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My Top 10 Hits – Week 347

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 9, 2023

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 October 08TH 2023 – the 347TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	Praise You Anywhere [7TH week @ # 1]	Brandon Lake
2	3	9	Praise The Lord	Micah Tyler
3	2	8	Hallelujah Feeling	Caleb & John
4	4	10	Heaven Changes Everything	Big Daddy Weave
5	5	14	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
6	9	4	What Are We Waiting For ?	for King + Country
7	8	9	Jesus Does	We The Kingdom
8	7	6	Parking Lot	Cochren & Co.
9	10	2	Loved By You	Riley Clemmons
10	–	1	Firm Foundation (He Won’t)	Cody Carnes

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “What If” – Matthew West
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “The Gospel” – Ryan Stevenson

54TH ANNUAL GMA DOVE AWARDS – 1 of my 2 favorite music awards shows airs later this month on TBN – Friday October 20TH 2023 at 8 PM EDT (with an encore at 10 PM EDT). Tauren Wells is the host. Performing on the show are Brandon Lake, for King + Country, Katy Nichole, Phil Wickham, Zach Williams, and others. The show is LIVE at the Allen Arena in Nashville Tennessee 3 nights earlier.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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 X and Flickr.

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.

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 8, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 08TH 2023, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

I’m in Sebring Florida this morning for the first time on a Sunday (all day) since 3 weeks ago, and I’ll be praising and worshipping my Lord God Almighty alongside my Highlands Community Church family for the 3RD time. We’re also having a potluck luncheon after service, so I’m looking forward to food and fellowship with my new brothers and sisters of this fantastic journey.

I’m still settling into my new home (after nearly 7 months). I’ll be doing that well into 2024. (It’s a marathon – not a sprint.) Over the past few days – I’ve been reviewing and sorting church bulletins (what we handed out as you entered the sanctuary) from my first church from 2007 to 2015. (I saved all of them.) Seeing and remembering those old Sunday morning memories from 10 to 15 years ago brings a smile to my face – especially the ones with a photo of me and my brothers and sisters at the time. I thought I would be with that church family forever, but forever only lasted for 8 years. God had other plans for me after 8 years, and He led me to new open doors and new unlimited horizons.

A couple of days ago I saw “The Blind” at the movie theatre. What a fantastic faith-based movie. You know I’ve never seen a single 1 of the 131 episodes of “Duck Dynasty”, so I know little to nothing about the show. And the same with Phil and Kay Robertson. This is a biographical movie about Phil and Kay and their family, so everything I know about them now – I learned from the movie. It’s rated PG-13 due to heavy smoking and drinking and domestic violence – depicting Phil’s life as he was spiraling out-of-control. He eventually hit rock bottom, and this movie depicts that event with the devil intensely.

He was soon rescued out of the pit of despair – out of the mud and the mire when he accepted Jesus Christ as His Lord + Savior, and he got baptized in the water. I shed tears of joy at that moment, as I was recalling the start of my own salvation some 17 years ago. I also saw the devil before I was rescued. The final 30 minutes of the movie showed him as a born-again Christian getting closer to God with each new day.

There’s an excellent review of this movie here.

Stay tuned at the end of the movie, as Phil Robertson (today) delivers a short message on God’s salvation.

My testimony is featured here each week on #SundayScripture whether it’s part of a sermon, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord, and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

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25,000 Miles

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 5, 2023

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. A couple of Sunday mornings ago I surpassed the 25,000-mile mark on my car’s odometer while driving out of Clewiston Florida and heading southbound towards South Bay on my favorite highway – U.S. 27. It took me 30 days to drive 1,000 miles from 24,000 to 25,000.

Speaking of 1,000 miles – for the first time since January (the month before I bought my new home) – I did not drive over 1,000 miles during the month that just ended (September). That ends an unprecedented 7-month streak that began in February and ended in August. The main reason is because I only took 3 trips between my new home and my old home. (I actually drove north to Sebring on August 31ST and October 01ST. Had I returned home a day later to start the month or a day earlier to end the month – it would’ve been another 1,000-mile-plus month.)

I drove 860 miles in September, and that’s still more than 11 out of 12 months in 2022.

The forecast for October – I’ll drive well over 1,000 miles with 5 trips up and down U.S. 27.

My goal is to actually not drive 1,000+ miles in a single month, and I should reach that goal in March 2024 once I’m fully retired and no longer have to drive south to Homestead. My goal is to enjoy my new home, and my new neighborhood, and my new county, and my new friends – full-time. #Retired

Oh wait – I’m probably driving 3,000+ miles the month after that in April when I embark on my retirement road-trip to and from North Texas.

Business is about to pick-up here on #TravelThursday !

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll tell you all about the birds of Sebring. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 346

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 2, 2023

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 October 01ST 2023 – the 346TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	Praise You Anywhere [6TH week @ # 1]	Brandon Lake
2	2	7	Hallelujah Feeling	Caleb & John
3	3	8	Praise The Lord	Micah Tyler
4	5	9	Heaven Changes Everything	Big Daddy Weave
5	7	13	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
6	4	12	The King Is Alive	Jordan Feliz
7	6	5	Parking Lot	Cochren & Co.
8	10	8	Jesus Does	We The Kingdom
9	9	3	What Are We Waiting For ?	for King + Country
10	–	1	Loved By You	Riley Clemmons

RILEY CLEMMONS – She’s back with her 5TH hit – and her first since January 2022 when “For The Good” peaked at # 6. In her new song Riley reminds herself that she is believed in, she is held on to, and she doesn’t have to wonder who she belongs to. She’s always wanted, she’s always known, and she’s always treasured. She is loved by You God.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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.