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My Top 10 Hits – Week 443

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 11, 2025

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday August 10TH 2025 – the 443RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	8	What An Awesome God [1ST week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham
2	1	12	God Did It	Micah Tyler
3	4	9	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
4	3	19	Jesus Loves	Zach Williams
5	5	14	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
6	7	17	No Fear	Jon Reddick
7	8	20	Oh Death	MercyMe
8	10	2	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
9	6	5	What If	Consumed By Fire
10	–	1	Preach	Ryan Stevenson Ft. Matt Hammitt

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “There Was Jesus” – Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

PHIL WICKHAM – He’s back atop my chart with his 4TH # 1 smash out of his last 5 songs. “What An Awesome God” replaces “God Did It” (Micah Tyler) which replaced “The King Is In The Room” at # 1. This is turning out to be the “Summer Of Phil Wickham”.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Hillary Scott spent 3 weeks in a row at # 10 on my chart in May 2017 with “Still”. It was from her 2016 album “Love Remains” which also included the 2016 radio smash “Thy Will”. I’m speculating that “Thy Will” would have been huge here on my chart if it was active in 2016. Country music fans know Hillary as one of the lead singers of Lady Antebellum (now known as Lady A).

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing 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 in South Florida 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.

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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 10TH 2025, 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.

I’m loving Friday Night Bible Study at my church where we’re reading and discussing various stories of redemption in the Bible under the “This Is MY Story” banner. A couple of Friday nights ago we read and discussed Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus from Acts 9. This series is encouraging us to share our story about how “I once was …”, and then “I met Jesus …”, and “Now I …”.

I love a good testimony. I love to share my own testimony to all who care to listen to it.

Last month here on #SundayScripture I began transcribing my original sermon that I preached to my church family in Homestead Florida on Sunday October 16TH 2022. The title of the sermon is “Blessings & Benedictions”, and it’s my 50TH sermon as identified on my SERMONS page.

Here’s Part 6:

And at the end of every good sermon about God – is a “Blessing & Benediction” – straight from God.

From the last verse (6:18) of Galatians:

Dear brothers and sisters – may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Paul’s Benediction is similar to his Greeting at the start of his letter. He wanted God’s grace to be with this church family. The Galatians needed that in order to get closer to God rather than turning away from Him. We need that too, and we have it. We have God’s grace. And here’s the Good News: God’s grace – it’s available for everyone out there.

That’s a great blessing to take out there into the world. Just substitute “brothers and sisters” for someone’s name. Make it personal for him or her. As an example: Dear Betty – may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

After Paul wrote to the Galatians he wrote to the church in Thessalonica. You know Thessalonica is a big modern city today. It’s the second-largest city in Greece with over one-million residents in its metro area. It’s an old port city on the Aegean Sea that was founded in 315 B.C. When Paul visited the city – it was already about 365 years old. That’s when he established the church there. His missionary friends – Timothy and Silas – they helped to build it up.

In his first letter to the Thessalonians – Paul encourages the new Christians with exhortations and teachings. What’s an exhortation ? It’s an urgent command.

Just before his Benediction Paul gives his final exhortations, and they are:

• Honor those who are your leaders in the Lord’s work. (5:12)
• Show them great respect and wholehearted love. (5:13)
• Live peacefully with each other. (5:13)
• Warn those who are lazy. (5:14)
• Encourage those who are timid. (5:14)
• Take tender care of those who are weak. (5:14)
• Be patient with everyone. (5:14)
• See that no one pays back evil for evil. (5:15)
• Always try to do good to each other and to all people. (5:15)
• Always be joyful. (5:16)
• Never stop praying. (5:17)
• Be thankful in all circumstances. (5:18)
• Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. (5:19)
• Do not scoff at prophecies. (5:20)
• Test everything that is said. (5:21)
• Hold on to what is good. (5:21)
• Stay away from every kind of evil. (5:22)

You know I don’t really have to add anything at all to those exhortations – those urgent commands. They are all very self-explanatory – just the way they are. Paul was very specific and intentional in what he wrote to the new church. And they are all still very relevant today – in the 21ST Century church. Can you imagine what the church – and this world – would be like if everyone did all of those things ?

