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My Top 10 Hits – Week 199

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 December 06TH 2020:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 8 2 Every Step Of The Way Cade Thompson
2 1 10 Jericho Andrew Ripp
3 5 4 Image Of God We Are Messengers
4 4 15 Rise Up (Lazarus) Cain
5 2 14 No Hold On Me Matty Mullins
6 3 14 This Is What We Live For Big Daddy Weave
7 7 4 Out Of My Hands Jeremy Camp
8 6 9 Truth Be Told Matthew West
9 9 2 Wake Up Sleeper Austin French
10 10 2 Sparrows Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp 
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Well that was quick. Mr. Andrew Ripp drops to # 2 this week after just a single week at # 1. “Jericho” is the first # 1 smash in 20 months to only spend 1 week at # 1. (The last to do so was “Greatness Of Our God” from Newsboys.)

Newcomer Cade Thompson is now the 4TH artist in a row to secure the # 1 spot with his very first hit (following Cain, Matty Mullins, and Andrew Ripp). All 4 artists with their respective # 1 hits occupy 4 out of my Top 5 spots this week.

Last week I featured the Official Lyric Video of Cade’s “Every Step Of The Way”. This week it’s Cade in his own voice and words explaining the meaning “behind the song”. Check it out below, or on Cade’s YouTube site.

♫ Every step of the way
You’ve been – You’ll be
Working everything for the best of me
So I’ll trust in who You are

Every step of the way
You’ve been – You’ll be
Fighting and writing Your love in my story
You’ve held my heart
Every step of the way ♫

I love how this song sounds, and I love its lyrics. It’s Cade proclaiming his trust and love for Christ – because of what Christ has done for him – “Every Step Of The Way”.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and a special edition on Tuesday. 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) 2020 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends ! This is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us continue to praise, to worship, and to learn more about our God.

It is Sunday December 06TH 2020, and for the 2ND Sunday in a row I’ve been asked to preach a full sermon to my church family. This morning I’ll be preaching on “Satan & Hell”. It’s a sermon that I wrote during the peak of the pandemic in April and into May when everything was shutdown, and everyone was in quarantine mode.

It’s been “sitting on the shelf” since then, and since I wrote it I’ve preached 4 other sermons. The time is right to preach it today. I’ve updated it, enhanced it, and even brightened it up a bit.

Last week I preached almost entirely on John – the “Apostle & Elder”. My sermon today includes a lot of Paul and Peter.

Scripture includes: Romans 10:9-10; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, 11:6-7, 11:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, 2:9-12; 2 Timothy 2:26; and 2 Peter 3:10-18

Here’s a short excerpt from my sermon today:

… There’s a lot of people that are perishing in this world. They are good people. They are God’s children. Some of them are in our own families. Some of them are our friends, our coworkers, our acquaintances, and our neighbors. But they are perishing. They remain in darkness. But we love them. And we want them to see the glorious light of God.

Satan – the god of this world – has blinded the minds of those who don’t (yet) believe, so they can’t see the light. Satan is at work – doing his – dirty deeds done dirt cheap …

All rights reserved (c) 2020 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 198

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 November 29TH 2020:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 9 Jericho Andrew Ripp
2 1 13 No Hold On Me Matty Mullins
3 4 13 This Is What We Live For Big Daddy Weave
4 3 14 Rise Up (Lazarus) Cain
5 7 3 Image Of God We Are Messengers
6 6 8 Truth Be Told Matthew West
7 8 3 Out Of My Hands Jeremy Camp
8 – 1 Every Step Of The Way Cade Thompson
9 – 1 Wake Up Sleeper Austin French
10 – 1 Sparrows Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp 
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Happy 35TH Anniversary !  35 years ago this weekend this weekly hit music chart was born. Aside from a 3-year hiatus (1992-1995) and a 7-year hiatus (2010-2017) this chart has been going strong ever since I was a teenager living in the south of England. It’s gone through many different genres of music from pop to hip hop to hard rock to electronic dance to Christian. We’re in the 198TH week of this current era that started in the middle of February of 2017, and the hits keep counting up !

Andrew Ripp becomes the 3RD artist in a row to secure the # 1 spot with his very first hit (following Cain and Matty Mullins). His “Jericho” is my new # 1 smash this week – the 13TH # 1 smash of 2020 – and the 55TH # 1 smash over the past 198 weeks. We’ll see if it can hold on into and through the month of December to wrap-up 2020.

We Are Messengers have moved-up strongly over the past couple of weeks from # 10 to # 7 to # 5. “Image Of God” is their 6TH hit since 2017. They are currently my # 10 artist overall since 2017.

20-year-old Cade Thompson has my highest new entry this week at # 8. It’s his very first appearance on my chart. When I first heard this song on K-LOVE I instantly loved it. I actually thought it was Ryan Stevenson at first, and then I finally looked it up and realized that it’s Cade Thompson. This is a quick follow-up to his earlier single this year – “Provider” – which I liked for its quirkiness, but it failed to make my chart due to a lack of radio airplay (probably because it was too quirky).

Here’s the official lyric video for Cade’s new hit, “Every Step Of The Way”:

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) 2020 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends ! This is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us be thankful for this new day that our God has blessed us with.

It is Sunday November 29TH 2020, and I am back home in South Florida from vacation with my family in North Texas ! I was there for 8 days, and as always it was filled with food and fun. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas together – known in our family as #ThanksChristmasGiving – a tradition that goes back about 15 years every traditional Thanksgiving Day. I got some great gifts this year !

My return trip back home via American Airlines was quite the bumpy ride. It was also a longer than normal ride. It took a more northerly route than its usual direct flightpath due to severe weather along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But the ride – even at 35,000 feet above southern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, and northern Alabama – was quite rough – with the A321 Airbus jumping up-and-down and swaying back-and-forth in the ferocious winds along both sides of a strong cold front. A few passengers got sick. I was worried for a few minutes that I was getting sick as well, but luckily I was OK.

Once we got above North Florida the ride suddenly became smooth and trouble-free. It remained that way for the rest of the trek to Miami International Airport.

Well just as I have done for the past 3 years on the Sunday after Thanksgiving or the first Sunday of December – I’m preaching a full sermon to my church family this morning. I got the word late this past Wednesday night in North Texas, and I was actually writing a brand new sermon in-between my family-time. I finished it late yesterday here at home. I’ll be preaching on “Spirit & Truth” today – mostly from the first-half of John Chapter 16.

When the Spirit of truth comes – He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own, but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring Me glory by telling you whatever He receives from Me. All that belongs to the Father is Mine. This is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever He receives from Me.’ (John 16:12-15)

All rights reserved (c) 2020 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries