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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 15, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 07TH 2006:

  1. “Let U Go” – Ashley Parker Angel
  2. “Move Along” – The All-American Rejects
  3. “Dirty Little Secret” – The All-American Rejects
  4. “Pump It” – The Black Eyed Peas
  5. “Beep” – The Pussycat Dolls Ft. WILL.I.AM 

Well one of those songs is still a hit with me exactly 15 years later, and that’s “Dirty Little Secret”. It’s in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. It was actually my # 2 hit of all of 2006. I was about 3½ months away from the start of God’s salvation on my life. You’ll see my Top 5 “look-back” at 2006 suddenly flip to Christian rock and pop this September.

Exactly 15 years ago I ran a web site known as MASSIVESMASH.COM. It was in the middle of its 11TH year online at the time. It hosted my Top 25 weekly chart – known back then as the “Pure.Hits.Chart”. Here’s how I explained my chart just below my Top 25 that week in which “Let U Go” was at # 1:

The Pure.Hits.Chart is not based on actual raw data or statistics, but rather an intricate fusion of trends, indicatours, and factours to include retail and online activity, television, radio, street, and entertainment venue impressions, and other vital independent research. Based out of Homestead Florida U.S.A. its origins date back to November 1985. It was one of the very first weekly hit music charts (private, corporate, or otherwise) to ever publish on the World Wide Web (in November 1995). Today it is one of the most accessed and utilized privately-owned hit music charts on the web. It is consistently monitored and reviewed by numerous influential International chart compilation sites and hit music enthusiasts on the web. It is influential worldwide as commercial hit music radio station program directors, college and university radio station deejays, nightclub personalities, hit music fans, and the industry in general monitor the chart on a regular basis to determine what is currently hot, what is gaining steam, and what is cooling off. Up-and-coming hit music artists and their respective agents, producers, and labels search for their songs on the web, and they often find them right here on our chart. Positive feedback generated from all of these various sources and industries fuels the chart, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Feel free to write us at anytime !

That’s right – my web site was HUGE back then, and then it faded into obscurity.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to May 1996.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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Blogging Weather

South Florida’s Rainy Season

The #WeatherNerd in me wants me to write about the upcoming South Florida Rainy Season, so I shall.

For many years up until several years ago the start of the rainy season for each individual year was determined a couple of weeks after it got started. The loose definition of the rainy season are – increased nocturnal showers off the ocean, daily thunderstorms forming at midday where the Gulf and Atlantic sea breezes collide, early-morning temperatures not dropping below 72°F, and dewpoints constantly in the 70s. That daily pattern can start as early as late-April – and as late as early-June. The median start of our rainy season is right around May 15TH, and so several years ago the National Weather Service decided to discontinue the dynamic sliding start date of our rainy season and identify May 15TH as the static fixed start date of our rainy season – no matter the actual conditions at the time.

We generally receive about 70% of our annual rainfall in about 5 months – from May 15TH to October 15TH (the static fixed end date of our rainy season). It generally works out to about 4 to 5 feet of rain (48 to 60 inches / 120 to 150 centimeters). Some rainy seasons are wetter than that. Some drier. Last year some parts of South Florida received nearly 110 inches of rain (280 centimeters) for the entire year !

There are actually “mini seasons” within our 5-month rainy season. June is generally our wettest month of the year. Then it gets somewhat drier in July. (July is also our hottest month.) August and September are wetter with the arrival of the peak of our hurricane season. Then it starts drying-off again in October as our rainy season comes to a gradual close and continental cold fronts begin approaching and moving through from the north.

We actually get cold fronts coming close and coming through well into May and sometimes even into June. The cold fronts this late in the year stall near or directly over us and then eventually dissipate. It’s the old decaying cold fronts that usually kickoff our rainy season each May. Speaking of which – we have a cold front headed this way that should stall out directly over us tomorrow and into the weekend.

