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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 10TH 2021, 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.

October is Pastor Appreciation Month (also known as Clergy Appreciation Month), and today – the 2ND Sunday of October – is Pastor Appreciation Day.

We love our Pastors – those by position and title and those in theory who serve God, the church body, and the local community alongside the Pastor. I’ve been honored to be able to serve in various Pastoral roles for the past 12 years. (This month marks my 12TH anniversary in church leadership.) I honor all of the Senior Pastors, Lead Pastors, Executive Pastors, Associate Pastors, Worship Pastors, and all other Pastors, Ministers, Directors, Helpers, et al that I have celebrated Christ with, learned from, and prayed for over these past nearly 15 years of being part of a church body in my local hometown. May our God bless you all abundantly and eternally !

Dear brothers and sisters – honor those who are your leaders in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other.
(1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 NLT)

And Thank You everyone around the world for checking-in to #SundayScripture this week. It is always an honor to serve you with God’s Good News each week. Tomorrow it’s #Top10Monday, as I present my personal Top 10 hits this week that honor our God Almighty.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 242

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 03RD 2021 WEEK 242
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 3 12 What If
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Matthew West
2 2 8 Thank You Lord Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
3 – 1 Promised Land TobyMac
4 7 6 Promises Maverick City Music
5 1 12 Into The Wild Josh Baldwin
6 5 10 House Of The Lord Phil Wickham
7 4 22 Yes He Can Cain
8 6 26 Gospel Song Rhett Walker
9 10 2 Relate for King & Country
10 – 1 Stand In Faith Danny Gokey

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

NEW # 1 – “What If” my # 1 artist over the past 242 weeks of chart action scored my new # 1 smash this week ? That would be Matthew West, and his 6TH hit is now his 4TH # 1 smash. His only 2 hits to not reach # 1 both peaked at # 2 – “All In”, and “Truth Be Told”. (The latter spent 5 weeks in a row at # 2 to kickoff 2021.)

IN @ # 3 – TobyMac scores my highest new entry in 3½ years, as his 9TH hit since 2017 and 12TH hit since 2007 enters straight-in at # 3. It’s an instant out-of-the-box smash, as they used to say in the radio biz. The first few times I heard it on the radio I had no idea it was TobyMac. When I discovered that it was him I realized that he has a great singing voice. I know that’s an odd comment after being a fan of him for nearly all of my salvation, but in many of his songs they are highly produced, and his voice has to keep up with the instruments and the machines. In “Promised Land” his strong voice carries the way from start to finish. I think this is one of my favorite songs from Toby ever.

COLLAPSE @ # 5 – Josh Baldwin’s “Into The Wild” is a great case study as to what happens when my favorite song – the # 1 smash – completely loses all support at radio. It never quite got the “2:20 Treatment” – airplay every 2 hours and 20 minutes around the clock – but it did receive substantial airplay for about 10 weeks. And then it inexplicably completely stopped this past week. It had another week or two left in its # 1 reign, but with no radio support it can’t sustain its presence atop my chart.

HELLO WGTS – I’ve recently supplemented my K-LOVE radio listening with occasional listening of WGTS out of my original hometown of the Washington D.C. area. It’s been broadcasting on 91.9 FM for almost 65 years with various Christian formats. Nowadays it’s a hot adult contemporary station that plays a very similar playlist to K-LOVE. It sounds good, and it’s cool to listen to a radio station from back in my childhood home. #AlexaPlayWGTS

This blog is # 37 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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Sunday Scripture

I am of no denomination. My church is non-denominational. Who am I ?

I am a believer, a follower, a truster, a lover, a praiser, a worshiper, and a celebrator – of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am born again for the past 15 years.

Jesus replied – “I assure you. No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say – ‘You must be born again.’
(John 3:5-7 NLT)

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 241

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH 2021 WEEK 241
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 11 Into The Wild
[5TH week @ # 1]		 Josh Baldwin
2 2 7 Thank You Lord Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
3 3 11 What If Matthew West
4 4 21 Yes He Can Cain
5 5 9 House Of The Lord Phil Wickham
6 6 25 Gospel Song Rhett Walker
7 9 5 Promises Maverick City Music
8 8 9 Sunday Morning Feeling Apollo LTD Ft. Ryan Stevenson
9 10 3 Magnetic Newsboys
10 – 1 Relate for King & Country

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

NO CHANGE – My regular weekly chart is back after taking the week off last week in lieu of my Top 10 chart for the Summer Of 2021. There hasn’t been much chart action over the past few weeks. My Top 5 this week is the same as last week and the week before. There were no new entries last week, but this week for King & Country return with their latest that you can “Relate” to. It’s Joel’s and Luke’s 6TH hit on my chart, and it’s their 1ST hit since 2017 that’s not from their gold-certified “Burn The Ships” album.

250 – This is Week 241 of the current era of my chart that was resurrected during Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017 here in the U.S.A. Week 250 occurs at the end of November. On a special Tuesday blog post on November 30TH 2021 I’ll present a special chart where I’ll #CountUp my Top 25 hits of all 250 weeks. At least 1 of my Top 10 hits this week will be on that chart.

This blog is # 35 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries