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My Top 10 Hits – Week 273

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 May 08TH 2022 – the 273RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 7 Wonder Working
[2ND week @ # 1]		 All Creatures
2 2 15 See Me Through It Brandon Heath
3 6 9 Egypt Cory Asbury
4 3 7 Fill My Cup Andrew Ripp
5 4 13 Sunday Sermons Anne Wilson
6 5 15 Brighter Days Blessing Offor
7 7 5 Desesperado Evan Craft
8 8 8 Fake It Tauren Wells
9 – 1 Honey In The Rock Brooke Ligertwood Ft. Brandon Lake
10 – 1 Me On Your Mind Matthew West

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Fires” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “What A Friend” – Matt Maher
2017 – “Forgiven” – Crowder

EGYPT – Cory Asbury’s 4TH hit on my chart is this week’s fastest climber – ascending from # 6 to # 3. I featured its music video in last week’s edition, and I played it for my church body as part of Praise & Worship yesterday morning. After the video played I briefly talked about it.

BROOKE – Brooke Fraser (maiden name) / Brooke Ligertwood (married name) is no stranger to my chart. She’s been on twice before – as the lead singer of Hillsong Worship. “What A Beautiful Name” entered my chart way back on Week 4. The following year (2018) “Who You Say I Am” spent 4 weeks at # 1. “Honey In The Rock” is her first solo hit on my chart, and I love its sound !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, #Top10Monday, and a special #BonusTuesday post.

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) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday May 08TH 2022, 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.

It’s the second of two Sunday mornings in a row of preaching God’s Word for my church family. Last Sunday went pretty well, and it received positive reactions. I’m excited about doing it again this morning – preaching another unrehearsed and spontaneous sermon from the heart – wholly glorifying God. Today I’ll preach on “People & Places”, and we’ll also observe and celebrate a very special Mother’s Day edition of Communion – as I highlight Mary – mother of Jesus.

Photo by George Dolgikh @ Giftpundits.com on Pexels.com

It is Mother’s Day here in the U.S.A. and in many nations all around the world. (Some countries celebrate Mother’s Day in March and in other months of the year.)

As the Bible says in the Gospel of Luke – Chapter 1 – Verses 31 to 33:

“… You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His ancestor David. And He will reign over Israel forever. His Kingdom will never end !”

Mary hosted the body and blood of Jesus, as she carried Him in her womb for 9 months. Mary delivered His body and blood into the world – for the benefit of all creation.

To all of the Moms reading my blog I thank you for all you do for your children, and for bringing them into this world as new creations. I wish you a Happy Mother’s 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) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 272

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:

#TOP10MONDAY WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY MAY 01ST 2022 WEEK 272
TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 2 6 Wonder Working
[1ST week @ # 1]		 All Creatures
2 1 14 See Me Through It Brandon Heath
3 3 6 Fill My Cup Andrew Ripp
4 5 12 Sunday Sermons Anne Wilson
5 4 14 Brighter Days Blessing Offor
6 6 8 Egypt Cory Asbury
7 7 4 Desesperado Evan Craft
8 8 7 Fake It Tauren Wells
9 9 4 The Commission Cain
10 10 3 The Healing Blanca Ft. Dante Bowe

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Fires” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “Even If” – MercyMe

ALL CREATURES – Chris Cron (lead-singer) and Ben Thompson (producer) are the duo known as All Creatures, and their “[wonder working]” is my new # 1 smash – and the 73RD # 1 smash of the current era (over the past 272 weeks). If you’re keeping track (who is ?) then that’s a new # 1 smash every 3.726 weeks. We’ll see if “[wonder working] exceeds that average over the next 3 weeks.

EGYPT – Cory Asbury’s 4TH hit on my chart could be his biggest. “Egypt” follows-up “Reckless Love” (# 8 in 2018), “The Father’s House” (# 2 in 2020), and “Sparrows” (# 4 in 2021). “Egypt” is about salvation. “You stepped into my Egypt”. You rescued me. You saved me. You set me free.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, and #Top10Monday.

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) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Bible Blogging Christian Church God Ministry Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday May 01ST 2022, 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.

It’s the first of two Sunday mornings in a row of preaching God’s Word for my church family. I’m excited about it. It should be very interesting, as I preach two totally unrehearsed and spontaneous sermons from the heart – wholly glorifying God.

Some of you have asked me if I can place videos of our sermons on here. No – I can’t at this time. We don’t record our sermons. We’ve tried in the past with an iPhone and an iPad, but it didn’t work out very well. We tried with Facebook LIVE. That didn’t work either. Our Pastor even preached his sermon to an empty sanctuary and his iPad on a Friday or a Saturday, and then he posted it to our Facebook page on Sunday morning at nearly the same time that he preached it LIVE to us. That was just awkward.

We’re a small church with a small budget, and I kind of like it like that – coming from a big church with a big budget for 8+ years before arriving at my current church of the past 7+ years. There are positives and negatives with both the big church experience – as well as the small church experience. Some of the bells and whistles of the big church experience were impressive, and some were just plain annoying – if not perhaps even a bit offensive. I’m enjoying the positives of the small church experience during this part of my fantastic journey.

I think the best way to share a sermon with you is when I transcribe it into a series of blog posts – much as I did for 6 Sundays in December 2021 and January 2022 with my message on being “Holy & Redeemed”. (Check out my SERMONS page for links.) I may do the same with “Stones & Stumbles” – which served as the sequel to “Holy & Redeemed” and covered 1 Peter 1:23 to 2:9. It’ll probably be another 6-part blog series. I may kick that off in a few weeks.

Meanwhile here’s one of the memes that I’ll preach on later today:

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) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp