Rolling Out
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- 📖 Sun — LIVE: But What About Christian Nationalism? (Kent Keller — Acts 17 · What About? series · America at 250)
- 📖 Mon — Is America a Christian Nation? A Pastor's Answer (Kent Keller blog) · Wed — True Freedom (James Drake blog)
- 🎬 4 vertical Shorts (full CCM treatment — captions + gold band) + an ~10-min condensed cut → YouTube + IG Stories, Mon–Thu 4:30 PM ET
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- 📱 Mon–Fri 6 AM ET — devotional Day 1–5 (Another King · Love Not Worship · Blessed Is the Nation · No King but Jesus · Free Indeed — Acts / Galatians 5)
- 🙏 4× weekly prayer-graphics cadence (Tue 10 · Tue 7 · Wed 10 · Thu 2)
- 🇪🇸 Spanish sermon, page, study guide + grupos index — same-day
- 📣 'Next Week' tease for July 12
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Pastor, Christchurch Miami Kent Keller · Acts 17:1-7 · Sunday, July 5, 2026
Preaching from Acts 17 — where the early Christians were dragged into court for saying ‘there is another king, Jesus’ — Pastor Kent Keller answers a question that flares up every Fourth of July. He starts with his own loyalties, plainly: ‘I love my God. I love my country. I worship my God. I do not worship my country.’ Patriotism is good; it becomes something else when we wrap the cross in the flag. Was America founded Christian? The historical evidence is real — the Mayflower Compact, Winthrop’s ‘city upon a hill,’ the Declaration’s four references to God — yet the founders deliberately refused an official state church, because faith can never be forced and the gospel persuades rather than coerces. Underneath the whole debate is the confession the church has made for 2,000 years: we have no king but Jesus. Grateful citizens; faithful first to Christ — and the freedom that lasts is not political but the freedom Christ won at the cross (Galatians 5:1).
Devotionals
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Blogs This Week
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Is America a Christian Nation? A Pastor's Answer 🟢 live
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True Freedom 🟡 scheduled
Last Week's Pulse
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Per-sermon lifetime views by Sunday across all five surfaces — each point is one sermon (date · speaker). YouTube = views; Subsplash = plays. Lifetime totals, not weekly deltas. The gold band (0–50) is shown at 2× vertical scale so the low-volume surfaces have room for detail; above the dotted line the scale returns to normal (1:1).
† Jul 5 = live viewing only (newest sermon; on-demand views still accruing).
What Worked / What to Watch
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🟢 📺 YouTube had a breakout week. With the Shorts engine posting all week, views jumped more than 10× across the window (366 → 3,730) and average-view% nearly doubled (14.3% → 25.0%). The channel added five subscribers to reach 343 all-time. The Eternity message and its clips compounded harder than any single week this quarter.
🟢 ⚡ Seven Shorts posted — on both surfaces. Jun 29–Jul 4 the scheduler pushed seven vertical clips to YouTube Shorts alongside their IG Stories/Reels — the Eternity Shorts plus condensed-cut moments. This is the engine directly behind YouTube's surge above.
🟢 ✉️ Mailchimp is back. After a stretch with no in-window send, three campaigns landed: the 7/01 weekly Church Family News (1,118 recipients · 47.5% open · 34 clicks), a 6/28 Bible-study reminder, and a 7/02 July-4th note. The congregational newsletter is reaching its full list again.
🟢 🇪🇸 Spanish stayed same-day. Sermon, page, study guide, and the grupos leader index continue to publish the same day as English.
🟡 🌐 Website eased off last week's climb. Users slipped 274 → 254 and sessions 364 → 357 over the holiday week — a normal pullback, not a trend. Engagement held steady at 63%. Watch that users rebound with the Christian Nationalism rollout.
🟡 📬 Email open rate dipped to 47.5% (from 56.4%). The July-4 holiday week typically softens opens; the healthy click count (34) says the list is still engaged. Watch the next non-holiday send return toward the mid-50s.
Note from Jeff
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This Week on IG — Scheduled
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Open Items
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- ✅ YouTube + Website pulled live — Supermetrics, June 28–July 4 vs June 21–27.
- ✅ YouTube Shorts — seven yt_short posts Jun 29–Jul 4 confirmed in the hd_social scheduler; posting to YouTube + IG.
- ✅ Mailchimp back — three in-window sends; tile shows the 7/01 weekly eNews (1,118 · 47.5% · 34 clicks).
- 📱 Instagram (only open tile) — pulled by hand from the IG dashboard; fills as soon as the cowork-server Chrome is connectable.
- 🎨 hero_asset (`flag-bg.jpg`) — the clean flag background renders behind the hero gradient.