Category: Music

Honoring My Fellow Veterans

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 11, 2021

It’s Veterans Day here in the U.S.A.

This week marks the 36TH anniversary that the United States Air Force shipped me off to a foreign country solo for the first time in my life. As an 18½-year-old I flew from Washington Dulles Airport nonstop to London Heathrow Airport. It was an overnight flight from November 09TH into November 10TH of 1985. From there I took British Rail westward to Swindon in Wiltshire, and then from there I hired a cab to take me up to RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds of Gloucestershire – my home for the next 2 years. (It was my first permanent duty station.)

I remember “Road To Nowhere” from The Talking Heads playing on my cab driver’s radio, and I certainly felt like I was on a road to nowhere, but I was really on a road to somewhere – the official start of my lifelong career.

I’ve been a member of the United States Air Force for the past 37 years now – going back to when I first signed on the dotted line of the delayed enlistment program near the start of my senior year in high school. I was hesitant in joining the military way back then, but it all turned out just right, and it’s become my career. I’d do it all over again.

To my fellow Veterans – this is our day. From one Veteran to all of you – I thank you for serving your nation so that we may be free indeed.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 247

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 8, 2021

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY NOVEMBER 07TH 2021	WEEK 247

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	6	Promised Land [2ND week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	3	2	On Our Way	MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
3	2	17	What If	Matthew West
4	6	5	Come What May	We Are Messengers
5	7	2	In The House	Crowder
6	4	4	When You Speak	Jeremy Camp
7	5	4	My God Is Still The Same	Sanctus Real
8	8	11	Promises	Maverick City Music
9	9	2	Look What You’ve Done	Tasha Layton
10	10	2	Even At My Worst	Blanca

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

NO NEW ENTRIES – After a whopping 4 new entries last week my chart takes a breather this week. But a couple of last week’s new entries make nice moves upward this week. MercyMe’s 6TH hit is now their 6TH Top 2 hit, as “On Our Way” ekes up a notch. Crowder follows-up his # 1 smash “God God Almighty” with his now Top 5 hit “In The House”.

You know I love a song that speaks of being born again:

♫ Bet you’ll wanna sing hallelujah. Bet you’ll say an amen.
Can’t help but celebrate being born again.
Somebody who loves you is waiting at the door.
It’s home sweet home here in the house of the Lord. ♫

This is the season finale of #Top10Monday. It will return in 4 weeks on Monday December 06TH 2021. My chart continues on offline, and I’ll soon compile my 250TH chart of this current era. To celebrate 250 weeks of positive and encouraging hits I’ll #CountUp my Top 25 hits of 250 weeks on a very special blog post and chart on Wednesday December 01ST 2021.

This blog is # 34 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 2 new entries on Thursday and Friday.

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, Chart, Christ, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, WGTS

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 5, 2021

Every Friday 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, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 05TH 2006:

“Gravity” – The Fold
“Activate” – Stellar Kart
“Up Above” – High Flight Society
“In Such A State” – Edison Glass
“Waste Of Time” – FM Static

11 weeks into my salvation – before I even found and joined a church family – I was rockin’ to God and His music via my local independent Christian rock radio station – “The Call”.

Hearing these songs 15 years later gives me goosebumps. It brings me back to that euphoric time when I was a baby again – at the age of 39.

My # 1 smash 15 years ago was from The Fold – a band that is still around today after nearly 20 years. In 2006 they released their debut album – “This Too Shall Pass”. Its opening track was “Gravity”. It was their 1ST of 5 hits on my chart over the next 3 years.

I like the chorus of “Gravity”:

♫ Just like gravity – what draws You to me
Someone I didn’t know I needed
It’s like gravity – it’s stronger than me
I need You here ♫

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to November 1996.

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 2006, Music, Radio, Salvation

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 246

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 1, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 31ST 2021	WEEK 246

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	5	Promised Land [1ST week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	1	16	What If	Matthew West
3	–	1	On Our Way	MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
4	4	3	When You Speak	Jeremy Camp
5	5	3	My God Is Still The Same	Sanctus Real
6	10	4	Come What May	We Are Messengers
7	–	1	In The House	Crowder
8	6	10	Promises	Maverick City Music
9	–	1	Look What You’ve Done	Tasha Layton
10	–	1	Even At My Worst	Blanca

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

4 NEW ENTRIES – I typically average a single new entry per week, so whenever there are more than that it’s a special week of chart action. This week is spectacular with 4 new entries. MercyMe enter straight-in at # 3 with their 6TH hit – a song I got to dance to recently with my Tampa brothers and sisters in Christ LIVE in concert. “On Our Way” appears to be headed on its way to # 1. Also new this week is Crowder’s 7TH hit, Tasha Layton’s 2ND hit, and Blanca’s debut hit.

This blog is # 34 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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.