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My Top 10 Hits – Week 179

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 20, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday July 19TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	10	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
2	4	10	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
3	5	6	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
4	1	14	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
5	3	10	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
6	6	19	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
7	7	26	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
8	9	5	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
9	10	2	Revolutionary	Josh Wilson
10	–	1	Love God Love People	Danny Gokey

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

It’s another active chart week, as I AM THEY out of Carson City Nevada score their first # 1 smash on my chart. It’s my 49TH # 1 smash overall since this chart was resurrected on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017.

I AM THEY get their name from Scripture in The Gospel According To John. In Jesus’ final prayer for His disciples here in the world before His suffering and death – He looked up to Heaven, and He prayed. He said that:

My prayer is not for the world, but for those You have given Me – because they belong to You. All who are Mine belong to You, and You have given them to Me, so they bring Me glory. Now I am departing from the world. They are staying in this world, but I am coming to You. Holy Father – You have given Me Your name. Now protect them by the power of Your name so that they will be united just as We are. (John 17:9-11 NLT)

I am they. We are they. We belong to our Holy Father. We belong to His Holy Son. We belong to the Holy Spirit. Let’s be united in our God – Creator, Christ, and Spirit as One !

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.

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, Christian, I AM THEY, KLOVE, Music

Bible Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my brothers and sisters – my friends and neighbors. It’s Sunday July 19TH 2020, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. And let us go in to God’s Word.

For about a year I preached about James – the half-brother of Jesus – James The Just. I preached 10 sermons from the Book of James. Good stuff. Good News. It was my first extended message series. I should do another one. Maybe in a few years.

So after James, and 1ST & 2ND Peter, and 1ST, 2ND, and 3RD John – comes Jude. Jude is right before the Book of Revelation at the end of the New Testament. And Jude – he was a brother of James – which means – he was a brother of Jesus. Like James – Jude did not believe and follow Christ during Christ’s short ministry. They just thought that He was a bit crazy. It wasn’t until after Christ rose from the dead – like He said He would – that James, Jude, and others became believers and followers of Christ. They became church leaders after that. The resurrection of Christ proved everything.

So Jude’s letter is a single chapter – with 25 verses. Jude warns us about false teachers in the early church, and how they lived their lives away from the church.

You know the modern church of today has false teachers and false prophets. We all have the capability of being a false teacher or a false prophet. It’s so easy to do. You know we become false prophets when we worry about something – when we allow fear to come in to our heart. We become false prophets when we prophecy on a future that our God does not have planned.

“I am so worried about this happening and that happening. I do not know what I am going to do to recover from that disaster, but I better come up with a plan. God help me with this plan. Show me the way !” Meanwhile God is trying to tell you, “What disaster ?” (It’s all in your mind.)

We become false prophets when we waste time – when we waste energy – dwelling on something that’s not going to happen.

Sure bad things are going to happen to us along the way, but more bad things happen to us in our thoughts than actually occur in real life. Don’t let the enemy into your mind – into your heart. The enemy leaves less space for God to occupy your mind and your heart.

I like the ending of Jude’s letter. It’s an uplifting worship to our God.

Now all glory to God – who is able to keep you from falling away, and will bring you with great joy into His glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to Him who alone is God – our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are His before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time ! Amen. (Jude 1:24-25 NLT)

Whenever you have one of those days – where you think that you’re not good enough for God – or where you think that God isn’t there for you – or where you think that there’s something better for you in the world out there – look to that Scripture right there – those two verses from Jude. Only God has all of the glory – all of the majesty – all of the power – and all of the authority – then, now, and forever. That’s the God I believe. That’s the God I follow. That’s the God I trust. That’s the God who is overflowing with “Kindness & Love”.

Show that “Kindness & Love” to your brothers and sisters – to your friends and neighbors.

Tags Bible, Blog, Christ, Christian, Church, God, Jude, Scripture

2000s Movies Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 17, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month 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, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday July 16TH 2000:

“Higher” – Creed
“It’s Gonna Be Me” – ‘N Sync
“My Own Worst Enemy” – Lit
“Try Again” – Aaliyah
“Jumpin’, Jumpin'” – Destiny’s Child

Creed was at # 1 for the 9TH week in a row on this week exactly 20 years ago, and they would continue on for another 2 weeks before surrendering the top spot for the next 6 weeks after that. And then they would return to # 1 in September of 2000. “Higher” spent a total of 13 weeks at # 1 on my chart in 2000. To this date it remains the 2ND longest-running # 1 smash in the history of my chart.

One of my favorite pop / punk songs of all-time was Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy”. It was a late-bloomer here on my chart. Over a year after it peaked at Mainstream Top 40 radio it was one of my biggest hits in July of 2000 – eventually reaching # 2. I still love the song today.

Over at the multiplex I saw 4 movies in July of 2000 – “Me, Myself, & Irene”, “Scary Movie”, “Disney’s The Kid”, and “Loser”. 2000 was a year in which I saw 27 movies – the most of my adult life up to that point. (So far in 2020 I’ve seen 1 movie. #COVID19)

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 2000, Creed, Lit, Music, Radio

Driving Photography Travel Weather

Pensacola

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 16, 2020

During my recent 9-day / 2-state / 1,690-mile road-trip I visited Florida’s westernmost city – Pensacola. Over 50,000 call Pensacola home, and over 500,000 live in the metro area. I live almost 700 miles away in the far southeastern corner of Florida. This was my very first visit to Pensacola. I had previously only driven along I-10 north of the city limits. (A small portion of the city actually crosses over I-10 to the north side.)

This side-visit to Pensacola was planned in advance. I spent the night at a hotel very near their airport, and then the next morning I drove in to the historic downtown district to walk around, take lots of photos (coming soon to a blog near you), and visit two of their biggest museums. (Most of their smaller museums and other historic buildings were actually closed due to COVID-19. They are slowly reopening some of these other facilities.)

It was a fun 2½-hour visit on a hot and sunny Saturday morning. Had everything been opened for visitors I could have easily spent all day there, and maybe even part of the next day. I’ll have to consider a future visit the next time I drive to and from North Texas to visit my family.

Pensacola is considered to be the “icebox” of Florida. Their weather is just like the rest of the state from about April to October – hot and humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms. But in the wintertime – watch out – because it gets cold there, and it can even sleet, ice, and snow there. I wouldn’t want to live there when I retire, but it’s a nice city to visit for a day or two.

Tags Florida, Pensacola