Month: September 2023

My Top 10 Hits – Summer Of 2023

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 12, 2023

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 over 45 years. Today it’s a special chart of my Top 10 hits of this past Summer. Here’s this Summer’s chart:

RK	PK	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	Big God	Terrian
2	1	12	This Is Our God	Phil Wickham
3	2	14	Fingerprints	Dan Bremnes
4	1	10	Cornerstone	TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
5	2	9	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
6	5	12	Every Hour	David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
7	1	7	Praise You Anywhere	Brandon Lake
8	2	8	The King Is Alive	Jordan Feliz
9	1	7	Holy Forever	Chris Tomlin
10	4	10	Yes I Am	Christian Paul

# 1 Summer Of:
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

WHAT A SUMMER ! – 15 weekly hit music charts and 23 positive and encouraging hits (the same as last Summer) have created this cumulative hit music chart of my Top 10 hits of the Summer Of 2023 based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. This past Summer season is defined as U.S. Memorial Day Weekend (last Sunday of May) to U.S. Labor Day Weekend (first Sunday of September). This chart is an End-Of-Summer tradition for me.

SOLO AT THE TOP – For the first Summer of this current era – a solo artist led my chart. As you can see above – bands / groups led my chart for 6 Summers in a row. This year Terrian scored my # 1 smash of the Summer with her anthemic “Big God”. It’s the only song to spend all 15 weeks of the Summer on my chart. Solo artists dominated my chart this Summer with 7 out of my Top 10 hits.

DAN BREMNES – Only 1 artist managed to repeat this Summer, and that’s the man from British Columbia Canada. His “Fingerprints” were all over my chart this Summer, and last Summer “Hold You Tight” finished as my # 3 song of the Summer. What do you have for next Summer Dan ?

2023 – Get ready for the final 16 weeks of 2023, and after it’s all over – I’ll #CountUp my Top 23 Of 2023.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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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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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 343

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 11, 2023

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday September 10TH 2023 – the 343RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	8	Praise You Anywhere [3RD week @ # 1]	Brandon Lake
2	2	9	The King Is Alive	Jordan Feliz
3	4	4	Hallelujah Feeling	Caleb & John
4	3	5	Praise The Lord	Micah Tyler
5	5	16	Big God	Terrian
6	6	10	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
7	7	13	Every Hour	David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
8	8	5	Jesus Does	We The Kingdom
9	10	2	Parking Lot	Cochren & Co.
10	9	6	Heaven Changes Everything	Big Daddy Weave

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Hold You Tight” – Dan Bremnes
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

SUMMER OF 2023 – My Top 10 of the Summer will be presented tomorrow morning here at #CountUp. I won’t reveal much, but exactly half of the hits above on my current Top 10 – are also on my Top 10 for the Summer.

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture Travel

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 10, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday September 10TH 2023, 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.

This morning I’m back in Homestead Florida at my longtime home church of the past 8½ years. I’m also filling-in for my Pastor and preaching a full sermon this morning. It’ll be a full sermon that I have not yet written, and I won’t be writing. It’ll be a spontaneous spur-of-the-moment sermon – straight from my heart at that precise moment. Basically – I have no idea what I’ll be saying – until I actually say it. Well – I have a general idea. The title of my sermon is “Dreaming & Praying”, and it’s all about dreaming big dreams and then praying to God about them. It’ll be based on 9 verses of Scripture from two of Paul’s letters – Philippians 4:4-9 and 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.

My sermon will lead-in to Communion, as I’ll lead our monthly observance and celebration of what Christ did for us on that cross on that day – and what He did for us on the 3RD day – and what He continues to do for us to this day.

Last Sunday morning I visited a new church in my new hometown of Sebring Florida. I loved every moment of it. The 2ND person I met used to live in Homestead, and we have mutual friends. She even knows my church in Homestead and my Pastor. She and her husband (who I also met) ran a company that once installed my front porch screen enclosure and door back in the late-’90s. What a small world we live in !

I introduced myself to the Pastor, and I enjoyed a short conversation with him prior to the service. He’s a very personable guy. The service itself was organized, and the Pastor’s sermon was relevant and powerful. He has a quirky sense of humor, but he surely glorified God in his message. Based on that first service last Sunday – I’ll definitely be back for a 2ND service next Sunday. I think God led me to the right church this time around.

