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The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 68

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 03RD 2018:

  1. “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett [# 1 last week / 5TH week on chart]
  2. “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship [2 / 5TH]
  3. “The Answer” – Jeremy Camp [4 / 3RD]
  4. “All In” – Matthew West [3 / 5TH]
  5. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [5 / 9TH]
  6. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [6 / 9TH]
  7. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [7 / 11TH]
  8. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [8 / 17TH]
  9. “Reckless Love” – Cory Asbury [10 / 5TH]
  10. “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson [- / 1ST]

The 2018 K-LOVE Fan Awards are now history. What a wonderful show it was on TBN last Thursday night. I live-tweeted during the show, and I managed 21 tweets during the 2-hour telecast. Those 21 tweets produced a combined 5,460 impressions and 58 likes to date. Those are good numbers considering it’s the first time I’ve ever pulled off such an event. I’ll do it again in the future !

Of course physically being at the K-LOVE Fan Awards (and the entire 3-day weekend event in Nashville) is on my wish list for the future. I’m not ruling out a road-trip to Nashville for the end of May 2019 !

I came real close (within minutes) of performing Pat Barrett’s “The Way (New Horizon)” LIVE – a cappella – for Praise & Worship at my church service this past Sunday morning. Due to a last-minute scheduling change I didn’t have to lead Praise & Worship, so that just gives me more time to rehearse the song at home so that when I do get the opportunity to sing that amazing song it’ll be even better than it would’ve been with little practice. (I also would’ve performed MercyMe’s “Flawless”. I love that song !)

This concludes my 4 blogs this weekend. I’ll do it again this upcoming 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 win souls for Christ. Enjoy this week.

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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2008

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference from either 10, 20, or 30 years ago (rotating each week). Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 01ST 2008:

  1. Addicted – P.O.D.
  2. Fading Away – Demon Hunter
  3. Last Regret – Seventh Day Slumber
  4. Anything You Say – Deas Vail
  5. This Is Home – Switchfoot

I can’t believe that was a full decade ago this weekend. I remember hearing those songs on the radio at the time in heavy rotation, and cranking them up at home and in my car, and rockin’ out to them. I was on the verge of 41 years old, but I was still a kid on this fantastic journey – just a little over 21 months after the start of salvation. I was still in such a euphoric state for Christ.

I would eventually come out of that euphoria. There’s about a 3 to 5 year stretch of my fantastic journey where I was still moving forward towards Christ, but it was at a much slower and insignificant pace. I never quite fell into the ditches of darkness along both sides of the winding and curving journey, but I came close, and I was certainly more vulnerable to do so than I was in the beginning. You never want to get comfortable on this journey (like I did) – because when you do the enemy and his followers of the world will strike with a vengeance.

A little over 3 years ago I made drastic changes in my daily spiritual life. I had to close some doors so that God could lead me to some open doors that were waiting for me with new opportunities. I’m enjoying a renaissance now, and I’m back to moving forward at a steady march towards God with a definite purpose.

This blog – established in 2007 – began fading away in 2010 – just as my fantastic journey was losing steam. It completely ceased and went dormant in 2012. I resurrected it at the start of this year. It’s now the cornerstone of my online ministry to win souls for Christ. If you’re reading this – then you’re part of my online church family. You are a brother or a sister in Christ. Let’s walk together. Let’s expand God’s Kingdom together.

If you’re not yet a believer and a follower of Christ – then that’s OK. Walk with me. Read my blogs when I post them. I’d like to share with you what I know to be The Truth. I’d like to share some Good News with you.

I’ll be back on Sunday with Scripture, and then on Monday it’s my brand new Top 10 music chart.

Enjoy this weekend my brothers and sisters. Be safe. Have fun. Love all. Live life.

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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 67

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 27TH 2018:

  1. “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett [# 1 last week / 4TH week on chart]
  2. “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship [2 / 4TH]
  3. “All In” – Matthew West [6 / 4TH]
  4. “The Answer” – Jeremy Camp [7 / 2ND]
  5. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 8TH]
  6. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [5 / 8TH]
  7. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [3 / 10TH]
  8. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [8 / 16TH]
  9. “More Than Anything” – Natalie Grant [10 / 2ND]
  10. “Reckless Love” – Cory Asbury [- / 4TH]

Cory Asbury’s got the # 1 spot again this week on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart, and this week he reenters my chart at # 10 with “Reckless Love” – a song that spent just 3 weeks on my chart a couple of months ago. Like I stated last week – sometimes it takes weeks and months for a popular radio song to grow on me. I’m starting to hum this one offline, so it’s finally grown on me.

SPOILER: “Reckless Love” won the 2018 K-LOVE Fan Award for Worship Song Of The Year. (I actually didn’t vote for it.) It also won for “Breakout Single”. (Again I voted for another one.) This Thursday night at 8 PM EDT / 5 PM PDT I’ll be watching the K-LOVE Fan Awards on TBN. Last year I paid $17 to see them in a large movie theatre, and that movie theatre was packed-out. It was an awesome experience. This year I’ll be live-tweeting from my living room during the awards telecast @ChrisMDay with the hashtag #KLOVEFanAwards. You can follow along on Twitter, or via the web site edition of this blog. My Twitter feed appears along the right-side column. Tweet back at me if you wish.

This concludes my 4 blogs this weekend. I’ll do it again this upcoming 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 win souls for Christ. Enjoy this week. Love thy neighbor.

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1980s Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1988

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference from either 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 29TH 1988:

  1. I Should Be So Lucky – Kylie Minogue
  2. Together Forever – Rick Astley
  3. Naughty Girls Need Love Too – Samantha Fox
  4. Shattered Dreams – Johnny Hates Jazz
  5. One More Try – George Michael

I’m not a big fan of ’80s music. I actually place the music of the 1980s behind the music of the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s. It’s pretty much the 2ND least-favorite decade of my life as far as pop music is concerned. (This current decade is by far the worst.) I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I was simply not happy during much of the 1980s (at least the first-half of it).

I lived in southern England (Gloucestershire) for 2 years from November 1985 to November 1987. During that time I was exposed day and night to the British pop scene, and I pretty much loved every minute of it. I immersed myself in it. It was a refreshing (and radical) change from the American pop scene that I left behind. In 1988 a lot of that great British pop music followed me home stateside, so American radio in 1988 was like a rerun of British radio in 1987. And then the ’90s arrived early – in 1989 – when pop music began changing (for the better).

A week after I compiled the chart above (and the other 35 songs below it – I did personal Top 40 charts back then) – I turned 21 years old. I was ready for “grown-up music” that the ’90s would soon provide. (The ’90s were my favorite decade for music.)

It’s halftime. My weekend blogs continue on Sunday and Monday. In the meantime I’ll be posting more new photos over on my Flickr site (accessible via the web site edition of this blog).