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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 25TH 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.

Well – it’s the final Sunday of my 39-year career with the USAF. Tomorrow (Monday) I return back to Homestead Florida for the final time as a Federal Government employee. I’ll be on-base on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to “out-process”. That’s a fancy military term for “depart”. I’ll be driving and walking around the airbase with a checklist of buildings and offices that I need to report to in order to get signed-off for clearance / departure from the base. Each office will essentially confirm that I don’t have any obligations with them or possess any Government equipment. My final stop is the office where I’ll turn-in my I.D. card. After that – I’ll drive off the base and into the sunset.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.
(2 Timothy 4:7 NIV)

On Friday March 01ST I’ll awake the brand-new day as a 100% Retiree. No need to prepare for that life-changing event. I’ve been living the life of a semi-retiree for the past year (ever since I moved away from Homestead).

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 18TH 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.

I enjoy looking back at my old blog posts – whether they are on Facebook (2013-2017), or right here on WordPress before and after those 4 years. It seems that I’m often on vacation during the Presidents’ Day Weekend here in the U.S.A. That’s when I discovered my new home here in the Heartland of Florida. I also bought my new home last year during this long holiday weekend.

On a previous Presidents’ Day Weekend – 16 years ago in 2008 – I wrote about a road-trip vacation over to Southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast (Fort Myers, Estero, and Naples. That was actually where I thought I wanted to retire back then. In fact – here’s what I wrote back then:

“I think it’s official now. The Orlando area is not where I wish to live when I retire in about 15 to 20 years. I think you’ll find me living peacefully and happily ever after over in the Fort Myers / Estero / Naples area sometime in the future.”

(My mind changed about the area about 7 years later.)

Before I drove over there – I attended a Sunday morning church service up in Weston that was actually a church plant of my home church at the time. Here’s how I described that experience exactly 16 years ago:

“After a short intermission Pastor Nathan got up on stage and began his teaching. It was all about ‘The Power Of Light & Love’. All of the lights went out. Darkness. A flashlight came on. Light at the end of the tunnel. Let there be light. All of the lights came back on. There is no more darkness, for we have been saved. We are chasing daylight. The secrets and the sins that we committed in the dark are in our past. This is a new Life for us. A life of light. Ephesians 5:8 (NLT, 2ND Ed.) illustrates the contrast between our past problems and our present privileges: ‘For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light !’ Ephesians 5:13 identifies the need to bring light to darkness: ‘But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them.’”

“From start to finish it was about an hour and 45-minute service. Pastor Nathan’s message was powerful. He inspired and encouraged us to continue moving further away from the darkness and forward into the light.”

    That was a good message for this young Christian in his 2ND year of salvation in Christ.

    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.

    All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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    Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 11TH 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.

    It’s Super Bowl Sunday – an unofficial holiday here in the U.S.A. That’s when hardcore American Football fans, casual watchers, and even non-football and non-sports fans around the world gather together in unison to watch the biggest game of the year and the most-watched television spectacle of the year on the biggest TV that they have access to.

    I’ll be one of them here in Sebring Florida. As soon as I return home from my church family and our service this morning – I’ll be turning on CBS on my living room TV, and it’ll stay on for the next 10+ hours – from all of the pregame shows and festivities through all of the $7-million 30-second commercials to the post-game celebrations. (Of course – there’s the actual football game in there too.)

    After it’s all over – football (the NFL anyway) – is off for the next 6 months. My Sunday afternoons will include more free time to do more research for #TravelThursday.

    Last Sunday morning we started a new message series from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, so we’re studying 1 Peter on Friday nights and Ephesians on Sunday mornings. That’s two favorite books of mine of the New Testament. My own personal Bible studying and sermon writing will continue on most Saturdays into my retirement.

    I’m making great progress on my sermon on “Sebring & Weigle”. It’s almost done in fact. It’s the story of two friends who became neighbors who founded a city built on a firm foundation in our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ.

    Starting in April I’ll begin transcribing my “Jude & Judgment” sermon that I preached to my Homestead Florida church family on Sunday November 26TH 2023. It’ll be presented as a series of 4-minute reads through April, May, and June. I’m looking forward to sharing that with you.

    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.

    All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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    Sunday Scripture

    Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 04TH 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.

    January seemed like it went on forever. You’ve probably seen the memes online like “It’s been January for the past 3 months !”, or “It’s January 74TH !”

    January was quite the eventful month for me, and it was a good month for me. I know that February is going to be a great month. It’s going to end on a life-changing note – my retirement after 39 years with the USAF.

    This past Friday night I returned back to my home church here in Sebring Florida for weekly Bible Study with our Pastor Tim and our small group of about a dozen. We got started with 1 Peter. It’s a favorite book of mine, as I preached a 5-sermon message series from 1 Peter from September 2021 to September 2022. (3 of those 5 sermons can be read here on #SundayScripture. Head over to my SERMONS page for Sermons 42, 44, and 48.)

    It sounds like we’re going to study both 1 Peter and 2 Peter over the next season, so I’m looking forward to that. This past Friday night we covered 1 Peter 1:1-4, and we spent a lot of time on just the first 2 verses. It’s good to study 1 Peter from a different perspective. I love it.

    Peter – an apostle of Jesus Christ – to those who reside as strangers – scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia – who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father – by the sanctifying work of the Spirit – to obey Jesus Christ, and be sprinkled with His blood – May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
    (1 Peter 1:1-2 NASB)

    We’re also starting a new message series this morning. Our Pastor joked about starting two new message series simultaneously this weekend. But he’s taking it in stride, and God is leading him in His Way.

    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.

    All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp