Author: Chris M. Day

I'm 58 years old. I've been online for 32 years - starting with my own dial-up bulletin board system in 1993 - and continuing with AOL, my own dot.com web site, Myspace, WordPress, Twitter / X, Flickr, and Facebook.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 411

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 December 29TH 2024 – the 411TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 20 Do It Again
[5TH week @ # 1]		 Steven Curtis Chapman
2 2 13 Love’s Got A Way Andrew Ripp
3 3 16 That’s Who I Praise Brandon Lake
4 4 5 In The Name Of Jesus JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
5 5 6 Praise God For That Jordan Feliz
6 6 2 Running Back To You Seph Schlueter
7 7 11 Place In This World for King + Country Ft. Michael W. Smith
8 8 15 Worship Through It Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
9 9 3 Still Waters (Psalm 23) Leanna Crawford
10 10 5 The Truth Megan Woods

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2021 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2019 – “Unstoppable God” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2017 – “Lions” – Skillet

SKILLET – Well – it’s a typical last chart of the year – with no change anywhere from the previous week. With K-LOVE and The Joy FM heavy into their continuous Christmas music – I listened to a little bit of The Message on SiriusXM, and even that was available via streaming only (not in the car). Even my # 1 smash hits from previous years are the same – save one – and that’s 2017 – when Skillet ascended to the top of my last chart of the year with “Lions”.

TOP 24 OF 2024 – Tomorrow at 3 AM U.S. East Coast time I’ll publish my Top 24 hits of 2024. Spoiler: One artist in particular is not on my year-end chart for the first time in this era.

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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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Holidays Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday December 29TH 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.

It’s my 52ND and final #SundayScripture of 2024. It’s my 340TH edition since 2018. I enjoy writing this feature each week, and I’ll continue to do so in 2025. Thank You for coming back here every Sunday to read what I’ve written about our Glorious God Almighty !

Personally – 2024 was a great year for me. It was a year of transition – life-changing transition. I retired from the USAF after nearly 39 years of military and civil service. For the first time since the age of 13 – I’m no longer working for money.

I became a full-time resident of my dream home in my dream neighborhood in my dream part of Florida – spending 88.5% of 2024 at home in Sebring (up from 54% in 2023).

I chose a new home church in September 2023, and in 2024 I assimilated myself into my church – not just on Sunday mornings, but also during the week. In November I was secretly selected to be part of the Directional Board of Highlands Community Church. In December I was publicly affirmed at our annual business meeting. I officially begin serving in that role as the new year starts.

God has blessed me with a physically and socially active life here in Sebring – complemented by a strong family of friends and neighbors at home, at church, and at the Museum (Sebring Historical Society). I’m far busier now than I ever was back at my previous place of residence.

I’m in my 19TH year of salvation here on this fantastic journey. (Salvation started during the 3RD week of August of 2006, and it continues to this day.) I did not want my 19TH year to be like my 18TH year. My 18TH year was great, but I wanted my 19TH year to be greater. You can’t get greater if you keep doing the same old things that you previously did. God created a new thing for you to do, and He wants you to trust Him as you move forth. Do that in 2025. Do something new. Move in a different direction. God wants your 2025 to be greater than your 2024 – no matter how great (or not) your 2024 was.

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
Behold – I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it ?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
(Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV)

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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Blogging Driving Food Geography Home Travel

Walking Around The Neighborhood

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. While most of my travel posts have to do with driving or flying somewhere – this post is about another form of transportation – my own two feet.

17 years ago this past Christmas Eve I started something new that I had never done before. I intentional walked around my neighborhood. I did it for a few reasons back in 2007. I did it for fitness – to get healthier and stronger. (I was neither back then.) I did it to honor my dad. He was slowly losing the ability to walk due to the effects of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – AKA “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”. I did it for my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ – to thank Him for rescuing me and saving me and blessing me with His gifts – such as the gift to pray for my neighbors, and my neighborhood, and my city, and beyond.

This is the start of my 18TH year of walking around my neighborhood. (Technically – each season begins near the start of the dry season here in South and South-Central Florida.) In this 18TH season – I’m still walking for fitness, and for my dad in Heaven, and for God. And when I walk around my neighborhood – I’m praying for my neighbors, and for my neighborhood, and for Sebring, and beyond. The Lord placed me in my dream home – in my dream neighborhood – in my dream part of Florida. I can’t stop thanking Him for that, for I’m living my best life today !

Statistically – Season 17 (2023-2024) – was the biggest one yet. I walked 87 times for a total of 113.50 miles. That’s an average of 1.30 miles per walk. I walked from September 2023 through July 2024. Season 18 started this past September 2024. My goal for this season is to walk 100 times. I’m about one-fourth of the way there, and I’m way behind last season’s numbers at this point. I need to get to steppin’ !

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about my driving year in review. Let’s keep traveling together.

#CountUp & #TravelThursday is on Facebook. I usually post there on Mondays and Thursdays. I’m also the Social Media Director for the Sebring Historical Society. I post on our Facebook page 6 days a week – Mondays to Saturdays.

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Blogging Food Football Holidays Home Sports Television Travel

Merry Christmas

I wish each and every one of you following me and reading my blog a very Merry Christmas.

My traditional family “Christmas” actually occurred 4 weeks ago in North Texas on Thanksgiving Day. For the past many years my brother has prepared a hearty home-cooked Breakfast for he and I, and then shortly after that we’ve opened all of the presents underneath the Christmas tree. Once they are all opened it’s time to watch football for the rest of the day and into the night – including for about an hour while we’re enjoying a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at around three or four in the afternoon.

On the day after Thanksgiving (“Black Friday”) Christmas is done and over for me. Well – sort of. For the first 3 weeks of December I get to observe and celebrate bits and pieces of Christmas here and there by listening to Christmas music on the radio, watching Christmas shows on television, writing and sending Christmas cards and messages to family and friends from afar, and enjoying several Christmas meals with friends and neighbors. I’m especially looking forward to my second Christmas potluck dinner with 100+ of my neighbors in our clubhouse.

We all celebrate Christmas in our own unique and traditional ways. May you spend this holiday season with your loved ones. Make and share good memories that will last a lifetime. Honor each other. Love one another.

And let’s remember why we celebrate Christmas.

And she will have a Son, and you are to name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21 NLT)

The LORD saves.

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