WEEKLY REPORT · AUGUST 9, 2026
📊 ANALYTICS · AUGUST 2 → AUGUST 8
🗓 ROLLING OUT · AUGUST 10 → AUGUST 16

Religion hands you a list. Paul says the list has no power to change you.

Greater Than Your Religion · Jay Reynardus (Colossians 2:16-23)

Rolling Out

🗓 Rolling Out · AUGUST 10 → AUGUST 16
  • 📖 Published — Greater Than Your Religion (Jay Reynardus · Colossians 2:16-23 · GREATER THAN series), EN + ES same day
  • 📝 One blog live: the sermon blog Why Trying Harder Never Made Anyone Holy (8/9), translated to Spanish — a single blog this week by decision, not by slippage
  • 🎬 4 vertical Shorts → YouTube + IG Stories, Mon–Thu 4:30 PM ET, plus a 10-minute condensed cut
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  • 📱 Mon–Fri 9 AM — devotionals Day 1–5, EN + ES
  • 🌐 A website-feature card every day at noon
  • 🇪🇸 A Spanish card every day at 7 PM
  • 🙏 Four pre-service slides Saturday 8/9/10/11 AM — worship set, key scripture, sermon title, and how to prepare

Snapshot

🎬 Sermon Snapshot
Greater Than Your Religion - Colossians 2:16-23 View sermon details
📖 Sermons in English · Greater Than Your Religion
Greater Than Your Religion - Colossians 2:16-23

Guest Preacher Jay Reynardus  ·  Colossians 2:16-23  ·  Sunday, August 9, 2026

Jay Reynardus came to faith as an adult, read "be holy, for I am holy," and did the obvious thing: he built a list. Go to church. Feed the poor. Stop the Friday nights. He called it the religion of Jay, and he could not keep it. In Colossians 2:16-23 Paul gives five reasons that kind of self-made religion never works — it is of the world, it is perishing, it is human tradition, it only looks like wisdom, and it is something we made up ourselves. Then he turns the question on its head. The answer is not a what; it is a who. Union with Christ is the foundation of holiness, communion with Christ is the means, and holiness is the result — a byproduct of proximity, like fruit on a branch that only has to stay attached. You do not break a chain by gritting your teeth against it. You break it by loving something greater. Do you want to be holy? You need one thing: more Jesus.

Devotionals

📅 Devotionals This Week — auto-rotate Mon–Fri
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Each card drops at 12:05 AM ET on its day; full bodies live in the app.cm devotionals rotation.

Blogs This Week

📖 1 Blog This Week
  • Greater Than Your Religion: Why Trying Harder Never Made Anyone Holy ⚪ published

Last Week's Pulse

📱 Instagram · PENDING *
👁
Views
🎯
Accounts Reached
💬
Interactions
25 📲
Stories Sent
▲ vs 11
* PENDING — Instagram still isn't in Supermetrics, so this tile is read by hand from the IG professional dashboard. What IS measurable from our own scheduler: 25 Stories actually sent in-window and zero left unsent, against 11 sent and 16 stranded the week before. That is the single biggest operational change on this page.
📺 YouTube · Aug 2 – Aug 8
356 👥
Subscribers
→ vs 356 *
290 ▶️
Views
▼ vs 818 *
11.8%
Avg View %
▼ vs 12.4%
2 🔁
Shares
▼ vs 10
Supermetrics (YouTube Analytics · ChannelTotals), Aug 2–8 vs Jul 26 – Aug 1, pulled live 8/10. ⚠️ Read the views line with its context. 818 → 290 looks like a collapse and isn't one: last week was a single 531-view Sunday (Jul 27) on top of a 287 baseline, so the like-for-like comparison is 287 → 290 — flat. The channel's last seven weeks run 366 / 4,669 / 1,454 / 173 / 169 / 818 / 290, so week-over-week on this series is close to meaningless without the daily shape underneath it. Late attribution adds a little more: Aug 8 had barely reported when this was pulled, and the same window last week revised up 11% over seven days, so expect 290 to settle nearer 320. Shares 10 → 2 is the softer signal worth watching, since sharing is the metric that reflects people actually passing the sermon on. Subscribers are a lifetime snapshot, unchanged at 356.
📺 YouTube Shorts · Aug 2 – Aug 8
4
Shorts Posted
▲ vs 2
4 🗓
Scheduled
→ vs 4
0
Never Sent
▼ vs 2
YT + IG 📲
Surface
✅ Four scheduled, four posted, none stranded. Last week two of four never left draft. The Shorts pipeline was never the problem — the approval step was, and `preflight_social.py --approve` is now run as part of scheduling rather than as an afterthought.
🌐 Website · Aug 2 – Aug 8
503 👤
Users
▲ vs 249
585 🧭
Sessions
▲ vs 359
1,049 👁
Page Views
▲ vs 865
47.4% ⚠️
Engagement
▼ vs 61.8%
Supermetrics (GA4 property 514331806), Aug 2–8 vs Jul 26 – Aug 1, pulled live 8/10. The first full week of the new site with a fully-firing social campaign behind it, and the audience doubled: users 249 → 503, sessions 359 → 585. But page views grew only 21% against 102% more users, which is the whole story of the engagement drop — pages per session fell 2.41 → 1.79 and engagement 61.8% → 47.4%. More people arrived, and a larger share of them looked at one page and left. That is the ordinary shape of a traffic surge rather than a regression, but it means the raw user count is flattering and the next week decides whether any of them come back.
📧 Mailchimp · Aug 2 – Aug 8
1,331 ✉️
Recipients
▲ vs 1,327
47.7% 📬
Open Rate
▼ vs 50.3%
37.8% 📨
First-Hour Opens
▼ vs 40.0%
27 🔗
Total Clicks
▼ vs 33
CCM Sheet `mailchimp_weekly`, refreshed 8/10 by `mailchimp_pull.py`. Two sends again, and reach is flat-to-up (1,327 → 1,331 recipients). Opens eased from 50.3% to 47.7% and first-hour opens from 40.0% to 37.8% — both small moves, both in the same direction, on a list that has held near 50% all summer. Clicks slipped 33 → 27. Nothing here is alarming on one week; it is worth a look if the same drift shows up again next Monday.
▶︎ Homepage Sermon Player · 2026-08-02 → 2026-08-09

