Watching from your couch counts. Being in the room counts more. Sunday, July 12, 10:30am, we gather in person again at Mars Hill Anywhere. 7941 47th St, McCook, IL. New season. Bring someone who needs it, or come as you are. Still online too, if that’s where you are. But if you can be here, be here. See you Sunday. Pastor Clarence E. Stowers, Jr. |
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Hey Reader, You’ve done the work. Five weeks of it. You named the wilderness. You faced the giants. You stopped waiting to feel ready. And you still haven’t said the one sentence that matters. You’ve circled the mountain. Prayed around it. Called it being “open to whatever God wants.” But be honest, a private hope never has to be defended. Keep it vague, and if it doesn’t happen, nobody ever saw you want it. This Sunday, in the finale of GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN, we closed that exit. The Big IdeaAt 85, Caleb walked up to Joshua in front of the leaders of Israel and said seven of the most audacious words in the Old Testament: give me my mountain. He named the exact hill country, named the giants still living on it, and claimed it out loud in front of witnesses. The moment he did, it stopped being a promise and became his inheritance. Your second act is not a request you whisper. It’s a claim you make out loud. A promise you can quietly abandon is a promise you eventually will, the whisper isn’t safer, it’s just a slower way to lose it. Watch The Full MessageIf you missed it or want to sit with it again, the full message is up now. This Week’s PracticeName your one mountain out loud in front of at least one witness this week, the specific mountain, not a vague “I’m believing for big things.” Then take the first irreversible step toward it, the one you cannot quietly walk back. Join Us This SundayOur next in-person gathering is July 12, 2026 at 10:30 AM Central. We’ll be at 7941 47th Street in McCook, Illinois. This is our monthly in-person service. If you’ve been watching online, this is your moment. Bring somebody with you, or just come as you are. New season. New room. We want to see your face. July 12. 10:30 AM. 7941 47th Street, McCook. Be there. Listen: Still StandingThis week’s episode goes deeper on the same fight: what it costs to stop whispering a promise and start claiming it out loud. If Sunday’s message got under your skin, this is where it gets personal. P.S. You’ve claimed the mountain. Now you need a system to actually take the ground. That’s exactly what the Second Act Intensive is built for, the on-ramp from claim to conquest. Reply to this email and I’ll send you the details this week. That’s the finale of GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN. Six weeks. Thank you for walking the whole thing. Now go take it. With love and expectation, |
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Sometime around 1400 BCE, an eighty-five-year-old man walked up to Joshua, commander of the armies of Israel, and asked for a fight nobody expected him to want. The land he wanted was Hebron. Still occupied by the Anakites, a people so physically imposing that an earlier generation of scouts had stood at the edge of this same territory and reported back that they felt like grasshoppers next to them. That generation chose not to move. They spent the next forty years dying in a wilderness, waiting to feel ready for a fight they never took. Caleb didn’t wait. Joshua handed him the deed to Hebron in one verse. By the next verse, the giants were gone. No gap. No preparation phase. No waiting for a better season or a stronger back. What’s the one move you’ve been calling “not yet”? You know exactly which one. You’re not waiting on God anymore. You already have the word. You’re waiting on a feeling that was never going to show up before you moved. Week 6 is this Sunday. GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN closes. Be in the room. Watch the ReplayCaleb’s whole story turns on the seam between two verses. Watch what happens in that seam, and what it costs you to keep waiting for a feeling that only shows up after you move. New: Still Standing PodcastThis week’s episode goes further than Sunday could. Thirty years in, what stalling actually costs a leader, and what it takes to move before the feeling arrives. New on SubstackThe full written version of Stop Waiting to Feel Ready, with the story behind it: a man who sat on a business idea for four years waiting to feel ready, and what actually happened the day he stopped waiting. Support This MinistryYou already know the move you’re avoiding. So does this ministry. Every gift is us not waiting either. ► Give at Mars Hill With love and expectation, P.S. July 12: we’re back in the room together, in person. Save the date. |
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Sunday morning, the room at 7941 47th Street was fuller than usual. Fathers came in with sons they hadn’t sat next to in church in years. Men who typically join the stream digitally showed up physically, in the room, with their families, eyes forward. Something about Father’s Day made people move. And then the message started with one line: The giants are still there. Good. That means the mountain is still there too. Caleb was eighty-five years old when he walked up to Joshua and made the most specific request in the Hebrew Bible. He pointed at the hardest territory in Canaan, walled cities, Anakites still armed, still enormous, and said seven words: Give me the hill country the Lord promised me. He named the giants in the same breath as the promise. Present tense. Still there. I will drive them out anyway. That was not blind faith. Caleb had seen those giants forty-five years earlier. He knew exactly what was standing on that mountain. The giants hadn’t moved. But the man looking at them was no longer who he used to be. Sunday, people left that room with something they walked in without: the name of one giant they had stopped pretending wasn’t there. If you missed it, you missed a room where something shifted. People went home with a sentence written on paper, placed under the thing they had been avoiding for years. You’ll want to watch the replay. Here is what this week comes down to: There is one thing you keep steering your schedule around. One number you don’t check. One conversation you keep rescheduling. One door you drive past on purpose. You’ve built a whole routine around not having to stand in front of it again. And every time you avoid it, the story gets louder: the giant beat me, so the promise must not be mine. The promise didn’t move. You did. Week 5 is this Sunday. Stop Waiting Until You’re Worthy. Be in the room. Watch the ReplayThe giants didn’t clear. They never got smaller. But Caleb named them and claimed the mountain in the same sentence, and Sunday, so did a room full of people in McCook, Illinois. If someone in your circle has been calling their retreat wisdom, send them this. What they’re calling patience might be silence. Also This Week: The Podcast Is BackStill Standing Season 2 is live, and the first episode says what most people won’t. You Stayed Too Long. Let’s Be Honest. You knew before you admitted it. You knew when the work stopped fitting. You knew when showing up became maintenance instead of mission. But you stayed, and called it commitment. This episode is 19 minutes. It will cost you more than that. ► Listen on Apple Podcasts Support This MinistrySunday happened because people who believe this word needs to exist in the world give consistently. If The Promise Didn’t Move was the word your week needed, give with that same specificity. ► Give at Mars Hill With love and expectation, P.S. Week 5 is this Sunday: Stop Waiting Until You’re Worthy. One week before the series closes. You don’t want to be on the outside of what’s coming. |
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This Sunday is Week 4 of GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN. It’s also Father’s Day. We’re bringing both into the same room. If you named your mountain last Sunday, this is the Sunday you find out what’s standing on it. Caleb didn’t celebrate after he named it. He went to take it. Bring your father. Bring the man who’s been circling something for years without saying its name out loud. Bring the family that’s been waiting on a Sunday like this one. Sunday, June 21, 2026 | 10:30 AM Central
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