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My Top 10 Hits – Week 441

Every Monday (this week on Tuesday) 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 27TH 2025 – the 441ST week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 10 God Did It
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Micah Tyler
2 2 17 Jesus Loves Zach Williams
3 4 6 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham
4 5 3 What If Consumed By Fire
5 3 12 The King Is In The Room Phil Wickham
6 7 7 Breakdown Andrew Ripp
7 6 3 Mama Don’t Lie (Alright) Stars Go Dim
8 8 18 Oh Death MercyMe
9 9 15 No Fear Jon Reddick
10 10 4 Let The Church Sing Tauren Wells

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft Ft. Danny Gokey
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

ONE-HIT WONDER – Starting this week I look back at those artists who have only hit my chart once – starting in 2017. David Dunn is the first artist. If you’re a fan of NBC’s “The Voice” then you may remember him from Season 2 in 2012. He appeared on the 5TH episode that season, and he was not selected by Adam, CeeLo, Christina, or Blake. 5 years later he had a rather memorable track on the radio in March and April of 2017 with “I Wanna Go Back”. It spent 5 weeks on my chart, and it reached # 4 in its 4TH week. It was an early K-LOVE favorite for me from when I was a brand-new listener.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 27TH 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.

Exactly 40 years ago today was a Saturday. I know that because the previous day was my flight’s 30TH and final weekday of USAF Basic Military Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio Texas. Most of us made it all the way through the 6½ weeks of life-changing experiences. Normally on the 31ST day you left Lackland AFB and headed for technical training at another base – or your first permanent duty station. But since it was a Saturday we had to stay in-place until the following Monday. I headed northward to Chanute AFB near Rantoul Illinois on that Monday.

That was a full 21 years before salvation in Christ started for me.

A few weeks ago here on #SundayScripture I began 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 4:

I like Romans 15:13. I use this verse a lot (probably more than any other), and it’s the NIV – the New International Version. You know this one:

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.

So what’s that mean Chris ? Well – I’m so glad you asked:

Our God. He’s the God of hope. He’s the source of hope. He created hope. What’s hope ? It’s faith in God’s promises. I believe in who He says He is. I believe in all that He has done for me, and all that He is doing for me now, and all that He will do for me from this point forward – forever – eternally. I believe. I trust You Lord !

During Praise & Worship I played the video for “Fear Is A Liar”. The enemy is a liar. The devil is a liar. Satan is a liar. The opposite of fear – hope. God is hope. And so with God’s hope – you shall be filled completely with joy and peace. That’s God’s joy. That’s God’s peace. Without God’s hope – there is no joy and peace. But once you’ve got that joy and peace in your heart – you will overflow with abundant hope – by and through – the power of the Holy Spirit. That’s God in your heart.

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.

That’s a great blessing to take out there into the world – where hope is lacking – where joy is needed – and where peace is rare.

(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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 440

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 20TH 2025 – the 440TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 9 God Did It
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Micah Tyler
2 3 16 Jesus Loves Zach Williams
3 1 11 The King Is In The Room Phil Wickham
4 4 5 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham
5 10 2 What If Consumed By Fire
6 8 2 Mama Don’t Lie (Alright) Stars Go Dim
7 7 6 Breakdown Andrew Ripp
8 5 17 Oh Death MercyMe
9 6 14 No Fear Jon Reddick
10 9 3 Let The Church Sing Tauren Wells

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft Ft. Danny Gokey
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

MICAH TYLER – I get the feeling that this Summer Of 2025 will be remembered for its revolving door high atop my chart. This week one of my favorite artists (# 3 since 2017) – Micah Tyler – scores his 4TH # 1 smash with his 9TH hit. His previous chart-toppers were “Different” (2017), “Even Then” (2018), and “Praise The Lord” (2023). “God Did It” becomes my 5TH # 1 smash over these past 9 weeks of summer.

NEXT WEEK’S EDITION – It will be published one day later than normal – on Tuesday July 29TH 2025 at 0300 U.S. East Coast Time. We’ll see if Micah holds on for another week at the top, or if the door keeps revolving. Also – I’ll be starting a new feature on “one-hit wonders” – starting with the earliest artists on my chart from 2017.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 20TH 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.

I’m getting close to the end of writing my 67TH sermon (and 4TH in a series) from First Timothy titled “Elders & Deacons”. I think it took me longer to write this one than it did the previous 3. I definitely need to pray on it further to come up with a worthy conclusion. I’m also looking ahead to 1 Timothy 4 which will be the subject of my next sermon after that.

A couple of weeks ago here on #SundayScripture I began 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 3:

The start of Romans Chapter 12 explains this further:

And so – dear brothers and sisters – I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice – the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you – which is good and pleasing and perfect.

You know I look at Paul’s letter to the Romans as the Owner’s Manual of being a Christian. It’ll teach you everything that you need to know to follow our God for the rest of your time here in this world. Romans is 16 chapters, 433 verses, and a little over 7,100 words. Sounds like a lot, but you can read it from start to finish in about a half-hour. It would make for a very worthwhile half-hour.

And so – back to that Benediction:

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart – be acceptable in thy sight – O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

A lot of preachers pray that right before they preach their sermon. It’s a prayer for the Pastor at the pulpit. But it’s also a prayer to take out there – into the world. It makes for a great Benediction.

7½ years ago I arrived here, and I joined this church family. Eventually I was given the opportunity to lead Communion, and minister, and preach full sermons. In my studies and preparations – I realized that there were many verses of Scripture that can be used as Benedictions at the end of the service. And to this day I’m still finding these gems of God’s Good News – blessings that can be taken out there – blessings for you to help change the world – one person at a time.

(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.

All rights reserved (c) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp