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My Top 10 Hits – Week 495

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 10, 2026
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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 August 09TH 2026 – the 495TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	20	Everything Is Better [2ND week @ # 1]	Hopeful.
2	2	11	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
3	5	4	Faith Hope Love	We Are Messengers
4	4	5	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
5	3	17	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
6	7	6	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
7	–	1	God I’m Just Grateful	Chandler Moore
8	–	6	Gonna Be Alright	Matt Maher
9	–	1	It Really Is Amazing Grace	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
10	8	3	Why Should I Worry	Carly Ann Taylor

2025 – “What An Awesome God” – Phil Wickham
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “There Was Jesus” – Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

MATT MAHER – He’s back for a 2ND run with his current single “Gonna Be Alright”. I wanted this song to succeed on my chart the first time around back in May and June, but a lack of radio airplay (which fuels my chart) prevented it from going any higher than # 10. Now that it’s at the door of the Top 10 nationwide – hopefully it’ll receive more airplay on some radio stations that I listen to. Program Directors – Stop holding back on this song. It sounds great on the radio. It feels like a late-summer sleeper smash, and it carries a great message with it.

We’re up to my # 11 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010. It’s my first repeat artist. Hawk Nelson was at # 4 with “Friend Like That”. Their debut hit on my chart – the song that introduced me to the band – was “The Show”. It spent 16 weeks on my chart including 5 weeks at # 1 to end 2006. It was the 2ND of 3 radio singles from their 2ND album “Smile, It’s The End Of The World”.

Next week it’s my # 12 hit, and it’s from my first favorite Christian power pop punk band.

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 August 09TH 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 24, Edition 424
“Communion”

Last Sunday morning I led Communion at my home church, as I do every first Sunday of the month. You can watch it – as part of our entire service – on YouTube here. (I appear just before the 23-minute mark.)

At Highlands Community Church we observe and celebrate Communion monthly after 4 songs of Praise + Worship and before our Senior Pastor Tim preaches his message.

This is the 3RD church over the past 17 years where I’ve led Communion. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to do so 3 different ways at each of the 3 churches, and at all of them – I wrote my own Communions from start to finish. I still have most of them on my computer.

Thank You Lord for blessing me with Your guidance, Your direction, and Your wisdom in this ministry at my home church through the years. I will always look to You prior to, during, and after writing each new Communion message ensuring that it always glorifies You and reminds me and my brothers and sisters of who You are, what You did for us, what you are doing for us, and what you will do for us until we reach Your Glory eternally. I trust in Your promises. In Your powerful name I pray – AMEN !

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#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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My Replacement Cruise

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. So let’s recap. After 24 cruises at sea via Norwegian, Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Disney – I declared that my 24TH cruise (and 16TH on Carnival) would be my final cruise ever. It was one of my greatest cruises ever on the newest and biggest ship I’d ever been on. (That was 3½ years ago in January 2023.)

Fast forward to 2025, and I was getting that cruise feeling again. Ads in print and on television for American Cruise Lines were increasingly intriguing to me. Research ensued, and during the final week of February 2026 I booked my cruise online on the Ohio River for nearly 5 months later during the latter portion of July 2026.

As I revealed in last week’s #TravelThursday (and to some museum friends a few weeks earlier) – that cruise was cancelled due to emergency drydock repairs that had to be made to the ship that I was booked on. (The ship was repaired within a week down in the Louisiana Bayou, and it resumed its regularly-scheduled voyages on the Ohio River starting with the immediate cruise after the one that I was booked on.)

I was given 3 options to proceed. One of the options was a definite no-go for me – a full refund of my cruise. Nope. I didn’t want my money back. I want to cruise a river. I want to see America. And I want to do so as soon as possible.

The other 2 options were enticing to me for different reasons. One of the options was to rebook on a 16-day / 15-night Grand Ohio Cruise for no additional charge. In other words – nearly double the cruise that I was originally booked on. It was a repositioning cruise at the end of the ship’s Ohio River season in late-August into early-September from Pittsburgh all the way to St. Louis. It would travel the entire length of the Ohio River downstream (981 miles), and then up the Mississippi River a bit (195 miles). YES PLEASE !

The caveat for that is that there must be a single balcony stateroom available on that cruise (which is what I booked for my original cruise). For a couple of days – there was one available. And then there wasn’t.

Oh well – it’s on to the last remaining option, and it’s a good one too. Choose any upcoming 9-day / 8-night cruise anywhere (among 28 ships and 50+ itineraries), and rebook for no additional charge – AND – get 30% off my next cruise after that. YES PLEASE !

I already knew which cruise I wanted to book. It would’ve been my Spring or Summer 2027 cruise that I would’ve booked during the original Ohio River cruise. It’s on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers through Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. It runs between Chattanooga and Nashville (both directions). I’ll be flying in to Chattanooga the day before the cruise. Ports-of-call are Decatur / Huntsville Alabama, Florence Alabama, Savannah Tennessee, Paducah / Grand Rivers Kentucky, and finally Nashville. I’ll be flying out of Nashville. Airfare is included, and American Cruise Lines books the flights based upon my requests.

Incidentally – I plan to use the 30% off my next cruise after that – on the Ohio River cruise in Summer 2027. Starting with next season – it becomes a 10-day / 9-night cruise with an additional port-of-call added. (I believe it’ll be Wheeling West Virginia.)

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

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 494

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 3, 2026
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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 August 02ND 2026 – the 494TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	19	Everything Is Better [1ST week @ # 1]	Hopeful.
2	1	10	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
3	4	16	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
4	5	4	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
5	7	3	Faith Hope Love	We Are Messengers
6	3	29	Finished	Caleb & John
7	6	5	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
8	8	2	Why Should I Worry	Carly Ann Taylor
9	9	4	Meet Me In The Valley	Tasha Layton
10	10	5	Ain’t No Way	Jamie MacDonald

2025 – “God Did It” – Micah Tyler
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

HOPEFUL. – Those 5 guys from the sand and surf of Southern California who love God and are hopeful of His promises ascend to the top of my chart, and it only took 19 weeks to do so. “Everything Is Better” continues to carry speed and make waves at Christian music radio.

I’ve entered the actual month of the 20TH anniversary of the start of my salvation in August 2006. God used loud music on the radio to get my attention. I called His name. He rescued me. He saved me. My life changed forever. It was not a fluke. It was not a passing fad. Here I am – 20 years later.

For the past 10 weeks I’ve presented my #CountUp of the biggest hits during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010. I’ll continue next week with my # 11 hit. This week it’s a recap of my Top 10:

“Over My Head (Cable Car)” – The Fray
“Staring At The Light” – The Wedding
“Forgiven” – Relient K
“Friend Like That” – Hawk Nelson
“Word Of Mouth” – John Reuben
“Made To Love” – TobyMac
“F-Stop” – Sullivan
“After The World” – Disciple
“The Minor Prophets” – Haste The Day
“Live Like We’re Alive” – Nevertheless

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.