And now here on #SundayScripture it’s the continuation of the refresh, renew, and reboot of my sermon on “Pray & Believe” – originally preached on Sunday June 16TH 2019. Here’s Part 7:

[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK]

So the early church was praying for Peter in prison, and as the Bible says:

The night before Peter was to be placed on trial – he was asleep – fastened with two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the prison gate. Suddenly – there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel struck him on the side to awaken him and said, “Quick ! Get up !” And the chains fell off his wrists. (Acts 12:6-7)

Do you sense a miracle going on here ? Wait – it gets even better:

Then the angel told him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” And he did. “Now put on your coat, and follow me” – the angel ordered.

So Peter left the cell – following the angel. But all the time he thought it was a vision. He didn’t realize it was actually happening. They passed the first and second guard posts, and (they) came to the iron gate leading to the city (that’s Jerusalem), and this opened for them all by itself. So they passed through (the gate), and (they) started walking down the street, and then the angel suddenly left him.

Peter finally came to his senses. He said, “It’s really true !” The Lord has sent His angel and saved me from (King) Herod and from what the Jewish leaders had planned to do to me !”

When he realized this – he went to the home of Mary – the mother of John Mark – where many were gathered for prayer. (Acts 12:8-12)

And I’m gonna paraphrase the rest of the story. Peter knocked on Mary’s door at the gate just outside the house. A servant girl answered the door. Peter didn’t even have to say his name. The servant girl knew exactly who he was from his voice alone. She got so excited that she didn’t even open the door. She ran back into the house – back into the room where everyone was praying, and she told everyone in a loud and excited voice, “Peter is standing at the door !”

The prayer group didn’t believe her. They told her, “You’re out of your mind !” The servant girl insisted that it really was Peter.

They still didn’t believe her, so the entire group went to the door at the gate to check it out for themselves. They opened the door, and there he was – Peter. They were amazed. They were astonished. They were in shock. They were beside themselves. Peter calmed them all down, and he told them how the Lord had led him out of prison.

See the believers – Peter’s friends – had been praying very earnestly for him. God answered their prayers. God actually brought Peter back to his friends. That’s what they were praying for !

[TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK]

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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Blogging Driving Geography History Television Travel

Weeki Wachee Springs

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 7, 2023

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. You know I’ve written a lot about my new home near Sebring Florida over the past 7 months. This week I look elsewhere, and I write about a place that I actually have never been to before, but I’d like to visit.

There’s a local TV show that a couple of our Tampa Bay area PBS stations airs called “Central Florida Road Trip” (also just “Florida Road Trip“). I love these shows. I’m discovering them now for the first time. On a recent episode they did a segment on Weeki Wachee Springs. I’ve heard of it before, but I didn’t really know much of anything about it until they featured it on their show.

Weeki Wachee Springs is a historic roadside tourist attraction located right along U.S. 19 about 50 miles north of Tampa.

Fun Fact: U.S. 19 extends over 1,400 miles from near the shores of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania to near the shores of the Gulf Of Mexico in St. Petersburg Florida. It traverses West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia in-between. U.S. 19 between I-10 and Crystal River Florida is a frequent route for me to and from the Panhandle.

Weeki Wachee Springs has been open since 1947, and it was recently added to the U.S. National Register Of Historic Places. Various TV shows and movies have filmed on-location there attracting big stars. It was one of the most popular roadside tourist attractions in the region during the late-1950s and throughout the 1960s. Everyone wanted to drive there to see the mermaids in action. Its popularity began waning during the 1970s as nearby Walt Disney World arrived on the scene. It became a Florida State Park late in 2008. The mermaids are still performing there 2 or 3 times daily.

Check out the Weeki Wachee Springs Facebook page for the most current news and information.

I definitely want to visit this place in the months to come. It’s about 116 miles from my new home (less than 3 hours away). This may be part of my upcoming 3,000+ mile post-retirement road-trip.

Next #TravelThursday I’ll look back at my visit on Cedar Key Florida – a place that was recent devastated by Hurricane Idalia. Let’s keep traveling together.