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My Top 10 Hits – Week 494

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 3, 2026
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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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday August 02ND 2026 – the 494TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	19	Everything Is Better [1ST week @ # 1]	Hopeful.
2	1	10	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
3	4	16	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
4	5	4	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
5	7	3	Faith Hope Love	We Are Messengers
6	3	29	Finished	Caleb & John
7	6	5	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
8	8	2	Why Should I Worry	Carly Ann Taylor
9	9	4	Meet Me In The Valley	Tasha Layton
10	10	5	Ain’t No Way	Jamie MacDonald

2025 – “God Did It” – Micah Tyler
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

HOPEFUL. – Those 5 guys from the sand and surf of Southern California who love God and are hopeful of His promises ascend to the top of my chart, and it only took 19 weeks to do so. “Everything Is Better” continues to carry speed and make waves at Christian music radio.

I’ve entered the actual month of the 20TH anniversary of the start of my salvation in August 2006. God used loud music on the radio to get my attention. I called His name. He rescued me. He saved me. My life changed forever. It was not a fluke. It was not a passing fad. Here I am – 20 years later.

For the past 10 weeks I’ve presented my #CountUp of the biggest hits during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010. I’ll continue next week with my # 11 hit. This week it’s a recap of my Top 10:

“Over My Head (Cable Car)” – The Fray
“Staring At The Light” – The Wedding
“Forgiven” – Relient K
“Friend Like That” – Hawk Nelson
“Word Of Mouth” – John Reuben
“Made To Love” – TobyMac
“F-Stop” – Sullivan
“After The World” – Disciple
“The Minor Prophets” – Haste The Day
“Live Like We’re Alive” – Nevertheless

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 02ND 2026, 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.

Volume 9, Number 23, Edition 423
“Bible App”

I’ve been asked how I feel about Bible apps on smart phones and tablets. I love them. I actually only use one app in particular, and it’s the most popular Bible app in the world – YouVersion. Late last year they celebrated one billion downloads / installs since its debut in July 2008. They celebrated with a nice special on TBN.

Call me old-fashioned, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I’m actually not a fan of using these apps during active church services. I find them distracting from both the pulpit and the congregation. If you’re using the Bible app on your phone then you’re probably being distracted by everything else that’s on your phone. During active church services I’m a huge fan of traditional printed Bibles with pages. I love to see my brothers and sisters arriving to and departing from the church building carrying their Bibles. Some of them are worn and tethered. A worn and tethered Bible is usually held by someone who is very close to God – constantly seeking His Word.

But I do love the YouVersion Bible app. It’s used worldwide – in every single country on every single continent – including Antarctica. It’s available in over 300 languages with thousands of different Scripture translations. I mostly use a few translations – NLT (which I’ve used since salvation started), NASB (which my current Pastor uses), and NIV (which my former Pastor uses). When I write sermons I study more translations of the Scripture I’m studying, and I occasionally incorporate some of them into my sermons.

But the best part of the YouVersion Bible app ? – you can be with it 24/7 – in everything you do – and everywhere you go – since our phones are never too far away from us. That means we have access to God’s Word at all times. It’s as easy as tapping an icon on a screen, and there it is.

As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring Good News !” (Romans 10:15b NIV)

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#SundayScripture is published online every Sunday at 0300 U.S. East Coast time. It was created in its current form in February 2018. I share my testimony here each 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, for the best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and I pray that the LORD will bless you and keep you. May He make His face shine upon you, and may He be gracious to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you, and may He give you peace. I pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN and AMEN.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 493

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 27, 2026
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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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 26TH 2026 – the 493RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	Washed [4TH week @ # 1]	Elevation Rhythm
2	2	18	Everything Is Better	Hopeful.
3	3	28	Finished	Caleb & John
4	4	15	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
5	5	3	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
6	6	4	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
7	9	2	Faith Hope Love	We Are Messengers
8	–	1	Why Should I Worry	Carly Ann Taylor
9	8	3	Meet Me In The Valley	Tasha Layton
10	7	4	Ain’t No Way	Jamie MacDonald

2025 – “God Did It” – Micah Tyler
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft Ft. Danny Gokey
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

FAITH HOPE LOVE – We Are Messengers are back with their 11TH hit on my chart over the past 9½ years. I like this song. The melody reminds me of mid-1980s British New Wave (thinking Depeche Mode, Echo And The Bunnymen, and The Cure). I lived in England at that time. This song has that retro feeling. And it’s also got great lyrics written by lead singer Darren Mulligan alongside Nick Herbert and Joshua Grimmett. Its lyrics are based upon 1 Corinthians 13:13. The video was filmed along the #PCH – Pacific Coast Highway.

SALVATION ERA – My #CountUp continues with my # 10 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010. And this one gives me goosebumps when I hear it 19½ years later. Its uplifting lyrics. Its pop melody. Just hearing the song these days reminds me of those first few weeks and months at my very first church as a born-again Christian. It actually debuted on my chart at # 25 (bottom position) on my very first Sunday at church. Here’s how I revealed it on my chart for the week ending Sunday January 21ST 2007: “Live Like We’re Alive” – Joshua Pearson (lead vocalist), A.J. Cheek (lead guitarist), Brad Jones (guitarist), Adam Wann (bassist), and Adam Rowe (drummer) are Nevertheless out of Chattanooga Tennessee. This is their follow-up single to “The Real”.

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

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 26TH 2026, 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.

Volume 9, Number 22, Edition 422
“Friends”

When I was still living and working down south in Homestead Florida – you could say that I was sort of a recluse. It was particularly evident during my final decade there. As I was planning and preparing for my future retirement life – starting with a physical move away from Homestead – I decided that I would not be the same person to the north that I was to the south. I would get out and be physically and socially active – starting in my own neighborhood – and with a local non-profit organization – and definitely with my future home church.

In my former neighborhood of nearly 30 years I knew none of my neighbors, and none of them knew me. Some of them saw me drive to work early in the morning, and then return home from work early in the afternoon. They didn’t know where I went. They didn’t know what I did. I was the mysterious guy who didn’t look like much of the neighborhood or speak their language. Maybe I was an undercover detective – or a Federal agent – or a spy.

In my current neighborhood I’m part of the 30% that lives here year-round. (70% of the residents of my neighborhood are what we call “snowbirds”. They live up north during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn.) I’m also part of the 30% that is physically and socially active with activities, events, and meetings. (I’m actually the Treasurer of our Activities Committee.) I’m known by most of my neighbors on a first-name basis. I easily stand out, as I’m one of the youngest residents of my 55+ neighborhood. I know a little bit about most of my neighbors. I’m able to pray for my neighbors by name.

Exactly 2 years before I bought my home in my current neighborhood I discovered and committed to serving with the Sebring Historical Society in downtown Sebring. It was not on my radar. I didn’t plan it out. It just happened one day, and I’ve written about it numerous times here on #CountUp on my #TravelThursday blog. Looking back it was truly a “God Wink Moment”. God knew exactly what He was doing when I was suddenly diverted from Avon Park to Sebring on that chilly and dreary February morning in 2021. And now I get to chat, laugh, serve, and eat with my museum friends every week.

Back in Homestead when I was sitting at home during non-work hours I didn’t socialize with anyone (other than on Sunday mornings at church – and lunch after church with my second church family). I did a lot of Bible Study on my own, and I wrote Sermons and Communions at my computer. But something was missing. Fellowship was missing. Friendships were missing.

As the Bible says – “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” Now that I have friends inside and outside of the church – I can preach the Gospel at all times – here online – and also out there in the world. Oh – and I can use words when necessary. In other words – I can walk my talk – whether anyone is watching or not.

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