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 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
182 episodes
When Faith Gets Pushback
Standing up for what God says is true can cost you, and Isaiah proves it. We lean into a hard but needed question: when the pressure is on, are we walking in unbelief or trusting the Lord with our whole lives?Pastor Carl continues a ver...
God’s Faithful Remnant from Isaiah 65
Chaos has a way of making compromise feel reasonable, but Isaiah 65 draws a hard line between a life shaped by God’s Word and a life shaped by our own thoughts. Pastor Carl walks verse by verse through a message that confronts spiritual drift w...
Your DIY Jesus Won’t Carry The Storm
Worry, pain, and anger don’t just drain your peace, they can quietly rewrite your theology. When we’re under pressure, it’s easy to cling to a version of Jesus we’ve shaped to fit our fears and preferences, but that “other Jesus” can’t speak li...
Praise God In The Storm - Isaiah 63
Blood-stained robes. A winepress of judgment. A Redeemer who also brings justice. Isaiah 63 is not gentle imagery, and that is exactly why it wakes us up when we are tempted to shrink God down to something we can manage.We follow Pastor...
God Will Finish His Work
You can feel it when you’re living in the gap between what God promises and what you can see with your own eyes. Pastor Carl opens Isaiah 61 and 62 to remind us that God is not improvising. He is going to do a work, he is going to accomplish hi...
Accepted In Isaiah 61
Jesus once read Isaiah 61 out loud in His hometown and then stopped mid verse, closed the scroll, and said the words were fulfilled. That one moment raises a huge question: why announce “the acceptable year of the Lord” but pause before “the da...
Real Peace Starts With Surrender
Peace is one of the most abused words in public life, and we can feel how thin it gets when it depends on leverage, headlines, and fear. From Isaiah 60, we make a different claim: real peace comes from a different King. As we teach through this...
Isaiah 60 - Camels, Cargo, And The Day Light
Darkness is real, and pretending otherwise doesn’t help. What does help is a vision big enough to outlast it and personal enough to meet you in the middle of your mess. We head into Isaiah 60 with Pastor Carl from The Mountain Cross in Waynesvi...
Isaiah 59 - Truth Fallen In The Street
Truth doesn’t disappear quietly, it gets trampled in the street. Pastor Carl’s teaching from Isaiah 59 lands like a diagnostic scan of the soul and the culture: when we stop pleading for truth and start redefining justice to fit our desires, we...
What If The Church Actually Surrendered
If you’ve ever wondered why your prayers feel unheard or why fasting feels like effort with no fruit, Isaiah has an answer that’s both convicting and freeing. We sit with Pastor Carl from The Mountain Cross in Waynesville, North Carolina, as he...
Isaiah 58 And The Danger Of Looking Godly
A lot of us know what “good Christians” are supposed to do. We show up, we read the Bible, we try a fast, we clean up a few habits, and then we quietly wonder why nothing feels different. Isaiah 58 refuses to let us stay comfortable there. Past...
Isaiah’s Warning Against False Worship And Real Hope
Shame has a way of convincing us to disappear, but God keeps saying something simpler and braver: come. We open Isaiah 57 with Pastor Carl and follow a thread that runs straight through modern life, the search for relief that turns into restles...
When The Righteous Are Gone From Isaiah 57
What would happen if the faithful suddenly vanished and the world didn’t grieve, didn’t reflect, and didn’t repent, but celebrated? That’s the unsettling question we sit with as Pastor Carl teaches through Isaiah 56 and 57, where God promises r...
What If The Sabbath Is A Person
Trying to please God by working harder can feel noble, but it can also hide a deeper problem: we’re still trusting ourselves. We wrestle with that tension through Isaiah 56, where God calls his people to keep justice and do righteousness while ...
Isaiah 54 And The Promise Of Restoration
If you’ve ever looked at your past and thought, “I’ve gone too far to be restored,” Isaiah 54 offers a direct challenge to that hopeless math. We lean into a message from Pastor Carl that starts with a shocking comfort: Jesus was counted among ...
Righteous At Christ’s Expense
A gift card feels free until you remember someone else paid for it. We use that everyday moment to get at a bigger truth from Isaiah 53: God’s grace doesn’t cost us, but it costs Jesus everything. Pastor Carl walks through the Suffering Servant...
The Unattractive Gospel in Isaiah 53
The world trains us to trust what looks impressive, but Isaiah 53 asks a sharper question: will you believe a Savior who does not match your idea of strength? We wrestle with how easy it is to polish Christianity into something “marketable,” an...
Wake Up And Walk Away
A fire alarm is not the moment to “see how things go.” That’s the gut-level picture we start with as Pastor Carl walks through Isaiah 51 and 52, where God calls His people to wake up, recognize what sin has done, and stop looking to a broken wo...
Wake Up And Come Back To God
You can feel it when you’ve drifted: the quieter prayers, the louder opinions of other people, the constant urge to manage your image, and the sinking sense that you’re stuck in a hole you helped dig. We walk through Isaiah 51–52 with Pastor Ca...
Isaiah 51 When Jesus Brings Real Justice
“Law and order” is usually framed as harsh control or cold power, but Isaiah 51 paints something completely different and Pastor Carl leans into it: when Jesus reigns as King, His justice lands like light, and His rule feels like joy. We start ...
Eyes On The Finish Line - Isaiah 50
When you’re tired, confused, or flat-out hurting, you don’t need a louder pep talk. You need a better finish line. We open with a simple picture of endurance and then let Isaiah 49–50 do what it does best: pull your eyes off the moment and lock...
Hope When Feeling Abandoned
God can feel silent at the exact moment you need Him most. We start with that hard, familiar question, “Where’d you go, God?” and we don’t rush past it. Instead, we follow it straight into Scripture and into Jesus’ own words from the cross, “My...
Isaiah 49 And The Servant Who Stayed
Jesus could have chosen comfort. He could have walked away from suffering with every right to say, “I don’t deserve this.” Instead, he stayed, served, and obeyed and that single choice changes everything about how we understand salvation, purpo...
What If God’s Mercy Is Not About You
Peace, profit, and prosperity are words we throw around casually, but Isaiah 48 forces us to define them the way God does. We sit with Pastor Carl as he walks through this chapter and starts at the uncomfortable beginning: we are born into sin,...
Stop Calling It Faith In Isaiah 48
The moment you realize you’re wrong is a crossroads. You can humble yourself and concede, or you can double down and “die on that hill” even when the truth is staring you in the face. We start there, because Pastor Carl’s message in Isaiah 48 e...