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My Top 10 Hits – Week 418

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 17, 2025

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday February 16TH 2025 – the 418TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	In The Name Of Jesus [2nd week @ # 1]	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
2	2	9	Running Back To You	Seph Schlueter
3	4	20	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
4	3	27	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
5	5	23	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
6	8	5	Never Get Used To This	Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
7	6	7	Goodbye Yesterday	Elevation Rhythm
8	7	6	A Thousand Times	We Are Messengers
9	9	3	Money Can’t Buy	Cochren & Co.
10	–	5	Let It Begin	Big Daddy Weave

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “I Believe” – Phil Wickham
2023 – “My Story Your Glory” – Matthew West
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “The God Who Stays” – Matthew West
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

8TH ANNIVERSARY – This edition marks the 8TH anniversary of when my weekly music chart was reborn after a 7-year hiatus. It actually wasn’t really planned. It just happened following an inspirational 7-day / 1,226.5-mile Presidents’ Day holiday week road-trip to and from the Florida Panhandle. That road-trip included a fun concert in Tallahassee headlined by TobyMac with Ryan Stevenson and the late and great Mandisa among 2 of the supporting acts. It’s also when I discovered the existence of K-LOVE for the first time, and I’ve been listening ever since.

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.

Tags Blog, Chart, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, Spotify, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 417

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 10, 2025

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday February 09TH 2025 – the 417TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	11	In The Name Of Jesus [1ST week @ # 1]	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
2	1	8	Running Back To You	Seph Schlueter
3	3	26	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
4	5	19	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
5	4	22	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
6	6	6	Goodbye Yesterday	Elevation Rhythm
7	7	5	A Thousand Times	We Are Messengers
8	8	4	Never Get Used To This	Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
9	9	2	Money Can’t Buy	Cochren & Co.
10	10	2	Desperate	Jamie MacDonald

JWLKRS WORSHIP – “In The Name Of Jesus” becomes their 2ND # 1 smash on my chart. It’s their follow-up to “I Thank God” – their late-2023 collaboration with Housefires which spent 9 weeks at # 1.

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.

Tags Blog, Chart, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, Spotify, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

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South Florida State College Arts

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 6, 2025

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It occurred to me today (as I’m writing this) that I’m coming up on 32 years of online activity here in Florida. It all started in a cozy studio efficiency apartment in Melbourne Florida during the Spring of 1993. Back then I was posting on a friend’s BBS (bulletin board system) before I created my very own – “MANx CAT BBS” (named after my childhood cat). It was a lot of fun back then, and perhaps the only subject that I posted about then – that I’m still posting about now – is travel. Back then I posted in “Fluffy’s Travel Bureau”. Today – it’s the simpler-named #TravelThursday.

Last Thursday I headed a couple of miles up the road to the Avon Park campus of South Florida State College (#SFSC).

My first stop was their Museum of Florida Art And Culture. It was my second visit to the museum. It’s a small museum – perhaps about one-third historical and two-thirds art gallery. They feature temporary exhibits throughout the year, and they had one this time titled “Echoes Unveiled” by Katya Neptune. It’s portraits of women and children that Neptune captured in Rwanda Africa in 2012 and 2014. The art pieces include matte medium, watercolor, polyurethane, thread, pencil, markers, and yarn on paper and fabric to embellish the large-scale photo-transfers.

There was actually a second temporary art exhibit adjacent to the museum inside the lobby of the concert venue. It was titled “Whiskers And Tales” by local 92-year-old resident Mary Seigfreid. It’s an exhibit on fluffy cats. And that brings this post full circle. (I saw a cat in her exhibit that kind of sort of looked like Fluffy from 35 years ago.)

Inside the concert venue – formally known as the Alan Jay Wildstein Center For The Performing Arts – I attended a free afternoon / matinee concert with the Charlie Redd Band LIVE. The 4-piece band (lead singer, guitarist, keyboardist, drummer) was very good. They performed mostly ’60s and ’70s pop classics – nearly all of which I knew and sang along with. Their encore was “Sweet Caroline” (Neil Diamond), and that was a lot of fun. They performed over 20 songs in 100 minutes.

It’s great to have #SFSC so close by so that I can enjoy LIVE concerts, and history and art in the same building.

Today I’m spending the day visiting Arcadia Florida for the first time ever. I’ll write about it – next #TravelThursday – Let’s keep traveling together.

Tags Avon Park, Florida, SFSC

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 416

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 3, 2025

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday February 02ND 2025 – the 416TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	7	Running Back To You [3RD week @ # 1]	Seph Schlueter
2	2	10	In The Name Of Jesus	JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
3	3	25	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
4	4	21	That’s Who I Praise	Brandon Lake
5	5	18	Love’s Got A Way	Andrew Ripp
6	7	5	Goodbye Yesterday	Elevation Rhythm
7	8	4	A Thousand Times	We Are Messengers
8	9	3	Never Get Used To This	Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
9	–	1	Money Can’t Buy	Cochren & Co.
10	–	1	Desperate	Jamie MacDonald

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “I Believe” – Phil Wickham
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Rescue Story” – Zach Williams
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard

GRACEFULLY BROKEN – It was my favorite song on the radio exactly 7 years ago, and I still love it today. I’ve sang it quite a few times as part of the Praise & Worship band, and it’s the first of 3 songs that I’ve selected for Praise & Worship in 3 Sundays when I lead our Sunday morning service at my former home church in Homestead Florida:

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.