Come On Up
Come on up to the mountain as we seek to learn more from the Lord through His Word! Pastor Carl of The Mountain Cross in Waynesville North Carolina simply teaches through the Word, verse by verse, chapter by chapter.
Listen here or on the radio! Come On Up airs weekdays at 3:30PM and 10:30PM on WSKY - WEZZ in Waynesville - 97.5 FM / 970 AM and in Asheville - 102.9 FM / 1230 AM. Come On Up also airs Sundays at 7:30AM on Truth FM in Greenville Tennessee - 91.1FM.
“Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” - Isaiah 2:3
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Episodes
208 episodes
Stop Calling Yourself Unclean - Acts 11
A room full of religious leaders hears a report they never wanted to believe: Gentiles have received the word of God. The backlash is immediate, and Peter has to explain himself. We follow his step-by-step testimony through Acts 11, from the vi...
Faith That Does Not Need Proof
You can’t see air, yet you build your entire life around the fact that it’s there. So why do we demand a higher kind of proof when it comes to God? Pastor Carl opens with that tension and then walks us straight into Acts 10, where Peter’s certa...
Weekend Edition - Ezekiel 4 & 5
[A prophet lies in the dirt, measures out crumbs, sips rationed water, and bakes bread in a way that’s meant to shock the conscience. That’s not religious theater for its own sake. It’s God turning Ezekiel into a living warning for a people who...
Humility Before God - Acts 10
Pride can sneak in the moment God starts using us, so we slow down and ask a hard question: when people respond to a message, are they coming to hear us, or are they coming to hear Jesus through the Word of God? We start with a simple call to h...
Chosen And Changed
Someone can have the worst reputation in the room and still become family. We walk through Acts 9 and watch God do exactly that as Ananias obeys a hard assignment, lays hands on Saul, and calls him “Brother” before most people would even open t...
Acts 9 And The Road That Changed Paul
Saul thought he was serving God, then one question stopped him cold: “Why do you persecute me?” From that moment on the road to Damascus, everything flips and Pastor Carl walks us through why Acts 9 is not just a famous conversion story, but a ...
What Are You Worshiping When You Scroll
A lot of us start with grace and then quietly switch back to earning. We know Jesus saves, but we still wake up feeling like God’s approval rises and falls with our performance. Pastor Carl tackles that head-on from Acts 8, where the gospel con...
Acts 8 - Grace Is Not For Sale
You can’t buy what God only gives. That’s the collision at the center of Acts 8, where a city in Samaria erupts with joy through Philip’s preaching and miracles, yet one influential man tries to turn the Holy Spirit into a transaction. We follo...
Weekend Edition - Ezekiel 3
A warning can feel uncomfortable, but ignoring danger doesn’t make it disappear. We pick up in Ezekiel 3:16 as God appoints Ezekiel a watchman for Israel, and the message hits hard: faithfulness is measured by obedience to God’s word, not by ho...
God Does Not Live In Boxes - Acts 7
Stephen’s sermon in Acts 7 is more than a history lesson. It’s a direct challenge to the way we try to manage God, contain God, and keep holiness safely located “over there.” We walk through Pastor Carl’s Bible teaching as Stephen traces Moses,...
Acts 6 and True Freedom That Reaches The Soul
Freedom is a word we throw around, but what if the kind you need most has nothing to do with your circumstances and everything to do with your soul? We start with the gospel promise that Jesus Christ sets us free from sin, from ourselves, and f...
Fear Of God Over Fear Of People
Pressure has a way of revealing what actually runs our life: the fear of people or the fear of God. We walk through Acts 5 as the apostles are hauled before the council, accused of spreading dangerous teaching, and threatened for speaking the n...
When God Answers Prayer in Acts 5
Getting an answered prayer can feel like pure relief and sometimes like a rush of joy but what if God’s “yes” is aimed at something deeper than the outcome you wanted? We talk about the tension every Christian feels: bringing our real desires t...
Wholehearted Giving
Ananias and Sapphira didn’t get confronted for giving “too little” they got confronted for pretending. That single detail flips how many of us think about church giving, generosity, and what it means to live for God instead of living for applau...
Weekend Edition - Ezekiel 2
God’s glory overwhelms Ezekiel, then God lifts him up, fills him with the Spirit, and sends him to speak with courage to a rebellious people. We walk through the throne vision, the commission, and the strange command to eat the scroll so God’s ...
The Bold Faith Under Pressure of Acts 4
Pressure makes people quiet. Acts 4 shows what happens when the Holy Spirit makes people brave.We follow Pastor Carl through the courtroom-like moment where Peter and John are questioned by the religious leaders after a public healing. ...
When Your “Big Faith Moment” Flops
A public healing draws a crowd, but Peter refuses to let it turn into hero worship. We follow Acts 3 as Pastor Carl shows how the apostles immediately shift the attention to Jesus, the suffering Servant and risen Savior whose name carries real ...
Acts 3 - Rise Up And Walk
A crippled man asks for spare change at the temple gate, and Peter answers with a sentence that still confronts us: “Silver and gold I do not have… but what I do have I give you.” From Acts chapter 3, Pastor Carl walks us through the Beautiful ...
Cut To The Heart
A single question can expose everything: “What shall we do?” When Peter preaches in Acts 2, the crowd feels the weight of sin and the shock of grace at the same time, and we can hear ourselves in their words. Pastor Carl walks us through Peter’...
Seekers and Scoffers
Two crowds hear the same miracle and come to opposite conclusions: one group is amazed and wants to know more, the other group mocks and writes it off. That tension runs straight through our modern lives too. When something challenges our assum...
Weekend Edition - Ezekiel 1
We start this special weekend edition of the program in the Book of Ezekiel by sitting with the grief of Psalm 137 and asking whether we miss God or just miss the way life used to feel. We then watch God meet Ezekiel in Babylon with a staggerin...
Pentecost Power of Acts 2
A tiny prayer meeting turns into the moment the church goes public and nothing is the same again. We trace the story from Jesus’ ascension and the promise of His return, to a room filled with believers waiting in unity, and then straight into t...
Acts 1 - Stop Looking Up
“Why do you stand gazing up into heaven?” That line lands like a spotlight. We can spend our lives waiting for Jesus to come back, staring at the clouds, while missing the work He clearly puts in our hands today. So we walk through Acts 1 with ...
Your Plan Is Not The Blueprint
If you have ever caught yourself thinking, “I’ll follow God as long as it fits my plan,” this message will meet you right where you are. Pastor Carl wraps up Isaiah 66 and exposes how easy it is to get stuck in our own thoughts, build our own k...
Tremble At His Word in Isaiah 66
If you’ve ever opened your Bible hoping for comfort and walked away feeling exposed, you’re not alone and you’re not doing it wrong. Pastor Carl takes us to Isaiah 66, where God pulls no punches: heaven is His throne, earth is His footstool, an...