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My Top 10 Hits – Week 438

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 7, 2025

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 July 06TH 2025 – the 438TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	9	The King Is In The Room [1ST week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham
2	3	7	God Did It	Micah Tyler
3	1	15	Oh Death	MercyMe
4	5	14	Jesus Loves	Zach Williams
5	4	12	No Fear	Jon Reddick
6	8	3	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
7	7	15	Unashamed	Matthew West
8	6	16	You Never Gave Up On Me	The Afters
9	10	4	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
10	–	1	Let The Church Sing	Tauren Wells

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Me On Your Mind” – Matthew West
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

PHIL WICKHAM – His 11TH hit on my chart since 2018 is now his 3RD # 1 smash, as “The King Is In The Room” completes its ascent to the throne. He was last at # 1 in February 2024 with “I Believe”. It’s also my current # 2 hit for the summer (over these past 7 weeks) – just behind my # 1 hit for the summer – “Oh Death” from MercyMe. At # 3 so far it’s “You Never Gave Up On Me” from The Afters. I’ll present my Top 10 hits of the summer on Tuesday September 02ND 2025.

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 July 6, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 06TH 2025, 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.

As I wrote last #SundayScripture – it’s been a while since I refreshed and posted one of my past sermons on here. Starting with this edition – and continuing through September – I’ll be doing just that.

I’ll be transcribing my original sermon that I preached to my church family in Homestead Florida on Sunday October 16TH 2022. The title of the sermon is “Blessings & Benedictions”, and it’s my 50TH sermon as identified on my SERMONS page.

Here’s Part 1:

You know – I don’t think that I have a good singing voice. There’s a reason why I’ve never been on “America’s Got Talent”, or “American Idol”, or “The Voice” – if you’re familiar with those long-running talent competition shows on TV.

I don’t think I sound good when I sing. But my God – our God – well He thinks that my voice is beautiful. He thinks that all of our voices are beautiful – especially when we sing to Him. I love to sing to our Lord – especially as part of traditional Praise & Worship up here with Ben, and Jen, and Betty. And I love to sing to our Lord in my car – while driving all around Homestead. You know it’s also a great time to pray to our Lord – while driving all around Homestead. (I do some of my best praying to God – while driving.) Sometimes I sing my prayers to God – while driving all around Homestead.

And I love to speak of our Lord – to anyone who will listen to me – even if it’s only the Lord Himself. He’s the One that truly matters. And I know that He is listening.

A couple of weeks ago we sang “I Speak Jesus” to our Lord during Praise & Worship. I had never heard it before Pastor Bob played the video for it. I love it. Next Sunday morning it’ll be one of the videos that I’ll play for Praise & Worship.

You know our God has given us a voice. It’s His gift to us. We must not waste it. We must use it to bless others. We must use it to glorify our God.

Today I want to talk to you about “Blessings & Benedictions”. This is a little bit of a different type of sermon that you may be used to from me. I’m gonna be all over the Bible with this message – both Old and New Testaments, so let’s go on this journey together through God’s Word.

You know at the end of every service I stand up here, or I stand down there, and I recite specific intentional verses of Scripture. That’s the Benediction.

Most churches – no matter their respective denomination – or no denomination – most churches – close their services with a Benediction. At some churches the Pastor will have everyone stand up and recite it with him or her. At other churches (like ours) we don’t do that. I’m not really a big fan of having everyone stand up and recite or repeat something over and over again. I’d rather you hear the Benediction rather than say it. You tend to absorb or take-in speech (or words) more so when you are listening rather than talking. You know – 2 ears – 1 mouth – twice as much listening than speaking.

(To be continued next week.)

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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Happy 249TH Birthday U.S.A. !

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 4, 2025

On this 4TH Of July holiday we celebrate this great nation of ours – this free nation that we call The United States Of America. We are free today because of our Founding Fathers – great Americans like John Hancock, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Let us never forget all of those great Americans who fought – and who continue to fight to this day – for the independence and the freedom that we continue to enjoy today.

For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is – there is freedom.
(2 Corinthians 3:17 NLT)

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Return To Homestead

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 3, 2025

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Let’s get back on the road. Almost 3 weekends ago I drove down to my old Homestead – which was Homestead Florida – my home from 1987 to 2023. It was Flag Day on Saturday and Father’s Day on Sunday.

I departed home at 8:18 AM, and I arrived at my old home at 11:58 AM. That’s fairly average for a Saturday morning drive southward. I haven’t done many Saturday morning drives down to Homestead. My last one was last September (2024) – and before that – April (2024).

I entered my old condo for probably the very last time – exactly 30 years and 1 day after I first entered and moved-in to it on June 13TH 1995. I went there to look around one last time, pick-up my Shark Rotator vacuum cleaner (best vacuum I’ve ever owned – bought it in April 2014), and pick-up a few other assorted items from my kitchen cabinets. I was in and out in less than 30 minutes – taking with me for good – 30 years of memories of that home – from my late-20s to my late-50s.

Time for some food, so I ventured over to Outback Steakhouse for lunch. I enjoyed food and fellowship with a longtime former coworker at the airbase near Homestead. And we celebrated my birthday too, and the wait staff all gathered together to sing their fun birthday song to me and present me with a delicious dessert with a lit candle on it.

I spent the night at the Hampton Inn behind the Outback. I had a wonderful 5TH floor view of the Outback and the surrounding businesses along busy Campbell Drive. Outback got increasingly busier as the afternoon became the evening. My favorite Publix (# 1136) is in view in the shopping center in the background. That was built in 2007. This whole area of Homestead is mostly less than 20 years old.

The next morning – I went to my former home church across town in NW Homestead, and we celebrated my birthday again at the start of the service. After service a group of us battled the Father’s Day crowds and went to Longhorn Steakhouse for lunch. In fact – nearly half of our church attendance that morning went there, and we were scattered over a couple of tables. The place was packed for the holiday. (This just in – Dads love steak.) Longhorn is my favorite restaurant in Homestead. I’ve always received great food and service there ever since they opened in 2009. I’ve probably been there more than any other restaurant in Homestead over the past 16 years. Olive Garden (next door) is my second-most visited restaurant in Homestead. So many great memories next door to each other.

After Longhorn I headed home to Sebring. My route out of Miami-Dade County was endangered because it was shut down the previous afternoon due to a wildfire near Krome Avenue (Florida State Road 997) and Tamiami Trail (U.S. 41). Firefighters contained the fire overnight, conditions improved, and the highways were reopened on Sunday morning. I got home at 6:08 PM, and that was the end of my fun 373-mile weekend road-trip between Sebring and Homestead. It was my 4TH such trip of 2025, and 17TH trip since the start of 2024, and 36TH trip since I bought my home here in Sebring in February 2023. My 37TH trip has already occurred, and I’ll report on that trip in a few weeks.

#ButFirst – Next #TravelThursday I’ll stay on the road as I begin a multi-part series on my recent trip to and from Florida’s Gulf Coast Beaches. I’ll write about some areas that I visited for the very first time – and for the first time in a long time. Let’s keep traveling together.

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