Month: February 2024

My Top 10 Hits – Week 366

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 19, 2024

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 February 18TH 2024 – the 366TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	I Believe [4TH week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham
2	2	11	Strong	Anne Wilson
3	3	11	Lead On Good Shepherd	Patrick Mayberry
4	7	3	These Days	Jeremy Camp
5	6	8	Hallelujah Anyway	Rend Collective
6	4	27	Hallelujah Feeling	Caleb & John
7	5	18	I Thank God	Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
8	10	2	Don’t Stop Praying	Matthew West
9	8	2	Never	Tasha Layton
10	–	1	Honestly, We Just Need Jesus	Terrian

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “My Story Your Glory” – Matthew West
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “The God Who Stays” – Matthew West
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru ” – TobyMac

HAPPY 7TH ANNIVERSARY – This week marks the 7TH anniversary of the resurrection of my personal music chart after a 7-year hiatus from 2010 to 2017. This 7-year era has now surpassed the initial 1985-1992 run of my chart – back then a mainstream Top 40 music chart. It’s been a glorious 7 years with 337 songs introduced to you as they enter, ascend, and descend my chart. I’m looking forward to continuing my promotion of positive and encouraging music on the radio and online. It’s how I fulfill my vision of “Sharing God’s Good News through His music.”

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by heading over to 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.

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.

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 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.

Tags Blog, Chart, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, Spotify, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 18, 2024

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 18TH 2024, 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.

I enjoy looking back at my old blog posts – whether they are on Facebook (2013-2017), or right here on WordPress before and after those 4 years. It seems that I’m often on vacation during the Presidents’ Day Weekend here in the U.S.A. That’s when I discovered my new home here in the Heartland of Florida. I also bought my new home last year during this long holiday weekend.

On a previous Presidents’ Day Weekend – 16 years ago in 2008 – I wrote about a road-trip vacation over to Southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast (Fort Myers, Estero, and Naples. That was actually where I thought I wanted to retire back then. In fact – here’s what I wrote back then:

“I think it’s official now. The Orlando area is not where I wish to live when I retire in about 15 to 20 years. I think you’ll find me living peacefully and happily ever after over in the Fort Myers / Estero / Naples area sometime in the future.”

(My mind changed about the area about 7 years later.)

Before I drove over there – I attended a Sunday morning church service up in Weston that was actually a church plant of my home church at the time. Here’s how I described that experience exactly 16 years ago:

“After a short intermission Pastor Nathan got up on stage and began his teaching. It was all about ‘The Power Of Light & Love’. All of the lights went out. Darkness. A flashlight came on. Light at the end of the tunnel. Let there be light. All of the lights came back on. There is no more darkness, for we have been saved. We are chasing daylight. The secrets and the sins that we committed in the dark are in our past. This is a new Life for us. A life of light. Ephesians 5:8 (NLT, 2ND Ed.) illustrates the contrast between our past problems and our present privileges: ‘For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light !’ Ephesians 5:13 identifies the need to bring light to darkness: ‘But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them.’”

“From start to finish it was about an hour and 45-minute service. Pastor Nathan’s message was powerful. He inspired and encouraged us to continue moving further away from the darkness and forward into the light.”

That was a good message for this young Christian in his 2ND year of salvation in Christ.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture whether it’s part of a sermon, or just me writing about the events of the past 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 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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Home Is Where The Heartland Is

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 15, 2024

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It’s an anniversary week for me. It was exactly one year ago that I bought my current home here in the Heartland of Florida near Sebring. I bought my dream home in my dream neighborhood in my dream part of Florida. It’s my forever home. I expect to live here and enjoy retirement life here for the rest of my physical life here on Earth.

This is the place that I drove through many times and eventually spent vacation time in for about 8 years – including several Presidents’ Day Weekends here in the U.S.A. I fell in love with the region. I decided that I wanted to move here after I retire. I narrowed it down from Lake Wales to Lake Placid (about 55 miles apart). I eventually settled on Sebring (right in the middle). I had my eyes on my current 55+ neighborhood when I was still 54. I waited until 2 days after my 55TH birthday to physically tour my likely new neighborhood with my Real Estate Agent. I bought my new home last Presidents’ Day Weekend.

I still love everything about my new neighborhood and home county that I loved a year ago and during those 8 years of vacations. I’ve also become actively involved in my new neighborhood and community – something I never really did during my 36 years in South Florida. My footprint is all over Sebring, Avon Park, and the surrounding Highlands County region. I’m looking forward to contributing more time to make this an even greater place to live and visit and enjoy.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll reveal the first 2 stops on my upcoming retirement road-trip. One is in the Florida Panhandle, and the other is now the second-largest city in “The Yellowhammer State”. Let’s keep traveling together.

Tags Avon Park, Florida, Heartland, Highlands, Sebring

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 365

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 12, 2024

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 February 11TH 2024 – the 365TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	14	I Believe [3RD week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham
2	2	10	Strong	Anne Wilson
3	5	10	Lead On Good Shepherd	Patrick Mayberry
4	3	26	Hallelujah Feeling	Caleb & John
5	4	17	I Thank God	Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
6	6	7	Hallelujah Anyway	Rend Collective
7	8	2	These Days	Jeremy Camp
8	–	1	Never	Tasha Layton
9	7	6	Crazy About You	Tauren Wells
10	–	1	Don’t Stop Praying	Matthew West

MATTHEW WEST – It’s a good week for Matthew West. Besides the fact that he hit # 1 on this week in both 2020 and 2023 – he’s back with his new hit this week – his 9TH hit on my chart – and his 166TH week – more than any other artist over the past 7 years. It’s a song that reminds us – if you have an impossible – if you need a miracle – if you’re barely hanging by a single thread – if it looks so hopeless now – if it weighs down your heart with doubt – if you’re begging for a breakthrough – then “Don’t Stop Praying” !

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.

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.