Mountaintop Church

We have all fallen for something that looked good, seemed good, tasted good, felt good – and it, indeed, was NOT good. We lacked self-control. And it’s no surprise. It’s not a value in our culture. We’re taught: Discover yourself. Indulge self. Embrace yourself. Satisfy yourself. Be yourself. Accept yourself. But life isn't all about me, and what I want isn't always what I need. Jesus didn't just...

Love is the most important visible by-product of a life of faith in Jesus and that’s why I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s the first Fruit of the Spirit listed by Paul. There are so many places in the Bible that talk about love, and it is one of our Marks of a Follower here at Mountaintop: to LOVE RADICALLY. But somehow, we've separated and split apart our love for God and our love for...

This Sunday, we're beginning a Summer series about how the Holy Spirit produces fruitfulness in our lives, and we're starting with the spiritual fruit of Faithfulness. By the end of today's message, we hope you can see that when we lean into God's faithfulness, we receive faithfulness in return! Spiritual fruit comes only from the Holy Spirit, and that we can't replace the work...

It's VBS week at Mountaintop! This Sunday we're gearing up to "Follow Jesus Here, There and Everywhere!" Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. • Hebrews 12:1b-2a Focus determines direction. Direction shapes decisions. Decisions create destiny. If you don't fix your eyes on Jesus, you can lose foc...

If you can’t move or go forward, if you can’t take the step you know you need to take in faith – it’s usually because something is broken. So, What’s stopping you? Shame? In what you’ve done or what others have done to you? Guilt? Over what you didn’t do that you should have done? Baggage? Relational, spiritual, physical, emotional? Barriers? Societal, structural, and mental? Hurt? Church hurt, fa...

You don’t have to have an enormous online following to influence people. In fact, I’m not even sure it’s the best way. Here’s what I know, no matter how many followers you have, you have influence: Over a group of friends, coworkers at the office, your kids, your parents, at school, on the team, inside your organization. You have influence. What if we all used our influence for the Kingdom of God,...

John 3 is the story of a man who is certain he knows who Jesus is. But in his encounter with Jesus, his certainty keeps him from seeing that Jesus is more than he could have ever expected. Through this story, we will discover together that when we trade certainty for curiosity, we can find clarity about the good news of Jesus. Learn more about Mountaintop at https://mountaintopchurch.com Jake Davi...

Fast and Faith usually don’t go together. Fast is often the opposite of faith. In fact, if God were fast, you wouldn’t need faith. Faith entails waiting. Faith means you are trusting for something to happen, for God to come through, for the spirit to move even when you have no tangible evidence that it will happen. But the waiting IS our faith. It is the heartbeat of following Jesus. The waiting m...

Sometimes you just need to start over.  Sometimes there are so many mistakes that the best thing to do is start over. Like a kitchen renovation. We look at those 80s cabinets and try to figure out how to make them cool, then we decide: Nah, gut it and start over. Or a career. We hit a mid-life crisis and realize we’re not doing what we were created to do, so we scrap it all and go back to sch...

We lay down our lives FOR others because Jesus laid down his FOR us. We ought to be the best at it. We know what it looks like. We know what it feels like to be on the other side of Jesus’ life-laying-down kind of love. It’s the least we can do. I could never repay Jesus for laying down his life for me… ever. But I can do what he asked me to do. I can love others as he loved me. I can lay down my...

Money. It's real and tangible. It's a limited resource. None of us feel like we have enough of it. And none of us would turn down a raise from our boss. The truth is, money can be a very real source of stress and pain. But it's also inextricably linked to our faith. So... how do we move from pain to privilege in our giving?   For more information about Mountaintop Church and the FOR Campaign,...

The most important thing we do for the city outside our walls doesn’t even happen outside our walls. It’s actually what happens inside these walls. Because people’s lives are changed inside these walls. And it’s people -- not churches, not organizations, nor ministries --  people can change the world. So when God changes people in here, they have the potential to change the world for God out...

