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My Top 10 Hits – Week 335

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 17, 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 nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 16TH 2023 – the 335TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	4	Holy Forever [3RD week @ # 1]	Chris Tomlin
2	2	16	Cornerstone	TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
3	4	8	Big God	Terrian
4	3	20	This Is Our God	Phil Wickham
5	7	2	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
6	6	16	Fingerprints	Dan Bremnes
7	5	7	Yes I Am	Christian Paul
8	8	5	Every Hour	David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
9	10	11	You Will Be Found	Natalie Grant Ft. Cory Asbury
10	–	1	The King Is Alive	Jordan Feliz

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

TERRIAN – Terrian Bass Woods may have the unofficial anthem of the Summer Of 2023 on her hands, as “Big God” continues to garner increased airplay at U.S. Christian radio from coast-to-coast. It’s up another notch to # 3 on my chart, and now it’s the favorite to be my next big # 1. It’s actually her 2ND hit on my chart. “In The Arms” peaked at # 10 back in January 2020. I’ve seen Terrian LIVE in concert a couple of times – both as an opening act for TobyMac. She puts on an energetic performance that glorifies our “Big God”. And speaking of Mr. Mac – he makes a cameo appearance at the end of this music video:

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 Twitter 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 July 16, 2023

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 16TH 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.

Today marks exactly 5 months since I made a purchasing offer with my Real Estate Agent on my new home 185 miles away from my longtime home. It also marks exactly 4 months since I closed on my new home and moved in.

Before this adventure began I envisioned that out of the following three – my neighborhood (a senior community), the Sebring Historical Society, and my church family – that I would be closest to and building relationships with my church family.

That is not the case after 4 months of living here (most of the time).

I am closest with my new friends at the Sebring Historical Society. I’ve spent more time with them (by far) than the other two, and I’ve written about our organization a lot on #TravelThursday.

I am second-closest with my neighbors here in my neighborhood.

Surprisingly – I am least-closest with my church family, and aside from my Pastor (Ben) – I don’t remember anyone’s name. I have to get a refresher each Sunday morning that I’m there. Aside from a handful of Sunday morning services since the start of April – I’ve had no further interaction with my church family. That’s sort of by design. I don’t really want to reveal my ministerial credentials and experience this early – especially since I’m not yet “full-time” (every Sunday morning). I just wish to sit, relax, and absorb God’s Good News with my new brothers and sisters. Eventually – with time – I’ll start to interact and get involved with post-service and midweek activities such as small Bible Study groups.

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. (Romans 12:4-5 NLT)

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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AMTRAK

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 13, 2023

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. My new hometown of Sebring Florida has its very own AMTRAK station (#SBG) downtown. Located at 601 East Center Avenue (less than a half-mile from The Circle) – the Sebring Train Station is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built 99 years ago in 1924. I imagine that some type of celebration may be observed next year for its centennial. It’s been in near-continuous operation ever since.

Many trains have stopped in Sebring to pick-up and drop-off passengers to and from the Florida Heartland. But the trains of the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star continue to do so to this day. Both routes run between Miami and New York. The Silver Meteor has been running since 1939. The Silver Star – 1947.

Headed southbound to Miami the two trains depart from Sebring at 1448 and 1514. They arrive in Miami about 3 hours and 45 minutes later. (They remain there overnight.)

Headed northbound to Washington D.C. the two trains depart from Sebring at 1123 and 1445. The 1123 train arrives in D.C. at 0725 the next morning. The 1445 train arrives in D.C. over 24 hours later at 1504. (It takes a slightly longer route.)

It’s a busy half-hour each afternoon from 1443 to 1514 at the Sebring Train Station with 2 southbound trains and 1 northbound train pulling-in for no more than 2 to 3 minutes each.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think that I have ever ridden on an AMTRAK train in my life. I’d like to change that and eventually take a trip sometime during my retirement years. I checked-out a trip from Sebring to Dallas Texas (where my family lives). It would take almost exactly 72 hours to get there with transfers in Washington D.C. and Chicago. Layovers would be 8 hours and 40 minutes and 5 hours and 10 minutes respectively. I’ll hold-off for now on checking the cost of that trip.

One of these days I’ll just go to the train station to take pictures of it.

Next #TravelThursday – I’m headed back to the Fort Myers campus of Florida SouthWestern State College. Let’s keep traveling together.

Tags AMTRAK, Florida, Sebring, Train

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 334

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 10, 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 nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 09TH 2023 – the 334TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	3	Holy Forever [2ND week @ # 1]	Chris Tomlin
2	2	15	Cornerstone	TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
3	3	19	This Is Our God	Phil Wickham
4	5	7	Big God	Terrian
5	4	6	Yes I Am	Christian Paul
6	6	15	Fingerprints	Dan Bremnes
7	–	1	To Not Worship You	MercyMe
8	7	4	Every Hour	David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
9	8	4	Wholehearted	We Are Messengers
10	9	10	You Will Be Found	Natalie Grant Ft. Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

PHIL WICKHAM – “This Is Our God” remains at # 3 this week in its 19TH week on my chart. It’s his 8TH and biggest hit, and now it’s a Top 40 hit on my all-time chart for this current era that began almost 6½ years ago. His new album – “I Believe” – drops on Friday August 18TH 2023.

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.