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My Top 10 Hits – Week 373

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday April 07TH 2024 – the 373RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 7 He Does
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Brandon Heath
2 1 18 Lead On Good Shepherd Patrick Mayberry
3 3 7 You’ve Already Won Shane & Shane
4 7 15 Hallelujah Anyway Rend Collective
5 4 3 Walk With Jesus Consumed By Fire
6 8 5 All Because Of Mercy Casting Crowns
7 9 3 Counting My Blessings Seph Schlueter
8 5 3 God Be The Glory We Are Messengers
9 10 2 Rescue Jordan St. Cyr
10 – 1 The Prodigal Josiah Queen

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Brighter Days” – Blessing Offor
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

JOSIAH QUEEN – I love a debut artist, and this week Josiah Queen scores his first hit on my chart with “The Prodigal”. Josiah is just a dude with a guitar and stories on his heart. He’s 21-years-old. He was born and raised in the Tampa Bay area. His parents are both Pastors. He started writing music at age 9. He was saved by God at age 12. He’s a worship leader now at his home church in New Port Richey Florida.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by heading over to 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 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday April 07TH 2024, 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.

Starting with this edition – and continuing for the next several months – I’ll be presenting the full transcription of my recent Jude message series consisting of two sermons – “Jude & Judgment” (Verses 1-11), and “Jude & Jury” (Verses 12-25). I preached them to my Homestead Florida church family on November 26TH 2023 and December 03RD 2023 respectively.

[BEGIN SERMON]

Well Good Morning again church family. It’s always good to be able to preach the Good News of the Lord to you – and to me too. When I preach to you and others – in here and out there and online – I preach to myself as well. And when I preach – I strive to glorify God. You see when we glorify God – we honor Him – for who He is – for what He has done for us – for what He is doing for us – for what He will do for us. The Bible says “glorify God in your body and in your spirit – which are God’s.” Let us glorify God in everything we do – and everywhere we go.

Lord lead me as I deliver Your Word today. Let my brothers and sisters who hear me today get closer to You so that they will be more like You in every way. And bring me closer to You too Lord. In Your powerful name I pray. Amen.

Today I want to talk to you about a slave of Jesus Christ – and a brother of James – the same James – who was a brother of Jesus Himself. That would be Jude. Jude is a brother of James, so He’s a brother of Jesus.

Jude’s letter to the Christians is located near the end of the New Testament – right before the Book of Revelation. His letter is very short. It’s a single chapter of just 25 verses. It’s 461 words. You can read it in about 2 to 3 minutes, but you don’t need to read it that fast. I often say that you should read the Bible slowly, so that you understand it. You should read it slowly, so that you don’t miss anything. You should read it slowly, so that you can absorb God’s Good News. Once you’ve absorbed God’s Good News – then you can go and tell it to others. We should all be preachers of God’s Word.

As you can tell – I’m not a fan of skimming or speedreading the Bible. I also don’t recommend reading the next verse until you’ve understood what God is trying to tell you in the current verse. And if you don’t understand the current verse – then read the previous verse. That’s a great way to read and understand the Bible.

So starting at the top of Jude’s letter:

Jude is writing to all – who have been called by God the Father – who loves you and keeps you safe in the care of Jesus Christ. May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love. (Jude 1b-2)

So – Jude introduces himself to his readers then and now, and he prays for them. May God give you more and more mercy. YES – I need that. We need that. We need God’s mercy. We can’t live without God’s mercy. It comes with His grace. God the Father showed mercy on us when He sent His one and only Son to the Cross to die for our sins. Jesus paid the price for our sins – past, present, and future – so that we may live in God’s Glory. And when we do that – when we live in God’s glory – we experience His abundant peace and love and joy. We want that. We need that – more and more with each new day. We can get that – when we focus on Him – more today than we did yesterday.

[TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK]

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, or just me writing about the events of the past 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 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Welcome To My Blog

Greetings my friends. It is Wednesday April 03RD 2024, and with this special edition I begin a new weekend of blog posts. Normally I publish new posts 3 times per weekend – on Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays at 0300 U.S. east coast time. (That’s 0700 in the United Kingdom, 0800 across much of Europe, 1500 in Western Australia, 1800 in Eastern Australia, and 2000 in New Zealand.) Thank You all for checking-in !

Each day has its own unique theme. My Thursday posts center on travel. My Sunday posts center on Scripture and the Gospel. My Monday posts center on current Christian pop music. So my hashtags are #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

A few times per year I’ll publish a special post on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday. It all adds up to over 150 posts per year. Each post is about a 2-to-4 minute read.

If you’re new here – then welcome to my blog. Thank You for checking it out. You may have clicked on my link on my Facebook, X, Flickr, or Spotify profile. Perhaps Google or Feedspot sent you here awhile back, and you’ve been returning on a regular basis. Maybe you only read my posts on #TravelThursday, or you’re only interested in my Gospel messages on Sundays. Either way I’m glad you’re here. This is a no-judgement zone. This is also a political-free space online. There’s plenty of judgement and politics elsewhere. There’s lots of hate in this world. I try to shine light and bring encouragement and love into this world.

Feel free to comment with relevance on any post. You can also reach out to me on X @ChrisMDay. Some of you have your own blogs that I check out on a regular basis. Keep doing what you do. Keep blogging alive !

I’ve been blogging since 2007, and really I was blogging for 14 years before that via my own dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) and its spinoffs on the early World Wide Web of the late-1990s into the early-2000s. It’s my favorite hobby online.

#TravelThursday is up next in less than 24 hours. I hope that you’ll check it out sometime during the day tomorrow.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 372

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday March 31ST 2024 – the 372ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 17 Lead On Good Shepherd
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Patrick Mayberry
2 3 6 He Does Brandon Heath
3 2 6 You’ve Already Won Shane & Shane
4 7 2 Walk With Jesus Consumed By Fire
5 8 2 God Be The Glory We Are Messengers
6 5 17 Strong Anne Wilson
7 4 14 Hallelujah Anyway Rend Collective
8 6 4 All Because Of Mercy Casting Crowns
9 9 2 Counting My Blessings Seph Schlueter
10 – 1 Rescue Jordan St. Cyr

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Brighter Days” – Blessing Offor
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

SEPH SCHLUETER – I love a debut artist, and Seph is 1 of 2 on my chart right now. (The other are the 2 Shanes.) Seph’s first song on my chart is currently at # 9, but nationally it’s Top 3 at U.S. Christian radio. It’s also a former # 1 smash in Brazil. “Counting My Blessings” is his Thank You song to his Lord + Savior Jesus Christ.

God I’m still counting my blessings
All that You’ve done in my life
The more that I look in the details
The more of Your goodness I find
Father on this side of Heaven
I know that I’ll run out of time
But I will keep counting my blessings
Knowing I can’t count that high

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by heading over to 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 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.

All rights reserved (c) 2024 Christopher M. Day, CountUp