"Greater Than Your Religion - Colossians 2:16-23" is in the homepage hero now; the numbers below are last week's. First-party counters, not GA4 — aggregate only, nothing traceable to a person.

0
Shown
returning visitors who got the sermon instead of the brand film
0
Played
0.0% of those shown
0
Turned sound on
0.0% of plays — chose to listen
Kept it playing
took the sermon with them while browsing the site
Tapped on a phone
deliberate taps, never autoplay
Listened only
picture off, voice on

Watch depth: 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 reached 25/50/75/100%, so 0.0% of plays ran to the end.

Plays by day
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
📈 Sermon Views — YouTube, Homepage & Podcast (last 5 Sundays)

Per-sermon lifetime views by Sunday across all six surfaces — each point is one sermon (date · speaker). YouTube = views; Homepage hero = plays of the condensed cut on christchurchmiami.org. 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).

† Aug 9 = live viewing only (newest sermon; on-demand views still accruing).

What Worked / What to Watch

📈 What worked

🟢 ✅ Everything we scheduled actually sent. Twenty-nine of twenty-nine — 25 Instagram Stories and 4 YouTube Shorts — against 11 of 30 the week before. Last week's report called the draft backlog "the single most fixable thing on this page." It was fixed, and this is what the fix looks like in numbers rather than in intent. Nothing is sitting in `draft` for this window at all.

🟢 🌐 The audience doubled. Users 249 → 503 and sessions 359 → 585 in the first full week of the new site with its campaign firing properly behind it. Last week the site grew despite the announcement campaign; this week the campaign ran, and the traffic response was immediate.

🟢 📺 The YouTube baseline held. The headline number looks bad and isn't: last week's 818 was one 531-view Sunday on a 287 baseline, and this week came in at 290. Flat is the correct read, not a collapse — and flat while the channel published a full slate of four Shorts, a condensed cut, a Spanish dub and a complete-service upload.

🟢 🇪🇸 Spanish shipped on the same day again, not trailing. The dubbed sermon, Spanish transcript, study guide, podcast episode, devotionals and the translated blog all landed with the English, plus a Spanish Story every evening at 7 PM. Second consecutive week at same-day parity.

🟢 🎯 One blog by decision. The cadence assumes two and the week shipped one, because that was the call rather than a slip. Worth recording explicitly so the gap doesn't read later as a miss.

🤔 What to watch

🟡 📉 Engagement fell 61.8% → 47.4% while traffic doubled. Page views rose only 21% against 102% more users, so pages per session dropped 2.41 → 1.79. The plain reading is that the new arrivals are landing on one page and leaving. That is normal for a surge and is not yet a problem — but it does mean the doubled user count is the most flattering number on this page, and the honest test is next week: if engagement recovers as the spike decays, this was reach. If it stays at 47%, we bought traffic that never intended to stay.

🟡 🔁 Shares fell 10 → 2. The softest signal on the YouTube tile and the one least explained by the spike-day arithmetic, because shares don't spike the way views do. Sharing is the metric that reflects people actively passing a sermon on rather than passively receiving it, so two weeks of this would be worth a real look at whether the clips are landing.

🟡 📱 Instagram is still the last hand-read channel. Everything we schedule to Instagram is now measured precisely — 25 sent, none stranded. What Instagram reports back (Views, Reach, Interactions) still has to be copied out of the professional dashboard by hand, so those three tiles are empty again this week. It is the only remaining tile on this page without an automated source.

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