April 2024 – Page 4

Greetings my friends. It is Wednesday April 03RD 2024, and with this special edition I begin a new weekend of blog posts. Normally I publish new posts 3 times per weekend – on Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays at 0300 U.S. east coast time. (That’s 0700 in the United Kingdom, 0800 across much of Europe, 1500 in Western Australia, 1800 in Eastern Australia, and 2000 in New Zealand.) Thank You all for checking-in !

Each day has its own unique theme. My Thursday posts center on travel. My Sunday posts center on Scripture and the Gospel. My Monday posts center on current Christian pop music. So my hashtags are #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

A few times per year I’ll publish a special post on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday. It all adds up to over 150 posts per year. Each post is about a 2-to-4 minute read.

If you’re new here – then welcome to my blog. Thank You for checking it out. You may have clicked on my link on my Facebook, X, Flickr, or Spotify profile. Perhaps Google or Feedspot sent you here awhile back, and you’ve been returning on a regular basis. Maybe you only read my posts on #TravelThursday, or you’re only interested in my Gospel messages on Sundays. Either way I’m glad you’re here. This is a no-judgement zone. This is also a political-free space online. There’s plenty of judgement and politics elsewhere. There’s lots of hate in this world. I try to shine light and bring encouragement and love into this world.

Feel free to comment with relevance on any post. You can also reach out to me on X @ChrisMDay. Some of you have your own blogs that I check out on a regular basis. Keep doing what you do. Keep blogging alive !

I’ve been blogging since 2007, and really I was blogging for 14 years before that via my own dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) and its spinoffs on the early World Wide Web of the late-1990s into the early-2000s. It’s my favorite hobby online.

#TravelThursday is up next in less than 24 hours. I hope that you’ll check it out sometime during the day tomorrow.

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 March 31ST 2024 – the 372ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	17	Lead On Good Shepherd [2ND week @ # 1]	Patrick Mayberry
2	3	6	He Does	Brandon Heath
3	2	6	You’ve Already Won	Shane & Shane
4	7	2	Walk With Jesus	Consumed By Fire
5	8	2	God Be The Glory	We Are Messengers
6	5	17	Strong	Anne Wilson
7	4	14	Hallelujah Anyway	Rend Collective
8	6	4	All Because Of Mercy	Casting Crowns
9	9	2	Counting My Blessings	Seph Schlueter
10	–	1	Rescue	Jordan St. Cyr

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Brighter Days” – Blessing Offor
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

SEPH SCHLUETER – I love a debut artist, and Seph is 1 of 2 on my chart right now. (The other are the 2 Shanes.) Seph’s first song on my chart is currently at # 9, but nationally it’s Top 3 at U.S. Christian radio. It’s also a former # 1 smash in Brazil. “Counting My Blessings” is his Thank You song to his Lord + Savior Jesus Christ.

God I’m still counting my blessings
All that You’ve done in my life
The more that I look in the details
The more of Your goodness I find
Father on this side of Heaven
I know that I’ll run out of time
But I will keep counting my blessings
Knowing I can’t count that high

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.

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.