(To be continued next week.)

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, 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.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 442

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 4, 2025

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday August 03RD 2025 – the 442ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	God Did It [3RD week @ # 1]	Micah Tyler
2	3	7	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
3	2	18	Jesus Loves	Zach Williams
4	6	8	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
5	5	13	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
6	4	4	What If	Consumed By Fire
7	9	16	No Fear	Jon Reddick
8	8	19	Oh Death	MercyMe
9	7	4	Mama Don’t Lie (Alright)	Stars Go Dim
10	–	1	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Gospel Song” – Rhett Walker
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

JOSIAH QUEEN – Our hometown Tampa Bay area native is back with his 3RD hit on my chart – a collaboration with Brandon Lake (his 11TH hit on my chart). It’s a catchy uplifting track that’s worthy of “Praise + Worship” on Sunday morning.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Holly Marie Wilson is Hollyn. She was a contestant on the 2013 season of “American Idol”. Back in February 2017 I saw her LIVE in concert as one of the support artists for TobyMac. Her 2017 album – “One-Way Conversations” – was on Gotee Records – TobyMac’s record label. A couple of months later her song from that album – “In Awe” – spent 6 weeks on my chart and peaked at # 8. It was the last we heard from Hollyn.

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.

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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 03RD 2025, 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.

I’m looking forward to returning to my home church this morning after being away last Sunday. I’ll be leading #CommunionSunday from 1 John 5:1-6. Later this week it’s Mens’ Fellowship on Tuesday night and Friday Night Bible Study. I love my church family !

Here’s Part 5:

You know the Apostle Paul – he wrote Romans. He wrote almost half of the New Testament. He wrote 13 out of the 27 books of the New Testament. He wrote most of them during the final years of his life and ministry – just before he was martyred in Rome. Now his 13 books of the New Testament are all consecutive in the modern Bible – starting with Romans (right after Acts) and concluding with Philemon. The next book after Philemon is Hebrews – which some Bible scholars consider to be Paul’s 14TH book of the Bible. But many Bible scholars believe that Hebrews was actually not written by Paul, but by an unknown author who wrote in the style of Paul. (More on that later.)

A couple of books of the Bible – the Apostle Paul wrote early on in his ministry. His letter to the Galatians was his first letter – some 14 years after his conversion on the road to Damascus. So what did Paul do for 14 years after he was converted into a Christ believer and follower. Well he did a lot of preaching in the region. He testified about Christ in Arabia and back in Damascus – and also in Syria and Cilicia. That’s where Tarsus is – Paul’s hometown.

Now in Galatians – Paul introduces himself as an apostle – not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ Himself and by God the Father – who raised Jesus from the dead. (1:1)

After that Paul greeted the Galatian church by writing – “This is the day that our LORD has made ! Let us re …” (No – he didn’t write that.)

This is what he wrote:

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. Jesus gave His life for our sins – just as God our Father planned – in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. All glory to God forever and ever ! Amen. (1:3-5)

It’s like a 3-part greeting at the start of his first letter. He wishes the new church God’s grace and peace. That’s greetings and shalom. He’s welcoming both Jewish and Gentile Christians. In the middle part of his greeting Paul gives a preview of what he will be writing about next in his letter – and that’s God’s Good News. And then finally he concludes his greeting by giving God all the glory – all glory to God forever and ever. It is His work alone that we are rescued and saved.

So Paul did a lot of preaching after he was rescued and saved, and then he did a lot of letter-writing to the various churches in the region. And his letters to the Romans, and the Corinthians, and the Galatians, and the Ephesians, and the Philippians, and the Colossians, and the Thessalonians, and the others – they played out like written sermons.

(To be continued next week.)

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.