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My Top 10 Hits – Week 352

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 November 12TH 2023 – the 352ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 4 I Thank God
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2 2 13 Hallelujah Feeling Caleb & John
3 3 17 Praise You Anywhere Brandon Lake
4 4 14 Praise The Lord Micah Tyler
5 7 11 Parking Lot Cochren & Co.
6 8 3 Any More Cain
7 – 1 I Believe Phil Wickham
8 6 19 To Not Worship You MercyMe
9 9 6 Firm Foundation (He Won’t) Cody Carnes
10 10 3 Faithfully TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Ain’t Nobody” – Cody Carnes
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

PHIL WICKHAM – His 9TH hit on my chart since 2018 is his follow-up to his first # 1 smash (“This Is Our God”). You can always count on Phil to release an uplifting and high-energy official music video to accompany his hits. “I Believe” is no exception:

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 X 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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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday November 12TH 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.

I was honored yesterday morning by my neighbors at our Veterans Day Breakfast. We had an excellent turnout (90+), and I am grateful for the recognition. I am also thankful that I finally live in a military-friendly community. I am my neighborhood’s youngest resident – and youngest Veteran (by default).

I’m back with my Sebring (Florida) church family this morning. Our service starts at 1030, and it runs for about an hour. I always look forward to praising and worshipping my Lord + Savior Jesus Christ and learning more about Him alongside my new brothers and sisters of my church family. I’m hoping to assimilate myself even further into my new church by joining in on weekly Bible Study every Friday night starting in the new year.

I’ll be leading services from start to finish for 4 Sundays in a row starting in 2 weeks at my longtime Homestead church. That includes Praise & Worship (music videos), Sermons, Communion on the first Sunday of December, and everything in-between. I’m looking forward to it all, but I have a lot of work to do to prepare for it. I’m getting ready to fly away on vacation. It’ll be a great time to prepare for my 4 Sundays (in-between family-time).

Here’s why it’s so important to be an active part of a church body:

But you – dear friends – must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ – who will bring you eternal life. In this way – you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love. And you must show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution – hating the sins that contaminate their lives. (Jude 1:20-23 NLT)

That’s from my 2ND of 2 sermons from Jude’s letter, and I wrote a lot about that Scripture right there, and I’m still writing about it. Every time I review what I’ve written – God gives me new ideas and sometimes even sends me in a different direction. I love and cherish those moments. I want more of those moments. My sermons must always reflect what God has placed on my heart, so I must always listen to Him and not be distracted by the world.

My testimony is featured here each week 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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 351

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 November 05TH 2023 – the 351ST week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 3 3 I Thank God
[1ST week @ # 1]		 Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2 4 12 Hallelujah Feeling Caleb & John
3 2 16 Praise You Anywhere Brandon Lake
4 1 13 Praise The Lord Micah Tyler
5 5 13 Jesus Does We The Kingdom
6 6 18 To Not Worship You MercyMe
7 7 10 Parking Lot Cochren & Co.
8 9 2 Any More Cain
9 8 5 Firm Foundation (He Won’t) Cody Carnes
10 10 2 Faithfully TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “New Creation” – Mac Powell
2021 – “Promised Land” – TobyMac
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

ONLY JESUS – My # 1 smash exactly 5 years ago was “Only Jesus” from Casting Crowns – a group I’ve seen LIVE in concert 3 times in 2019, 2021, and 2023. They are one of my favorite groups. Statistically they are my # 7 artist of this current era behind Matthew West, MercyMe, Micah Tyler, Chris Tomlin, TobyMac, and Jeremy Camp.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 4 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, a special #VeteransDay post on Saturday, #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 X 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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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday November 05TH 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.

This is “Fall Back Weekend” here in the U.S., as we set our clocks back one hour last night with the end of Daylight Saving Time. We are now in Standard Time – the real time zone. This is my favorite time of the year with earlier sunrises and sunsets. I wish we stayed on Standard Time all year round.

I’m back in Homestead (Florida) for a few days, and I’m back at my longtime home church for Sunday morning service and fellowship. I’ll be leading Communion this morning with the 100TH Psalm as my Scripture.

I finally finished my sermon titled “Jude & Judgment” based on Jude 1:1-11. I’ll preach it to my Homestead church family 3 weeks from today. I’ve also started writing my next sermon after that (tentatively titled “Jude & Jive”) based on Jude 1:12-25. I’ll preach it the following Sunday.

This meme appeared on a recent Facebook feed, and it’s one of my favorite verses of Scripture. I actually incorporated 2 Timothy 4:2-3 – the NIV translation – within my “Jude & Judgment” sermon, as it fit perfectly. This meme represents the ESV translation:

My testimony is featured here each week 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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp