Category: Music

My Top 10 Hits – Week 181

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 3, 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 August 02ND 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
2	2	12	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
3	3	8	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
4	7	7	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
5	4	16	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
6	5	21	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
7	–	1	Miracles	Colton Dixon
8	8	4	Revolutionary	Josh Wilson
9	9	3	Love God Love People	Danny Gokey
10	10	2	Who You Are To Me	Chris Tomlin Ft. Lady A

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

This week marks a milestone for my weekly chart. With this 181ST chart week it surpasses the complete 180-week run of the “Salvation Era” of my chart that began on August 27TH 2006 and ended on January 31ST 2010 (3 years and 5 months).

The “Salvation Era” began on the Sunday after my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ rescued and saved me almost 14 years ago. He used music to lift me out of the pit of despair – out of the mud and the mire. He gave me a new song to sing – a hymn of praise to our God. This chart – already in its 21ST year of existence at the time – immediately flipped from Mainstream Top 40 – to Christian Top 40. It lasted 180 weeks before waning. (This chart went on a 7-year hiatus after that.)

This current “Resurrection Era” (or “K-LOVE Era”) continues on into the future. I enjoy sharing the music each week that I’m currently singing along to and dancing to in praise and worship to my God. I sing and dance for Him.

Zach Williams scores his 5TH consecutive Top 5 smash over the past 3 years with his latest “There Was Jesus” – a duet with Dolly Parton that the two recorded together in the studio last Summer. It looks like it’s headed to # 1 nationally at U.S. Christian radio. It’s already # 1 at small-market stations.

Colton Dixon returns to my chart for the first time in nearly 3½ years, and it’s already his highest-charting hit ever, as “Miracles” makes its debut at # 7. Here’s the official music video of this catchy track:

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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music

Bible Blogging Christian God Life Ministry Music Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 2, 2020

Greetings my friends. It’s Sunday August 02ND 2020, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. And let us celebrate this new day on our journey together.

I’m approaching my 14TH anniversary of the start of my salvation. It began during the 3RD week of August of 2006. To the naysayers once close to me who thought that this was merely a “passing fad” – well – this “passing fad” is getting ready to start a 15TH year. The truth is this: I’m on fire for my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ today more than yesterday, and tomorrow more than today. With each new day I’m moving forward – towards and closer to my God.

So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands you sinners. Purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up in honor. (James 4:7-10 NLT)

Every so often I like to reminisce and remember where I was and what I was doing any number of years ago. I even have a regular weekly feature every Friday here on my blog called RETRO. As we progress further into our respective journeys it’s important to look back at where we came from – so that we know what we’re leaving behind to get to our ultimate destination in Heaven. I certainly don’t wish to return to where I was yesterday. We must be closer to God than we were a minute ago, an hour ago, a day ago, a week ago, a month ago, a year ago, and so forth. We must move away from the mud and the mire as we #CountUp to God.

This WordPress blog goes back to 2007 (nearly 1,800 posts). When I read some of my posts from the early years of my salvation I sometimes think to myself, “I’m so happy that I’ve matured since then.” And then there are those certain posts when I think to myself, “I loved what I wrote there. That’s still 100% on-point today.”

Such is the case with a gem from exactly 10 years ago this weekend. Under my banner “My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics” I wrote about my upcoming 4TH anniversary of the start of my salvation. I also included Brandon Heath’s song and video “Give Me Your Eyes”.

Here is that post in its entirety – from Sunday August 01ST 2010:

As we begin this 8TH month of 2010 today I move a little closer to the remarkable 4-year / 48-month anniversary of my fantastic journey. It was the 3RD week of August of 2006 when my life as I knew it ended, and a new Life began. God rescued and saved me from evil and darkness. He told me to follow Him. He said that He would lead me towards the light of The Truth. He asked me to believe in Him. After more than 39 years of life on His Earth I finally did. I surrendered to Him. When the world around me rejected me God accepted me.

That’s exactly what He will do for you as well – if you would just let Him. When your friends abandon you. When the world rejects you. When you’re lonely. There’s a Kingdom all around you that’s more powerful than you can ever imagine. God will wait for you. When you’re ready – He’s ready to lead you.

♫ Give me Your eyes for just one second
Give me Your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me Your love for humanity

Give me Your arms for the broken hearted
The ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me Your eyes so I can see ♫

It’s in the lyrics:

Tags Bible, Blog, Brandon Heath, Christian, God, Scripture

Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1970

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 31, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month 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, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 5TH Friday of the month, so it’s a special. Back in 1970 I was a 3-year-old living with my Mom and Dad at the Chelsea Wood Apartments in Greenbelt Maryland. My Grandmom and Granddad lived just a few miles away in Lanham Maryland. I was already listening to Top 40 radio, and these hits were the hottest in the land exactly 50 years ago this weekend – for the week ending Sunday August 02ND 1970:

“(They Long To Be) Close To You” – The Carpenters
“Make It With You” – Bread
“Mama Told Me (Not To Come)” – Three Dog Night
“Band Of Gold” – Freda Payne
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” – Stevie Wonder

Bread’s “Make It With You” is currently in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles, and “Mama Told Me (Not To Come)” is currently in active rotation with 660 plays over the past 10 years (a play about every 5 to 6 days since 2010). Three Dog Night are (by far) my favorite band of the early-1970s. I have a bunch of their hits on my iTunes Library that I rotate in and out. One of my favorite performances of them (recently featured here on my blog) was when they hosted the cocktail party on a November 1971 episode of “Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In”. They performed “Joy To The World” in-between the party jokes.

Next week on RETRO I’ll have another special. Maybe I’ll stay in the 1970s – the greatest decade of music that ever existed.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

Tags 1970, Music, Radio, Top 40

Christian God Ministry Music Scripture

My Top 10 Hits – Week 180

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 27, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
2	2	11	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
3	3	7	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
4	4	15	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
5	6	20	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
6	5	11	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
7	8	6	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
8	9	3	Revolutionary	Josh Wilson
9	10	2	Love God Love People	Danny Gokey
10	–	1	Who You Are To Me	Chris Tomlin Ft. Lady A

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

My # 3 artist of the past 180 weeks – Chris Tomlin – scores his 5TH hit with his latest – “Who You Are To Me” – a Nashville collaboration with country group Lady A. It’s a song that’s breaking-out on Christian radio from coast-to-coast, and it has an excellent opportunity to crossover onto country radio as well. I’ll be monitoring that. I love when a song plays at multiple formats on the radio.

♫ You’re amazing – faithful – love’s open door
When I’m empty You fill me with hunger for more
Of Your mercy – Your goodness
Lord – You’re the air that I breathe
That’s who You are to me
Who You are to me ♫

The Afters fall off my chart after 26 weeks with their # 1 smash (for 6 weeks) – “I Will Fear No More”. It’s currently my # 5 hit overall out of 168 over the past 180 weeks.

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.