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My Top 10 Hits – Week 479

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 April 19TH 2026 – the 479TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 14 Where Would I Be
[12TH week @ # 1]		 Peter Burton
2 2 8 I’ve Got A Fire Pat Barrett
3 4 14 Finished Caleb & John
4 5 4 Everything Is Better Hopeful.
5 6 11 Good Matthew West
6 3 16 Heaven On My Mind TobyMac X Forrest Frank
7 7 27 How Good It Is Chris Tomlin
8 – 1 Worthy Of It All (Worthy) CeCe Winans
9 – 1 I’m Yours Blanca Ft. Ryan Ellis
10 10 3 Rescue Me We The Kingdom

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “A Lil Church (Nobody’s Too Lost)” – TobyMac
2024 – “He Does” – Brandon Heath
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “See Me Through It” – Brandon Heath
2021 – “Good God Almighty” – Crowder
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Greatness Of Our God” – Newsboys
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

CECE WINANS – She’s back with her 4TH hit over the past 5 years, and it’s one that many of us are familiar with. I certainly am, as I used to sing it with 3 others as part of our Praise + Worship team at my former home church in South Florida. We sang “Worthy Of It All” with “I Exalt Thee” to form a medley. I originally thought that the “Let Incense Arise” portion was its own separate song, but it actually serves as the bridge for “Worthy Of It All”. Nevertheless – it was one of my favorite songs to sing to our Lord. This one could be CeCe’s biggest hit on my chart.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Earlier this year – Jet Trouble (James E. Troublefield IV) – wrapped-up a 7-week stay on my chart – peaking at # 7 with “I Need You”. It’s a good song that K-LOVE picked-up on, but not many other radio stations did so.

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 April 19TH 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 8, Edition 408
“Let’s Bow Our Heads. Let’s Pray”

I love to say those words. I will say those words whenever I’m invited to pray for a group of people. Or just one person. I will never turn down an invitation to pray. (I did that too many times early on in my journey.)

I was recently invited to pray before 67 of my neighbors at our clubhouse before our monthly breakfast. I humbly accepted the honor to do so. It was the first time ever nearly everyone there heard me pray aloud, as it was the first time ever that I was invited to do so. It was a Glorious moment, and I believe that God was glorified in that moment. The words flowed freely for God.

I love the fact that we actually pray before most of our meals at our neighborhood clubhouse. I know that in many neighborhood clubhouses praying is not even imagined, or it’s discouraged, or it’s even banned outright.

I’m also invited to pray at most of our monthly board meetings at the Sebring Historical Society. A fellow Minister serves with me on the Board, so when he’s not there – I fill-in for him for the Invocation. When he’s there – I yield to him as having far more experience than myself. The same applies at our quarterly membership luncheons which are open to all of our members and the general public.

And I also pray on most Sunday mornings at my home church. I love to lead in prayer alongside my closest brothers and sisters of my church family. But I also encourage others to lead in prayer as well. Every believer and follower of our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ has the power of the Holy Spirit to pray privately and publicly to God. It is not just for the Pastor or Preacher or Minister or Elder to do. It is for all to do. We are all qualified by God.

So encourage each other and build each other up – just as you are already doing. (1 Thesssalonians 5:11 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.

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Sawgrass Mills Mall

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This is Part 3 of my look back at my recent trip back to South Florida – my former home of 35+ years. It was my first trip back in nearly 9 months (38 weeks to be exact) – since the end of June 2025 – when I closed on the sale of my 30-year home.

Last week I wrote about my Tuesday – starting in Homestead and ending in West Broward. This week – it’s my Wednesday – Day 4 of my trip.

We went to Sawgrass Mills Mall – one of the top tourist attractions in Broward County (after the beaches). The mall attracts locals and visitors regionally, nationally, and globally – perhaps up to 25 million annually. We got there before they opened, so we entered through Target on the northeast end. The mall was fairly quiet after its 10 AM opening time, but it gradually got busier as the morning progressed. By the time we left about 3 hours later it was busy – even congested in areas.

Fun Facts: Back in 1984 groundbreaking began on the MASSIVE Potomac Mills Mall in Prince William County Virginia – about 30 miles away from home. It opened for business in September 1985 – 3 months after I had left home for the USAF. I think we may have visited the mall as a family 2 months later in-between my tech school in Illinois and my first duty assignment overseas in the U.K. And we visited on a fairly regular basis over the next 11 years every time I visited my family in Northern Virginia. (They moved to Jacksonville Florida in 1996.) Shortly after I arrived at my next duty assignment in Homestead Florida – groundbreaking began on Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise – about 55 miles away from home. It opened in October 1990. I’ve been visiting the mall ever since then – less frequently over the past couple of decades. You can easily spend the entire day there, and some visitors do.

After the mall we ventured southward along scary I-75 to Pembroke Pines and Fuddruckers. I enjoyed eating at Fuddruckers down in the Kendall area of Miami-Dade County for over 20 years, and it was a favorite of my brother as well in Florida, Texas, and Ohio. He doesn’t have Fuddy’s (as we affectionately call it) where he lives now, as the nearest ones are down in South Texas and over in West Texas. Our lunch at Fuddy’s was wonderful – just as we remembered it.

From Fuddy’s we drove lots of various roads through the heart of West Broward – venturing in and out of many of its suburbs. We ended up at Tate’s Comics + Toys + More along North University Drive in Lauderhill. It’s a huge 10,000-square-foot store of (literally) comics, toys, and more. I’ve been to a lot of comic book and sports card stores with my brother (that’s his hobby), and generally after about 5 minutes – I’m bored. It was hard to get bored at that megastore, as there was so much to see there. My brother was recording short videos in the store (with permission I believe) for his popular YouTube site.

So – it looks like there will be a Part 4 of this current series. Next #TravelThursday – I’ll head out of South Florida and onto “The Road To Clewiston”. I’ll check out their historic museum along U.S. 27. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 478

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 April 12TH 2026 – the 478TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 13 Where Would I Be
[11TH week @ # 1]		 Peter Burton
2 3 7 I’ve Got A Fire Pat Barrett
3 2 15 Heaven On My Mind TobyMac X Forrest Frank
4 4 13 Finished Caleb & John
5 7 3 Everything Is Better Hopeful.
6 8 10 Good Matthew West
7 5 26 How Good It Is Chris Tomlin
8 6 13 Homesick For Heaven Phil Wickham
9 9 12 The Love I Have For You Colton Dixon
10 10 2 Rescue Me We The Kingdom

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Money Can’t Buy” – Cochren & Co.
2024 – “He Does” – Brandon Heath
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Brighter Days” – Blessing Offor
2021 – “Good God Almighty” – Crowder
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

CHARTBEAT – Peter Burton is still at the top of my chart for the 11TH week in a row. It’s turned out to be the hottest song on Christian radio in 2026, and it appears to be headed to # 1 nationally. Not bad for a song that languished with minimal regional airplay for the greater part of 2025. (It was actually released exactly one year ago this weekend.) … Pat Barrett’s anthemic “I’ve Got A Fire” is the next contender for # 1. It’s another good energetic (150 BPM) track from Pat. It’s his follow-up to the huge “Beautiful Life” which spent 4 weeks at the top of my chart in June 2024 … And finally I was hoping for another new entry this week for the 3RD week in a row, but the competition is tough down at the bottom of my chart. Maybe next week ?

ONE-HIT WONDER – Last April – Bodie – was in my Top 5 with “Whisper And The Wind”. A little over 2 years earlier he was the runner-up of the 22ND season of “The Voice” here in the U.S.A. on NBC. He was coached by Blake Shelton.

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