The Mountaintop Gospel
A podcast of weekly recorded sermons from Bald Mountain Baptist Church. We are located in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and we hope to utilize this platform to play some small role in carrying the gospel from our neck of the woods to the ears of those beyond our community and to the ends of the earth!
The Prodigal Son
Luke 15:11-32
This past Sunday we had the pleasure of hearing a sermon from one of our new church members, Will Dicus, who God has called to the ministry. Brother will delivered a powerful message about Jesus' parable of the prodigal son. At some point in our lives, we all have, or will, drift[ed] away from God. Yet the Lord stands there waiting for us with open arms, ready to rejoice at our repentance. The overarching point that Will drove home to us as a church was that we are called to have the heart...
The Enemy Within (Pergamos)
Revelation 2:12-17
Back in our series on the church, Pastor Troy brings a convicting sermon from Jesus' message to the church at Pergamos. This is a church that had held strong to the name of Jesus in the face of persecution, yet they had let their guard down and the enemy had slipped in the back door. Troy reminds us that it is the small compromises that lead to big sin. The church had allowed false doctrine and riotous living to infiltrate their congregation, now the Lord called them to repent and to call out these...
Jars of Clay
2 Corinthians 4:1-18
Pastor Troy returns to the pulpit this week, but instead of returning to our series on the churches of Revelation, Troy delivered a message to us that he says is his heart for us as a church. Paul is essentially describing his personal outlook in ministry to the church at Corinth. While Paul was called to the vocational ministry of the gospel, this text is a mirror in which we must look at our own lives as believers. Paul says that we are all earthen vessels (jars of clay), and we have been given...
The Resurrection Life
Colossians 2:6-15; 3:1-4
Happy Easter yall!!! Pastor Troy brought a powerful message concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He told us up front that this may be a little different from the Easter message we normally hear. You can never hear too much about the cross and the empty tomb, but Troy takes it a step further with this message. What does the resurrection mean for us today? Did Jesus rise simply so that we might one day experience the glory of God? We take a l...
The Teaching of Christ
John 4:1-26
Pastor Cory brings us a very important message that we all need to hear from story of Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. This woman was despised, rejected, but worst of all, ignorant to the truth of the gospel. Jesus Christ is the Messiah that has come to deliver God's truth to the world. He has come to set the record straight, but not only that, He is come to give us eternal and unending life from the Word of God. His well of truth is deep, it is thirst quenching...
Faith in the Fire (Smyrna)
Revelation 2:8-11
Pastor Troy is back this week in his series on the churches of Revelation. He reminds us, however, that Jesus' message to the church in the first century was not for them only, but for the Church of God throughout these end times. The letter to Smyrna was the shortest of the seven, but it is packed with powerful, convicting, and encouraging truth! Jesus revealed to them that some of their members were going to be cast into to prison and even be put to death, but the amazing thing is that despite this...
The Signs of His Coming
Matthew 24:3-14
Pastor Cory brings a timely message about the events we are seeing today in these end times. Jesus not only promised that He would return, He gave signs that would precede His second coming. While much of what we are facing today in this world may be daunting and overwhelming at times, as God's people we can rest assured that our Lord is going to come back and set everything in order. May we be comforted knowing that these times are surely in the hands of God, and so are we!
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Our First Love - Ephesus
Revelation 2:1-7
Today we explored the first church Jesus spoke to in the book of Revelation, the Church of Ephesus. They were a church filled with many good works. They had rooted out evil in the church, and they had not fainted in their labors. Yet, Jesus says that He has something against them---they had left their first love. From this, we took a look at our own hearts. If this first century church, that had faced so many trials and were doing so many things, if they had lost their first love then we ought...
Our Transition into Faith
Hebrews 11:1-16
Pastor Cory delivered a powerful message this morning on faith from the book of Hebrews. You may have hear the "Hall of Faith" preached on before, but Cory brings this message right to us as the church of God. Faith is essential in the Christian walk, and it is what sets apart from an unbelieving world. The writer of Hebrews describes faith as almost something that is tangible, that we may grasp ahold of when the world is falling to pieces. As the church, our faith is not only a feeling, it is a...
The Vision of Christ to the Church
Revelation 1:1-20
Pastor Troy is back in our series on Vision as we traverse God's calling to grow our church. He says the plan is to look at each of the seven churches in chapters 2 and 3 of the book of Revelation. However, chapter 1 serves us as the introduction to this series, giving us the picture of our Lord who has come to deliver the message to the churches. The most important thing to remember is that His message was not just to seven churches in Asia Minor 2000 years ago. Rather, the Lord has a specific message...
The Pursuit of the Church
Colossians 3:12-17
Pastor Cory brings us this message from the book of Colossians, relating to our series on Vision. The church at Colossae was very near to Paul's heart. They had faced many attacks by false doctrines, but perhaps their biggest foe was their own flesh. Paul encourages the church to put off their old self, and to put on the new man, which is renewed in Christ. In these verses of chapter 3, Paul is effectively telling them what a healthy body of believers is supposed to pursue. The true church of Christ is to be...
Growth Means Change
Ephesians 2:19-22
Pastor Troy brings us another message for our vision month. Towards the end of the message, he delivers the vision that God has given him for Bald Mountain Baptist Church, asking that we pray for God to help us grasp ahold of where He wants to take us as a church, and we ask you join us in prayer as well! To open up this message, Troy brings a powerful thought about the true essence of "growth" as a concept. Put simply, as the title states, growth means change. While...
What It Means to Walk with God
Psalm 16:1-11
Pastor Cory delivers a message from this "golden" psalm of David in our new year vision month. After Pastor Troy preached about keeping Christ at the center of our lives, Cory finds it appropriate to tell us what it means to truly walk with God. You will hear a familiar verse in this psalm, as David remarks how the lines have fallen to him in pleasant places. Even in the midst of adversity and uncertainty, we can always rely on God's goodness and guidance as we seek to enact His will as individuals and...
Christ at the Center
Lamentations 3:17-25; John 15:1-5; 1 Peter 2:1-6
Pastor Troy brings us into the New Year with a message regarding the vision and direction of the church. Before we are to grow numerically or physically, the we must grow individually in our relationship with Christ. For this to happen, Christ must take priority in our lives above all else. And not only priority, He must be the very wellspring and foundation of our lives. The church is made of people, and for Christ to be the cornerstone of Bald Mountain Baptist Church, He must be the cornerstone of...
A Child That Makes ALL Things New
Isaiah 9:6-7
Pastor Cory delivers a powerful message surrounding the birth of our Savior from this passage. Over 700 years before Jesus was born in the manger, God foretold of His coming through the prophet Isaiah. We see in these verses that this would not just be any ordinary king of a particular nation, He would be the everlasting King upon the throne of David. Not only that, He would be God incarnate, come to rescue His creation from sin and make all things new. This baby born 2000 years ago came for us all by the mercy...
What It Means to Have Eternal Life
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 riches in this life or in eternity? Jesus tells us what it truly means to have eternal life, and it means to follow Him.
Celebrating Christmas
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 out of this holiday. May we ever be reminded of what this time of year is all about, our Lo...
Obedience is Worship
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. While Saul tries to minimize his sin, Samuel brings the Word of the Lord to reveal just what God thinks about the obedience...
Christ is Our Sabbath
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 ultimately be found in Him, both in this life and the next.
The calling for every...
Our Sin is Evidence of a Lack of Worship
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 lives. May this look at this psalm of David reveal to us the great disparity in our worship compared to...
The Promised Messiah
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's Word, to release the captives from the bondage of sin, and to bring healing to our bodies. We look expectantly...
Trusting the Lord Means Putting Feet to Our Faith
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 we serve a big God, but if our actions say differently than do we really trust H...
The Wisdom in Christ
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 are to make the most of our time, we must look to our ultimate example of how to live...
The Light of Christ
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 should affect the way that we conduct ourselves in this life. We ought to have a new perspective that is shifted from the base and...
Worship Means Trusting the Lord
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 congregation needed to hear. Without the video element, the impact may be somewhat lessened, however you can hear the clear difference in the man...
The Son of Obedience
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 take so lightly is the very sin that brought the full weight of God's wrath upon our precious Lord and...
What Are You Focused On?
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 through which everything was made, and through which everything in creation is sustained. Christ is worthy of our undivided attention, of our personal and sold-out...
Our First Love
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 things, but warns them that they have departed from their First Love, namely Himself. Christ calls for the church to remember how their hearts used...
The God Who is Always Near
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 adversity. No matter how the world wishes to try and exalt itself, bringing chaos and destruction, God is on the throne, and under...
Our Personal Devotion to Jesus
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 different than those of the world. Paul urges the church of Ephesus not to walk in the very same ways that...
Worship Takes Gladness
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 we singing with joy and gladness? Worship is much more than just singing, it is the heart behind our s...
The Church's Cry
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 cry ought to be lifted up from every corner of this Earth. If God's people do not go about praising Him, the Lord will raise up children...
What is Worship?
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 lives that God does not desire us to worship Him in and through! Take a moment with us today a...
Our Personal Demonstration of Faith
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 our faith in Him as we seek to put the old, darkened, sin-corrupted man to death and live in the newness of life...
The Ability of the Church
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 light to mankind. Through Christ's earthly ministry, we se how we are meant to function as God's people...
When You Worship and When You Don't
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 worship anyone or anything but the One True God. Through their obedience, we see what results when we worship God. Through the pride and idolatry of the Babylonians, we...
A Profound Relationship
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, more than a hyper-spiritual being. He is all of these and so much more. Jesus is the Son of God, God in the flesh, the Messiah, our...
The Unity of Christ
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 desires if we are not unified as a body of believers (i.e. His church). Our common faith in Christ unites us deeper...
Our Praise is a Proclamation
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's glory is for our good." While God truly merits our souls' best song, our praise accomplishes bringing glory to God in more ways than...
Our Purpose is to Worship
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 famous question in the world: "What is the meaning of life?" Could it be that the purpose of our lives is not found in what we have done...
