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Mountaintop Church
By Mountaintop Church
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Mountaintop ChurchSep 05, 2021
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Road Trip | All That Really Matters
More than ever, as a society, we are really good at drawing lines in the sand. After all, a distinctive trait of the modern world is that WE ARE DIVIDED. It's us versus them. It's the way we do it versus the way they do it. It's what seems right to us versus what seems right to them. We draw lines about behaviors, political platforms, cultural ideologies… And we Christians have a tendency to draw the wrong line in the sand. No one understood this better or could see through this better than the Apostle Paul, because this problem has been around since the church began 2,000 years ago.
Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/suIV4ZMz59I
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Road Trip | Shake it Off
About 2,000 years ago, the Apostle Paul ventured out on a road trip, and it changed the world. It is not hyperbole to say that The Apostle Paul changed the world more than any other human besides Jesus. In fact, you could say Paul amplified Jesus’ impact on the world. He let the world outside Jerusalem know who Jesus was. Paul is doing what he’s been called to do, led by the Holy Spirit, confirmed by those that have joined him, and he faced heavy opposition. Don’t think that just because you’re being obedient to God that it’s going to be easy street. In fact, if you’re in leadership, you know that if you’re not facing some kind of opposition, you’re probably not trying to make a real difference. In this series, we'll follow Paul along his Road Trip to Change the World! Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Holy Matrimony | God's Design for Winning in Marriage
Do we really want God in our marriage? Or do we only want God in our marriage if it's comfortable? Because God's design for winning in marriage is a lifelong exercise in losing… Marriage, at its best, is a picture of Christ and His church. Jesus died for the Church, surrendered, deferred, put us above himself. And our response in loving him back is to die to ourselves, to yield authority in our lives to him, even if it’s unnatural and difficult. Marriage gives us a glimpse of that.
Lead Pastor, Carter McInnis
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/EBEqvdagbZY
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Holy Matrimony | God's Design for the Bedroom
Every sermon I heard on sex growing up was pretty much: Don’t do it. That seemed to be targeted at teenagers and single folks. Those sermons seemed to center around the dangers of sex to our society. But I remember the day that our youth pastor said that sex was a good thing, a beautiful thing meant to be enjoyed by a husband and wife. Sex was not a dirty thing; it was part of the created order of us humans that God has made in His image. He designed us with sex in mind. It’s so important that an entire book of the Bible seems to be dedicated to it. It’s called the Song of Songs.
Lead Pastor
Carter McInnis Learn More about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/TaFW47N0Tzw
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Holy Matrimony | God's Design for Marriage
While there’s not a ‘marriage’ book in the Bible, God’s Word says a lot about marriage, sex, relationships, commitment, and God’s design for marriage. Marriage is God’s idea.
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JESUS: A Research Project | The Rich Man and Lazarus
Sometimes it can feel like our situation on earth reveals our sitting in eternity. If life is good, then God must be good with us. But our situation has nothing to do with our eternity. Our fortune has nothing to do with our eternity. Our luck has nothing to do with our eternity. How blessed we feel has nothing to do with our eternity. Our DECISIONS are what count… Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/ Messages from the previous two years of this series can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/
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JESUS: A Research Project | The Prodigal Son
Today we will lean into one of the most famous stories from the Gospel of Luke, and it's about a young man who was seeing green – greener pastures and dollar signs! But it turns out that when he got what he wanted, it wasn't what he had hoped for… Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/ Messages from the previous two years of this series can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/
Videos: https://youtu.be/LRMXtDqtXGE Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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JESUS: A Research Project | Place of Honor
I think we all need a reminder to be humble from time to time. Jesus says that our reflex should be to put others first, to practice humility and selflessness. And I need that reminder because I am really good at putting ME first. But humility and hospitality capture the heart of God. So how do we live that out on a day-to-day basis?
This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him.
Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/
Messages from the previous two years of this series can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/
Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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JESUS: A Research Project | The Rich Fool
In this series, JESUS: A Research Project, we’re studying teachings, miracles and parables of Jesus that are found only in the book of Luke, and it’s amazing how many of them have to do with material possessions and money. I think those stories resonated with Luke, who was a well-to-do Greek Physician. He didn’t know Jesus personally, but he thoroughly investigated Jesus's life by talking with numerous eyewitnesses. Maybe he’s the only one who had access to wealthy followers who resonated with these stories. Or perhaps he included them because that’s precisely the kind of people he planned to teach about Jesus. Whatever the case, Luke was listening… This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him. Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/ Messages from the previous two years can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/ Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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JESUS: A Research Project | The Good Samaritan
What is love, really? People seem to have different definitions of love. People seem to say it and not show it, or they have funny ways of showing it… And who gets to decide what love is? That’s a really important question if love is one of the fundamental traits of following Jesus and being his witnesses in the world. This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him. Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/ Messages from the previous two years can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/ Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/3NmvEdnAm-Y
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JESUS: A Research Project | The Disastrous Dinner Party
Have you ever had dinner turn into a disaster? A date that was an absolute dud? An friendly gathering that turned into a political debate? A nice night that turns into an awkward evening? In this message, we'll look at a dinner at a Pharisee's house that absolutely did not go to plan. And I think the host had high hopes for this dinner because it was a dinner to which he had invited Jesus… It's a story that's only found in the gospel of Luke. This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him. Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/ Messages from the previous two years can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/ Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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JESUS: A Research Project | The Miraculous Catch of Fish
Luke wasn’t a disciple of Jesus, but he was a disciple of someone who was: Peter. So, when you read Mark, you’re hearing the stories Peter told him. Mark was written first, which makes some sense given Peter’s prominence in the early church. Most scholars believe the other gospel writers had access to Mark as they were writing their accounts. When Luke was writing his account, he had to do some research, and that is the story of JESUS: A Research Project.
This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him.
Get the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-a-research-project/
Messages from the previous two years can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/
Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Square One | Why Do I Do What I Hate?
You are not the only one who struggles. We all struggle. And when we begin to follow Jesus, we grow and mature, but we'll continue to have a nature that steers us in the wrong direction. But there is hope. The heart of our faith is that we believe in a savior who came to Square One to take us to the finish line through His grace, mercy, and forgiveness. Your destiny is determined by the One who delivered you, not the things you do.
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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2fBrsGH7aCI
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Square One | What is Your Worth?
What is a thing worth? Well… the market decides. It's worth whatever someone will pay for it. The price tag doesn't really matter if someone won't pay that price. So what does God say that YOU are worth? What's your true value? What price is God willing to pay to make you an heir to His Kingdom?
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Video: https://youtu.be/H3rX1UATHIE
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Square One | Great Faith
We are not Born Christian. Jesus came that we might be Born Again. And that takes a realization about ourselves that can be easy to miss, especially in the Southern United States, where Christian ethics still permeate everyday public life. But our good deeds do not give us access to God. Our rule following does not give us access to God. There is no such thing as someone born on third base when it comes to relationship to God. We all start at Square One. This is what Jesus defines as Great Faith.
Watch Here: https://youtu.be/xNaileW5qSU
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Square One | Beginning Again with Faith
The New Year is a time that many of us feel like we are “Back at square one.” Many of us start over with good habits, regular exercise or new resolutions that we hope will give us a fresh start. Maybe you've even approached your faith the same way. You know you could do better, but with every step forward, you seem to follow it with two steps back, so you begin again. The truth is, we all start at Square One, and we all end up back at Square One along the way. Thankfully, we have a Square One faith, and Jesus meets us where we are with grace.
Video: https://youtu.be/Tl2l0-PfzBY
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New Year, New Me? | Luke Thompson
We make New Year's resolutions because we want to see a change in our lives. We want to start a new hobby, say yes more, say no more, start a habit, stop a habit… All for the purpose of experiencing a more full life. But over time, we often find ourselves falling short. The same thing happens when we first decide to follow Jesus. We might not think everything will change immediately, but we do think at least some of it will. Then as time goes on, we find ourselves still doing the same things we did before becoming a Christian, and asking whether or not this stuff really works… But here's the key: Spiritual Disciplines are not the end goal! We're after Godliness, not just a new routine. Read: 1 Timothy 4:7-10 Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Prepare Him Room | When It Doesn't Make Sense
If you want God to do something amazing in your life, it might require a leap of faith that doesn’t make logical sense. In fact, I guarantee it. There is an assumption that obeying God will make your life better, but it’s possible that it will make life more complicated. That's certainly how it happened for Joseph...
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Prepare Him Room | When It Seems Impossible
History is full of heroes and legendary risk takers who did what seemed impossible. But, whether it’s generational social change, an athletic feat or a musical anomaly, when we say the word ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ what we really often mean is ‘IMPROBABLE.’ In other words, the math can make sense. There’s a path to possible, and even if it’s astronomical, it’s not impossible. Impossible implies another force outside this world will have to override math or physics or gravity or reality. Impossible only becomes possible through the supernatural. So what happens when you surrender to God's power in your life?
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Prepare Him Room | When It's Not About Me
What if your purpose is not about you? What if it's not about your success, family, portfolio, retirement, recognition… What if your life is not actually about your life at all? This is especially hard in the Holiday season because sometimes, we make the season all about ourselves. But what if it's not about me?
“He must become greater, I must become less.” John 3:30
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The Unseen Me | The New You
When it comes to diet and exercise, everyone understands and accepts that: Unhealthy behaviors lead to an unhealthy me. But is it possible that the unseen you is similar? Is it possible that your outward behavior impacts your inward spiritual health? Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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The Unseen Me | Take Captive Your Thoughts
Self talk. The things that we tell ourselves that, though they may not BE true, they FEEL true. And we believe ourselves more than we believe anyone else, even when that self talk is self destructive. We wouldn’t purposely lie to ourselves, would we? This kind of self-talk is creating real problems. But today we're going to give you a strategy the Apostle Paul says is critical in dealing with these thoughts and in maintaining our mental and emotional health.
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The Unseen Me | How to Renew Your Mind
All of us have a gravitational pull toward conforming to this world. And I’m not an anti-this world guy, but listen, this world can make a lot of money off of you if you will be conformed to it.
I mean, the algorithm is designed to conform you. “People who bought this also bought” or “suggested for you” or “you might also like.” The problem with it all isn’t if you buy something else on Amazon. The problem is that some of the messages of the world are not healthy – spiritually, mentally or emotionally.
Conforming to the world will convince you that you’ve got to do something, wear something, drive something, be something in order to be somebody. And you can get in some really dark places because of this. But we don’t arrive at who we are by mistake. Our patterns form us. And if we aren’t careful, conforming to the world’s patterns can damage our spiritual health. Conforming our minds to a repetition of behaviors or input or relationships that constantly reinforce the world’s sense of reality, might have you thinking that there’s not really an unseen world or a spiritual element to the unseen you.
But there is another way.
God wants to renew your mind. And you have a role to play. You can create patterns that produce spiritual health. You just have to decide if you think your spiritual reality will make a difference in everything else.
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Mary and Martha | The Unseen Me
The you everyone sees is not the real you. You are not your physical traits, skin tone, hair color or hairstyle. You’re not tall, short, young or older. You’re not even how your voice sounds. The real you is unseen. It’s the conversation you’ve had with yourself in your head and heart. In this series, we want to start a much-needed conversation in the church about mental, spiritual and emotional health, and dig into scripture for insights we might not have thought about before. Luke 10:38-41
Carter McInnis, Lead Pastor Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Moses: The Tabernacle | Trusting God
How do you measure trust? Trust is often intangible, especially when it comes to God and faith. And our trust is often hard to quantify. We're going to finish this series called Trusting God by looking at one of the final challenges Moses gives to the Israelites in the Book of Exodus. And their trust will be measured with time and money.
