Month: August 2024

My Top 10 Hits – Week 392

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 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 August 18TH 2024 – the 392ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	11	Take You At Your Word [1ST week @ # 1]	Cody Carnes
2	4	8	Good Day	Forrest Frank
3	1	17	Somebody Like Me	Caleb & John Ft. Cain
4	3	15	Beautiful Life	Pat Barrett
5	5	6	Take It All Back	Tauren Wells
6	8	2	Count ‘Em	Brandon Lake
7	6	7	Nothin’ Sweeter	TobyMac
8	7	9	Miracle Child	Brandon Lake
9	10	2	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
10	–	1	Just As You Are	Ryan Stevenson

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Hold You Tight” – Dan Bremnes
2021 – “When We Fall Apart” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
2020 – “There Was Jesus” – Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Hard Love” – NEEDTOBREATHE

RYAN STEVENSON – I enjoy compiling and looking back at # 1 hits this week in history. This is a big turnover week for new # 1 hits – representing 5 out of the past 8 years (including this week). Ryan Stevenson hit # 1 exactly 3 years ago with a song that was an emotional tribute to his Mom in Heaven. It was underrated, and it underperformed nationally. It should have crossed over to mainstream pop and country radio. It should have won awards. It spent 15 weeks on my chart – 14 in my Top 5. It could’ve likely gone another 10 weeks had it been supported by continued radio airplay. As his 8TH hit debuts on my chart this week – I present the official lyric video of his 6TH hit from the Summer of 2021:

TOP 40 OF 400 – And speaking of Ryan Stevenson – his “When We Fall Apart” is his biggest hit of this current era, but it missed my Top 40 by far. I’ll present my Top 40 hits cumulatively of the first 400 weeks (since February 2017) this October.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing 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.

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

Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

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

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 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.

Last #SundayScripture I finished posting the full transcription of my Jude message series consisting of two sermons – “Jude & Judgment” (Verses 1-11), and “Jude & Jury” (Verses 12-25). I preached them to my Homestead Florida church family on November 26TH 2023 and December 03RD 2023 respectively. Links are provided for Parts 1 to 8 of “Jude & Judgment” (Sermon 56) and Parts 1 to 9 of “Jude & Jury” (Sermon 57) over on my SERMONS page.

It was in May of 2023 that I first announced in here that I had begun writing my sermon on Jude. It eventually became two sermons, and I was blessed to preach those sermons on back-to-back Sundays after Thanksgiving. (It was actually the first 2 of 4 consecutive Sundays that I preached at my longtime home church in Homestead Florida.)

I enjoyed studying Jude, and then I prayed on how to effectively preach on Jude. I wrote, enhanced, and rehearsed the sermons, and then I preached them. And then I got to preach them again in here over the past 4 months.

As a bivocational Assistant Pastor of a small church from 2016 to 2024 I was blessed to preach from the pulpit 60 times over the past 8 years. So I had plenty of time to prepare my sermons. Some took a few weeks, and some took several months. All were guided and directed by God and based on His Truth. I preached them when I was called upon to do so. Many were preached with my Lead Pastor physically there, and some were preached while filling-in for him during his absence.

I continue to write sermons that I hope to preach at my longtime home-away-from-home church. My 61ST sermon (“Music & Lyrics”) is done (for now), and I’m currently working on # 62 based on King Solomon.

Here in Sebring – I have a new home church – Highlands Community Church. I’ve been part of the church body for almost a year now. Much like my first year at my former church 9 years ago – I’m in a season of rest from Pastoral ministries. I’m loving our Sunday morning services. I’m enjoying formal Bible Study with my Pastor and 20 brothers and sisters every Friday night. Just recently I’ve immersed myself into “Men’s Ministry” every other Tuesday night at the church where about a dozen brothers (Pastor included) break bread (eat food), and we engage in current-event-type conversations that wouldn’t normally be discussed as part of our Sunday morning services.

