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My Top 10 Hits – Week 335

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 16TH 2023 – the 335TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 4 Holy Forever
[3RD week @ # 1]		 Chris Tomlin
2 2 16 Cornerstone TobyMac Ft. Zach Williams
3 4 8 Big God Terrian
4 3 20 This Is Our God Phil Wickham
5 7 2 To Not Worship You MercyMe
6 6 16 Fingerprints Dan Bremnes
7 5 7 Yes I Am Christian Paul
8 8 5 Every Hour David Leonard Ft. Josh Baldwin
9 10 11 You Will Be Found Natalie Grant Ft. Cory Asbury
10 – 1 The King Is Alive Jordan Feliz

# 1 This Week In:
2022 – “Getting Started” – Jeremy Camp
2021 – “Be Alright” – Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett
2018 – “Grace Got You” – MercyMe
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong United

TERRIAN – Terrian Bass Woods may have the unofficial anthem of the Summer Of 2023 on her hands, as “Big God” continues to garner increased airplay at U.S. Christian radio from coast-to-coast. It’s up another notch to # 3 on my chart, and now it’s the favorite to be my next big # 1. It’s actually her 2ND hit on my chart. “In The Arms” peaked at # 10 back in January 2020. I’ve seen Terrian LIVE in concert a couple of times – both as an opening act for TobyMac. She puts on an energetic performance that glorifies our “Big God”. And speaking of Mr. Mac – he makes a cameo appearance at the end of this music video:

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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Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday July 16TH 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.

Today marks exactly 5 months since I made a purchasing offer with my Real Estate Agent on my new home 185 miles away from my longtime home. It also marks exactly 4 months since I closed on my new home and moved in.

Before this adventure began I envisioned that out of the following three – my neighborhood (a senior community), the Sebring Historical Society, and my church family – that I would be closest to and building relationships with my church family.

That is not the case after 4 months of living here (most of the time).

I am closest with my new friends at the Sebring Historical Society. I’ve spent more time with them (by far) than the other two, and I’ve written about our organization a lot on #TravelThursday.

I am second-closest with my neighbors here in my neighborhood.

Surprisingly – I am least-closest with my church family, and aside from my Pastor (Ben) – I don’t remember anyone’s name. I have to get a refresher each Sunday morning that I’m there. Aside from a handful of Sunday morning services since the start of April – I’ve had no further interaction with my church family. That’s sort of by design. I don’t really want to reveal my ministerial credentials and experience this early – especially since I’m not yet “full-time” (every Sunday morning). I just wish to sit, relax, and absorb God’s Good News with my new brothers and sisters. Eventually – with time – I’ll start to interact and get involved with post-service and midweek activities such as small Bible Study groups.

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. (Romans 12:4-5 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 Christian God Ministry Music Radio

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