Year: 2022

My Top 10 Hits – Week 290

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 6, 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 nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday September 04TH 2022 – the 290TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	Hold You Tight [3RD week @ # 1]	Dan Bremnes
2	2	11	Thank God For Sunday Morning	Cochren & Co.
3	3	4	Good Morning Mercy	Jason Crabb
4	5	3	New Creation	Mac Powell
5	4	5	Don’t Lose Heart	Steven Curtis Chapman
6	6	8	Good Lord	David Leonard
7	9	2	Build A Boat	Colton Dixon
8	7	7	We All Need Jesus	Danny Gokey Ft. Koryn Hawthorne
9	8	4	All My Praise	Ryan Ellis
10	10	2	Always	Chris Tomlin

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “Miracles” – Colton Dixon
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

END-OF-SUMMER – This is the 15TH and final week of summer here in the U.S.A. – that time-period that starts with U.S. Memorial Day Weekend and ends with U.S. Labor Day Weekend. As is tradition for me I’ll present a special #CountUp of my Top 10 hits of the summer. I’ll post that in 3 weeks on Monday September 26TH 2022.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 4 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, and #Top10Monday.

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 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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Labor Day

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 5, 2022

It’s #LaborDay here in the U.S.A. – a day set aside to honor all working Americans. If you work for a living – then this day is for you.

It’s also the unofficial end of summer and the start of Fall; although, astronomically Fall is still 2½ weeks away. (This year’s Autumnal Equinox occurs on September 22ND 2022 at 9:03 PM EDT.)

Enjoy this day off (for many of us), and get ready to go back to work tomorrow.

#Top10Monday will be presented tomorrow – Tuesday.

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 4, 2022

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday September 04TH 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. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

One of my rules on this blog is that every unique post must be able to be read by the average reader in less than 5 minutes. Your time online is precious, as is mine. The last thing that I want to do is to read something for more than 5 minutes (other than God’s Word), so I set an example here. That’s why my recent sermon is presented in multiple parts. Rather than posting the entire sermon at once – I’m presenting it in less than 5-minute portions.

Last month I preached my sermon – “Honor & Respect” – to my church family. It’s based on 1 Peter 2:10-2:25. Here on #SundayScripture I’m presenting it in its original written form. Here’s Part 4 of this series:

I like the next part of Peter’s letter to the persecuted Christians of his time. It’s about “Honor & Respect”. It was relevant then. It is relevant now. And it’s the name of this sermon. From Chapter 2 – starting with Verse 13:

For the Lord’s sake – respect all human authority – whether the king as head of state, or the officials he has appointed. For the king has sent them to punish those who do wrong and to honor those who do right. (2:13)

The Apostle Peter reinforces what the Apostle Paul had previously written in his letter to the Romans. Paul wrote to the Romans about 8 years before Peter wrote his letter from Rome to the persecuted Christians of Asia Minor. So Paul’s Romans precedes what Peter wrote in his letter.

Let me summarize what Paul wrote at the start of Chapter 13 of Romans: Submit to authority. Obey authority, or be punished. “Honor & Respect” authority. Do what is right to be honored. Oh – and pay your taxes. (It’s in the Bible !)

In fact this is what it says (Romans 13:6-7):

Pay your taxes, for government workers (hello) need to be paid (yes). They are serving God in what they do (yes indeed). I testify ! And the Scripture continues: Give to everyone what you owe them. Pay your taxes and government fees to those who collect them, and give respect and honor to those who are in authority.

There was a tax revolt going on at the time in Rome where the people – including the new Christians – were refusing to pay their taxes. Matthew also wrote about this tax revolt in his Gospel. It’s where Jesus was trapped by the hypocrites who asked Him if they should pay taxes to Caesar. And Jesus replied – “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.” (Matthew 22:21b)

Back to Peter’s letter (2:15-17):

It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence those ignorant people who make foolish accusations against you. For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Respect everyone, and love your Christian brothers and sisters. Fear God, and respect the king.

That’s the NLT – the New Living Translation – right there. I like the NIV also:

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil. Live as God’s slaves. Show proper respect to everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

There’s a lot there. I love those verses of Scripture.

(End of Part 4)

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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2007

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 2, 2022

Hello again retro music fans. 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, 20, 25, 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 September 02ND 2007:

“Love In Your Arms” – Eleventyseven
“F-Stop” – Sullivan
“Finding Out” – Stellar Kart
“You’re On Fire” – MxPx
“Let’s Go Back” – Everyday Sunday

As I entered the 2ND year of my salvation in Christ I was in a positive-pop-punk type of mood, as I listened and sang along to some righteously rowdy tunes on local Christian pop radio.

Eleventyseven enjoyed great success on my pop chart at the time – which means I really liked what I was hearing from them on the radio. They scored with 5 huge hits in a row with “Myspace” (# 2 for 2 weeks), “Nostalgiatopia” (# 1 for 7 weeks), “Love In Your Arms” (# 1 for 6 weeks), “How It Feels (To Be With You)” (# 1 for 4 weeks), and “Trying” (# 1 for 10 weeks). So that’s 27 weeks at # 1 in a little more than 3 years from January 2007 to January 2010.

After 20 years the band is mostly still together, and they are still releasing new music and performing LIVE in concert. I’m not familiar with their music since 2010, but their anthems from 15 years ago still live on.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 20 years ago to September 2002. It’s when trance, techno, and house music dominated my chart, and a Dutch DJ by the name of Carlo Resoort was atop my chart with a long-running track that spent 70 weeks in a row on my Top 40.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with 3 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going retro with me !