Month: November 2019

My Top 10 Hits – Week 144

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 18, 2019

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 17TH 2019:

“Fear No More” – Building 429 [# 1 last week / 16TH week on chart]
“Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West [2 / 16TH]
“Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp [4 / 18TH]
“Burn The Ships” – for King & Country [3 / 9TH]
“Faith” – Jordan Feliz [5 / 6TH]
“Up Again” – Dan Bremnes [7 / 8TH]
“I’m Gonna Let It Go” – Jason Gray [6 / 15TH]
“Unstoppable God” – Sanctus Real [8 / 2ND]
“Rescue Story” – Zach Williams [9 / 6TH]
“Believer” – Rhett Walker [- / 1ST]

# 1 One Year Ago This Week:
“Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns

# 1 Two Years Ago This Week:
“Different” – Micah Tyler

No change at the top – as Building 429 spends its 6TH week in a row at # 1. Perhaps the most remarkable chart movement (over the past few weeks) has been the resurgence of Jeremy Camp’s long-running “Dead Man Walking”. After peaking at # 3 for 4 weeks in a row in September and then falling to # 9 last month – it’s back at # 3 – and there’s a potential run at # 1.

Next week’s chart will be compiled, but it won’t be presented online. This blog post serves as my Autumn Season Finale. I’m going offline and on hiatus for the rest of November. I’ll be back on Sunday December 01ST 2019 with “Sunday Scripture”, and then the next day I’ll present my brand new Top 10 hit music chart.

For my U.S. family, friends, and followers I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving next week filled with family, friends, faith, fellowship, food, football, and fun.

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. Enjoy these next 2 weeks my friends. I’m on Twitter @ChrisMDay, and I’m also the man behind the tweets for my church @LivingWatersHFL. May the God of hope fill you completely with joy and peace as you trust in Him.

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Bible Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 17, 2019

Last night I finished writing what will be my next sermon to preach to my church family – “Habakkuk & Forth”. It’s all about the minor prophet Habakkuk from the land of Judah some 600 years before Christ. He’s a minor prophet not because he was irrelevant (quite the opposite), but simply because there’s only 3 chapters in his book in the Old Testament. (Compare that with 66 chapters for Isaiah, 52 chapters for Jeremiah, and 48 chapters for Ezekiel – the 3 major prophets.)

I wrote this sermon in just a couple of weeks, and I think that it flows well from beginning to end. I’ll be enhancing and tweaking it over the next couple of weeks. Following the conclusion of today’s service our Lead Pastor told me that I’ll be preaching 2 weeks from today on Sunday December 01ST 2019. So I’ll be preaching on Habakkuk.

I actually finished another sermon previously, but I’m not fully satisfied with it. It will (eventually) be a groundbreaking sermon for me unlike anything I’ve ever done before – and unlike anything my church family has ever seen before. For a message that different it needs a bit more work.

So back to Habakkuk where Chapter 3 is a prayer that was sung to the LORD by Habakkuk. After his conversation with the LORD (Chapters 1 and 2) Habakkuk praised and worshipped Him. Here are some of the highlights of his psalm to the LORD:

I am filled with awe by Your amazing works. (3:2)
His brilliant splendor fills the heavens, and the earth is filled with His praise. (3:3)
His coming is as brilliant as the sunrise. (3:4a)
Rays of light flash from His hands – where His awesome power is hidden. (3:4b)
When He stops – the earth shakes. When He looks – the nations tremble. (3:6a-b)
He shatters the everlasting mountains, and levels the eternal hills. (3:6c)
He is the Eternal One ! (3:6d)
You split open the earth with flowing rivers. (3:9)
The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the raging waters. (3:10)
You went out to rescue Your chosen people – to save Your anointed ones. (3:13)

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1990s Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1999

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 15, 2019

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 10, 15, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 14TH 1999:

“American Woman” – Lenny Kravitz
“I Need To Know” – Marc Anthony
“Shake Your Bon-Bon” – Ricky Martin
“Mambo No. 5” – Lou Bega
“My Love Is Your Love” – Whitney Houston

Depending on which radio market you were living in at the end of 1999, and which radio format you were listening to – you got one of several different versions of Whitney Houston’s smash hit, “My Love Is Your Love”. Back then I lived in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale Florida radio market (still do today), and I listened to heritage Top 40 (dance-leaning) Y-100 (no longer do). They exclusively played the techno-light “Jonathan Peters’ Radio Mix”. It was actually the only version that I knew existed – until I figured out that it was actually a dance remix of a much slower original version.

It would eventually become my final # 1 smash of the 1990s – and first # 1 smash of the 2000s. It spent 4 weeks at # 1 on my chart at the time. 20 years later it’s still in heavy rotation at my workplace via my iPod Shuffles. It’s my favorite Whitney Houston song of all-time. I think maybe “How Will I Know” is my 2ND-favorite.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !