August 2026 – CountUp

My Top 10 Hits – Week 494

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 August 02ND 2026 – the 494TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	19	Everything Is Better [1ST week @ # 1]	Hopeful.
2	1	10	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
3	4	16	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
4	5	4	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
5	7	3	Faith Hope Love	We Are Messengers
6	3	29	Finished	Caleb & John
7	6	5	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
8	8	2	Why Should I Worry	Carly Ann Taylor
9	9	4	Meet Me In The Valley	Tasha Layton
10	10	5	Ain’t No Way	Jamie MacDonald

2025 – “God Did It” – Micah Tyler
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

HOPEFUL. – Those 5 guys from the sand and surf of Southern California who love God and are hopeful of His promises ascend to the top of my chart, and it only took 19 weeks to do so. “Everything Is Better” continues to carry speed and make waves at Christian music radio.

I’ve entered the actual month of the 20TH anniversary of the start of my salvation in August 2006. God used loud music on the radio to get my attention. I called His name. He rescued me. He saved me. My life changed forever. It was not a fluke. It was not a passing fad. Here I am – 20 years later.

For the past 10 weeks I’ve presented my #CountUp of the biggest hits during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010. I’ll continue next week with my # 11 hit. This week it’s a recap of my Top 10:

“Over My Head (Cable Car)” – The Fray
“Staring At The Light” – The Wedding
“Forgiven” – Relient K
“Friend Like That” – Hawk Nelson
“Word Of Mouth” – John Reuben
“Made To Love” – TobyMac
“F-Stop” – Sullivan
“After The World” – Disciple
“The Minor Prophets” – Haste The Day
“Live Like We’re Alive” – Nevertheless

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 August 02ND 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 23, Edition 423
“Bible App”

I’ve been asked how I feel about Bible apps on smart phones and tablets. I love them. I actually only use one app in particular, and it’s the most popular Bible app in the world – YouVersion. Late last year they celebrated one billion downloads / installs since its debut in July 2008. They celebrated with a nice special on TBN.

Call me old-fashioned, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I’m actually not a fan of using these apps during active church services. I find them distracting from both the pulpit and the congregation. If you’re using the Bible app on your phone then you’re probably being distracted by everything else that’s on your phone. During active church services I’m a huge fan of traditional printed Bibles with pages. I love to see my brothers and sisters arriving to and departing from the church building carrying their Bibles. Some of them are worn and tethered. A worn and tethered Bible is usually held by someone who is very close to God – constantly seeking His Word.

But I do love the YouVersion Bible app. It’s used worldwide – in every single country on every single continent – including Antarctica. It’s available in over 300 languages with thousands of different Scripture translations. I mostly use a few translations – NLT (which I’ve used since salvation started), NASB (which my current Pastor uses), and NIV (which my former Pastor uses). When I write sermons I study more translations of the Scripture I’m studying, and I occasionally incorporate some of them into my sermons.

But the best part of the YouVersion Bible app ? – you can be with it 24/7 – in everything you do – and everywhere you go – since our phones are never too far away from us. That means we have access to God’s Word at all times. It’s as easy as tapping an icon on a screen, and there it is.

As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring Good News !” (Romans 10:15b NIV)

BOILERPLATE

#SundayScripture is published online every Sunday at 0300 U.S. East Coast time. It was created in its current form in February 2018. I share my testimony here each 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, for the best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and I pray that the LORD will bless you and keep you. May He make His face shine upon you, and may He be gracious to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you, and may He give you peace. I pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN and AMEN.