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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 9, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday March 09TH 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.

Exactly 10 years ago today – actually on Sunday March 08TH 2015 – I made my first appearance at Living Waters Full Gospel Church in Homestead Florida. I met everyone there for the very first time – aside from a longtime friend and former coworker who attended the small church. It was a much different atmosphere and change-of-pace than my existing church at the time, and I liked it a lot. I went back to my longtime (8-year) church a mile down the road the next Sunday to pretty much say good-bye to everyone who I cared about. The Sunday after that – I was back at Living Waters, and it became my new home church. I began leading Communion every month starting in August 2016, and I began preaching 2 months later. I didn’t go to Living Waters to lead Communion or preach sermons. The Pastor asked me to do so. He started asking later in 2015, but I turned him down. He asked me again the following year, and I accepted and followed the call to do so.

I thought I would be at my first church forever, but God had other plans for me. I knew I would not be at my second church forever, as I was already thinking ahead to retirement and moving away. I ended up moving away a year before I retired – working mostly from my new home during that final year. But I was at my second church longer than my first church.

Today I look back at 10 Glorious years at Living Waters. It started a rejuvenation process in my fantastic journey after a couple of years of burning out and stalling. I’ll continue to visit whenever I’m in town, and preach whenever I’m invited to do so.

I also look ahead to my fourth church – Highlands Community Church in Sebring Florida. I’ve been part of my new church family for 18 months now, and I believe that I’ll be with this church family forever. But God has the final say:

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster – to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11 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.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 420

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 3, 2025

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 March 02ND 2025 – the 420TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	9	Goodbye Yesterday [1ST week @ # 1]	Elevation Rhythm
2	1	14	In The Name Of Jesus	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
3	3	22	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
4	6	7	Never Get Used To This	Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
5	5	25	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
6	4	11	Running Back To You	Seph Schlueter
7	9	5	Money Can’t Buy	Cochren & Co.
8	10	7	Let It Begin	Big Daddy Weave
9	–	1	Again	Jeremy Camp
10	–	1	A Lil Church (Nobody’s Too Lost)	TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Strong” – Anne Wilson
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Jesus Is Coming Back” – Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Red Letters” – Crowder
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

JEREMY & TOBY – Chart Veterans Jeremy Camp and TobyMac are back on my chart after short hiatuses. Jeremy is back with his 10TH hit of this current era (since 2017), as “Again” enters at # 9. Toby is back with his 15TH hit of this current era – more than any other artist. His “A Lil Church” enters at # 10. It’s the 5TH track of his brand-new 12-track album “Heaven On My Mind” that drops this Friday March 07TH. Both Jeremy and Toby also share a rare distinction of appearing on the previous “Salvation Era” of my chart (2006-2010).

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.

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 2, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday March 02ND 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.

My trip down to Homestead (Florida) and back last Sunday and Monday was successful. I preached my sermon “63 & 34” to my former church family, and LIVE Praise & Worship music beforehand was Glorious.

After church service 5 of us enjoyed food and fellowship at a busy Texas Roadhouse.

And so it’s on to my 64TH sermon. It’ll be the first of a multiple sermon verse-by-verse series. I’m reading, studying, writing, praying about, and eventually preaching from Paul’s first letter to Timothy. I’ll cover the first 11 verses in my next sermon.

This letter is from Paul – an apostle of Christ Jesus – appointed by the command of God our Savior and Christ Jesus – who gives us hope. I am writing to Timothy – my true son in the faith. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace. (1 Timothy 1:1-2 NLT)

It’s a great time to be alive and locally active – physically and socially – here in Sebring Florida, as I enter my 2ND year of retirement following a nearly 39-year career with the USAF.

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 419

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 24, 2025

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 February 23RD 2025 – the 419TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	13	In The Name Of Jesus [3RD week @ # 1]	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
2	7	8	Goodbye Yesterday	Elevation Rhythm
3	3	21	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
4	2	10	Running Back To You	Seph Schlueter
5	5	24	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
6	6	6	Never Get Used To This	Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
7	4	28	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
8	8	7	A Thousand Times	We Are Messengers
9	9	4	Money Can’t Buy	Cochren & Co.
10	10	6	Let It Begin	Big Daddy Weave

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Strong” – Anne Wilson
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

IN THE BEGINNING – As I continue my 40TH year of charting music online (and on paper before that) – I begin my 9TH year of this current era of Christian adult contemporary music on the radio – courtesy of these great radio networks – K-LOVE, The JOY FM, and The Message on SiriusXM. In the beginning – a TobyMac concert in Tallahassee 8 years ago inspired the unexpected resurrection of my weekly hit music chart online after a 7-year-hiatus from 2010 to 2017. “Love Broke Thru” 8 years ago, and my fantastic journey began accelerating again.

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.