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.

My Top 10 Hits – Week 409

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 16, 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 December 15TH 2024 – the 409TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	18	Do It Again [3RD week @ # 1]	Steven Curtis Chapman
2	2	11	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
3	4	14	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
4	7	3	In The Name Of Jesus	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
5	6	4	Praise God For That	Jordan Feliz
6	3	9	Place In This World	for King + Country Ft. Michael W. Smith
7	5	9	If I Got Jesus	Ben Fuller
8	8	13	Worship Through It	Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
9	9	3	The Truth	Megan Woods
10	–	1	Still Waters (Psalm 23)	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN – He’s 62, and he’s been writing and singing to God since his mid-20s. Officially he’s got 50 # 1 smash hits in his career (more than any other Christian artist). He entered my chart for the very first time in August 2022 with “Don’t Lose Heart” – which was officially his 50TH # 1 smash nationwide (in February 2023). His 2ND hit – is his 1ST # 1 smash on my chart – “Do It Again”. It sounds like a throwback to mid-1980s power-pop. Check out the fun vintage music video that looks back at his life and career.

TOP 24 OF 2024 – 2 more weekly charts remain in 2024, and then I’ll have all of the data that I need to compile my Top 24 hits of 2024. I’ll publish it here on Tuesday December 31ST 2024. Looks like exactly half of the songs in my current Top 10 will be on my Top 24 Of 2024 – including of course – “Do It Again”.

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 December 15, 2024

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday December 15TH 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.

This morning I’m in Homestead Florida for the final morning of 2024. I spent 42 nights in Homestead in 2024 – the least since 1993 when I was living elsewhere due to the damage and destruction of Hurricane Andrew. My number of nights in Homestead in 2025 will be far less than 42, but I’ll still visit occasionally.

Later this morning I’ll get to enjoy the Living Waters Full Gospel Church experience – my home church from 2015 to 2024. Looks like a small group of us will be enjoying fellowship and Mexican food for lunch after church. After that – I return back home to Sebring.

That’s what I hope to do when I get back home. I pray that I spend more time in God’s Word so that I may get closer to Him with each new day. I have a Communion to write for January as well as 3 different sermons. Looks like I’m preaching in Homestead for a few weeks at the end of February and start of March.

Let the message about Christ – in all its richness – fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom He gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. (Colossians 3:16 NLT)

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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Florida Homecoming

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 12, 2024

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Last week I wrote about my trip to North Texas – where I spent 9 days and 9 nights with my family in Wylie – about 30 miles northeast of the center of Dallas Texas. I arrived during the early evening of Wednesday November 20TH 2024. I wrote about me and my brother’s visit on that Saturday to historic downtown McKinney Texas and the Collin County History Museum.

During the rest of my time with my brother we shopped, we ate, and we saw 3 movies – “Heretic”, “A Real Pain”, and “Red One”. I think that me and brother both liked “A Real Pain” the most. It’s a dramedy written, directed, and produced by Jesse Eisenberg. He and Kieran Culkin are the stars. It’s a good well-written story of two cousins visiting Poland on a tour to connect with their Jewish heritage.

As is tradition – my brother prepared a home-cooked Breakfast twice – on that Sunday morning and on Thanksgiving morning. We also opened all of the presents underneath the Christmas tree later on that same holiday morning, and then we watched football for the rest of the day while smelling (and eating) our traditional Thanksgiving dinner at around 3:30 PM.

Fun Fact: The weather in North Texas was all over the place – to include the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and even 80s. As an amateur weather forecaster – it was not unexpected. Thanksgiving Day was the coldest day (40s), and the next morning was the coldest morning (33°F / 1°C). I brought that cold air (modified) back home to Florida.

The next day – Friday November 29TH 2024 – my brother dropped me off at Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), and I flew to Charlotte Douglas (CLT) with a short layover before my connecting flight to Sarasota-Bradenton (SRQ). (My nonstop direct flight back to SRQ was cancelled about 3 months prior just for that afternoon, and I was automatically booked on the two replacement flights.) Both flights were packed, but they actually departed and arrived early !

Fun Fact: It was my first time in North Carolina since the last time I flew through CLT as a layover between Miami (MIA) and Salisbury-Ocean City (SBY). CLT was also a layover for the return flight between Reagan (DCA) and MIA. That was in July 2015.

I returned back home to Sebring (76 miles from SRQ) right at 9 PM on that Friday, and I was in my own bed less than an hour later. It was a long travel day, and I was exhausted.

The next day – Saturday November 30TH 2024 – I awoke knowing that it was on that date 37 years earlier that I left my family behind in Northern Virginia and flew to MIA en route to my new USAF duty assignment and home for the next 36+ years – Homestead Florida. I’ve now entered my 38TH year as a Florida resident. I’m a #FloridaMan forever.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about my road-trip to and from Homestead. It’s my 32ND trip southward – and my 33RD trip northward – since relocating from Homestead to Sebring almost 2 years ago. Let’s keep traveling together.

#CountUp & #TravelThursday is on Facebook. I usually post there on Mondays and Thursdays.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 408

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 9, 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 December 08TH 2024 – the 408TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	17	Do It Again [2ND week @ # 1]	Steven Curtis Chapman
2	2	10	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
3	3	8	Place In This World	for King + Country Ft. Michael W. Smith
4	5	13	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
5	6	8	If I Got Jesus	Ben Fuller
6	8	3	Praise God For That	Jordan Feliz
7	9	2	In The Name Of Jesus	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
8	4	12	Worship Through It	Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
9	10	2	The Truth	Megan Woods
10	7	7	Somebody Prayed	Crowder

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

JWLKRS – They’ve been called by God to be a global movement connecting and discipling people to walk like Jesus. Their lead singer is Noah Schnacky – who got his start in country music. This week their 2ND hit this year moves up 2 notches from # 9 to # 7. Could it be on its way to # 1 ?

TOP 24 OF 2024 – 3 more weekly charts remain in 2024, and then I’ll have all of the data that I need to compile my Top 24 hits of 2024. I’ll publish it here on Tuesday December 31ST 2024. Looks like exactly half of the songs in my current Top 10 will be on my Top 24 Of 2024.

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.