Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Last week I wrote about my morning at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park off Battleship Parkway (AKA “The Causeway” AKA the concurrency of U.S. 90 & U.S. 98 west of downtown Mobile Alabama). After my World War 2 educational experience I ventured through the 3,389-foot John H. Bankhead Tunnel into downtown Mobile. The tunnel was built from 1938 to 1941 – just before the U.S.A. entered World War 2. My next stop on Day 2 of my recent retirement road-trip was the historic Bragg-Mitchell Mansion – built in 1855. It was added to the U.S. National Register O ..read more

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday April 21ST 2024 – the 375TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017: TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE 1 1 9 He Does [3RD week @ # 1] Brandon Heath 2 2 20 Lead On Good Shepherd Patrick Mayberry 3 3 9 You’ve Already Won Shane & Shane 4 5 5 Counting My Blessings Seph Schlueter 5 ..read more

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 21ST 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’ve finally returned home from my recent retirement road-trip. You can read all about that on #TravelThursday. It was good to reconnect with a small group of my Highlands Community Church family this past Friday night at Bible Study. This morning I get to corporately worship with my full church f ..read more

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. I began Day 2 of my ongoing retirement road-trip to and from North Texas unlike any other day – via an Interstate highway. My hotel for the first night was right along I-10 just south of Quincy Florida (about 20 miles west of Tallahassee). I got on I-10 westbound for exactly 150 miles (from Exit 181 to 31). I then transferred over to U.S. 90, and I took that (and Alternate U.S. 90) to the other side of the Pensacola area. This was a planned-in-advance transfer from Interstate to U.S. highway. It’s a good thing that I did so, for on this particular morning I-10 ..read more

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday April 14TH 2024 – the 374TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017: TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE 1 1 8 He Does [2ND week @ # 1] Brandon Heath 2 2 19 Lead On Good Shepherd Patrick Mayberry 3 3 8 You’ve Already Won Shane & Shane 4 4 16 Hallelujah Anyway Rend Collective 5 7 ..read more

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 14TH 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. Last Sunday morning I was invited by my brother to go to church with him, his wife, and their two children. My brother and his wife associate as Catholics, so we went to the local Catholic church a couple of miles away from their home. We went to the 10:30 AM service. I believe that it was my firs ..read more

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. On Day 1 of my ongoing retirement road-trip to and from North Texas I departed my home in the Heartland of Florida at dawn. I proceeded northward on U.S. 27 / U.S. 98, and I continued up U.S. 27 to Lake Wales, and then westward along State Road 60. I picked-up U.S. 98 again through Bartow, Lakeland, and points north and west. My first stop on this road-trip was Weeki Wachee Springs State Park – the legendary roadside attraction that has brought millions of people through its front gates off U.S. 19 for the past 77 years. During its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s ..read more

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 07TH 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. Starting with this edition – and continuing for the next several months – I’ll be presenting the full transcription of my recent Jude message series consisting of two sermons – “Jude & Judgment” (Verses 1-11), and “Jude & Jury” (Verses 12-25). I preached them to my Homestead Florida church ..read more

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. 8 days ago I spent some quality time in historic downtown Bartow Florida. It’s a part of Bartow that’s often overlooked by those just passing through along U.S. 17 and U.S. 98 (north-south) and Florida State Road 60 (west-east). I was with 9 of my Sebring Historical Society friends last Wednesday on a fun fact-finding mission to explore how other museums operate. We started our fun at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway Avenue which serves as the “zero-point” of the city’s grid. All addresses – north-south and west-east – begin at that intersection. We ..read more

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday March 31ST 2024 – the 372ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017: TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE 1 1 17 Lead On Good Shepherd [2ND week @ # 1] Patrick Mayberry 2 3 6 He Does Brandon Heath 3 2 6 You’ve Already Won Shane & Shane 4 7 2 Walk With Jesus Consumed By Fire 5 8 2 ..read more