We’ve spent the last few weeks building behind the scenes, and this week you’re going to see what we’ve been working toward. It’s time.

The New Mars Hill Website Is Live

The newly redesigned Mars Hill Anywhere website is now live!

More than a redesign, this update reflects who Mars Hill Anywhere is today.

Over the past several days, we’ve updated every major page across the site, simplified navigation, refreshed images, removed outdated content, and created a clearer path for people to connect with our congregation.

Whether you’re looking for recent messages, upcoming events, Life Groups, prayer support, opportunities to serve, or ways to stay in the loop, you can now find it faster and easier than ever before.

Take a few minutes to explore the site:

• While you’re there:
• Submit a prayer request
• Explore a Life Group
• Check out upcoming events
• Find a place to serve
• Sign up for email and text updates

This Week’s Message

“Stop Calling It Decline. You’re the Most Prepared You’ve Ever Been.” Caleb stood at 85 and said, “I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me.” His waiting didn’t weaken him. It equipped him.

📺 Watch the full replay here.​

Read & Listen This Week

The full article digs deeper into what your waiting seasons actually prepared you for and why you shouldn’t write off those years as lost time.

📖 Read on Substack​

I’m also releasing a companion podcast episode this week: “Why I’m Changing Everything (And What’s Coming Next).” This is where I walk through what’s shifting in my brand, my content, and what you can expect to see differently.

🎧 Listen here​

Thank you for being part of Mars Hill Anywhere.

Rooted in Faith. Growing Anywhere.

Happy Thursday Reader,

You had the Sunday.

You responded. You surrendered. You meant it.

And then Monday came.

The same patterns. The same pressure. The same pull back toward who you used to be.

If that is where you are, this message is for you.

Today at Mars Hill Anywhere, we closed out the bridge from five weeks of second chances with one question nobody asks:

What do you actually do after God gives you a second chance?

We went back to the one verse most people skip in the Zacchaeus story.

Luke 19:8, before the dinner ended, before any further conversation, before the feeling could fade, Zacchaeus named the amount. Named the people. Named the action. Out loud. In front of Jesus.

He did not sit on the second chance.

He moved through it.

The Big Idea from today: God gives second chances not so you can feel better, but so you can move differently.

Your one move this week:

Name it out loud. Not in your head — out loud.

I am done with ___.

I am starting ___.

I owe ___ a conversation.

Then do the Zacchaeus thing: one specific, slightly costly action before next Sunday.

The second chance becomes a second life when you move.

Watch today’s full message → [YouTube link]​

This week’s prayer call devotional → app.sermonsend.com/sermon/pastorstowers​

Read on Substack → clarencestowers.substack.com​

This Sunday, we start something new.

Five weeks ago, God gave you a second chance.

Now the question is: what do you do with it?

This Sunday, we open a new 6-week series, GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN.

It is the story of Caleb. A man who waited 40 years in the wilderness, not because he failed, but because the people around him were not ready. He never lost his fire. At 85 years old, he walked up to Joshua and said the seven most audacious words in the Old Testament:

That is not a desperate man. That is a man who knows exactly what God promised him and is finally done waiting for permission to go get it.

God gave you the second chance. This series is what you do with it.

See you Sunday.

Also: the podcast has a new name.

Still Standing with Clarence E. Stowers, Jr. is live now.

The bridge episode is up this week: “Thirty Years In. Here’s What I Finally Stopped Pretending.”

Thirty years of ministry. What ended. What it cost. And what this show is now, and exactly who it is for.

This show is not for everyone. It is for the high-capacity adult who built something, survived something, and is now renegotiating everything without a roadmap.

If that is you, or if you know someone who needs to hear it, this is the episode.

Listen now → still-standing-bridge-episode​

See you this Sunday.

We are starting something new.

Hey there Reader,

Five weeks ago I published something that hit differently.

Not the loudest article I’ve written. Not the most confrontational title. But it’s the one that directly converted a paid subscriber the only article in the last three months that did.

​The title: They Wanted a Reaction. I Gave Them Nothing. That Was the Smartest Thing I Did All Week.

If you opened it back then, you already know why.

If you missed it, here’s the short version:

Someone came for me publicly. I had a full response ready. I didn’t send it. I waited. Their own words answered the question before I said a thing.

That was not a passive move. That was the most active, controlled choice I had.

The piece is about what strategic silence actually costs, and why the leaders who never react on instinct are the ones nobody can predict, anoran control.

​Read or re-read it here.

One line in particular is the one people keep coming back to:

“My response was the only thing keeping the story alive.”

If that lands, the paid tier is where I go deeper: the decision filter, the timing rule, and the scripts for staying still when the pressure is real.

Here’s to your success,
Clarence E. Stowers, Jr.