Mountaintop Church

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 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?

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.

Jake Davis

College & Creative Pastor

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.

Carter McInnis

Lead Pastor

March 26, 2023

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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.  

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Carter McInnis

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

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Carter McInnis

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

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Ben Cathey

February 26, 2023

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

We know about God is because somebody told somebody who told us. You may have been raised in a Christian home and it was your family who told you. It might have been a friend who invited you to youth group. Maybe it was a youth pastor, a Sunday school teacher or a preacher. Somebody told you who had been told by someone else.   The bible says we have a responsibility to do something with this faith that's been handed down to us. 

At Mountaintop, we're unapologetically FOR families because we believe that one more changed home can shape a generation. If we are serious about our mission to Invite and equip people to follow Jesus, it is imperative that we invite and equip young people -- and their parents -- to follow Jesus.  

FOR One. FOR Families. FOR Birmingham.  

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Carter McInnis

What is ONE person worth? One is worth Jesus leaving the glory seat of Heaven for the gory scene of the cross. One is worth the light of the world going into the darkness of a borrowed tomb. One is worth the Prince of Peace suffering the pain of crucifixion. 

Here at Mountaintop, we are FOR ONE. One more changed life.   For ONE. For FAMILIES. For BHM.  

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