After 4 months of presenting 2 sermons in here – I plan to spend the next 4 months (probably the rest of the year) just writing about my ministry and how I feel about certain things related to ministry and the church. I’ll also write about some of the Scripture that we’re learning on Friday nights and Sunday mornings at my church. It’s a new season here on #SundayScripture, and I’m looking forward to where God leads me.

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.

Tags Bible, Blog, Christ, Christian, Church, God, Jesus, Message, Minister, Ministry, Pastor, Preacher, Reverend, Scripture, Sermon, Sunday

1990s Blogging Travel

My First Caribbean Cruise

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

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. 33 years ago this weekend on the 18TH of August of 1991 – I stepped foot on a cruise ship for the first time ever. It was my Dad’s idea at the time to go on a family vacation at sea. He worked with a local travel agency in our hometown of McLean Virginia. He selected the Norwegian Seaward out of #PortMiami. It was a fairly new cruise ship at the time – about 3 years old.

I did not know what to expect prior to stepping foot in a brand-new world at sea. Remember there was no Internet 33 years ago – as least no Internet that normal people like You and I could use. But once I stepped foot on that cruise ship – it was love at first sight – starting with the first buffet meal.

I don’t remember much from that first cruise. It was 7 days and 7 nights – a Sunday afternoon to Sunday morning. There were several ports-of-call including Ocho Rios Jamaica and George Town Grand Cayman. I think we also visited The Bahamas and Cozumel Mexico. It was my first time in those 4 nations. In fact – I haven’t been to Jamaica since then.

We had our family portrait taken on formal night, and I actually wore my military service dress blues for that photo session.

I think I had determined during that first cruise that there would indeed be a 2ND cruise, and a 3RD cruise, and so forth and so on. That 2ND cruise occurred almost exactly 3 years later – on the exact same cruise ship. Just 8 months after that I was on my 3RD cruise – on another NCL ship out of Miami. In January 2023 I sailed on my 24TH cruise – and my 16TH on Carnival. (I sailed 6 times on NCL, once on Royal Carribean, and once on Disney.)

I’m fully retired now – only collecting a monthly pension. I don’t know what the future holds as far as cruising is concerned. That 24TH cruise was a great one on a great ship. Perhaps it was “The Grand Finale” – my last cruise – at least for a while. But I’ll never say never for a 25TH cruise.

I would really love to go on a 22-day Mississippi River Viking cruise, but I don’t have that kind of fun money. Can you imagine how many #TravelThursday blogs I could create based on that cruise ? !

I have been quietly checking out Carnival’s web site for short 4, 5, and 6-day cruises out of Tampa (the nearest cruise ship port to me now), but even those cost a bit more than I can afford right now.

Next #TravelThursday I’ll write about the Avon Park Depot Museum, and how my life today could’ve been a bit different if that museum had been open on a specific day in 2021. Let’s keep traveling together.

Tags Caribbean, Cruise, Mississippi, Port, River, Ship

Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 391

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 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 August 11TH 2024 – the 391ST week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	16	Somebody Like Me [6TH week @ # 1]	Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2	3	10	Take You At Your Word	Cody Carnes
3	2	14	Beautiful Life	Pat Barrett
4	7	7	Good Day	Forrest Frank
5	6	5	Take It All Back	Tauren Wells
6	4	6	Nothin’ Sweeter	TobyMac
7	5	8	Miracle Child	Brandon Lake
8	–	1	Count ‘Em	Brandon Lake
9	9	3	Creed	Shane & Shane
10	–	1	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “There Was Jesus” – Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

BRANDON LAKE – Your 2022, 2023, and 2024 K-LOVE Fan Award Male Artist Of The Year Winner is now on my chart with 2 current hits simultaneously. I’m not sure if a single artist has ever been on my chart (during this current era) with 2 solo songs at the same time. As his 7TH hit drops to # 7 – his 8TH hit enters at # 8. It’s a hard-edge song that could continue on for the rest of the year. Check out the official music video:

TOP 40 OF 400 – And speaking of Brandon Lake – his “Praise You Anywhere” is # 12 on my cumulative chart of the first 400 weeks (since February 2017). I’ll present the Top 40 this October.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by accessing 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.

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.