March 2026 – CountUp

My Top 10 Hits – Week 472

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 March 01ST 2026 – the 472ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	7	Where Would I Be [5TH week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	2	7	Finished	Caleb & John
3	3	7	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
4	6	9	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac X Forrest Frank
5	7	6	The Love I Have For You	Colton Dixon
6	4	20	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
7	9	5	Make It Well	MercyMe
8	10	4	Good	Matthew West
9	–	1	Keep Holding On	Jeremy Rosado
10	–	1	I’ve Got A Fire	Pat Barrett

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Goodbye Yesterday” – Elevation Rhythm
2024 – “Strong” – Anne Wilson
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Jesus Is Coming Back” – Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Red Letters” – Crowder
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE 2 – Great movie. 4 stars. A+. I saw it at my local movie theatre on opening day a couple of Fridays ago, and the theatre was more than half full. It was wonderful to see so many people watching the movie with me. It’s a great sequel to the March 2018 original that was a surprise smash. While the original focused on how MercyMe’s 2001 platinum smash “I Can Only Imagine” came to be – this one focuses on their 2017 hit “Even If” and the 16 years since their first big hit. (“Even If” was my 3RD # 1 smash of this current era of my chart back in April 2017.)

ONE-HIT WONDER – Benjamin William Hastings – formerly of Hillsong Worship and Hillsong UNITED – teamed-up with Blessing Offor to create “That’s The Thing About Praise” in May and June of 2023. It reached my Top 5 for 2 weeks before falling off my chart.

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.

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday March 01ST 2026, 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.

Volume 9, Number 1, Edition 401
“Saved By God”

I was recently asked if one could be saved by God and not know it. The answer is yes. I am a prime example of that. I was rescued and saved by God at a particular moment at dawn during the latter portion of August of 2006, and I didn’t realize it until weeks later. Songs about Christ began playing on my car radio as well as Bible verses. I searched those Bible verses online. Yahoo and Google were my first Bibles before I was given a physical Bible. The more I heard song lyrics about God – the closer I got to Him. The more I searched and studied those Bible verses online – the closer I got to Him. Salvation started before I knew what it meant. But it didn’t take very long to realize it, as I was immersed in God’s Word.

19½ years later – at Thursday Night Bible Study here in my neighborhood – we’re currently reading and discussing 1 Peter. We hit one of my favorite verses – 1:23 – this past Thursday night. It was one of the earliest verses of Scripture that I heard on the radio and searched on the Internet in 2006:

For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal living word of God.

Once I understood that verse – I knew that I had been rescued and saved and born again.

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.