Category: Music

1. “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French [# 1 last week / 6TH week on chart]
2. “I Just Need U.” – TobyMac [2 / 6TH]
3. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [3 / 6TH]
4. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 4TH]
5. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [5 / 4TH]
6. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [6 / 16TH]
7. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [7 / 20TH]
8. “Come To The Table” – Sidewalk Prophets [8 / 13TH]
9. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [9 / 12TH]
10. “Walking On Water” – NeedToBreathe [10 / 3RD]

No chart movements over the past few weeks. Stay tuned next week for what should be an active chart.

A couple of  Saturday nights ago I was praising, worshiping, singing, and dancing for God with thousands of my brothers and sisters in Christ at “Worship Night In America” at a jam-packed BB&T Center in Sunrise Florida. Chris Tomlin, Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario, Tauren Wells, and Pat Barrett of Housefires all appeared and performed LIVE on stage simultaneously with back-up musicians. Nobody was an opening or supporting act. Nobody was a headliner. Each artist took the lead with their respective hits.

I had an excellent floor seat right along the catwalk portion joining the two stages (main and middle). The stage was shaped like an “I”, and I was literally at the bottom left-hand corner of the “I” with the middle stage right behind me. I could have touched both Tauren Wells and Matt Maher as they played the piano to their respective hits. I felt like I was backing them up with vocals as thousands watched on. (I posted a couple of photos on Twitter from the concert.)

It was an awesome concert – 21 songs in all. Here’s the complete setlist:

1. “This Is Amazing Grace”
2. “God’s Great Dance Floor”
3. “Love Has A Name”
4. “Your Grace Is Enough”
5. “When We Pray”
6. “The Way (New Horizon)”
7. “Como Dijiste”
8. “Our God”
9. “Hills and Valleys”
10. “How He Loves”
11. “Lord I Need You”
12. “How Great Is Our God” (Reprise)
13. “Resurrection Power”
14. “What a Friend”
15. “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)”
16. “In The River”
17. “What A Beautiful Name”
18. “Good, Good Father”
19. “Great Are You Lord”
20. “Home”
21. “Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)”

1. “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French [# 1 last week / 4TH week on chart]
2. “I Just Need U.” – TobyMac [2 / 4TH]
3. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [5 / 4TH]
4. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 2ND]
5. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [7 / 2ND]
6. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [3 / 14TH]
7. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [6 / 18TH]
8. “Come To The Table” – Sidewalk Prophets [8 / 11TH]
9. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [9 / 10TH]
10. “Walking On Water” – NeedToBreathe [- / 1ST]

NeedToBreathe hold this week’s lone new entry at # 10. It’s their 3RD hit on this chart in a little over a year. “Testify” spent 4 weeks at # 2 last March and April. They followed that up with “Hard Love” which spent 5 weeks at # 2 – and a single week at # 1 in August.

This Saturday night I’ll be praising and worshiping God with thousands of my brothers and sisters in Christ at “Worship Night In America” at the BB&T Center in Sunrise Florida. Chris Tomlin is the headliner, and supporting him will be Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario, Tauren Wells, and Pat Barrett of Housefires. I’ve got an excellent floor seat waiting for me just 11 rows from the middle of the stage. (I bought my ticket over 3 months ago.) I’ll be singing and dancing all night long !

This Top 10 chart will continue on, and the next time you see it online will be 2 weeks from tonight on Monday April 30TH 2018. I’ll tell you all about the concert then !

1. Face Down – Family Force 5
2. Friend Like That – Hawk Nelson
3. The Flame In All Of Us – Thousand Foot Krutch
4. Apathy For Apologies – Everyday Sunday
5. Southern Weather – The Almost

These were my Top 5 hits exactly 10 years ago this weekend – Sunday April 13TH 2008.

Family Force 5 were an integral part of the soundtrack of the early years of my fantastic journey. Their hard rockin’ / heavy guitarin’ “Love Addict” hit this chart just one week after salvation began for me in late-August of 2006. I didn’t know what to make of it the first few times I heard it on the radio, but I knew that I loved the new sound of rock music with positive lyrics encouraging love – “Hold up. Wait a minute. Put a little love in it !”

Over the next few years they followed that up with “I Love You To Death”, “Never Let Me Go”, “Face Down”, “Radiator”, and “D-I-E 4 Y-O-U” (all hits on this chart). Nowadays founding members and twin brothers Jacob and Joshua Olds represent FF5 as a duo.

I’ll be back on Sunday with Scripture, and then on Monday it’s my brand new Top 10 music chart. We’ll see if Austin French can hold on at # 1 for a 2ND week in a row with his “Freedom Hymn”.

Enjoy this weekend my brothers and sisters. Be safe. Have fun. Go with God.