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My Top 10 Hits – Week 265

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:

#TOP10MONDAY WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY MARCH 13TH 2022 WEEK 265
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 7 Brighter Days
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Blessing Offor
2 3 7 See Me Through It Brandon Heath
3 4 7 Holy Spirit Come Patrick Mayberry
4 1 14 Jesus Is Coming Back Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
5 5 18 Weary Traveler Jordan St. Cyr
6 7 5 Sunday Sermons Anne Wilson
7 8 4 In Jesus Name (God Of Possible) Katy Nichole
8 – 1 The Commission Cain
9 10 11 Walking Free Micah Tyler
10 – 1 Egypt Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Red Letters” – Crowder
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

WHAT YOU MISSED LAST WEEK – You missed Week 264 of my chart – because it wasn’t published – but it continued offline. “Jesus Is Coming Back” spent a 2ND week at # 1, and “Weary Traveler” slipped from # 2 to # 5. There were no new entries. Now that you’re caught up …

NEW # 1 – Singer-Songwriter Blessing Offor scores a # 1 smash on my chart with his debut song – “Brighter Days”. He’s got a positive ballad with powerful lyrics that’s breaking-out all across U.S. Christian radio as one of the top songs of the week for most increased plays.

♫ I know there’s gonna be some brighter days
I swear that love will find you in your pain
I feel it in me like the beating of life in my veins
I know there’s gonna be some brighter days
I know there’s gonna be some brighter days ♫

Blessing appeared on “Platinum Hit” in 2011- a short-lived music competition series on Bravo (an NBC cable network). He was also part of Season 7 (2014) of “The Voice” on NBC. Blessing is friends with Chris Tomlin, and they have recorded music together. He is on his imprint record label in partnership with Capitol Christian Music Group.

This blog is # 36 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites 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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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday March 13TH 2022, 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.

I am back from vacation, and I’m blogging about it every #TravelThursday. I published Part 1 of my 4-part series on this most recent vacation 3 days ago. Part 2 is in 4 days.

I’ll blog a little bit about it here. Last Sunday morning I attended a large church up in Broward County Florida in Cooper City – Potential Church. I’ve been to this church a handful of times over the past decade or more. They have a nice fancy main campus there with lots of modern electronic equipment and cameras. The bells and whistles and gadgets are in abundance. They actually record a portion of their service for broadcast every Sunday morning on our local NBC affiliate here in South Florida.

The Pastor is Troy Gramling, and he and his wife lead a large team of Pastors, Directors, and Staff at Potential. Pastor Troy relies on a lot of bright backgrounds and huge displays and quirky visual aids and extended presentations during his message, and it can be a bit off-putting if you aren’t expecting it. (It’s also what a lot of young churchgoers are interested in seeing and experiencing.)

But Pastor Troy also delivers very strong Bible-based messages. Last Sunday morning he preached on servanthood, and I think he actually utilized more Scripture from the Old Testament than the New Testament. It was very refreshing to see him in action preaching a solid sermon to his congregation from both the Old and the New.

His message on servanthood led into his push for more of his congregation to get involved in serving one another and others – whether it be right there at Potential – or out in the local community. It takes a lot of people to create an experience or a product or a service, but one person can make a huge difference – and change a life forever.

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 5 Hits RETRO – 2007

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 March 04TH 2007:

  1. “Made To Love” – TobyMac
  2. “Word Of Mouth” – John Reuben
  3. “Nostalgiatopia” – Eleventyseven
  4. “Morning Air” – The Wedding
  5. “Live Like We’re Alive” – Nevertheless

In February 2007 I discovered TobyMac. His debut smash – “Made To Love” – was playing on the radio around the clock, and I was loving its sound and meaning. It spent 5 weeks at # 1 on my chart at the time, and it finished 2007 as my # 2 hit of the entire year. (John Reuben’s “Word Of Mouth” was # 1 for the year.)

Toby charted 3 times during the “Salvation Era” of my chart – with “Made To Love”, “Boomin'”, and “City On Our Knees”.

And then I walked away from Christian music on the radio and ended my weekly hit music chart after 14+ consecutive years (1995-2010).

7 years later in February 2017 a TobyMac concert in Tallahassee and the discovery of K-LOVE on the airwaves in South Florida resurrected my chart, and Toby scored my first # 1 smash of the new era with “Love Broke Through”.

I’ve been to 4 TobyMac concerts over the past 12 years, and each one of them was an extra special event on my fantastic journey. Toby needs to get back down here to South Florida so that I can sing and dance to our God again with Toby’s inspiring music, lyrics, and energy.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 25 years ago to March 1997. It’s when two guys from Australia scored a # 1 smash with their very first single.

This is the end of an abbreviated blog weekend, as #SundayScripture and #Top10Monday are on hiatus this weekend. They will both return next weekend. In fact a full weekend of blogging returns next weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

All rights reserved (c) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 263

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:

#TOP10MONDAY WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27TH 2022 WEEK 263
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 12 Jesus Is Coming Back
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
2 1 16 Weary Traveler Jordan St. Cyr
3 4 5 Brighter Days Blessing Offor
4 5 5 See Me Through It Brandon Heath
5 6 5 Holy Spirit Come Patrick Mayberry
6 3 21 Come What May We Are Messengers
7 9 3 Sunday Sermons Anne Wilson
8 10 2 In Jesus Name (God Of Possible) Katy Nichole
9 8 9 Walking Free Micah Tyler
10 – 4 Too Good To Not Believe Brandon Lake Ft. Jenn Johnson

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

FROM ONE JORDAN TO ANOTHER – After an impressive 10-week run at # 1 “Weary Traveler” from Jordan St. Cyr slips a notch to # 2. My new # 1 smash is the 2021 remix of “Jesus Is Coming Back” from Jordan Feliz with Mandisa and Jonathan Traylor. It’s Jordan’s 6TH hit on my chart, and it’s his first # 1 smash. Back on Week 4 of my chart Jordan debuted with “Beloved”. It was part of the soundtrack of the resurrection of my chart 5 years ago. Jordan has appeared on my chart every year from 2017 to 2022. Mandisa is a featured artist on the track, and it’s also her 6TH hit on my chart – and her first # 1 smash.

♫ And when the world gets complicated
Gonna keep on celebrating – ‘cause we know
Jesus is coming back. Jesus is coming back. ♫

This blog is # 36 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend, but as an abbreviated weekend – with 2 new entries on Thursday and Friday. #Top10Monday will be offline next week – returning in 2 weeks on Monday March 14TH 2022.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp