The second chance already happened. Now move.

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.