Tag: Church

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday January 11TH 2026, 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 coming up on my 19TH anniversary of being part of a church family. I’ll observe and celebrate that life-changing event next #SundayScripture.

In the weeks leading up to it – I heard promos on the local Miami Christian pop radio station that God used to rescue and save me some 4 months earlier. The radio promos were for an upcoming birthday rock concert – at a church – on a Saturday night – in Homestead (my longtime home). The local radio station was celebrating its birthday. (I think it had been on-the-air since the early-1990s.)

I could not believe my ears. A rock concert ? At a church ? 3 miles away from my home ?

The headliner of the rock concert was Manic Drive. They were quite popular on Christian radio back in the mid-2000s.

I thought about it. I prayed about it. I remembered what The Bible had taught me over the past 4 months. It was time to make the move. It was time to take the next step. It was time to activate. No more procrastinating. If I were to get closer to God then I couldn’t do it alone. I must do it in fellowship with likeminded brothers and sisters.

All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. (Acts 2:42 NLT)

I decided that I would indeed go to that church on that Saturday night in January of 2007 and attend and experience that rock concert for Christ.

I did just that, and it changed my life forever. I’ll continue this story next week.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday January 04TH 2026, 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 marks the start of my 9TH year of #SundayScripture here on my blog. I’m coming up on my 400TH edition in February. I never really thought that this would last this long, but it has. I still enjoy producing this weekly series, so it shall continue, and God will continue to get all of the glory.

A friend from afar recently asked me if I was leading my own church these days. The answer is no. I am not leading my own church; although, that was actually a plan of mine for a few years. I thought about it. I prayed about it. I wondered what it would be like if I planted a church in my eventual retirement location of Sebring Florida. I even thought about starting a church in the clubhouse of my own neighborhood once I settled on my current 55+ community in 2022. Those plans didn’t come to fruition. They were not God’s plans. His plans were for me to serve as part of an already established church body in Sebring. I picked the first church. That wasn’t the church that God planned for me. He picked the next church. I’ve been part of that church body for the past 28 months.

My takeaway is this. Go ahead and make plans for your future. Make big plans. Pray about them. Our God may find them amusing. He’s got His own plans for you. Go with His plans.

“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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday December 28TH 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.

It’s my 392ND #SundayScripture, and my final one of 2025. It’s been a great year for me, and I’ve documented much of it here on my blog. Thank You for being part of my journey through this year. I’m looking forward to seeing what God has in store for me in 2026. May He continue to bless us richly as we look to Him in everything we do and everywhere we go.

9 weeks ago I began transcribing my sermon titled “Apostle & Elder”. I preached it to my second church family on Sunday October 18TH 2020.

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9

Here’s Part 10 (the Conclusion):

John’s concluding words in his 2ND letter are my concluding words to you. John writes:

I have much more to say to you, but I don’t want to do it with paper and ink. For I hope to visit you soon and talk with you face to face. Then our joy will be complete. Greetings from the children of your sister – chosen by God. (1:12-13)

John is tired of writing. He wants to visit. He wants to talk – face to face – just as we are doing right here. He wants to personally visit the chosen lady and her children – the church and its congregation.

You see our joy is not complete – until we meet – corporately as a church body – in fellowship with each other. During those 10 Sundays this past March, April, and May when we didn’t meet here – including on Resurrection Sunday (Easter) – the joy was not complete. Pastor Bob recorded 10 great sermons, and he placed them on Facebook. We were fed and nourished by those messages, but there was no Praise & Worship – led by Ben and Jen. The joy was not complete. We didn’t get to see each other. We didn’t get to share our past week with each other. We didn’t get to pray together. We didn’t get to laugh together. The joy was not complete.

You can’t have a full relationship with Christ by staying at home and not having a relationship with your fellow believers and followers – with your brothers and sisters of your church family. Your joy is not complete.

I can’t say this enough. This is the peak of my week. This is the most anticipated – and most exciting experience of my week. My joy is complete.

And that’s my message to you on this day. Let me put my face mask back on here, so that I can walk to the altar, and talk with you face to face.

[END OF SERMON]

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday December 21ST 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.

This is the 4TH Sunday of Advent of 2025. On this Sunday we receive and rejoice in God’s eternal love as we eagerly await the new Kingdom of God on earth.

1 John 4:16-17 NLT:
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in His love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God – our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face Him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.

8 weeks ago I began transcribing my sermon titled “Apostle & Elder”. I preached it to my second church family on Sunday October 18TH 2020.

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8

Here’s Part 9:

You know we hear a lot about systematic racism in our country today. That’s become a trending phrase on social media and a talking point over the TV airwaves. But if you want to see systematic evil – look no further than the world out there. The worldview is that of systematic evil. It is opposed to Creator, Christ, and Spirit as One. It is against God’s believers and followers and His Kingdom here on Earth. It is anti-church. It is anti-Christ. It is under the influence of Satan.

The next time I’m blessed with the opportunity to preach a full sermon up here I’ll be preaching on “Satan & Hell”, and that’s actually the name of the sermon. I wrote it this past April and into May – during the peak of the pandemic – when everything was shut-down around us. It was actually supposed to be today’s sermon (next in line), but I wanted today’s sermon to be more uplifting, and more of a continuation of Pastor Bob’s current message series. Last Sunday Pastor preached on “Walking With God”, and the previous Sunday he preached on “Dwelling In The Presence Of God”.

My sermon today could’ve been titled “Living In The Truth Of God”. John The Elder reminds us to live in truth and love. We are commanded to love one another. We must remain in the teaching that God’s Word has taught us. We must know a deceiver – a false teacher – when we hear one. Always verify with God’s Truth.

[TO BE CONTINUED – NEXT WEEK]

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp