The Mountaintop Gospel

John 14:25-28; John 8:1-12 Cory takes a break from our series on Ephesians to bring us a message from which all Christians can receive comfort. Jesus Christ our Lord has provided us with the ultimate promise of eternal life with Him. He stook His very word on it, for if it were not so He says that He would have told us. Even for someone such as the woman who was caught in adultery, someone whose s...

John 4:19-26; Isaiah 43:1-7, 14-21; 1 Peter 2:9-10 Pastor Troy ended his last message on worship in John 4, speaking on worshipping the Holy Spirit. He picks up this message in the same passage, but tackles it from a very different angle. There is a small phrase in John 4 which Troy wishes to bring our attention to, "...the Father is seeking such to worship Him." We all know the most fam...

1 Peter 2:9-10; Isaiah 49:3-7; Isaiah 61:1-4, 10-11; Luke 24:50-53 Pastor Troy picks up right where he left off in the last message with an even further dive into our purpose as God's people to worship Him. While there ought not to be any more reason to worship the Lord other than the simple fact that He is worthy of it, we find in this message a clear application of the phrase, "God&apo...

Psalm 43:1-5 Pastor Troy delivers a powerful message on praising the Lord even in the very midst of our darkest valley's and fiercest storms of life. Many can relate to the pain the psalmist is expressing in the opening of Psalm 43. However, there is a bold shift in perspective where the writer declares that he shall yet praise God even in the midst of the trial he is facing. We must learn th...

Acts 8:26-40 Pastor Troy looks at a very famous Bible story from Acts chapter 8 and pulls a principle from it that may not be so familiar when we think of the story. As Philip meets with an Ethiopian eunuch in a divine appointment on a desert road, there is something missing in the Ethiopian's religious observance that may just apply to us today even more than we can imagine. While the eunuch...

Proverbs 14:12-18 Pastor Troy ends his impromptu series on the heart and his look into Considering Well with this message. Proverbs 14:12 is arguably one of the most well-know proverbs in the Bible: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." The Lord calls us to consider something very well- that His ways are far better than our ways. The...

Ephesians 3:14-17 Pastor Cory continues in his series on Ephesians in this message, talking about the purpose for which Paul prayed for the church at Ephesus in these verses. It is only fitting that Pastor Cory now gets to have his say on prayer as Pastor Troy has finally ended his series on prayer! Paul does not hit his knees on behalf of the Ephesians so that they might have nice things, or than...

Isaiah 40:1-31; Psalm 62:1-12 Pastor Troy begins our new series on Worship with this message. Worship can mean so many different things, but there is one thing about worship that never changes, or rather, some One that never changes. Isaiah 40 is rich with the majesty of God. He looks at God's character and His attributes, as well as His works and His salvation. When we think about worship, w...

Ephesians 3:18-21 Pastor Cory is back in our series on Ephesians with this message. This message is almost like the second part of his last message, The Purpose of Prayer . Paul's desire and earnest prayer for the Ephesians is that they would be filled with the fullness of Christ Jesus, experiencing His love that surpasses all knowledge and comprehension. This great love with which God has lo...

Proverbs 31:10-31 Pastor Cory delivers a heartfelt Mother's Day message on a very well known text in the book of Proverbs. Proverbs 31 paints a beautiful picture of what a woman of God is supposed to look like. I know that even if we did not have an earthly mother, we all know a woman in our lives in particular that the Lord has used to bless us beyond measure. Thank you to all of the mothers...

Proverbs 24:30-34; Proverbs 27:23-27; Proverbs 6:6-11 Proverbs 15:31-32; Proverbs 29:7; Proverbs 27:23-24 Using the very same text he left off in his last message, The Field of the Slothful , Pastor Troy begins to look into a common phrase that is both often repeated as well as often over looked in the book of Proverbs (elsewhere in the Bible). When God tells us to consider something, it as if He...

Proverbs 23:1-8 Pastor Troy continues in his series on the heart as well as continuing the thought from the previous message, Considering Well . In Proverbs 23, the Lord (through Solomon) is warning His people of snare of the world's delicacies. In America, and most of the Western world, the ruler's table is ever before us. Now today more than ever, we are constantly tempted by such rich...

1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Taking a break from our series on the heart, Troy takes the time to directly address the church today as they are getting ready to host a community outreach dinner. He shows that we are altogether laborers with God in the work of reaching the world for Christ. The pastor is not the only one who is tasked with sowing and reaping the gospel, this calling is for every believer in...

Proverbs 24:30-34 Talking about the heart, Solomon says in the book of Proverbs that a man who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls (Prov 25:28). When it comes to the Christian walk, our very hearts are like a walled city or in the case of Proverbs 24, a walled in field that must be maintained. Those who are slothful in their spiritual life will face...

Proverbs 18:1-2; Proverbs 16:1-2, 25, 32; Proverbs 23:23-26; Psalm 139 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark helmed one of greatest expeditions of all time. After the Louisiana purchase in 1803, they would embark on a journey that will be remembered as long as history is recorded. They set out to map part of one of the greatest frontiers that has ever been know to man- the American West. Yet, Troy ar...

Matthew 11:25-30 Have you every been weary? Have you even been burdened with something? Well Jesus tells those who have been exhausted and weighed down to come to Him and take their yoke upon themselves. His yoke is easy to bear, and the burden He gives us is light. In order to appropriate the rest that Jesus promises, we must have the proper vision of Him. We must know that He is meek and lowly,...

Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:17-27 In the face of trying times for today's church, we must learn to have the type of faith that Jesus describes in these texts. Many of us have probably heard a sermon out of these passages about "the faith that moves mountains." Troy takes this passage from a different perspective that we hope will challenge your own personal walk of faith. This was a ha...

Matthew 6:9-10 While prayer is the acknowledgement of our in ability , that doesn't mean that it is an excuse for our in action . Prayer is acknowledging our complete and total dependence upon God, but that dependence does not entitle us to simply sit back and do nothing. In fact, it is precisely the opposite . God has given us work to do in His kingdom, and it is in the doing of this work th...

Acts 17:22-31 When Paul gave his gospel presentation to the people of Athens at Mars Hill, he was talking to some very religious and spiritual people. However, religiosity and spirituality are not enough to save us. The only thing that is going to count on that great day of judgement is whether or not we have been found in the righteousness of the One Man that God has ordained. Even in the church,...

Jeremiah 29:10-14 Pastor Cory brings a powerful Word out of the Old Testament book of the Prophet Jeremiah. This is truly a prophetic Word for us today! God tells Jeremiah to prophesy to His people and let them know that, while He may have brought judgement upon them because of their sins, that this is not His ultimate desire for His children. Even though we sin, God's thoughts toward us are...

Exodus 3:1-10, Hebrews 1:1-2, 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 God spoke in many brazen ways in Biblical times. From the Burning Bush, to the Mount of Transfiguration, we see God speaking to His people all throughout the Bible. The problem is, today we sometimes feel as though for God to speak to us it has to be in some similar kind of glaring display of His power. However, in His Word, God tells us that He i...

2 Chronicles 7:11-16 God promises Solomon what will be the result of His people humbling themselves before Him, seeking Him in prayer, and repenting. He says that He will hear from Heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land. It is very important to note that God does not say that if the unbelievers seek Him, but rather, if His people turn from their wicked ways. There is a problem in the Amer...

Ephesians 2:11-22 Jesus Christ is our Prince of Peace. But what does this mean? What is the peace that He gives us? Well, glad you asked! Pastor Cory does a wonderful job of breaking down this very famous passage of Scripture in which the Apostle Paul tells us of the eternal work that Christ has done for us, as well as is continually doing in us and through us. Jesus has made peace between us and...

Isaiah 55:1-3; Isaiah 58:1-14  Fasting is an integral part of our faith that is so often neglected. Who doesn't love to eat, right? The Israelites challenged God as to why He was not attending to them after they fasted. They believed that fasting was simply to change the outer appearance, to look dejected, to only go without eating. God, however, has given us the recipe for what He desires fa...

1 Corinthians 1:4-7  The Lord has richly blessed us with grace upon grace through Christ Jesus. This amazing grace, which we in no way deserve, should prompt us to be eternally thankful to our God in heaven who loved us enough to not only send Jesus to save us from the penalty of our sins, but to also deliver us from it's power ! We are working on getting our back-content uploaded, please bea...