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My Top 10 Hits – Week 491

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 July 12TH 2026 – the 491ST week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 7 Washed
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Elevation Rhythm
2 2 26 Finished Caleb & John
3 3 16 Everything Is Better Hopeful.
4 5 11 Somebody’s Praying Bay Turner
5 6 13 Worthy Of It All (Worthy) CeCe Winans
6 4 26 Where Would I Be Peter Burton
7 8 2 The Author Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
8 – 1 Breathe On It Tauren Wells
9 10 2 Ain’t No Way Jamie MacDonald
10 – 1 Meet Me In The Valley Tasha Layton

2025 – “The King Is In The Room” – Phil Wickham
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft Ft. Danny Gokey
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

WHERE WOULD I BE – There’s a new # 1 song this week, and I’m not referring to this week’s # 1 smash from Elevation Rhythm. There’s a new # 1 song of all-time – or at least this current era of the past 491 weeks. It’s Peter Burton’s debut smash “Where Would I Be”. At 14 weeks it’s the longest-running # 1 smash of the era (and second-longest-running in the entire 40-year history of my chart going back to 1985). After 26 weeks – it’s accumulated 220 chart points, and that’s tied with two other hits at 220, but “Where Would I Be” gets the top claim due to its most weeks at # 1.

SALVATION ERA – As a recap – I’m celebrating my upcoming 20TH anniversary of salvation in Christ with a look back at the soundtrack of my life as a baby Christian during those first 3½ years from August 2006 to January 2010. These are the songs about God that were playing on the radio at the time, and I was singing along and understanding the lyrics. We’re 8 weeks in, and my # 8 hit of the era is the first track from those hard rockers known as Disciple. “After The World” was their 2ND of 7 hits during the era. It was their follow-up to their debut hit (on my chart) “Regime Change” that introduced me to the Knoxville Tennessee-based band. They are now in their 34TH year together; although, Kevin Young – the lead singer – is the only original member remaining. (He formed the band as a teenager.) “After The World” was from their Dove award-winning album “Scars Remain”.

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

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 12TH 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.

Volume 9, Number 20, Edition 420
“Cain & Abel – Postscript”

For 7 weeks through last Sunday I presented an update of my old sermon on Cain & Abel that I preached to my church family in Homestead Florida in 2018. Truthfully – I didn’t really update it all that much. I still liked the way that I originally preached it. I enjoyed reading it again. I enjoyed learning from it again. It was a unique sermon for me back then, as it was from the Old Testament – Genesis 4:1-17. (Most of my sermons through the years have been from the New Testament.)

I hope that you enjoyed reading my sermon – presented in 7 mostly equal parts. (All of my blog posts throughout the week are about a 3-to-4-minute read.)

Later this year I hope to bring back another old sermon and update it here.

I miss writing sermons. For many years I was regularly writing that next sermon – or that sermon after next. I also miss preaching sermons. I was recently asked if I would accept an opportunity to preach at another local church (not my home church) if I were given it. The answer is likely “YES” – if it were a Bible-believing and teaching church. (We have churches in our local area and beyond that are not Bible-based, so I personally wouldn’t go anywhere near them.)

I probably will eventually restart my sermon-writing ministry, for even if I never get the chance to preach again from the pulpit – I can still preach online – starting right here on #SundayScripture. I’ve also been asked to start a podcast featuring my messages. I’d consider doing that, but first I need to learn how podcasts work. (I know very little about them.)

BOILERPLATE

#SundayScripture is published online every Sunday at 0300 U.S. East Coast time. It was created in its current form in February 2018. I share my testimony here each 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, for the best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and I pray that the LORD will bless you and keep you. May He make His face shine upon you, and may He be gracious to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you, and may He give you peace. I pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN and AMEN.

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The Buckeye State

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This post is all about the great state of Ohio. My brother lived there on two separate occasions during the early-to-mid-2000s (Columbus area) and from 2013 to 2019 (Cincinnati area). My sister-in-law was born and raised there (Upper Sandusky area). My favorite canine nephew was born there in 2017 (Amish Country).

