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My Top 10 Hits – Week 334

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 nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 09TH 2023 – the 334TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 3 Holy Forever
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Chris Tomlin
2 2 15 Cornerstone TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
3 3 19 This Is Our God Phil Wickham
4 5 7 Big God Terrian
5 4 6 Yes I Am Christian Paul
6 6 15 Fingerprints Dan Bremnes
7 – 1 To Not Worship You MercyMe
8 7 4 Every Hour David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
9 8 4 Wholehearted We Are Messengers
10 9 10 You Will Be Found Natalie Grant Ft. Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

PHIL WICKHAM – “This Is Our God” remains at # 3 this week in its 19TH week on my chart. It’s his 8TH and biggest hit, and now it’s a Top 40 hit on my all-time chart for this current era that began almost 6½ years ago. His new album – “I Believe” – drops on Friday August 18TH 2023.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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 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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 09TH 2023, 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.

You know one of the advantages of being a long-time blogger on the same platform is that I can go back in history, and read what I wrote way back when, and analyze it, and determine if it stood the test of time and still makes sense today.

15 years ago I was not yet a minster, a preacher, a Pastor. I was still a baby Christian – just under 2 years saved by Christ. I was training for the future – a future that I was not aware of at the time. Look what I wrote right here on this blog exactly 15 years ago this weekend on Sunday July 06TH 2008:

“Temptation is a fact of Life. Recognizing temptation to sin is a gift from God. It is the absolute power of the Holy Spirit in our Life. If we stray from what is right and then blow it then we must acknowledge it and move on. Even when nobody else is looking we must always act like a true follower of Jesus Christ if we claim so. We must not be a follower for a mere 90 minutes on any given Sunday morning, or just when our fellow believers are all around us. It must be always and forever. Our walk with God must match our talk about Him. It’s OK to be angry at one another temporarily. It’s never OK to be sinful. To be sinful is to be tragic.”

I took some good notes from that Sunday morning message on Temptation. I’m not sure what I was thinking near the end there when I wrote that “It’s OK to be angry at one another temporarily.” That sentence seems out-of-place to me today. Maybe I was angry at someone at that time. I don’t remember. I still get angry at people and systems today, but it doesn’t last very long. Anger leads to forgiveness, and all of us need continuous training on forgiveness.

Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember – the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. (Colossians 3:13 NLT)

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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Internet

Welcome To My Blog

Greetings my friends. It’s Wednesday July 05TH 2023, and with this special edition I begin a new weekend of blog posts. It’s actually a surprise edition – even for me. Yesterday I posted a special Tuesday edition to end our Independence Day holiday weekend here in the U.S.A. Tomorrow (Thursday) is the traditional start of a new weekend of blogging for me. I decided to add an extra day of blogging today, so no need to wait until tomorrow for the new weekend to start. It starts now !

Normally I publish new blog posts 3 times per weekend – on Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays at 0300 U.S. east coast time. (That’s 0800 in the United Kingdom and 0900 across much of Europe where many of you are reading this from.) I also acknowledge my readers in Australia and New Zealand. Thank You much 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 publish occasional special posts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays (like yesterday and today). It all adds up to over 150 blog posts per year. Each blog post is about a 2-to-4 minute read.

If you’re new here – then I welcome you to my blog. Thank You for checking it out. You may have clicked on my link on Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr. 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 a lot of hate in this world. I try to shine light and bring love into this world.

Feel free to comment with relevance on any post. You can also reach out to me on Twitter @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. But I can get too much of a good thing; hence, the typical 3-post-per-week schedule.

#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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 333

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 nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday July 02ND 2023 – the 333RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 4 2 Holy Forever
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Chris Tomlin
2 1 14 Cornerstone TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
3 2 18 This Is Our God Phil Wickham
4 8 5 Yes I Am Christian Paul
5 9 6 Big God Terrian
6 3 14 Fingerprints Dan Bremnes
7 7 3 Every Hour David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
8 6 3 Wholehearted We Are Messengers
9 5 9 You Will Be Found Natalie Grant Ft. Cory Asbury
10 10 2 Hold On Katy Nichole

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Me On Your Mind” – Matthew West
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

CHRIS TOMLIN – He captures my 512TH # 1 smash since 1985, 88TH # 1 smash over the past 333 weeks, and 6TH # 1 smash of 2023. His “Holy Forever” ascends to the pinnacle in just its 2ND week on my chart. That’s the fastest climb to # 1 since Cade Thompson did so in December 2020 with “Every Step Of The Way”. It’s Chris Tomlin’s 3RD # 1 smash after “Home” (2017) and “Nobody Loves Me Like You” (2019).

CHARTBUSTING – Sitting just outside of my Top 10 this week is the new song from MercyMe. They are my # 2 artist over the past 333 weeks – with 116 weeks on my chart – 27 of them at # 1. “To Not Worship You” should enter my chart next weekend.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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 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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp