Month: June 2025

My Top 10 Hits – Week 437

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 30, 2025

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday June 29TH 2025 – the 437TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	14	Oh Death [2ND week @ # 1]	MercyMe
2	2	8	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
3	3	6	God Did It	Micah Tyler
4	6	11	No Fear	Jon Reddick
5	7	13	Jesus Loves	Zach Williams
6	5	15	You Never Gave Up On Me	The Afters
7	4	14	Unashamed	Matthew West
8	10	2	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
9	8	5	I Know A Name	Elevation Worship Ft. Brandon Lake
10	9	3	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Beautiful Life” – Pat Barrett
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Me On Your Mind” – Matthew West
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

SUMMER OF 2025 – The first full month of the summer is done, and next week we actually reach the near halfway point of the summer (7 out of 15 weeks). I’ll reveal the Top 3 songs of the summer thus far.

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 in South Florida 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.

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 29, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday June 29TH 2025, 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.

It’s the 5TH Sunday of the month, so my church family here in Sebring will be celebrating post-service with a potluck luncheon – which we do pretty good. We have a lot of great cooks in my church family. I am not one of them, but I have a great appetite for great food.

Unfortunately I won’t be there this morning. I’ll be down in Homestead again with my former church family there for the 2ND time in 3 Sundays. It will likely be my final trip to Homestead for at least the next 100 days. I’ll write all about this visit to and from Homestead in a future #TravelThursday blog post. #StayTuned

It’s been a while since I refreshed and posted one of my past sermons on here, so starting next Sunday and continuing through July, August, and into September I’ll be doing just that. I haven’t decided which sermon to refresh and post, but it will be posted in 3-to-4-minute reads each week. That means that – just like all of my blog posts – you can read it in 3 to 4 minutes. My sermons are generally about 35 to 45 minutes in length (when preached), so whichever sermon I decide to post will be done so in probably 8 to 10 parts.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, 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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Walking Around The Neighborhood

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 26, 2025

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Last week I wrote about our cold winter season here in Sebring Florida – in which we experienced 50 cold mornings with lows in the 30s or 40s, and 19 cold afternoons in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. It was my coldest winter season in over 30 years !

It certainly affected my walking this past season – both positively and negatively. I won’t walk when it’s too cold out. I generally won’t walk when the temperature is below 60°F / 16°C, so if it’s cold in the morning then I’ll walk in the afternoon. If it’s hot in the afternoon then I’ll walk in the morning. If it’s cold all day long then the walking can wait.

My season of walking started on the 19TH of September of 2024, and it ended on the 06TH of June. Here are the number of times I walked around my neighborhood in each month: September (3), October (10), November (3), December (13), January (10), February (10), March (15), April (12), May (10), and June (4).

My goal for this season was to walk more times than last season (2023-2024). I walked 87 times last season, and I made it to 90 walks this season. Goal met. Actually – my goal may have been to reach 100 walks. Didn’t make it. I’ll blame it on our cold weather in January. I also failed to surpass the number of miles I walked last season. I walked 109.72 miles this season – versus 113.50 miles last season. The average length of my walks was a bit shorter this season (1.22 miles) versus last season (1.30 miles).

Next season will be Season 19 of my neighborhood walks. Season 1 was 2007-2008, and you can read about my very first walk here. Season 19 will probably start in September when we start getting some cooler mornings here with the return of cold fronts from the north. My goal will be 100 walks and more miles than this season – and last season. I’ll try for 125.

#ButWait – Our local Performing Arts Center a couple of miles up the road is opening their doors every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10 AM to 2 PM for people like me to come in out of the heat and get their steps in amongst air-conditioned comfort. You can basically walk around their 1,460-seat venue (excluding the stage). That actually sounds like fun. I may participate once or twice or more. (Those walks will not count towards my seasonal numbers.)

Next #TravelThursday I’ll write about my recent Flag Day / Father’s Day Weekend visit back to Homestead Florida. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 436

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 23, 2025

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday June 22ND 2025 – the 436TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	13	Oh Death [1ST week @ # 1]	MercyMe
2	3	7	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
3	5	5	God Did It	Micah Tyler
4	4	13	Unashamed	Matthew West
5	1	14	You Never Gave Up On Me	The Afters
6	8	10	No Fear	Jon Reddick
7	7	12	Jesus Loves	Zach Williams
8	9	4	I Know A Name	Elevation Worship Ft. Brandon Lake
9	10	2	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
10	–	1	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Beautiful Life” – Pat Barrett
2023 – “Cornerstone” – TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
2022 – “Sunday Sermons” – Anne Wilson
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Home” – Chris Tomlin

MERCYME – They are my favorite band. They’ve spent more weeks at # 1 on my chart than any other artist. “Oh Death” is now their 6TH # 1 smash – giving MercyMe a total of 28 weeks at # 1 over the past 8 years. I got to see them perform this song LIVE in concert 2½ months ago in Estero Florida. What a great experience it was to sing along to 20 of their greatest hits over the past 30 years !

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.