We know about God is because somebody told somebody who told us. You may have been raised in a Christian home and it was your family who told you. It might have been a friend who invited you to youth group. Maybe it was a youth pastor, a Sunday school teacher or a preacher. Somebody told you who had been told by someone else.   The bible says we have a responsibility to do something with...

What is ONE person worth? One is worth Jesus leaving the glory seat of Heaven for the gory scene of the cross. One is worth the light of the world going into the darkness of a borrowed tomb. One is worth the Prince of Peace suffering the pain of crucifixion.  Here at Mountaintop, we are FOR ONE. One more changed life.   For ONE. For FAMILIES. For BHM.   Find out more about Moun...

Love is more than a singular feeling and certainly more than a phrase. We’re going to see Paul say in the Bible that love needs multiple actions behind it if we want to "Win at Love." And this love that Paul describes is the kind of love that can only be found in the character of God. So, here's the ending before we really start the beginning:  Since God is love, we need to know God to know h...

Part of our mission at Mountaintop is to equip people to follow Jesus, including equipping people to follow Jesus in their marriages and dating relationships. We want you to win at love. And that's what this series is all about. The stakes of losing are too high. And if marriage isn't for you, we want to equip you to walk through life with your friends and family who are struggling in committed re...

Life can be painful, and often that pain is disorienting and confusing. But pain also has the ability to clarify what's most important.   In this episode, we're blessed to host pastor James Savage from Cross Point Church in Tennessee. Join us as he explains how in Christ we find out who we are and what we are living for.   Find out more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchur...

Happy New Year! Start 2023 with a Kingdom First focus with Mountaintop Church.   "Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." - Matthew 6:33 CarterMcInnis Lead Pastor January 1, 2023

Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. But, it’s also the most PRESSURE-filled time of the year. Family expectations, end of the year at work, all those communal things we feel every December... And that's on top of the pressure we feel the rest of the year: Parental pressure, family pressure, financial pressure, social pressure... Pressure has weight and odds are that yo...

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? We are our own worst critics. We know all our shortcomings. We see obstacles. We see a million reasons why God CAN’T do something in us and through us. BUT where we see obstacles, God sees opportunities. If there were no obstacles there would be no opportunity for Him to show his omnipotence through our obedience.   Find out more about Mountaintop...

When life is good, it’s not hard to be grateful. And you probably don’t need reminders about how good God is in those times. But we all know life is fragile, and not all of us are going through seasons of gratitude. Some of us are going through the grind. Life is hard right now. But one of the great promises of Christmas is that even when the deck seems stacked against us, God is WITH us. Carter M...

In Genesis, God makes a promise to Abram - who later became Abraham - that He would make Abram's family into a nation, so that his family could bless all the nations. By the end of the message today, I hope you can see that God is not only a Promise Keeper, but that His promises are continuing to be kept through each of us.  Josh Power Student Pastor November 27, 2022

What if there isn’t a prescription or formula for prayer? What if it’s different depending on the season you’re in or how you’re feeling? Sometimes prayer’s a lot of things, and the main way to do it wrong is to not do it at all. So I want to take a model of prayer from Jesus himself. Who better to learn from? As kids, we all eventually outgrow our shoes, but many of us never outgrew our prayers....

As kids, we all eventually outgrow our shoes, but many of us never outgrew our prayers. In fact, we still pray the same way we did as kids! And maybe that’s a problem. What if there’s a better way? In this series, we’re going to talk about why we pray, how we pray, and what it means to pray as an adult. In this message, Pastor Jake Davis walks us through the way Jesus taught his disciples to pray...

As kids, we all eventually outgrow our shoes, but many of us never outgrew our prayers. In fact, we still pray the same way we did as kids! And maybe that’s a problem. What if there’s a better way? In this series, we’re going to talk about why we pray, how we pray, and what it means to pray as an adult.  This week, Toni Collier visits with us  at Mountaintop Church and talks about grown...