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Moses: The Manna | Trusting God
Trusting God can be difficult. It's easy to do the right thing when we know the why and we know the how. It's much harder when we don't understand the path forward. But it's in the unknown that we encounter God.
Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Z-x1ywVeL4Q?si=Kp6-yMre8wJW-CId
Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Trusting-God-Moses-Group-Study-FINAL-VERSION.pdf
Josh Power
Student Pastor
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Moses: The Passover & The Exodus | Trusting God
Trusting God won’t always make sense. There will be times you’ll wonder if God is on your side. There will be times you doubt. REMEMBER, God is faithful. He has been good to you. He’ll be faithful again. God can make a way when it doesn’t make sense. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
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Moses: The Ask & The Plagues | Trusting God
God’s plan doesn’t always go according to our plan. It's an uncomfortable truth. But you can embrace it. Embrace the messiness, the brokenness, the zig-zagging roller-coaster of emotions. Because our God is a God of purpose, and who you stand with is greater than what you stand against.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/pk1Zic0MOtQ Download the series Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Trusting-God-Moses-Group-Study-FINAL-VERSION.pdf Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Moses: The Burning Bush | Trusting God
There is a God. He has called you. He will go with you. This is going to be the message to Moses and the people of Israel. But these statements of truth leave us with a choice that lands one what this series and Moses’ story seems to be all about: Will you believe in God? Will you obey God? Will you trust God? Those statements don’t do much good without our actions. When we act on those truths, God’s purposes on earth come to life, and that’s never been seen more vividly than with Moses.
Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Trusting-God-Moses-Group-Study-FINAL-VERSION.pdf Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Moses: The Origin Story | Trusting God
Am I going to trust God? Every single one of us has to decide what we’re going to do with this question. At some point, what God says takes precedence in our lives or something else does, and I believe the decisions we make over and over again are what shape our character and create our destiny. Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Trusting-God-Moses-Group-Study-FINAL-VERSION.pdf Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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You Can Belong Before You Become | beLONGING
People think that they don’t belong with Jesus because of their behavior. They don’t look, talk or act like a Christian, and that stops people from coming to church because they don’t consider themselves church people. They can’t get over what they see when they look in the mirror. We have a hard time believing that we could ever be anything other than what we’ve always been. But belonging to the Kingdom of God does not look like belonging to the Kingdoms of this world. Behavior modification isn’t a requirement for belonging to Jesus. You can belong before you become.
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
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What Jesus Sees in You Can Change the Way You See Yourself | beLONGING
Jesus wants a seat at your table. Your past, history, name, occupation, reputation, or character does not intimidate him. You belong here. And you belong with Jesus. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
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You Don't Have to Be Who You've Always Been | beLONGING
You don’t have to be who you’ve always been. You have no idea how God wants to redefine your life in this Kingdom in which he has invited you and me to belong. Even the you who think you could never belong with God. You don’t have be who you’ve always been. You can be who God meant for you to be. You can belong in Spirit and truth.
Carter McInnis, Lead Pastor Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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The Solution for Your Longing to Belong | beLONGING
Our expectation of home doesn’t always match our experience of home. What you were hoping would bring comfort, peace and serenity ends up bringing tension and division and stress. You just wanted grandma’s cooking, but you got grandad’s opinion of your haircut. Have you ever asked yourself, “What is that?” Why does my experience often not measure up to my expectations and yet, again and again, my soul longs for this elusive thing called HOME... God has provided a solution for this, and this series called beLONGING, is going to tackle this longing for belonging that is universal to us all. Learn more about Mountaintop at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Team Colors Sunday | Give yourself FOR a mission greater than yourself
Give yourself FOR a mission greater than yourself. Become a part of the mission to invite and equip people to follow Jesus.
Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
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Kindness & Goodness | Fruit(full)
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Peace & Gentleness | Fruit(full)
We often view Peace as something you GET not necessarily something you HAVE. You go for a walk to get some peace, or you go sit on a beach to get some peace. But is that real peace? You need peace when the arrows are flying. You need peace in traffic and in the drama. You need peace when there is tension. So true peace must not come from an exterior stimulus. It must be something you have when you can’t get it. Download the review guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/peace/ Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Parenting: Getting IT Right with Sandra Stanley
You don't have to constantly doubt if you're getting it right as a parent. Start here and feel confident about raising a healthy and happy family.
Please welcome Sandra Stanley to Mountaintop!
Whether you're sleep deprived with a colicky newborn or navigating the emotional roller coaster of a teenager, parenting has its ups and downs, its confusion and clarity, its big blowups and small victories. And no matter our family makeup or our children's personalities, many of us experience anxiety over our children's futures and often fear making a mistake.
Andy and Sandra Stanley are no strangers to this feeling. As parents of three grown children and cofounders of North Point Ministries, they are seasoned experts on faith and parenting. Together they have spent decades counseling countless families, mentoring others, and learning from mentors of their own, all while leading one of the largest churches in the country.
In Parenting: Getting It Right, Andy and Sandra combine their experience and wisdom into a guide that helps readers understand and live by essential parenting principles.
Learn more about Mountaintop at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Self-Control | Fruit(full)
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Love | Fruit(full)
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 others. We've somehow convinced ourselves that we can love God and be mean to people. Here’s a better way to think about it: Are Christians known as the most loving people on earth? No, we’re not. But John, who was in the inner circle of Jesus’s three closest disciples, says we should be. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Faithfulness | Fruit(full)
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 of the Spirit with our own effort. "But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no loaw against these things." - Galatians 5:22-23 Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Focus, Direction and Destiny | VBS Kickoff
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 focus on your faith!
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
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Influencing the Influencers | Influencers
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, family hurt, friendship hurt, dating hurt? You’re a believer, but there are some barriers before you see yourself as in influencer. Let's talk about that. Learn more about Mountaintop at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Influencers | Change Me to Change the World
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, for His purposes, for His good?
By the end of today, here's what I hope you realize: If we are open to the work of God in us, we’ll be amazed to see the work of God through us. But God might need to change me and you in order to change the world.
Learn more about Mountaintop at https://mountaintopchurch.com
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Finding Certainty About Jesus | Jake Davis
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 Davis
College & Creative Pastor
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JESUS: From the Friend of a Friend | What's Your Story in the Mystery?
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 makes us question if God is trustworthy, if God will come through. The waiting is the point. The message of the parable we'll study today is plain: Do what only you can do so God can do what only He can do. Obey and wait. This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him. Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
March 26, 2023
VIDEO Here: https://youtu.be/P88WvVrLdVM
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JESUS: From the Friend of a Friend | Do you ever feel like you need to just start over?
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 school; or get a real estate license; or finally start our own business and start all over. Because sometimes you just need to start over. Do you need to start over? Does it feel like what is written on the pages of your past is unredeemable or unfixable? Like you’ve made such a mess that it would be best to gut your life for a complete renovation? By the time we wrap our heads around this passage today, I hope to show you that not only is it possible for you to start over but that the renovation has already begun, and it all starts with Jesus.
This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him.
Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
March 12, 2023
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FOR Others | The FOR Campaign
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 life FOR others the way he laid down his life FOR me. And I’m asking you to take some tangible steps this week, on commitment Sunday. Learn more about the FOR Campaign at https://mountaintopchurch.com/FOR
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/6BYeqRiYvmE
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
March 5, 2023
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The Privilege of Giving | The FOR Campaign
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, visit: https://mountaintopchurch.com/for
CarterMcInnis
Lead Pastor
Ben Cathey
Executive Pastor
February 26, 2023
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The FOR Campaign | FOR BHM
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 there. That’s why: The most important thing we do FOR Birmingham is change more lives IN Birmingham.
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
February 19, 2023