We’re still a couple of weeks away from the start of our rainy season for this year, and I’m actually looking forward to it. My car is dirty.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 220

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MAY 02ND 2021 WEEK 220
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 15 Fires
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Jordan St. Cyr
2 4 4 God Of Revival Brian & Jenn Johnson
3 3 6 Child Of Love We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
4 2 11 Good God Almighty Crowder
5 7 7 God Who Listens Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
6 5 8 Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) TobyMac
7 6 23 Every Step Of The Way Cade Thompson
8 8 4 Gospel Song Rhett Walker
9 9 4 No Hopeless Soul Stephen Stanley
10 10 2 Mean Girls Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “What A Friend” – Matt Maher
2017 – “Forgiven” – Crowder

Jordan St. Cyr hangs-on at # 1 with “Fires”. It’s currently a Top 10 hit at U.S. Christian Radio from coast-to-coast. I love the overall feel of the track. It’s quite catchy. I can still hum to it and sing to it hours after last hearing it on the radio. I especially love the bridge:

♫ I can face anything
‘Cause You’re here with me
I can do all things
‘Cause You strengthen me ♫

It was actually a very close call between # 1 and # 2. I actually had Brian & Jenn Johnson’s “God Of Revival” listed as the new # 1 smash earlier in the week, but then I slipped it down to # 2. (Some “behind-the-scenes” information for you: My chart is active as a “living document” all week long. My Top 10 hits sometimes move up and down the chart during the week, but it’s where they land by Sunday evening that ultimately counts. Sometimes a song will enter my chart during the week, but by Sunday evening it’s off again.)

BUBBLING UNDER just outside my Top 10 this week is the new track from Cain. It’s their follow-up to “Rise Up (Lazarus)” which was my # 4 hit of all of 2020. I heard “Yes He Can” on the radio for the first time last Monday, and I instantly loved it. Once I looked it up to see who sang it I was delighted to find out that it was Cain. It’s already exploding at U.S. Christian Radio where it registers the “most increased plays” this week. It should enter my chart next week, and at this point I’m already thinking that it could be a # 1 smash this Summer.

This blog is # 53 worldwide on the Top 90 Christian Music Blogs, Websites, & Influencers in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

Be blessed my friends !  May the 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 Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday May 02ND 2021, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us get closer to Christ our Savior than we were yesterday.

Last Sunday I wrote about having “writer’s block”. Soon after praying for God’s wisdom – I wrote a new sermon on two good Kings of Judah from the Old Testament. It’ll be my next sermon to preach to my church family in a few weeks.

This morning I’m preaching my sermon on Simon Peter’s denials and restoration. It’ll also serve as a wrap-up of John’s Gospel. My half-year program of reading, studying, writing, and preaching from John’s Gospel officially comes to a close with this sermon.

This will be my 40TH sermon to my church family over the past 4½ years. Today I’ll be preaching via a manner somewhat differently than I have previously. I’m a little nervous about it. Hopefully everything works out well with this modernized method. If so then it’s my way forward for future sermons (and communions).

Lately our Pastor has been delivering some amazing and powerful sermons on how great our God is. They’ve been longer-than-normal sermons too – with lots of slides via PowerPoint. I’m talking over 100 “quick-flipping” slides !

My sermon today will be of normal length – about 30 to 35 minutes – accompanied with about a dozen slides via PowerPoint.

Here’s what one of those slides will show:

Suddenly – Jesus’ words flashed through Peter’s mind: “Before the rooster crows – you will deny three times that you even know Me.” And he went away – weeping bitterly. (Matthew 26:75)

Once the rooster crowed – Peter realized what had happened. When Jesus told Peter that he will deny Him 3 times that night – before the rooster crows – Peter was astonished that Jesus would say such a terrible thing. “Why would you say something like that ?” And then it happened. And Peter realized that Jesus was really in control. And Peter left the courtyard. He went away – weeping bitterly.

I then compare Peter’s denials of Jesus with Judas’ betrayal of Jesus.

I’m looking forward to sharing with my church family what God has placed on my heart with this message.

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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