The Mountaintop Gospel

Matthew 19:16-22 Pastor Cory is back in the gospels with this message. In this passage, Jesus is speaking to the rich young ruler, who would not follow Jesus because of his 'great possessions.' This young man desires to know what he must do to receive eternal life, and Jesus ultimately gives him the answer he doesn't want to hear. The question for us is now, will we choose our riche...

Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:1-20; Matthew 2:1-12 Pastor Troy manages to bring a bring a message about worship out of 3 very famous Christmas passages. We find a reason from each passage the worship God for the birth of Jesus Christ. May we never forget what is the true reason for this season. The devil wants to take the Christ out of Christmas, and at the least he wants to take the  worship  of Christ ou...

1 Samuel 15:1-33 Pastor Troy is back in our series on worship with this message about Saul, Israel's first king. He may have been the king the people wanted, but that does not mean he was the king they needed. Saul had a knack of relying on his own wisdom and understanding. In the case of the account in today's passage, this would lead him to once again disobey the commands of the Lord....

Matthew 12:1-8 Pastor Cory is back in the gospels with this message about the Sabbath. There remains a rest to come for the people of God. Yet, God has given us the Sabbath that we might find a certain rest upon this Earth. The pharisees saw the Sabbath as a restriction, but Christ shows us that it is for our blessing. He is Lord of the Sabbath, and wants us to understand that our rest ought to ul...

Psalm 36:1-12 Pastor Troy continues our series on worship with this message from the book of Psalms. It seems as though we have taken a very light view of sin in American Christianity, but this reveals a much deeper issue in our hearts. Our tolerance of sin reveals lack of true love and devotion for a holy God. We say that we love the Lord, yet we continually put things above Him in our hearts and...

Mark 2:1-12 Pastor Cory jokes that he needs a break from the book of Ephesians, so his messages will be out of the gospels for the next few weeks. This week we take a look at the account where Jesus heals the paralytic carried to him by four of his friends. This story shows us how Jesus perfectly fulfilled the promises of God in the Old Testament for the coming Messiah. He came to preach God'...

Psalm 20:5-9; James 2:14-26 Pastor Troy is back after a couple weeks in our series on worship with this message that really functions as a second part, or an extension of his last message:  Worship Means Trusting the Lord . Giving God the glory that He is worthy of, entails placing our faith completely in Him. However, we learn from James that faith without works is not true faith. We can say that...

Ephesians 5:15-21 Pastor Cory is back in our series on Ephesians with this message. Paul urges the church at Ephesus here to walk in wisdom and to make the best use of the time that we are given on this earth. It has been said, "Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God in bodily form." If we are to walk wisely, it will have to been through the surpassing knowledge of God in Christ Jesus. If we...

Ephesians 5:8-14 Pastor Cory is back in our series on Ephesians with this message. The church at Ephesus was surrounded by a city that was corrupted by sin to its very core. Paul admonishes these believers to walk in the light of Jesus Christ, to have no fellowship with the works of darkness that they see around them. Our faith in Christ Jesus has changed our eternal position, and therefore it sho...

Genesis 37:29-36; Psalm 20:1-9 Pastor Troy does something a little different for the service this morning. We have been praying for the pastor of the church that he grew up in, who has been suffering for a few months from severe pancreatitis and has been out of church for a while. He made it there to their church a couple Sunday evenings ago and delivered a powerful message that Troy felt our cong...

Colossians 3:1-11 Pastor Troy brought this message for the second night of revival. A major point of his message was that sin has lulled us into a state of apathy and indifference. The people of God in America have gotten to the place where we make light of the very sin that Christ Jesus suffered and died for. The sin in our lives is a direct affront against a holy and righteous God. The sin we ta...

Revelation 2:1-5 Pastor Troy opens up this Sunday morning's revival service with a brief message from the book of Revelation. Troy likens the state of our church to that of the church of Ephesus here as Jesus speaks to them. Really, Troy says that the church in America as a whole is not seeing revival because of where there hearts are with Christ. Jesus commends them for doing all the right t...

Colossians 1:15-18 Pastor Cory closes out our Sunday morning revival service with a look at the supremacy and glory of Christ as the very image of God. Going right along with Pastor Troy's earlier message, Cory calls the church to return our focus and devotion to Christ. He lifts up the Lord Jesus and tells of the beauty and splendor that Christ holds as the First and the Last, the One throug...

Ephesians 5:1-7 Pastor Cory is back in our series on Ephesians with this message. Paul gets down to the brass tax with these first few verses in Ephesians chapter 5. Paul calls for the people of God to put feet to their faith, to walk in love as Christ has loved us, striving for a holy way of living that honors the Lord. When we devote ourselves to Christ, our lives as His followers should look di...

Psalm 46:1-11 Pastor Cory opened up the weekend of revival at Mountain Home Baptist Church with this message out of the book of Psalms. The psalmist describes God as the refuge and strength of His people. Through all of the trials and tribulations in this life, though the earth may shake beneath us, God is immovable. The Lord is our river of grace that makes us glad even in the face of great adver...

Luke 19:28-40; Psalm 148:1-14; Matthew 3:7-12 If God's people do not worship Him, who else will? Pastor Troy asks this question in his message on worship. Jesus says that the very stones will cry out in praise if His people keep silent. He also says that God could raise up children even from the stones themselves. The Church's main function is to proclaim the praises of God, and their cr...

Psalm 100:1-5; Psalm 126:1-3; Acts 2:22-28, 36-47 Pastor Troy is back in our series on worship with this message. He says there is a crucial element missing to our worship:  gladness . Psalm 100 tells us to make a joyful noise to the Lord, and to serve Him with gladness. Troy cuts right to the heart as he asks the question: are we singing the words of our songs from just emotionless memory, or are...

John 4:21-24; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 2:20-21 Pastor Troy takes us back to the very foundation of worship as he attempts to answer the question, "what is worship?" All of his messages have really been leading to this one point: worship is giving God the glory in every area of your life.  There is no time when we are not worship God, and there is nothing in our liv...

Ephesians 4:17-24 Pastor Cory in this message really leans into the application Paul supplies to us in the later half of the book of Ephesians. All of the doctrine that the apostle outlines in Ephesians 1-3 is driving towards this point: put off the old man and put on the new man. Christ Jesus has come to completely restore the broken image of God in man, and we are called to actively demonstrate...

Ephesians 4:7-16 Pastor Cory takes us back to our series on the book of Ephesians with this powerful message on all that the church is able to accomplish in and through Christ Jesus. Conversely, Christ Jesus alone has the ability to work these things in and through His people. The One who ascended to the right hand of the Father is the same One who first descended from glory to bring His life and...

Daniel 1-6 No, you didn't misread that scripture reference. Pastor Troy walks us through the first six chapters of the book of Daniel, taking us through many familiar biblical accounts, all in the context of worship. While God had sent His people away captive in Babylon, He was far from done working in them and through them. Daniel and his friends, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, refuse to wo...

Matthew 17:1-8 Pastor Cory is taking a break this week from our series on Ephesians to bring us a powerful message on the account of Jesus Christ's transfiguration. More than just a story depicting the true nature of our Lord's divinity, the transfiguration teaches us a lesson on the nature of what our relationship with Him ought to be. He is more than a teacher, more than a prophet, mor...

Ephesians 4:1-6 Pastor Cory is back in our series on Ephesians with this message starting the second-half of the book. The first half of Ephesians was all doctrine. Beginning here in chapter 4, Paul is moving to practical application of this doctrine in our lives as believers. And what does he start with? Unity . The apostle knows that nothing in our walk with God will be as fruitful as Christ des...

Leviticus 19:1-3; Hebrews 12:5-11 Last message Pastor Troy challenged us with the reality that Christ is to be glorified above every name, and that every knee shall bow to Him. However, truly complete worship is not of Christ alone, but of the entire Godhead. This Father's Day, Troy gives a heartfelt message that pulls from his own experiences growing up with his earthly father, as well as hi...

John 14:26; 15:26; 16:7-8; Acts 5:1-4; John 4:19-26 Pastor Troy refers to this message in his sermon as  Truly Complete Worship Part 3.   While many people have begun to leave Jesus out of the equation when it comes to worship, many people also have a fractured view of worship as it pertains to the Godhead as a whole. This means that either 1, or 2, or all 3 of the Members of the Godhead are negle...