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My Top 10 Hits – Week 228

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 JUNE 27TH 2021 WEEK 228
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 8 Yes He Can
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Cain
2 2 16 Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) TobyMac
3 3 23 Fires Jordan St. Cyr
4 5 4 Under Grace Tauren Wells Ft. Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts
5 4 5 When We Fall Apart Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
6 6 5 Be Alright Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
7 7 12 Gospel Song Rhett Walker
8 9 3 Rattle ! Elevation Worship
9 8 14 Child Of Love We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
10 10 2 Believe For It CeCe Winans

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Home” – Chris Tomlin

Logan, Madison, and Taylor Cain remain atop my chart for a 2ND week in a row with “Yes He Can”. It’s currently # 11 at U.S. Christian radio (large market), and # 6 (small market). It registers the 4TH most – and 3RD most increased plays respectively at each market size. Needless to say it’s likely headed for the Top 5 and perhaps the Top 3 as we enter July. Not bad for a band that almost gave up before they rose up with “Rise Up (Lazarus)” last October.

“Be Alright” is the debut smash from Evan Craft. He loves his Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, and he sings about Him in both English and Spanish. “Be Alright” also features chart veteran Danny Gokey and Dominican rapper Redimi2. The song ends with a sample from the early-20TH Century standard “He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands”.

Here’s its official music video:

This blog is # 42 worldwide on the Top 60 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

Shortly after 1:30 AM EDT on Thursday June 24TH 2021 disaster struck my South Florida community when about half of a fully-occupied 12-story residential beachfront condominium complex collapsed and pancaked onto itself along the Atlantic coast in the small town of Surfside (about 40 miles / 65 kilometers from my home).

It will very likely be the largest instant loss of life in Florida in nearly a century.

I realized the horror unfolding on the local TV news about 4 hours later as I was preparing to drive to work. At one point I got overly emotional, and I started crying. I haven’t stop grieving ever since. I weep with those who weep.

Search-and-rescue operations continue this weekend as our first-responder heroes continue to be hopeful that there are survivors underneath the rubble. We pray to our Lord for the safety and security of those heroes in the elements day and night atop the rubble. We pray for the comfort and peace of the family and friends who lost loved ones on that morning. We pray for the healing and restoration of the survivors who made it out alive. We lift up the town of Surfside to our God Almighty. #SurfsideStrong

I don’t personally know anyone who was in those towers, but I know that men and women, parents and children, and entire families went to bed on Wednesday night just like any other normal night with an ambitious schedule for Thursday, and in an instant they were physically gone along with the building they slept in. I didn’t know any of them, but they were my neighbors. They were God’s creations.

God is our refuge and strength – always ready to help in times of trouble.
So we will not fear when earthquakes come, and the mountains crumble into the sea.
Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge !
(Psalm 46:1-3)

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 227

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 JUNE 20TH 2021 WEEK 227
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 7 Yes He Can
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Cain
2 1 15 Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) TobyMac
3 4 22 Fires Jordan St. Cyr
4 3 4 When We Fall Apart Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
5 6 3 Under Grace Tauren Wells Ft. Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts
6 7 4 Be Alright Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
7 8 11 Gospel Song Rhett Walker
8 9 13 Child Of Love We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
9 10 2 Rattle ! Elevation Worship
10 – 1 Believe For It CeCe Winans

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Home” – Chris Tomlin

Cain ascends to # 1 this week with their 2ND consecutive chart-topper – “Yes He Can”. It’s my 61ST # 1 smash of this current era of the past 227 weeks. It’s their follow-up to their debut smash – and winner of the K-LOVE Fan Award for “Breakout Single” – “Rise Up (Lazarus)”. That was my 53RD # 1 smash last October.

Here’s the official music video for “Yes He Can”:

Further down my chart this week “Fires” by Jordan St. Cyr is the sleeper smash of 2021 and possibly the eventual # 1 smash of the entire year. It debuted quietly back in late-January, and it spent its first 5 weeks at # 8 or below. Since then it’s spent 3 weeks at # 1, 4 weeks at # 2, and 6 weeks at # 3.

CeCe Winans enters my chart for the very first time with her current radio hit “Believe For It”. It’s approaching the Top 10 nationally at U.S. Christian radio. It’s the title track of her first LIVE album – released this past March.

This blog is # 43 worldwide on the Top 60 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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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday June 20TH 2021, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate our fathers on this Father’s Day – as well as our almighty Father in Heaven.

This past Friday I finished writing my sermon on “Salvation & Hope”. It actually plays out as a tribute to the Reverend Billy Graham and the work that he did for God at his many crusades around the world. My Pastor preached an hour-long-plus sermon last Sunday on his personal experiences with Oral Roberts.

I also wrote about the start of my salvation 15 years ago this August. This sermon serves as my first of many from my new message series on the Apostle Peter’s two letters to Christians scattered throughout the Roman Empire from Rome in the west to Jerusalem in the east. It covers 1 Peter 1:3-12.

All praise to God – the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by His great mercy that we have been born again – because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance – an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you – pure and undefiled – beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith – God is protecting you by His power until you receive this salvation – which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. (1 Peter 1:3-5)

I now have two full sermons to pray about and select from when I’m asked to preach again to my church family. (The other is my sermon on the good Kings Uzziah and Jotham of Judah.) Only one thing to do now: Start writing a new sermon based on 1 Peter 1:13-21.

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