Kent makes the case that science and the Christian faith were never enemies — that Bible-believing people built modern science, the cosmos itself testifies to a Creator, and science reaches a hard limit at the questions only God can answer.
11 of 13 surfaces live tonight. Kent's Sunday science sermon shipped across YouTube + Subsplash + Bible Studies + devotionals + app.cm. James' parallel field-devotion blog + 10-graphic social pack went live the same evening. Kent's Subsplash blog + its social pack hold for Wednesday 5/13 on Kent's review.
New this week: app.cm landing page got the bento treatment too — Mon-Fri devotional roster + Wed blog scheduled card. Last week's pulse: site sessions +90%, new users +93%, pageviews +178%. (Detail in the Pulse card below. 📊)
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Kent — review the blog by Tuesday 5/12 EOD → Open the GDoc"Are Science and Christianity Compatible?" — pastor-authored, 6-entity @graph, cosmic Milky Way hero. Flag any phrasing, theology, or voice issues. Same red-pen invitation we extended last time James was at the pulpit.
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Social executor — DO NOT post the IG concepts before Wed 5/13 → See the pack10 concepts staged with a red HOLD banner up top. Wednesday morning when the blog goes live, the holding pattern lifts and the pack is yours.
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Staff — bookmark the new app.cm landing → app.christchurchmiami.orgJust got the bento treatment — daily devotional rotation, Wednesday blog scheduled card, full Mon-Fri devotional roster.
Are Science and Christianity Compatible?
Pastor Kent Keller, ~2,800 words. The blog is drafted in a GDoc for Kent's review and goes live Wed 5/13 at christchurchmiami.org/blog. The social pack drops the same morning, on a 7-day post cadence through 5/19.
Why Doesn't God Always Heal?
A Chaplain's Field Devotion from Pastor James Drake — third in the field-devotion series shipped from deployment. Long-form blog + 10-graphic social pack went live tonight, ready to ship across IG/Facebook this week. Independent of Kent's Sunday sermon — a parallel midweek piece.
Each card drops at 12:05 AM ET on its day; full devotional bodies live in the app.cm rotation. Tap the strip on the app.cm devotionals page.
The lab can describe the cake. Only the Baker can tell you why he made it for you.
- YouTube EN + ES metadata: title, description, tags, category, recording date, location, AI disclosure
- Subsplash MediaItems (3): English sermon, Spanish sermon, Complete Service — all live with artwork
- Bible Study PDFs: EN + Cuban-Miami ES drafted + deployed (plus 3 historical backfills: 4/12 ES, 4/19 EN, 5/3 EN)
- 5 daily devotional cards rendered with refreshed pull-quotes from devotional bodies
- app.cm sermon page built + deployed (sermon.json, Eleventy build, wrangler push)
- Subsplash blog drafted as GDoc for Kent's review
- Social pack: 10 IG concepts rendered + deployed with HOLD banner
- Subsplash blog publish — waiting on Kent's GDoc approval (Tue 5/12 EOD). Goes live Wed 5/13.
- PCO API access — deferred to a separate session. Unlocks Complete Service description automation for next week.
- Last week's analytics (5/3 sermon-week, Sun 5/3 → Sat 5/9) — fresh GA4 / YouTube / IG pull lands in Mon AM update.
Edwin Martinez's Missions Sunday sermon week. The site went on a tear. 🚀
📖 Within-channel comparison. Site = christchurchmiami.org · YT = @christchurchmiami channel totals · Sun→Sat sermon-week.
"Don't All Religions Lead to God?" — Edwin Martinez · YouTube performance through the first 7 days.
⚖️ The Spanish 0:18 read. Same pattern as 4/19 — the dropoff is not feed surfacing; it's HeyGen output quality + publish timing. Per the locked Spanish-publish-timing rule, Sun-afternoon push is the lever to keep pulling.
What it is. Pastor James Drake is currently deployed as a U.S. Army Chaplain. While he's downrange, he's been writing original devotional pieces from the field — not Sunday-sermon adaptations, but standalone reflections informed by what a pastor sees inside the military context. The byline is honest about where he's writing from, the photography pulls from chapel and field life, and the format runs short-to-medium long-form (~1,200–1,800 words).
The pattern. Three posts in twelve days: 4/29 "Should Christians Be Christian Nationalists?" (No. 01) → 5/6 "Can I Trust the Bible? Evidence from the Manuscripts" (No. 02) → 5/10 "Why Doesn't God Always Heal?" (No. 03, live tonight). Each post ships with a 10-graphic IG/Facebook social pack, a 7-day post cadence, and original-content schema (no SermonShots dependency since these aren't sermon-derived).
The signal. James' field devotions were the top two blog performers last week — combined 58 views across the No. 01 and No. 02 posts vs. 7 views for Edwin's 5/3 sermon-derived blog. The 5/6 piece pulled a 3:24 average session at 86% engagement — readers actually finishing it. The 4/29 post is still picking up Facebook re-shares 11 days after publish (16 distinct fbclid query strings on GA4 last week alone). The format works: original chaplain voice + visual social pack + Facebook share momentum compounds over weeks, not days.
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| 27 | 🪖 Field | |
| 31 | 🪖 Field | |
| 12 | 🌳 SEO | |
| 7 | 📉 Soft week 1 |
📖 Read the table. The two James posts are doing 8× the volume of the Sunday-sermon blog and getting 7× the average session length. The Reformation evergreen is your sleeper SEO hit — 7 months old, still pulling traffic. The 5/3 Edwin blog is a slow-burn watch — week 1 is too early to call.
Site nearly doubled vs prior week — Missions Sunday + Edwin Martinez + a 3,200-word blog dropping Sunday afternoon was the multiplier. +90% sessions, +93% new users, +178% pageviews. The blog is doing the SEO long-tail work, exactly the bet we made when the schema/SEO infrastructure landed in late April.
Engagement rate dipped 8 pts (54.7% → 46.4%) — the classic "more newcomers, lower engagement" pattern. Not a problem; it's literally what a successful traffic surge looks like. The thing to pay attention to next week: do the new users come back, or was it a one-Sunday spike? That's the question the 5/10 sermon-week answers.
Everyone — the report is now in dashboard mode. Less reading, more glancing. Tell me what works and what doesn't. — Jeff