What if the words Jesus spoke to seven ordinary churches were written directly to you?
In Letters from the Road, Dr. Chris Len McCormick walks the ancient road linking Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea — the seven churches addressed in Revelation 2 and 3 — and asks what Jesus commended, challenged, commanded and promised each one.
- Seven weeks on the road, one church at a time
- Thirty-five devotionals, each closing with a reflection question and a prayer prompt
- Written for personal devotion or a small group, at your own pace
“Letters from the Road is a timely and much-needed invitation to rediscover the forgotten path of discipleship.”Ken DeChant · Lead Pastor, Journey Church, Fremont, OH
Out now in paperback · published with Cedar Lake Publishing
The Wednesday Word
Current series: Passing It On: Faithful Lives, Faithful Legacies
A short weekly word from Pastor Chris, on Spotify. Each series runs for several Wednesdays, and you can start with the latest episode or from the beginning of the series.
Latest: Week 2, Ruth and Naomi · September 9, 2026
Dr. Chris Len McCormick
Chris has served as associate pastor of Calvary Church in Maumee, Ohio since 2017, and has been an ordained minister since 1991. He holds a Master of Divinity from Winebrenner Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Before full-time ministry, he worked as a chemical engineer in the oil refining industry. That was an unlikely season, he says, and it taught him about faithfulness, perseverance, and the surprising ways God prepares people.
One belief sits under all of it: that God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. He calls it "the heartbeat of everything I write." Ordinary to Extraordinary is where that conviction becomes a nine-week devotional, published through Cedar Lake Publishing to put resources into the hands of people who are pursuing God and growing together.
"Pursuing God as we grow together."
Ordinary to Extraordinary
How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things
A nine-week devotional on the lives of ordinary biblical figures God used in extraordinary ways — the people Scripture barely mentions — and what their faithfulness means for yours. Written for personal devotion or a small group, at your own pace.
Available · paperback & Kindle
A free eight-page excerpt is available before you buy · read a reflection first.
Walking the seven churches, one chapter at a time
Most weeks Chris posts from the chapter he is working through. Lately that is the seven letters in Letters from the Road, and he puts the full chapter in the first comment. The replies are worth reading too.
"Not knows about. Knows. There's a difference, and it's the kind of difference a friend who has actually sat through the darkest night of your life understands, not as an outside observer but as someone who was there."
"They were still doing all the right things. Still fighting for truth. Still working hard. But somewhere in the fight for truth, the love that had once fueled it had quietly gone cold, replaced by something harder and more brittle."
"We live in an age of stated commitment that often dissolves under pressure. We are good at expressing loyalty, at signing up for things, at being present in the easy seasons. The test of real commitment is what happens when staying becomes more expensive than leaving."
"If you are walking through something hard right now, this chapter doesn't offer easy answers. It offers a Savior who is already there with you in it."
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Your past does not have to define your future. The environment you grew up in does not determine the person you become. What matters most is not what was placed in your hands, but what you do with what is in your heart.
— Dr. Chris Len McCormick, on Manaen · July 20