- 📱 IG Stories Mon–Fri 6 AM ET — devotional Day 1–5
- 🎨 10-concept IG pack (rolls out post-pastor-review)
- 📿 Tue 10 AM prayer-graphics drop
- 🔜 Fri 11 AM + Sat 11 AM next-week drops
Pastor James Drake · Deuteronomy 6:4-9 · Sunday, May 17, 2026
When a religious leader asked Jesus to name the greatest commandment out of hundreds, he reached for the Great Shema in Deuteronomy 6. Pastor James Drake, preaching from the field during his current Army Chaplain deployment, walks through what it means to love God with everything — heart, soul, mind, and strength — and how that love becomes a daily rhythm passed on to the next generation. Not a Sunday-morning event. Not a Pinterest-perfect family devotion. Just sit, walk, lie down, rise — the ordinary moments of an ordinary day, woven through with God's word. And when you fail at it (and you will), apologize in front of your kids. Because the Shema isn't a moral self-improvement plan. It's what Jesus came to fulfill.
By Jeff Reed · Published Sunday, May 17, 2026
By Pastor James Drake · Publishes Thursday, May 21
Coming Thursday, May 21
All core surfaces live for "How Do You Pass Faith to Your Kids?" Pastor James Drake preached the Great Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4–9) from the field during his current Army Chaplain deployment — recorded by video, not a separate midweek field devotion. YouTube EN + ES, all three Subsplash MediaItems (EN sermon, ES sermon, Complete Service), Bible Study PDFs (EN + Cuban-Miami ES), the five Mon–Fri devotionals, and the app.cm sermon page all shipped. The sermon blog is live.
The 10-concept IG pack is preview-deployed and holds for pastor review (manifest status: `preview-deployed`). Last week's pulse (the 5/10 science-sermon week, Sun 5/10 → Sat 5/16 ET): page views and sessions dipped versus a Reformation-evergreen-inflated prior week — but blog average engagement time jumped from 3:14 to 24:19, and Mailchimp opens roughly doubled (432 → 891). Depth, not breadth. Detail in the Pulse card. 📊
- Sun · Verify the PCO new-people spike — 79 new people vs 12 the prior week (Sun–Sat ET); almost certainly a membership/data import, not walk-ins. Confirm before it goes in any number that matters. (`sun-pco`)
- Mon · Spanish YouTube reach — 5/10 ES cut stuck at 2 views; apply the Sunday-afternoon publish lever to the 5/17 ES cut. (`mon-es`)
- Thu · Social pack publish — 10 IG concepts preview-deployed, holding for pastoral review. Do not post until cleared. (`thu-social`)
Each card drops at 12:05 AM ET on its day; full bodies live in the app.cm devotionals rotation.
The 5/10 science-sermon week. Breadth dipped, depth spiked — read it carefully below.
📧 Mailchimp last week: 891 opens · 48% open rate across 3 campaign(s). 👥 PCO: 79 new people · 21 event registrations. 📖 Blog avg engagement 24:19 · top Search query "how did the reformation change the world".
Source: CCM analytics Sheet (blog GA4 + Google Search Console + PCO + Mailchimp). Window: 2026-05-10 → 2026-05-16 is the canonical CCM sermon-week — Sun 00:00 → Sat 23:59 ET (America/New_York, DST-aware; upstream pulls re-anchored 2026-05-19). Site-wide GA4 & YouTube watch-time are not in the Sheet — see the editorial read if provided.
"How Do You Pass Faith to Your Kids?" — James Drake. Watch-time / avg-view-% are not in the Sheet; add them via the editorial input if needed.
Depth, not breadth — email + engagement won the week.
Engagement went deep. Blog average engagement time ran 24:19 last week versus 3:14 the week prior — readers are finishing the long-form field-devotion writing, not bouncing. Search clicks rose 12 → 17 (+42%) even as raw page views fell, so the traffic that came was higher-intent search traffic. On email, Mailchimp opens roughly doubled (432 → 891) across three campaigns with the open rate up to 48%. The pattern from the James field-devotion series holds: original chaplain voice compounds on depth and email, not on one-Sunday pageview spikes.
Don't misread the pageview dip. Page views (189 → 97), sessions (130 → 68), and new users (83 → 38) all fell — but the prior week was inflated by the Reformation evergreen SEO hit plus Edwin's Missions-Sunday blog. The 5/10 science week's real signal is the ~24-minute engagement time, not the smaller top-line. The thing to actually watch: the PCO new-people number — 79 vs 12 — a ~7× week-over-week jump that smells like a data import. Confirm it before it becomes a talking point. And Spanish YouTube is still stuck at 2 views — that lever has not moved in weeks.
Not because you tried harder. Because you trusted a better Savior.