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My Top 10 Hits – Week 480

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 27, 2026
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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 April 26TH 2026 – the 480TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	Where Would I Be [13TH week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	3	15	Finished	Caleb & John
3	2	9	I’ve Got A Fire	Pat Barrett
4	4	5	Everything Is Better	Hopeful.
5	8	2	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
6	5	12	Good	Matthew West
7	6	17	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac X Forrest Frank
8	9	2	I’m Yours	Blanca Ft. Ryan Ellis
9	7	28	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
10	10	4	Rescue Me	We The Kingdom

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “A Lil Church (Nobody’s Too Lost)” – TobyMac
2024 – “He Does” – Brandon Heath
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “See Me Through It” – Brandon Heath
2021 – “Fires” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “Even If” – MercyMe

PETER BURTON – He spends his 13TH week at # 1 high atop my chart with “Where Would I Be”. That makes it my longest-running Christian # 1 song of all-time (since my fantastic journey began in 2006). It’s also my longest-running # 1 song of any genre in nearly 24 years – since DJ Sammy spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at # 1 with “Heaven”. Before that in 2000 – Creed spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at # 1 with “Higher”. As far as 13 weeks in a row at # 1 – that hasn’t happened in over 28 years when Chumbawamba spent 18 weeks in a row at # 1 with “Tubthumping”.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Earlier this year – Sons Of Sunday – wrapped-up a 7-week stay on my chart – peaking at # 5 with “God Did !”. Sons Of Sunday consisted of (in alphabetical order by last name) Pat Barrett, Chris Brown, Steven Furtick, Brandon Lake, Chandler Moore, and Leeland Dayton Mooring.

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

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 26TH 2026, 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.

Volume 9, Number 9, Edition 409
“Communion”

I’ve been leading Communion for the greater part of the past 16½ years – spanning 3 home churches since late-2009. I led well over 100 Communions at my first church, and 79 Communions at my second church. I led my 18TH Communion at my current home church a couple of Sundays ago. We do it monthly, and we did it monthly at my previous home church. We did it weekly (at multiple services) at my first home church, and I alternated with a few others who also led Communion.

I’ve received a few requests recently to include a Communion here on my blog, so here’s the full transcript from 2 Sundays ago:

Thank You for that beautiful music to our Lord. We all sounded good. Our singers. Our musicians. Our church body. All of us singing in unison to and for our Lord God Almighty. AMEN.

God loves when we sing to Him. He loves when we reach out to Him with our voices. He loves when we worship Him. He loves when we show our love to Him. He loves when we show our love to others.

Let’s continue to worship Him, as we observe and celebrate Communion. Let’s remember what He did for us on that cross – and the love that was poured out for us from that cross.

Let’s reflect on the cost of love – the body broken – the blood shed – so that we may be welcomed – and forgiven – and drawn near.

Let us never take Communion lightly. Let us always take Communion seriously – with humility, gratitude, and respect.

The Bible says in Romans (5:6,8):
When we were utterly helpless – Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

If you are not yet ready to take Communion – then that’s OK. But – we want you to leave your past – leave your sins – leave your burdens – here. Don’t take them with you. Abandon them here. Repent of them here. Seek God for redemption, healing, and restoration. Surrender your heart to Him. He Himself has said – “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

If you are ready to take Communion – then we will do that together.

We observe and celebrate a believer’s Communion here at Highlands Community Church. What does that mean ? It means that if you believe, and follow, and trust, and love our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ – then this Communion is for you.

When Jesus died for us on that cross – He poured His life out for us. He suffered for our sins – once – for all time. He never sinned, but He died for us sinners to bring us safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but He was raised to life in the Spirit. (1 Peter 3:18)

He poured the Holy Spirit out for us. And the same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead – lives in each of us – who believe.

If you believe – then this Communion is for you.

Our Communion containers have an element on each end. The wafer is on one side, and the juice is on the other. We’ll take each one together as a church body.

Let’s remove the wafer from the container.

