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 Support Come On Up at TheMountainCross.com/donate or purchase a Scripture-based T-shirt at WearTheWordProject.com. Wear Scripture, share the Truth, start a conversation...
Episodes
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 vision in Joppa to the moment the Holy Spirit falls on a Gentile household, proving that God’s grace does not stop at the borders we build. When Peter asks, “Who was ...
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 certainty gets reshaped by a surprising encounter with Cornelius, a Roman centurion who is fasting, praying, and reaching for a God he doesn’t fully know yet...
[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 stopped taking sin seriously and started trusting their own kingdom instead of the Lord.
We follow Pastor Carl through Ezekiel 4 and 5, where the sieg...
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 humility and a reminder that God humbles the proud, then we step into Acts 10 where the Lord reshapes Peter’s assumptions in a way that still challenges the church today.&...
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 the door. When the scales fall and Saul’s sight returns, the moment becomes bigger than a miracle story, it becomes a picture of what grace does to identity, p...
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 diagnostic for our own spiritual blind spots. We talk about how easily we can charge ahead with strong opinions, religious routines, or even real passion, while nev...
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 confronts both obvious bondage and the subtle trap of trying to “perfect ourselves in the flesh.” We talk about sanctification, what it means to be positionally ...
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 follow the story from the scattering after Stephen’s martyrdom to the surprising way God uses pressure to spread the gospel, reminding us that relocation, di...
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 how many people applaud or agree. If you’ve ever felt discouraged sharing the gospel, trying to speak truth with love, or watching someone refuse wise counsel, ...
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, the tabernacle, and the temple, then lands the punchline: the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands. God met Moses at a burning bus...
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 from the judgment we could never outrun and we ask why anyone would resist that kind of rescue.
Then we walk verse by verse through Acts 6 as the early church faces an un...
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 name of Jesus. What stands out is not just the conflict, but the clarity. The leaders worry about public backlash and protecting their position, while Peter and the apostles kee...
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 to God while learning that he is not a genie. When the Lord meets us in our weakness, he’s inviting us into trust, Scripture-shaped thinking, and a close...
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 applause.
Pastor Carl walks through Acts 4–5 and contrasts two postures: Barnabas’s open-handed surrender and a couple’s carefully managed ...
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 Word becomes part of us before we share it.
• the thunderous sound and blazing imagery around God’s throne and why it matters for worship
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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. The authorities want a method, a name, and a reason. Peter gives the one answer that still divides rooms today: Jesus Christ of Nazareth. From there we trace the claim that Jes...
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 power. The point is simple and confronting: Jesus is alive, and what you do with Him changes everything, not just your mood but your eternity.
We also get practical abou...
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 Gate miracle in Jerusalem and shows why this moment is more than an inspiring story. It’s a public, undeniable sign that points to Jesus, not to the sp...
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’s case that Jesus is the promised Messiah from David’s line, risen from the dead, exalted to the right hand of God, and confirmed as both Lord and Chris...
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 assumptions about God, do we lean in with humility, or do we protect our pride with sarcasm and distance?
We open Acts chapter 2 at Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit fills the...
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