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Sometime around 1400 BCE, an 85-year-old man walked up to the commander of the Israelite army and made the most specific request in the Hebrew Bible. His name was Caleb. He had waited forty-five years, not because he failed, but because everyone around him wasn’t ready. He had walked the land. He had seen the hill country with his own eyes. And when the moment came, he didn’t ask for something manageable. He pointed at the hardest territory in Canaan: walled cities, Anakites still on the ground, the territory ten other spies called suicide. And he said seven words: Give me the hill country the Lord promised me. Not a mountain. The mountain. Forty-five years later, same ask, same words. Caleb decided at forty. He named it at eighty-five. The forty-five years in between didn’t shake him loose. A named promise holds. A vague one drifts. Last Sunday came down to one question: If someone stopped you today and asked what you’re building, not what you do, what you’re building, can you say it in one sentence? One sentence. Not a paragraph. If the answer is no, you’re not lost. You went quiet. The fog isn’t outside you. It’s the sentence you won’t say out loud. Week 4 is this Sunday. The Giants Are Still There. Be in the room. Watch the ReplayYou Didn’t Forget the Promise. You Stopped Saying It Out Loud. Caleb was 85 with giants still on the land. He didn’t ask for an easier mountain. He went back to the same one. If you know someone who’s been circling the same dream for years and calling it patience, send them this. What they’re calling patience might just be silence. This Sunday: Father’s Day Worship WeekendWeek 4 is the Sunday a lot of fathers need to be in a room. If you named your mountain last Sunday, this 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. This is his Sunday. Sunday, June 21, 2026 | 10:30 AM Central Support This MinistryThis ministry runs on consistent generosity. If GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN has been the word your week needed, give with the same specificity Caleb brought to that mountain. ► Give at Mars Hill With love and expectation, P.S. Next Sunday is Week 4: The Giants Are Still There. Caleb named the mountain and the obstacle in the same breath. So do we. See you Sunday. |
You went quiet on the promise. Say its name.