Just as with Indiana (which I wrote about last week) – my first visit to Ohio was a drive-through way back at the end of October of 1985 as an 18-year-old. I had just graduated from Tech School at Chanute Air Force Base adjacent to Rantoul Illinois, and I was driving back to my teenage home in Fairfax County Virginia to visit my parents, brother, and cat. I drove I-70 225 miles from west to east across Ohio. (I may have taken I-270 around Columbus.)

I visited my brother often both times he lived in Ohio – flying in and out of Port Columbus International Airport (#CMH) and Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport (#CVG).

Sometime in 2003 or 2004 me and my brother went on a road-trip northeastward from Columbus. We visited the Pro Football Hall-Of-Fame in Canton; although, I don’t remember ever visiting it. My brother insists that we did, so he may be right. I do remember us driving to downtown Cleveland after that, and we saw a movie. We probably ate somewhere nice before or after the movie, but I don’t remember which movie it was or where we ate. (That was long before the arrival of the smart phone, so no pictures apparently exist of that road-trip.)

A year or two later we went to the Great American Ball Park in downtown Cincinnati to watch the Reds get routed by the Astros 9-0. Ohio native Roger Clemens was the winning pitcher – a month shy of his 43RD birthday.

We visited Ohio Caverns up in the hills of western Ohio (about 12 miles from the highest point in the state). We went there a couple of times more than 10 years apart. That was a lot of fun. The first time I flew in to Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky in May 2014 – our very first stop was at the American Sign Museum. The next day we visited the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. 18 months later we visited nearby Dayton and the National Museum Of The United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

We visited downtown Cincinnati often and attended a few sports events (wrestling and hockey) and a music concert at the U.S. Bank Arena (now known as the Heritage Bank Center).

I loved visiting Ohio – more so in the warm summertime rather than the frigid wintertime. I was actually disappointed when my brother announced in 2019 that he and his family would move away (again) to the Dallas Texas area (again).

My last day in Ohio was the day after Thanksgiving of 2018 when my brother took me to the airport for my flight back home to Miami.

Soon I’ll be visiting Ohio again as part of my Ohio River cruise. On the third day of the cruise we’ll be docking in Cincinnati. I signed-up for a morning tour and an afternoon tour. Both are 3 hours each. The morning tour is at the Cincinnati Reds Hall-Of-Fame & Museum. The afternoon tour is mostly inside a luxury coach bus with various stops along the way. A couple of days later we’ll be docking upstream in Marietta Ohio. I’ll be visiting a historic house museum as part of a guided tour.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll look back at past visits to “The Mountain State” – West Virginia. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 490

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 July 05TH 2026 – the 490TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 3 6 Washed
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Elevation Rhythm
2 1 25 Finished Caleb & John
3 2 15 Everything Is Better Hopeful.
4 5 25 Where Would I Be Peter Burton
5 8 10 Somebody’s Praying Bay Turner
6 4 12 Worthy Of It All (Worthy) CeCe Winans
7 7 10 demons Josiah Queen
8 – 1 The Author Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
9 9 8 Perfectly Micah Tyler
10 – 1 Ain’t No Way Jamie MacDonald

2025 – “The King Is In The Room” – Phil Wickham
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Me On Your Mind” – Matthew West
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

ELEVATION RHYTHM – “Washed” was a surprise re-entry 2 weeks ago, my fastest climber (surging 4 notches into my Top 3) last week, and now it’s my new # 1 smash. It’s also # 1 on the national airplay charts. The young crew from Charlotte North Carolina’s Elevation Church also hit # 1 with their debut hit “Goodbye Yesterday” 16 months ago.

SALVATION ERA – The #CountUp continues. I don’t understand what an “F-Stop” is, but it has to do with cameras and photography. And Sullivan’s song “F-Stop” does indeed mention photographs within its quirky lyrics. I particularly like the lyrics that go – “If you don’t believe in God you will now. I’ve got hooks and a chain that will fit you well. So save your air.” This hard pop-punk track was all over younger-skewing Christian Rock Radio in 2007. It was such a great sounding song from the Greensboro North Carolina-based band Sullivan. It spent 17 weeks on my chart, and 11 of them were stuck at # 2 – behind two other great pop-punk bands at the time – Eleventyseven and The Wedding. It was my # 3 hit of all of 2007, and it’s my # 7 hit overall from August 2006 to January 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.

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