing things He does.
(Psalm 96:2-3 NLT)

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.