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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 13TH 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.

Today I’ll be in Homestead and Florida City down in Miami-Dade County Florida. I’ll be attending church service at my longtime home church as an attendee – rather than as the Guest Preacher. It’s been a while – 4 months – since I last saw my longtime Pastor (Bob) preach. (I do watch him on Facebook every week.)

Another exciting life-changing event (hopefully) occurs tomorrow (Monday) morning. I’ll keep that to myself for now.

The next day – the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet Him. They shouted, “Praise God !  Blessings on the One who comes in the name of the Lord !  Hail to the King of Israel !” Jesus found a young donkey and rode on it – fulfilling the prophecy that said: “Don’t be afraid – people of Jerusalem. Look – your King is coming – riding on a donkey’s colt.” His disciples didn’t understand at the time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into His glory – they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had been written about Him. Many in the crowd had seen Jesus call Lazarus from the tomb – raising him from the dead, and they were telling others about it. That was the reason so many went out to meet Him – because they had heard about this miraculous sign. Then the Pharisees said to each other, “There’s nothing we can do. Look – everyone has gone after Him !”

The triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem appears in all 4 Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Scripture above is from John 12:12-19, and that’s the New Living Translation (NLT).

I greet you each Sunday with the words of Psalm 118:24 – This is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it.

The next 2 verses right after that are quoted in John’s Gospel:

Please – LORD – please save us. Please – LORD – please give us success. Bless the One who comes in the name of the LORD. We bless You from the house of the LORD.

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 April 06TH 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.

I’m waking up near Fort Myers in Southwest Florida this morning. But in just a little while I’ll be 100 miles north northeast at Highlands Community Church near Sebring greeting at one of our main doors, and then leading Communion on this first Sunday of the month.

18 years ago on the first Sunday of April of 2007 – I joined the Hospitality team of my first church. I had been interested in joining for the past couple of months in some capacity, and I was waiting for an invitation to do so. I accepted the invitation – no fooling. And so on April Fools’ Day – I was made an usher, and I helped my brothers and sisters to their seats inside our theatre. (My first church initially held its Sunday morning services inside the local movie theatre.)

I actually didn’t like being an Usher and asking (telling) people where to sit in the theatre – sometimes against their will. At that point I was still very shy and uneasy about being a center of attention with lots of people watching me. I felt like I was a distraction during the active church service. I think I subtly expressed my displeasure after a couple of weeks.

3 weeks later I was placed at the front doors of the movie theatre as a greeter – opening the doors and welcoming my brothers and sisters of my church family – just as they did for me 3 months earlier when I attended my first church service in over 30 years. I owned that area of service.

Through all of the other areas of church service from ushering to hosting to leading to teaching to preaching – I’ve never given up my first love of service – greeting. I greeted at the front doors of both locations of my first church. When I moved down the road to my much smaller second church – I frequently found myself at the front door greeting – not because anyone asked me to do so, but because I always felt that it was the right thing for me to do to serve God.

I’m still greeting after 18 years, and I’m truly honored to do so. And now I’m also greeting in my own neighborhood, and at the museum where I serve.

Greet all God’s people in Christ Jesus. The brothers and sisters who are with me send greetings. (Philippians 4:21 NIV)

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 March 30TH 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.

After leading Friday Night Bible Study at my church the previous week – I missed it this past Friday night. I was up the road in Avon Park at the Three Dog Night concert. That’s right – the legendary rock band that was formed when I was born in 1967. They are still touring with one original member. I’ll write about the concert this upcoming #TravelThursday.

It was another great week of Bible studying and sermon writing. I’ve begun writing my next sermon after next, and it’s already about a third done. It’s also got a title – “Parenthesis & Praise”. (It covers Paul’s parenthesis in his first letter to Timothy – 1:12-17.)

See what I did there ? I’ll also wrap-up Chapter 1 with Paul’s instructions for his trusted assistant (1:18-20).

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord – who has given me strength to do His work. He considered me trustworthy and appointed me to serve Him – even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ. In my insolence – I persecuted His people. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief. Oh – how generous and gracious our Lord was ! He filled me with the faith and love that come from Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 1:12-14 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) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp