Month: January 2022

My Top 10 Hits – Week 256

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 10, 2022

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY JANUARY 09TH 2022	WEEK 256

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	Weary Traveler [4TH week @ # 1]	Jordan St. Cyr
2	5	11	In The House	Crowder
3	4	14	Come What May	We Are Messengers
4	2	6	Heart Of The Father	Ryan Ellis
5	3	6	God Turn It Around	Jon Reddick
6	6	6	For The Good	Riley Clemmons
7	7	5	Jesus Is Coming Back	Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
8	–	1	River Of Life	Mac Powell
9	9	2	Walking Free	Micah Tyler
10	–	1	Know You Will	Hillsong UNITED

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Holy Water” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2018 – “Lions” – Skillet

RESURGENCE OF THE NUMBER TWOS – Former # 2 hits “In The House” and “Come What May” move back up my chart this week – showing their durability as long-running hits on the radio before, during, and after the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year holiday season. Crowder is back up to # 2 after falling to # 5 last week. He was previously at # 2 for the first 2 weeks of December. Maybe he scores his next # 1 smash next week ? We Are Messengers are up to # 3 after falling to # 6 last month. They were previously at # 2 for the last 3 weeks of November (right before Crowder). Maybe they score their next # 1 smash next week ? Or Jordan St. Cyr may continue on at the top with “Weary Traveler”.

This blog is # 35 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

Be blessed my friends ! May the 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

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 9, 2022

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday January 09TH 2022, 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.

Last Sunday – filling-in for my Lead Pastor – I kicked-off 2022 with another full sermon and Communion for my small church family. I preached on two good Kings of Judah – Uzziah and Jotham – from 2ND Kings and 2ND Chronicles. They were good kings – father and son, but they both had some flaws. Jotham learned from Uzziah. We learn from Jotham.

I may post that sermon in a future multi-part series here on #SundayScripture.

But let me continue what I’ve started with excerpts of my December 2021 sermon on being “Holy & Redeemed”. It’s based on 1 Peter 1:13-23. Here’s Part 4:

And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of Him during your time as “foreigners in the land.” (1 Peter 1:17)

We are holy. We are set apart from the world. We don’t think, and we don’t act like the people of this world who do not believe – who do not follow – our God. That does not make us better than them. They are flawed. And we are flawed. We are all flawed. Sure we’ve repented – we’ve turned away – from our old pre-salvation lifestyle – but we are still sinners. Everyone is a sinner. Everyone can be redeemed by our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. Everyone can be “Holy & Redeemed”.

And once you’re “Holy & Redeemed” you realize that you are here in this world temporarily. This is not a permanent settlement for you. This is not your forever Homestead. (See what I did there.) Thank God for that, for we are – for lack of a better word – uncomfortable here in this world. We long for our true home. We await our eternal home in Heaven. The Bible says that we are citizens of Heaven – where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. (Philippians 3:20a)

And when our Savior returns (and He will) – He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like His own – using the same power with which He will bring everything under His control. (Philippians 3:21)

Don’t you just love that ? These weak mortal bodies that we have today. He will change them, so that they are glorious. All of our aches and pains will go away. All of our diseases will be eradicated. I will have a full head of hair again ! That’s our God of hope.

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver – which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ – the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. (1 Peter 1:18-19)

God chose Him as your ransom long before the world began, but now in these last days He has been revealed for your sake. Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because He raised Christ from the dead and gave Him great glory. (1 Peter 1:20-21)

When someone is held captive – sometimes a ransom is paid for the immediate release of that captive. Our God paid a ransom to release us from captivity – captivity to sin and death. That ransom was Christ’s death on the cross. It was the ultimate price to set us free.

I’ll continue this sermon next #SundayScripture. If you wish to learn more about the God I know then stay tuned. Tomorrow it’s #Top10Monday, as I present my personal Top 10 hits this week that honor our God Almighty on the radio.

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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2007

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 7, 2022

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 15, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 07TH 2007:

“Nostalgiatopia” – Eleventyseven
“Forgiven” – Relient K
“The Show” – Hawk Nelson
“Waiting” – Fireflight
“Regime Change” – Disciple

15 years ago is now 2007, and in January of 2007 I was looking forward to attending a rock concert inside a church building for the first time in my entire life – 5 months after the start of my salvation. That rock concert – sponsored by the local (Miami Florida) Christian rock / pop radio station – occurred on the night of Saturday January 20TH 2007, and it changed my life forever. The next morning – I attended the Sunday service of that church – but not at their church building. They used it during the week, but not on Sunday mornings. Their services were on the other side of town at the local movie theatre. #GodAtTheBoxOffice

Meanwhile the young pop-punk band known as Eleventyseven was a favorite of mine during those early Christian years. They had 5 huge hits on my chart – “Myspace” (# 2 in 2006), “Nostalgiatopia” (# 1 for 7 weeks in 2007), “Love In Your Arms” (# 1 for 6 weeks in 2007), “How It Feels (To Be With You)” (# 1 for 4 weeks in 2007), and “Trying” (# 1 for 10 weeks in 2009 into 2010). When I hear those songs today on my iPod Shuffles – particularly the 4 from 2006 & 2007 – I get goosebumps as they bring back great memories of those early days, weeks, and months as a baby Christian running on pure euphoria towards my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.

O LORD of Heaven’s Armies – what euphoria fills those who forever trust in You !
(Psalm 84:12, TPT)

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 25 years ago to January 1997.

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 !

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My November Vacation 2021 Road-Trip

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 6, 2022

#TravelThursday continues now with Part 6 of my 7-part blog series on my recent 18-day road-trip between South Florida and North Texas.

Last week I left-off at the end of Day 16 at my hotel destination on the west side of Hattiesburg right around sunset that night. It was my 2ND stay at that particular hotel, and it was a good night’s stay. Back in November I wrote all about Hattiesburg Mississippi here on #TravelThursday. On a future road-trip I need to spend a couple of days there exploring the local area rather than just a hotel night.

Early the next morning – Saturday November 27TH 2021 – I departed at dawn with freezing cold temperatures and a heavy layer of frost on my car windows. Temperatures dropped to as low as 30°F / -1°C during the first hour of my drive southeastward along historic U.S. 98. I drove through Semmes and Mobile Alabama right around 8 AM, and on the east side of Mobile (after another scenic drive along Battleship Parkway) I picked-up I-10 eastward.

Post-Thanksgiving holiday traffic on I-10 eastward was a madhouse. Once again it was quite scary driving through Pensacola. It didn’t really get much better after that. I don’t think I’ve seen and experienced I-10 as busy as it was on that Saturday.

I eventually had enough of the extreme anxiety, and I got off I-10 about 95 miles earlier than originally planned – at U.S. 231 – which leads southward into Panama City. I’m very familiar with this road, as one of my longtime friends has lived a couple of miles off the road for the past 20+ years. After a fuel pitstop at Love’s (my new favorite gas station / travel stop on the road) I took a series of backroads across the Florida Panhandle (south of Tallahassee) and into the “Big Bend” area of the Florida peninsula.

U.S. 98 is fun (translation – peaceful) to drive between Hattiesburg Mississippi and Mobile Alabama, and I especially love it along the “Big Bend” area of Florida south of Perry. I picked-up U.S. 98 in Wakulla County – which is another fascinating area of my state that I’ve spent very little time in (other than driving through). I’m a big fan of “Welcome To Plathville” on TLC, and on a recent Season 3 episode the family ventured down to Wakulla Springs State Park for some fun in the sun and sea. Now I want to visit !

I enjoyed a nice #LuDinner (late-Lunch / early-Dinner combined) at an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant in Chiefland – which incidentally I plan to eat at on every future visit through Chiefland. After my hearty meal I continued on for another hour to my hotel destination for the night in Crystal Springs (another town I’ve spent the night at previously). It’s located along U.S. 98 and Florida State Road 44, and where the two routes meet – it’s a very busy and congested intersection.

From the very cold low-30s up to the mild mid-60s – those were the temperatures during my drive back into my home state.

Just like Day 16 I drove another 523 miles on Day 17, so that’s 2,497 miles on this road-trip so far. And that’s where I’ll end Part 6 of this 7-part blog series. I’ll conclude with my road-trip adventures and experiences next #TravelThursday.