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My Top 10 Hits – Week 452

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 13, 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 October 12TH 2025 – the 452ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	Can’t Steal My Joy [2ND week @ # 1]	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2	3	18	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
3	2	17	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
4	8	6	Still	Crowder
5	4	6	I’ve Just Seen Too Much	Big Daddy Weave
6	6	21	God Did It	Micah Tyler
7	7	23	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
8	9	4	Get Behind Me	Emerson Day
9	10	2	Mighty Name Of Jesus	Hope Darst
10	–	1	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Up + Up” – Colton Dixon
2023 – “Praise The Lord” – Micah Tyler
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “What If” – Matthew West
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “The Gospel” – Ryan Stevenson

CAN’T STEAL MY JOY – Josiah Queen’s 3RD hit on my chart is his 1ST # 1 smash, as his collaboration with Brandon Lake spends its 2ND week at the pinnacle. (Brandon is credited with his 2ND # 1 smash.) It’s from Josiah’s 2ND studio album – “Mt. Zion” – which was released a little over 7 weeks ago. His follow-up single – “Dusty Bibles” – enters my chart this week at # 10.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Last week Lincoln Brewster was featured with his one hit that was a # 1 smash for 4 weeks and the # 8 hit of 2018 – “No One Like Our God”. This week it’s another man with one hit that was a # 1 smash, and in fact it was the # 1 smash right before the aforementioned. Matt Redman spent 6 weeks at the top of my chart with his duet with Tasha Cobbs Leonard – “Gracefully Broken”. It’s a song that I sang many times with the Praise & Worship band of my previous home church. It too was one of the biggest hits of 2018. It was the # 6 hit of the entire year.

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 October 12, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 12TH 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.

This morning at my home church we’ll be celebrating Pastor Appreciation Day. It’s traditionally celebrated at many churches during the 2ND Sunday of October. We’ll do so with a special breakfast 90 minutes before service starts.

Several years ago I was presented with that coffee mug from my church family for Pastor Appreciation Day. I decided to take it to work and use it as my new coffee mug there since my old coffee mug was – well – old.

I had a “guest chair” at the edge of my workstation that was used by my coworkers and customers to discuss business (or non-business). That mug and warmer (both of which I still use today in my home office) were in clear view of that guest chair. It began getting noticed. I lost a few coworkers who no longer wanted to discuss non-business matters. I even lost coworkers who didn’t want to have any contact with me at all. They liked me as Chris, but they no longer liked me once they discovered that I was Pastor Chris away from the workplace. Maybe they thought that I would use them in a sermon. (And in fact – I did use general work situations in sermons – both positive and negative – without using real names.)

I still wonder if I should have never brought that coffee mug to work.

I’m not one to go around telling people that I’m a Pastor. I let them discover it on their own. Here in Sebring I’ve done that at my home church (both of them since 2023), at the multiple museums that I’m a member of, and even here in my own neighborhood. Once they find out on their own – then I confirm it. Sometimes it leads to a glorious renewed relationship. Sometimes it’s the end of the relationship.

I’m not a fan of braggadocious Pastors who go around telling people how great they are because they are a Pastor for however many years at a church attended by hundreds (or thousands) with multiple services every weekend at multiple campuses in multiple cities (or continents). I’ve served alongside a few Pastors like that. There are plenty of them on TV. They want you and everyone else to know that they are a Pastor. That’s not displaying God’s fruit of self-control. That’s not humbling yourself before the Lord, as written in James 4:10.

On this Pastor Appreciation Day – I thank those Pastors who are humble as they serve the Lord and lead – not their church – but God’s church.

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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My Top 10 Hits – Week 451

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 6, 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 October 05TH 2025 – the 451ST week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	5	10	Can’t Steal My Joy [1ST week @ # 1]	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2	2	16	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
3	1	17	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
4	3	5	I’ve Just Seen Too Much	Big Daddy Weave
5	4	9	Preach	Ryan Stevenson Ft. Matt Hammitt
6	6	20	God Did It	Micah Tyler
7	7	22	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
8	8	5	Still	Crowder
9	10	3	Get Behind Me	Emerson Day
10	–	1	Mighty Name Of Jesus	Hope Darst

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Up + Up” – Colton Dixon
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “What If” – Matthew West
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “The Gospel” – Ryan Stevenson

GOD DID IT – Micah Tyler’s former # 1 smash reaches my Top 40 of this era. It’s 1 of my 40 biggest songs over the past 451 weeks. In fact it’s # 35. It’s also – spoiler alert – my current # 1 smash of the entire year thus far !

ONE-HIT WONDER – Lincoln Brewster had one hit on my chart from January to April of 2018, and it was a big one. It spent 16 weeks in my Top 10, 9 weeks in my Top 3, and 4 weeks at # 1. It was my # 8 hit of 2018. Lincoln proclaims that there is “No One Like Our God”.

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 October 5, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 05TH 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.

This is the 380TH edition of #SundayScripture since its debut on the final Sunday of February of 2018. Once I start something online, and it’s fun to do, and it’s successful – I keep it going. I always look forward to writing each new edition, and usually (when I’m not presenting a portion of a sermon) I have no idea what I plan to write until I actually write it. I allow The Holy Spirit to guide and direct me.

This weekly blog post is an integral part of my fantastic journey in my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. It’s my way of evangelizing to the masses worldwide – to anyone who cares to read. I pray that it changes lives for the better.

It was a rare Sunday last week, as I missed church in-person. But I got to watch our Sunday morning service LIVE on YouTube from Wichita Falls Texas. Our Pastor concluded his “This Is My Story” message series. It was a great series all about sharing our story with our church family, so that we can go and tell our story outside of the church – to our family and friends who do not yet know the God that we believe, follow, trust, and love.

This morning I’m back with my church family in-person. Our Senior Pastor begins a new message series on the letter of James. I’m definitely looking forward to that, as it was my longest-running message series. I preached 10 sermons from James scattered over a 13-month period from February 2018 to March 2019. It was also the very first book of the Bible that I studied with a weekly small group during my first year as part of a church family in 2007.

Next Sunday morning we’ll celebrate Pastor Appreciation Day with a special potluck breakfast. I’ll also be leading Communion with a theme of worship. I’m looking forward to sharing it !

So that’s what’s going on here locally. I appreciate each and every one of you who read this blog globally.

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.