Five weeks ago, you started preparing. Sunday, the Owner comes home.

Happy Humpday, Reader

Five weeks ago, I asked you to do something most people avoid.

I asked you to walk through the house.

Not the presentable rooms. Not the ones you keep clean for company. The ones you lock before guests arrive. The ones that have been dark so long you forgot what was in them.

You went into the Prayer Closet and found out you were not struggling to pray. You were hiding.

You went into the Relationship Room and found an IOU you had been carrying for years. An apology that was never coming. A debt someone else owed you that was quietly bankrupting your peace.

You went into the Mind and found out your thoughts were running your life, and you had handed them the keys without knowing it.

You went into the Worship Room and found the lights on but nobody home. Muscle memory dressed up as devotion. Faithful attendance running on autopilot.

And you did not walk away. You stayed. You did the 15 minutes. You made the one move.

This Sunday is what all of that was for.

Easter is not a holiday. It is not a ceremony. It is the Owner coming home.

And the house is ready.

Easter Invitation

INSPECTION DAY: THE HOUSE IS READY

PREPARE THE HOUSE | Easter Sunday, April 5

This is the Sunday we have been building toward for five weeks. The final room. The final audit.

And then: resurrection.

Hebrews 12:1 says we run the race with endurance because the weight has been removed. You do not run well with a full house. You run well with a ready one.

You prepared the house.

Now come receive what the Owner brings when He walks back in.

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Easter Sunday is this week. April 5, 2026.

Week 5: INSPECTION DAY. THE HOUSE IS READY.

Join us in person or online at 10:30 AM CST.

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Bring somebody. This is not a Sunday to watch alone and not a Sunday to let someone you love miss.

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Every week of this series, somebody opened a room they had not been in for years.

A prayer closet they had abandoned.

A relationship they had written off.

A mind they had stopped fighting for.

A worship room running on empty.

That happens because people like you make Mars Hill Anywhere possible.

The House is Ready

Not because you are perfect. Not because every room is spotless.

Because you walked through it honestly. You named what was dark. You cleared what was contaminated. You took back what was unsafe. You woke up what was absent.

And now Easter is not just a Sunday on the calendar.

It is a homecoming.

See you Sunday,

Pastor Clarence E. Stowers, Jr.

P.S. Five weeks ago, the Big Idea of this entire series was this:

Easter is the Owner coming home. We prepare the house, room by room, so resurrection has room to move in.

This Sunday, we find out what happens when resurrection actually moves in.

It does not visit a house that stayed the same.

It makes a home in the one that was ready.

See you at 10:30.