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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 13, 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 13TH 2020 – the 3RD Sunday of Advent with just 2 more Sundays remaining in 2020. I’m not preaching this morning. I get to watch my Lead Pastor preach for the first time since 4 Sundays ago. I love his preaching style. He is never boring, and I always walk away from his sermons educated, enlightened, informed, and (most importantly) – closer to God. I usually walk away with new ideas for future sermons. He gets me into the Bible to take-in more of God’s wisdom.

I love to preach, and I will never turn down an opportunity to do so. It is an honor and a privilege to share God’s Good News with my brothers and sisters of my church family, as well as anyone else who will listen to me. But an important part of my ministry is hearing, listening, and absorbing God’s Word as told by others – my Lead Pastor, my Praise & Worship Pastor, the Christ-led musicians who I feature on here every Monday, and a few select TV preachers who I enjoy watching every week.

This past Wednesday night a bunch of us gathered together at our church building to decorate the sanctuary for Christmas. We got it all done in just about an hour, and now it looks a lot like Christmas. We did a good job, but the most important part of that hour was the fellowship of our church family.

On the home front I’ve begun writing my next (untitled) sermon which will cover the second-half of John Chapter 16. It’ll be the follow-up to “Spirit & Truth” – my sermon of 2 weeks ago which covered John 16:5-15. I’d also like to simultaneously write my next Malachi sermon. (I preached on Malachi during the final Sunday of August. There’s more to reveal there.)

You see as Jesus hung on the cross the world thought it had won. The world rejoiced over what it saw. The world thought it had conquered the light. Meanwhile His disciples wept and mourned over what they saw, but Christ had revealed and promised that their grief would be short-lived. Their grief would become joy over what would soon happen.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 199

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 7, 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 06TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	8	2	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	1	10	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
3	5	4	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
4	4	15	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	2	14	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
6	3	14	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
7	7	4	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
8	6	9	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
9	9	2	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	10	2	Sparrows	Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Well that was quick. Mr. Andrew Ripp drops to # 2 this week after just a single week at # 1. “Jericho” is the first # 1 smash in 20 months to only spend 1 week at # 1. (The last to do so was “Greatness Of Our God” from Newsboys.)

Newcomer Cade Thompson is now the 4TH artist in a row to secure the # 1 spot with his very first hit (following Cain, Matty Mullins, and Andrew Ripp). All 4 artists with their respective # 1 hits occupy 4 out of my Top 5 spots this week.

Last week I featured the Official Lyric Video of Cade’s “Every Step Of The Way”. This week it’s Cade in his own voice and words explaining the meaning “behind the song”. Check it out below, or on Cade’s YouTube site.

♫ Every step of the way
You’ve been – You’ll be
Working everything for the best of me
So I’ll trust in who You are

Every step of the way
You’ve been – You’ll be
Fighting and writing Your love in my story
You’ve held my heart
Every step of the way ♫

I love how this song sounds, and I love its lyrics. It’s Cade proclaiming his trust and love for Christ – because of what Christ has done for him – “Every Step Of The Way”.

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 6, 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.

It is Sunday December 06TH 2020, and for the 2ND Sunday in a row I’ve been asked to preach a full sermon to my church family. This morning I’ll be preaching on “Satan & Hell”. It’s a sermon that I wrote during the peak of the pandemic in April and into May when everything was shutdown, and everyone was in quarantine mode.

It’s been “sitting on the shelf” since then, and since I wrote it I’ve preached 4 other sermons. The time is right to preach it today. I’ve updated it, enhanced it, and even brightened it up a bit.

Last week I preached almost entirely on John – the “Apostle & Elder”. My sermon today includes a lot of Paul and Peter.

Scripture includes: Romans 10:9-10; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, 11:6-7, 11:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, 2:9-12; 2 Timothy 2:26; and 2 Peter 3:10-18

Here’s a short excerpt from my sermon today:

… There’s a lot of people that are perishing in this world. They are good people. They are God’s children. Some of them are in our own families. Some of them are our friends, our coworkers, our acquaintances, and our neighbors. But they are perishing. They remain in darkness. But we love them. And we want them to see the glorious light of God.

Satan – the god of this world – has blinded the minds of those who don’t (yet) believe, so they can’t see the light. Satan is at work – doing his – dirty deeds done dirt cheap …

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 198

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 30, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	9	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
2	1	13	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
3	4	13	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
4	3	14	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	7	3	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
6	6	8	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
7	8	3	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
8	–	1	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
9	–	1	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	–	1	Sparrows	Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Happy 35TH Anniversary ! 35 years ago this weekend this weekly hit music chart was born. Aside from a 3-year hiatus (1992-1995) and a 7-year hiatus (2010-2017) this chart has been going strong ever since I was a teenager living in the south of England. It’s gone through many different genres of music from pop to hip hop to hard rock to electronic dance to Christian. We’re in the 198TH week of this current era that started in the middle of February of 2017, and the hits keep counting up !

Andrew Ripp becomes the 3RD artist in a row to secure the # 1 spot with his very first hit (following Cain and Matty Mullins). His “Jericho” is my new # 1 smash this week – the 13TH # 1 smash of 2020 – and the 55TH # 1 smash over the past 198 weeks. We’ll see if it can hold on into and through the month of December to wrap-up 2020.

We Are Messengers have moved-up strongly over the past couple of weeks from # 10 to # 7 to # 5. “Image Of God” is their 6TH hit since 2017. They are currently my # 10 artist overall since 2017.

20-year-old Cade Thompson has my highest new entry this week at # 8. It’s his very first appearance on my chart. When I first heard this song on K-LOVE I instantly loved it. I actually thought it was Ryan Stevenson at first, and then I finally looked it up and realized that it’s Cade Thompson. This is a quick follow-up to his earlier single this year – “Provider” – which I liked for its quirkiness, but it failed to make my chart due to a lack of radio airplay (probably because it was too quirky).

Here’s the official lyric video for Cade’s new hit, “Every Step Of The Way”:

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.