When it was evening – Jesus sat down at the table with the twelve disciples. As they were eating – Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then He broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples – saying – “Take this and eat it, for this is My body.” (Matthew 26:20,26)

Let us take this bread – in remembrance of Him.

Let’s open the juice on the container.

And He took a cup of wine, and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them, and said – “Each of you drink from it, for this is My blood – which confirms the covenant between God and His people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.” (Matthew 26:27-28)

Let us take this juice – in remembrance of Him.

Let us bow our heads. Let us pray:

Thank You God for Your ultimate sacrifice on the cross. Thank You for loving us, and giving Yourself for us. We love You Lord. We need You Lord. We are nothing without You Lord.

Thank You for Your awesome presence in our lives – and Your intentional purpose for our lives. May all of Your blessings and miracles constantly strengthen our faith in You, increase our love towards others, and unify our hearts and our souls. We honor You Lord. We praise You Lord. We worship You Lord. And my brothers and sisters we say – AMEN.

Pastor Tim – come bring us God’s Good News.

(And he did.)

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 479

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 20, 2026
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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 April 19TH 2026 – the 479TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	14	Where Would I Be [12TH week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	2	8	I’ve Got A Fire	Pat Barrett
3	4	14	Finished	Caleb & John
4	5	4	Everything Is Better	Hopeful.
5	6	11	Good	Matthew West
6	3	16	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac X Forrest Frank
7	7	27	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
8	–	1	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
9	–	1	I’m Yours	Blanca Ft. Ryan Ellis
10	10	3	Rescue Me	We The Kingdom

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “A Lil Church (Nobody’s Too Lost)” – TobyMac
2024 – “He Does” – Brandon Heath
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “See Me Through It” – Brandon Heath
2021 – “Good God Almighty” – Crowder
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Greatness Of Our God” – Newsboys
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

CECE WINANS – She’s back with her 4TH hit over the past 5 years, and it’s one that many of us are familiar with. I certainly am, as I used to sing it with 3 others as part of our Praise + Worship team at my former home church in South Florida. We sang “Worthy Of It All” with “I Exalt Thee” to form a medley. I originally thought that the “Let Incense Arise” portion was its own separate song, but it actually serves as the bridge for “Worthy Of It All”. Nevertheless – it was one of my favorite songs to sing to our Lord. This one could be CeCe’s biggest hit on my chart.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Earlier this year – Jet Trouble (James E. Troublefield IV) – wrapped-up a 7-week stay on my chart – peaking at # 7 with “I Need You”. It’s a good song that K-LOVE picked-up on, but not many other radio stations did so.

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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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 19TH 2026, 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.

Volume 9, Number 8, Edition 408
“Let’s Bow Our Heads. Let’s Pray”

I love to say those words. I will say those words whenever I’m invited to pray for a group of people. Or just one person. I will never turn down an invitation to pray. (I did that too many times early on in my journey.)

I was recently invited to pray before 67 of my neighbors at our clubhouse before our monthly breakfast. I humbly accepted the honor to do so. It was the first time ever nearly everyone there heard me pray aloud, as it was the first time ever that I was invited to do so. It was a Glorious moment, and I believe that God was glorified in that moment. The words flowed freely for God.

I love the fact that we actually pray before most of our meals at our neighborhood clubhouse. I know that in many neighborhood clubhouses praying is not even imagined, or it’s discouraged, or it’s even banned outright.

I’m also invited to pray at most of our monthly board meetings at the Sebring Historical Society. A fellow Minister serves with me on the Board, so when he’s not there – I fill-in for him for the Invocation. When he’s there – I yield to him as having far more experience than myself. The same applies at our quarterly membership luncheons which are open to all of our members and the general public.

And I also pray on most Sunday mornings at my home church. I love to lead in prayer alongside my closest brothers and sisters of my church family. But I also encourage others to lead in prayer as well. Every believer and follower of our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ has the power of the Holy Spirit to pray privately and publicly to God. It is not just for the Pastor or Preacher or Minister or Elder to do. It is for all to do. We are all qualified by God.

So encourage each other and build each other up – just as you are already doing. (1 Thesssalonians 5:11 NLT)

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.