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My Top 10 Hits – Week 201

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 21, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 20TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	4	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	2	6	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
3	4	17	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
4	6	11	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
5	5	6	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
6	3	12	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
7	8	2	Man Of Your Word	Maverick City Music
8	7	5	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells
9	10	4	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
10	9	4	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Unstoppable God” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Cade Thompson is still at # 1 for a 3RD week in a row with his debut smash “Every Step Of The Way”. We Are Messengers are still at # 2 with their 4TH Top 3 hit “Image Of God”.

It’s a slow chart week – mostly due to the overwhelming presence of Christmas music (new and recurrents) on the radio. Christmas music will obviously peak over the next 5 days, and then it will completely disappear this Saturday. Next weekend’s chart could be an interesting one to wrap-up 2020.

Finally Cain’s “Rise Up (Lazarus)” is now a Top 20 hit overall for this entire era of the past (now) 201 weeks. It replaces Crowder’s “Forgiven” as my # 20 hit. (This past Tuesday I featured my Top 20 hits of the past 200 weeks.)

Next Tuesday (December 29TH 2020) I’ll present my Top 20 hits of 2020. Cain will be on there. It’ll be a fun look back at this unique year that is 2020.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and a special edition on Tuesday. 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

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 20, 2020

Greetings my friends ! This is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us continue to praise, to worship, and to learn more about our God who loves us.

It is Sunday December 20TH 2020 – the 4TH Sunday of Advent, and the last Sunday before Christmas.

I plan to share John 1:6-15 with my church family later this morning:

God sent a man – John the Baptist – to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light. He was simply a witness to tell about the light. The One who is the true light – who gives light to everyone – was coming into the world.

He came into the very world He created, but the world didn’t recognize Him. He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him. But to all who believed Him and accepted Him – He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn – not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

So the Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory – the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.

John testified about Him when he shouted to the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for He existed long before me.’”

God used John The Baptist to herald the arrival of Jesus into the world and prepare God’s people to receive Him as God’s Son and Messiah. Jesus Christ is the Messiah – the Son of the living God.

Are you a child of God ? If you believe Him. If you accept Him as your Lord & Savior – then that’s what you are. You’re a child of the most high God. You are reborn. For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal living word of God. (1 Peter 1:23)

Be a witness. Tell the world what you have seen. Tell the world what you have heard. Tell the world what you have experienced from the glory of God. Tell the skeptical, unbelieving, and unaccepting world about the God that you know. The God that is with you every step of the way. The God that is with you forevermore. Tell about the light – the One who is the true light. Be a light into the world. You can change the world.

May the Lord bless you and protect you.
May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.
May the Lord show you His favor and give you His peace.
(Numbers 6:24-26)

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My Top 20 Hits – 200 Weeks

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 15, 2020

200 weekly hit music charts and 190 positive and encouraging hits have created this cumulative hit music chart of my Top 20 hits of this current era of my chart ever since it was resurrected on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017 here in the U.S. after a 7-year hiatus. It’s based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay.

RK	PK	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	25	Nobody (But Jesus)	Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2	1	24	Almost Home	MercyMe
3	1	22	Do It Again	Elevation Worship
4	1	27	Even Then	Micah Tyler
5	1	26	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
6	1	24	Grace Got You	MercyMe
7	2	25	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
8	1	21	Church (Take Me Back)	Cochren & Co.
9	2	30	Known	Tauren Wells
10	1	22	Broken Things	Matthew West
11	1	19	Even If	MercyMe
12	1	17	Fear No More	Building 429
13	1	25	Dead Man Walking	Jeremy Camp
14	1	19	Nobody Loves Me Like You	Chris Tomlin
15	1	25	The God Who Stays	Matthew West
16	1	26	Different	Micah Tyler
17	1	20	Home	Chris Tomlin
18	1	20	Gracefully Broken	Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard
19	1	20	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
20	1	20	Forgiven	Crowder

What a great chart of glorious music that gives thanks to our God. Matthew West, MercyMe, Micah Tyler, and Chris Tomlin have been quite active over the past 200 weeks placing multiple songs on my cumulative Top 20 chart. They represent 4 out of my Top 6 artists during this era with 10 # 1 hits, 44 weeks at # 1, and 18 hits overall.

Every song on here sounds as fresh today as it did when I first heard it on the radio. You know this era has been extra special for me. It’s lasted 200 weeks, and it’s still going strong. God used Christian music to rescue and save me almost 14½ years ago at the age of 39. In the beginning I solely listened to Christian music on the radio. I did that for about 3½ years. The “Salvation Era” of my chart lasted about 180 weeks, and then I completely stopped producing a weekly hit music chart after 24 years. I was actually turned-off by Christian music on the radio, but my journey with Christ continued moving forward. (I actually went in to church leadership after that.)

After a “revival” of sorts during Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017 in Tallahassee Florida and on-the-road between there and home – this weekly hit music chart was resurrected after a 7-year hiatus into this current era.

If you’re not familiar with one or any of these songs then use Google, Bing, or YouTube to check them out. Enjoy the music, but especially listen to the words. The words of these songs represent God’s Word. Any one of these songs can change your life forever.

He has given me a new song to sing – a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what He has done, and be amazed. They will put their trust in the LORD. (Psalm 40:3 NLT)

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.

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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 200

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 14, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	3	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	3	5	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
3	2	11	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
4	4	16	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	7	5	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
6	8	10	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
7	–	4	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells
8	–	1	Man Of Your Word	Maverick City Music
9	9	3	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	10	3	Sparrows	Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Cade Thompson holds at # 1 for a 2ND week in a row with his debut smash “Every Step Of The Way”. It’s my 14TH # 1 smash of 2020, but will it be my final # 1 smash of the year ?

Cade is originally from Sioux Falls South Dakota, but now he calls Franklin Tennessee home. It’s a fast-growing southern suburb of Nashville. Cade is a big fan of TobyMac, and he would love to tour with him in the future. Their musical styles appear to be similar.

We Are Messengers are in familiar territory. Their 6TH hit in less than 4 years is now their 4TH Top 3 hit. “Image Of God” is based on the 27TH verse of the Bible from Genesis 1:

So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God He created them. Male and female He created them.

This is not the end of the weekend here at #CountUp. I’ll have a special Tuesday blog post tomorrow, as I present my Top 20 hits of the past 200 weeks. None of my Top 10 hits above are on my cumulative Top 20 chart, but one is coming close. Cain’s “Rise Up (Lazarus)” is a couple of weeks away from becoming one of my Top 20 hits of this current era.