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My Top 10 Hits – Week 508

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 9, 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 November 08TH 2026 – the 508TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	12	Living Water [1ST week @ # 1]	Cain
2	1	19	Gonna Be Alright	Matt Maher
3	4	5	Beautiful Life	Switchfoot
4	3	12	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
5	7	3	So Long	Peter Burton
6	5	11	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
7	10	2	How Good God Is	Brandon Lake
8	8	3	What If I Told You ?	for King + Country
9	9	2	What Grace Can Do	Cochren & Co.
10	–	1	Thank God	Leanna Crawford

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “New Creation” – Mac Powell
2021 – “Promised Land” – TobyMac
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

CAIN – Taylor, Madison, and Logan Cain reach # 1 on my chart for the 4TH time – and first time in 27 months when they were featured on Caleb & John’s # 1 smash “Somebody Like Me”. “Living Water” is their first # 1 smash by themselves since “Yes He Can” in July 2021.

We’re up to my # 24 hit from my Salvation Era, and it’s from the Chicago-based band The Fold. “Medicine” was the lead-off track from their 2ND studio album – “Secrets Keep You Sick”. The Tooth & Nail Records album was released in May 2007. “New Skeptic” was the first radio song off that album, and “Medicine” followed at the end of 2007. It built momentum during the first quarter of 2008, as it peaked at # 2 for 4 non-consecutive weeks on my chart.

Next week I’ll shine a light on my # 25 hit.

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 November 08TH 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 37, Edition 437
“Wrath”

As I continue my series on the seven deadly sins – it’s time to confront wrath. Most of us know it all too well. It can quickly hijack our hearts if it’s left unchecked.

“I am so totally done listening to your lame excuses. You have lied to my face for the very last time. You have ruined everything we have built. I hope you lose every single thing you care about. I will make sure everyone knows exactly what kind of person you really are. I will never ever forgive you for this. Get out of my life forever !”

It’s a desire to inflict harm or revenge. It’s a loss of self-control. It reflects destructive intent. It’s unforgiveness. It’s wrath.

Scripture makes a clear distinction between the righteous anger that responds to injustice – and the destructive and out-of-control wrath that stems from pride, hurt, or a desire for revenge.

Refrain from anger and turn from wrath. Do not fret – it leads only to evil. (Psalm 37‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs‬ ‭15‬:‭1‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you – along with all malice. (Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭31‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Unchecked anger acts like an out-of-control wildfire. It burns away our peace, damages our relationships, and disrupts our walk with God.

To live in the freedom that Christ promises – we must learn to surrender our resentment and trust God to be our defender while allowing His Holy Spirit to produce patience, gentleness, and self-control within us.

Let’s pray: Thank You Lord for Your peace in our hearts today. Forgive us for the times we allow anger to turn into bitterness, resentment, or a desire for revenge. Guard our hearts against the destructive pull of wrath. When we are hurt, wronged, or provoked – help us to pause, breathe, and yield our tempers to Your Holy Spirit before we speak or act. Strip away any hostility within us, and replace it with Your patience, kindness, and grace. Help us to trust You as our protector while granting us the strength to forgive as Christ forgave us. In Your powerful and holy name we pray. Amen.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 507

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 2, 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 November 01ST 2026 – the 507TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	18	Gonna Be Alright [6TH week @ # 1]	Matt Maher
2	2	11	Living Water	Cain
3	3	11	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
4	6	4	Beautiful Life	Switchfoot
5	4	10	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
6	5	13	It Really Is Amazing Grace	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
7	9	2	So Long	Peter Burton
8	10	2	What If I Told You ?	for King + Country
9	–	1	What Grace Can Do	Cochren & Co.
10	–	1	How Good God Is	Brandon Lake

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
2023 – “Praise The Lord” – Micah Tyler
2022 – “New Creation” – Mac Powell
2021 – “Promised Land” – TobyMac
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

PETER BURTON – Last week he quietly entered my chart with his follow-up song that took “So Long” to arrive. While his debut smash “Where Would I Be” entered my chart early in 2026 (January) – long before it was receiving substantial radio airplay – “So Long” is entering late – long after it began playing on the radio and establishing itself as another hit. It’s currently in the Top 20 nationwide. Now it’s Top 10 here.

We’re up to my # 23 hit from my Salvation Era, and it’s from the Columbus Ohio band Everyday Sunday. They were quite popular at Christian radio during the mid-to-late-2000s. “Let’s Go Back” was their 2ND of 5 hits on my chart, and it was the biggest of them all. It peaked at # 3 for 6 non-consecutive weeks, and it spent 17 weeks on my chart in 2007.

♬ Why are we waiting on someone else to tell us how it should be ?
I’ve already found it, and God didn’t tell me to waste these dreams. ♬

Next week it’s my # 24 hit that’s good for you in small doses.

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 November 01ST 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 36, Edition 436
“Envy”

You know most of us have heard the phrase “the seven deadly sins” in our lives – whether we’re believers of Christ or not. And some of us know what those seven deadly sins are. Last #SundayScripture I wrote about pride.

There is no single chapter of Scripture that addresses the seven deadly sins together. It was actually compiled by the early church. But it’s based on attitudes of the heart that are addressed all across the 66 books of the Bible.

This week I’m writing about envy. It’s mentioned in the King James Version of the Bible 49 times – 20 in the Old and 29 in the New. In other popular translations envy is mentioned about 24 to 36 times.

Envy is a subtle sin. It’s an inward sin. It’s an internal and quiet erosion.

It isn’t just wanting what someone else has. It’s also an entrenched resentment toward their blessings.

“I can’t believe how God keeps blessing him over and over again ! Why him ? Why not me ?”.

No – God’s goodness to others is not depriving you. He blesses us abundantly with what He knows we need – not necessarily with what we think we need or what others have. He blesses us when we don’t even realize it. Are you missing His blessings because you’re obsessed with other people’s blessings ?

When envy is left unchecked – it steals our joy. It undermines our contentment. It blinds us to the daily grace that God has poured into our own lives.

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. (Proverbs 14:30 NIV)

Let’s pray: “Thank You Lord for Your endless goodness and for the abundant grace that You pour into our lives with each new day that You have made. Lord forgive us for the times that we have allowed envy to creep into our hearts – when we focus on what others have rather than thanking You for what You have blessed us with. Guard our minds against the subtle trap of comparison. Help us to truly rejoice with those who are blessed – knowing that Your provision for others never diminishes Your love or care for us. In Your powerful name. Amen.”