Mountaintop Church

The church is a wonderful resource and an effective community for reinforcing the faith of your children, but the most powerful discipleship tool in their lives is you, the parent. How you disciple your kids will make all the difference when the time comes for them to lean on their faith. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com

The goal of parenting is to no longer parent . The goal is for your children to be functional adults that don’t need your correction. And here’s what we parents often underestimate:  You will know your child as an adult for much longer than you do as a child or teenager.  So Why not parent with that end in mind? And here’s why discipline is so important: Just because you no longer parent them does...

Parenting with the End in Mind: One day, your child is not going to be a child. They’ll be an adult. They’ll pay their bills and hopefully be responsible. And they’ll come to your house to visit for the Holidays. They might need to take a call from work, and you’ll see them put their work hat on. You’ll see them in relationship with their spouse and watch how they parent. Perhaps they’ll go to chu...

We often think about going in the right direction and setting goals every time we flip the calendar over to a new year, don’t we. The New Year is a good time to refocus our priorities and renew our efforts in pursuing the right things that matter most. The Apostle Paul knew the importance of setting goals, and as we begin this new year, Paul is going to help us set ONE goal to pursue in 2025 that...

Merry Christmas from Mountaintop! Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com

You may be one decision away from a different destiny.   You can have a lifetime of stubbornness and disobedience, and one decision can set a new course for your life. Your name can be remembered differently. How? Consider a man named Rehoboam whose selfishness divided the tribes of Israel…   Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com  

Is your faith worth the risk of failure? When Ruth had to make a choice between doing what was normal and doing what was noble, she stepped out on faith, and her decision changed her life and her legacy in amazing ways she couldn't have predicted. She had no idea that her great-grandson, David, would slay a giant and become God’s chosen and anointed King over Israel; and she had no idea that her n...

We’ve all got some characters in our family tree. It comes with being part of a family. And everyone’s family is a little dysfunctional. But you wouldn't expect that to be the case with Jesus' family. You would think God would want the cleanest line. You would think Jesus would be born into a perfect family. But Jesus' family tree is full of broken people, just like yours and just like mine. And t...

We do not exist FOR us. We do not serve and give generously FOR us. We exist FOR Birmingham (BHM) . And that means several things around here. It means we partner with amazing organizations in our city and give a portion of everything we receive to the good work they’re doing for our neighbors in need. It means we host Serve Days in the spring and fall as ways to get off campus and truly be the ph...

We believe that the work we are going to do together over the next decade will make an eternal impact in Birmingham and beyond for the next generation. One family at a time. We believe that is how you shape a generation, and so we are making room for one more family to be invited into our family here at Mountaintop. And by extension, to come to know what it means to be part of the family of God. H...

Here at Mountaintop, we’re a church that invites and equips people to follow Jesus. So we’re always eager to welcome others. There’s always room for one more. In about a month, we will have completed our largest construction project in over 20 years, since we built our church on top of this mountain. This new facility will be completed, and we’ll have more parking than we’ve ever had, more check-i...

“What do Christians believe…really?” Well, we believe in eternity. We believe in a forever Kingdom. We believe that what we do matters… FOREVER . We are not following Jesus because it will simply make our lives better, even though it will. Or that it will make our world better — it will! We’re doing this because we have an invitation to live forever. The creation God made in the beginning will fin...

After Jesus’s death and resurrection, He ascended to heaven, but He told us that He was leaving the Holy Spirit behind for anyone who believed. This spirit filled people would be tasked with getting the word out about Him. Those people are called The Church. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com

Christians believe that the story of Jesus Christ doesn't end with his death on the cross or with his burial in a borrowed tomb. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead three days after he died on a cross, and it may be one of the most challenging beliefs of Christianity. Even Christ's disciples didn't believe it when they first heard the news. But it's a cornerstone of the Christian fait...

Almost everyone would agree that Jesus was a Good Man . Believing Jesus is a good man is not what sets Christians apart. We believe that he was more. We believe he was the only God Man . We believe he was both God and man. In fact, this is distinctive among Christians. No other religion makes a claim like this. And this is so crucial to understand what Christians believe. We do not believe Jesus w...

What do you think people who are not Christians think Christians believe? if you’re a skeptic, it is most likely the things you ‘think’ you have to believe in order to become a Christian that have kept you from even considering becoming one. But what we really believe is beautiful and its Good News. We’re going to use as our framework for these foundational beliefs something that unites all Christ...

Some of us are going through a storm, or we’re just on the other side of one. Or maybe we’re about to head into one... Nobody wants a storm. They’re inconvenient. You're forced to seek shelter, and sometimes you get soaked anyway. But sometimes, a storm is the catalyst that forces us to start over. What if we embraced this? What could be possible if you allow the storm you're going through to be t...

It’s hard to wait. Sometimes it’s painful. But waiting is a critical element of our faith, and we can learn a lot about it from Noah. In the story of Noah’s Ark, you may have heard that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but at the end of chapter seven, the Bible says that the flood lasted 150 days. The rain stopped, but Noah is just waiting! It couldn’t have been easy. Can you imagine the tensi...

God is working through the storms in our lives, and His mercy always shows up in our mess. We can have comfort in the chaos. The story of Noah should lead us to rest in God's invitation to take shelter in Him.   Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com  

We’ve all had times when we wondered what God was doing or NOT doing. We’ve all struggled “ When God Doesn’t Make Sense .” Noah's Ark is a story that children in churches know well, and you are probably familiar with the basics of the story, even if you’re not a church person. But it’s a story we probably haven’t actually read or studied in depth. In this series, we’re going to take four weeks...

The church is not just an organization. It’s not a business or even just a ministry. It’s a collection of people who are finding where they are meant to function in the “Body." And the “Body” won’t work right without you. And you won’t find your God-given design if you don’t find your purpose in it. In this series, we've been addressing the question, “What was I made for?” And this week,...

God is free and our human freedom is a part of His image which we bear. But you can give up that freedom. In fact, your entire purpose is wrapped up in the idea that your freedom is meant to be given up for something better. And if you don’t, your life will be incomplete… VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Kv7H7RmEBpU Learn more about Mountaintop Church at ⁠https://mountaintopchurch.com⁠

We were made for a relationship with God, and that’s amazing because the God of the universe wants a relationship with us. But we were never intended to follow Christ alone. We were also made for community. We were meant for relationships. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wzhNs8Dl7ss

"What was I made for?" Every single one of us has asked that question. You’ve been in a job you didn’t like, a relationship that wasn’t going well, switched majors for the third time...  And, what’s worse, you scroll through Instagram and see amazing people do amazing things with their lives. And you wonder, "Why am I here? What is my purpose on this giant green and blue planet amid...

Mountaintop was founded on a vision FOR Birmingham. It would be "a church that reached unchurched people." That's because the founders were convinced that Jesus loved them and that His love was FOR the whole world, FOR Birmingham and FOR our local community. We still believe that t he local church is the vehicle that God has chosen to share the message of Jesus, and reach the world w...