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My Top 10 Hits – Week 508

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 November 08TH 2026 – the 508TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 12 Living Water
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Cain
2 1 19 Gonna Be Alright Matt Maher
3 4 5 Beautiful Life Switchfoot
4 3 12 If It Was Up To Me Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
5 7 3 So Long Peter Burton
6 5 11 Lord It Feels Good TobyMac
7 10 2 How Good God Is Brandon Lake
8 8 3 What If I Told You ? for King + Country
9 9 2 What Grace Can Do Cochren & Co.
10 – 1 Thank God Leanna Crawford

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “New Creation” – Mac Powell
2021 – “Promised Land” – TobyMac
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

CAIN – Taylor, Madison, and Logan Cain reach # 1 on my chart for the 4TH time – and first time in 27 months when they were featured on Caleb & John’s # 1 smash “Somebody Like Me”. “Living Water” is their first # 1 smash by themselves since “Yes He Can” in July 2021.

We’re up to my # 24 hit from my Salvation Era, and it’s from the Chicago-based band The Fold. “Medicine” was the lead-off track from their 2ND studio album – “Secrets Keep You Sick”. The Tooth & Nail Records album was released in May 2007. “New Skeptic” was the first radio song off that album, and “Medicine” followed at the end of 2007. It built momentum during the first quarter of 2008, as it peaked at # 2 for 4 non-consecutive weeks on my chart.

Next week I’ll shine a light on my # 25 hit.

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

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday November 08TH 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 37, Edition 437
“Wrath”

As I continue my series on the seven deadly sins – it’s time to confront wrath. Most of us know it all too well. It can quickly hijack our hearts if it’s left unchecked.

“I am so totally done listening to your lame excuses. You have lied to my face for the very last time. You have ruined everything we have built. I hope you lose every single thing you care about. I will make sure everyone knows exactly what kind of person you really are. I will never ever forgive you for this. Get out of my life forever !”

It’s a desire to inflict harm or revenge. It’s a loss of self-control. It reflects destructive intent. It’s unforgiveness. It’s wrath.

Scripture makes a clear distinction between the righteous anger that responds to injustice – and the destructive and out-of-control wrath that stems from pride, hurt, or a desire for revenge.

Refrain from anger and turn from wrath. Do not fret – it leads only to evil. (Psalm 37‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs‬ ‭15‬:‭1‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you – along with all malice. (Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭31‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Unchecked anger acts like an out-of-control wildfire. It burns away our peace, damages our relationships, and disrupts our walk with God.

To live in the freedom that Christ promises – we must learn to surrender our resentment and trust God to be our defender while allowing His Holy Spirit to produce patience, gentleness, and self-control within us.

Let’s pray: Thank You Lord for Your peace in our hearts today. Forgive us for the times we allow anger to turn into bitterness, resentment, or a desire for revenge. Guard our hearts against the destructive pull of wrath. When we are hurt, wronged, or provoked – help us to pause, breathe, and yield our tempers to Your Holy Spirit before we speak or act. Strip away any hostility within us, and replace it with Your patience, kindness, and grace. Help us to trust You as our protector while granting us the strength to forgive as Christ forgave us. In Your powerful and holy name we pray. Amen.

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My American Splendor Cruise – Part 4

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. My journey continues in “The Shoals” – which I wrote about in a previous edition a couple of months ago. That’s the northwestern corner of Alabama along the Tennessee River centered around Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. Just as Huntsville and northeastern Alabama is “The Space Capital Of America” – Muscle Shoals and northwestern Alabama is “The Hit Recording Capital Of The World”.

I booked a premium shore excursion for the morning. Most of the shore excursions via American Cruise Lines are included as part of the cost of the cruise. Some cost extra money – particularly those that are exclusive and limited to a small group of people with transportation provided by a local tour company.

On Friday October 02ND 2026 I was with a small group of 7 music fans on an exclusive tour of three legendary music studios – courtesy of Mavis’s Movin’ & Groovin’ Tour Bus. Let me just state this right now for the record. It was one of the greatest shore excursions I’ve ever been on in my 35-year history of cruising.

I didn’t quite know what to expect, but as a hit music chart nerd of the past 50 years – growing up with Top 40 music in the 1970s – thinking that I would be part of the industry as an adult – this was an absolute bucket list tour. This was fully-narrated – mostly from our tour guide – a seasoned music industry insider who worked with the band Alabama. He led the tour from the time we got in the mini-van until 3½ hours later when we all thanked him immensely for guiding us through 75 years of U.S. music history – originating from various studios in “The Shoals”.

Our first stop was FAME Recording Studios on Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals. Over 5,000 tracks have been recorded there over the past 65 years from some of the greatest music artists that ever lived (and still live today). We heard some of them via Spotify and Bluetooth speakers as well as the true stories behind them. I touched actual musical equipment that was utilized in many great hits on the radio.

Our next stop was Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway (also an informal name for the studio) in Sheffield. This was my favorite of the 3 stops, and we had a different tour guide – a docent who worked there. It serves as a museum with multiple scheduled guided tours during the daytime (5 days a week – Tuesdays to Saturdays), and as a still active recording studio during the nighttime and on Sundays and Mondays. Over 3,000 tracks have been recorded there over the past 57 years. Most music artists recorded there back in the 1970s so that they could work with The Swampers. Yeah – those Swampers mentioned in the classic song “Sweet Home Alabama”.

Our final stop was Cypress Moon Studios on the banks of the Tennessee River just down the hill from downtown Sheffield. It served as the next home for the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio from 1978 until 2005 when The Swampers retired. Over 4,000 tracks were recorded there during that era.

Tomorrow on Facebook (#FollowUpFriday) I’ll write about some of the greatest hits you’ve definitely heard on the radio featuring The Swampers, and next #TravelThursday I’ll write about Savannah Tennessee. Let’s keep traveling together.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 507

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 November 01ST 2026 – the 507TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 18 Gonna Be Alright
[6TH week @ # 1]		 Matt Maher
2 2 11 Living Water Cain
3 3 11 If It Was Up To Me Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
4 6 4 Beautiful Life Switchfoot
5 4 10 Lord It Feels Good TobyMac
6 5 13 It Really Is Amazing Grace Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
7 9 2 So Long Peter Burton
8 10 2 What If I Told You ? for King + Country
9 – 1 What Grace Can Do Cochren & Co.
10 – 1 How Good God Is Brandon Lake

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
2023 – “Praise The Lord” – Micah Tyler
2022 – “New Creation” – Mac Powell
2021 – “Promised Land” – TobyMac
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

PETER BURTON – Last week he quietly entered my chart with his follow-up song that took “So Long” to arrive. While his debut smash “Where Would I Be” entered my chart early in 2026 (January) – long before it was receiving substantial radio airplay – “So Long” is entering late – long after it began playing on the radio and establishing itself as another hit. It’s currently in the Top 20 nationwide. Now it’s Top 10 here.

We’re up to my # 23 hit from my Salvation Era, and it’s from the Columbus Ohio band Everyday Sunday. They were quite popular at Christian radio during the mid-to-late-2000s. “Let’s Go Back” was their 2ND of 5 hits on my chart, and it was the biggest of them all. It peaked at # 3 for 6 non-consecutive weeks, and it spent 17 weeks on my chart in 2007.

♬ Why are we waiting on someone else to tell us how it should be ?
I’ve already found it, and God didn’t tell me to waste these dreams. ♬

Next week it’s my # 24 hit that’s good for you in small doses.

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