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
67 episodes
Easter In Stereo
An empty tomb is one thing. A folded head cloth is another. When you slow down and let the resurrection accounts speak together, the first Easter morning becomes a gripping, minute-by-minute story filled with fear, tenderness, and hard-to-ignor...
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He Stinketh, We Doubteth, God Still Moves
Death shows up like a wall; Jesus meets it like a door. Walking through John 11, we sit with Martha and Mary in raw grief, hear Jesus name Himself as “the resurrection and the life,” and watch a stone roll back on four days of finali...
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Season 2026
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Episode 65
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26:00
Why Honest Questions Can Lead To Deeper Faith
When faith doesn’t fit into neat boxes, what do we do with the questions that won’t sit still? We follow Thomas. Across the Gospel of John, his honesty pulls truth into the open—from let us go that we may die with him to Lord, we don’t know the...
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Season 2026
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Episode 64
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26:00
Trusting God When You Don’t See It
What if the delay you fear is the very place where faith is forged? We take you into John 11, where Jesus lingers while Lazarus grows worse, Mary and Martha ache for help, and the disciples wrestle with danger, timing, and trust. The tension is...
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Season 2026
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Episode 63
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Sheep, Storms, And The Savior
A storm gathers in Jerusalem as Jesus walks under the lights of Hanukkah and makes a claim that confronts every heart: He will lay down His life and take it up again. We follow the tension between religious control and humble seeking...
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Season 2026
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Episode 62
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26:00
His Voice Is Life, Do You Hear It
What if abundant life isn’t louder, richer, or busier—but safer, truer, and nearer to the heart of God? We walk through John 10 with Pastor Carl to hear Jesus name Himself both the door and the Good Shepherd, the one way into the Father’s care ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 61
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26:00
Seeing Clearly: Who Is Jesus
What if the real blindness isn’t in the eyes but in the heart that refuses light? We journey through John 9 with Pastor Carl as a man born blind receives sight and sets off a chain reaction—joy, investigation, legal debate, family fear, and fin...
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Season 2026
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Episode 60
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26:00
Stop Chasing Methods And Start Trusting The Healer
What if the breakthrough you want won’t come through the method you expect? We walk through John 9 and the healing of a man born blind to explore why Jesus rarely repeats a technique, how suffering can be a canvas for God’s works, and what it m...
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Season 2026
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Episode 59
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26:00
Before Abraham Was: I Am
Doubt and faith often sit side by side, and that tension becomes a doorway to deeper hope when Jesus says, “If anyone keeps my word, he shall never see death.” We explore what He meant—not denial of physical death, but the promise that those wh...
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Season 2026
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Episode 58
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26:00
If Truth Hurts, Why Do Lies Feel Safer?
What if the life you own still feels unpowered? We open John 8 and sit with a bracing claim from Jesus: everyone who sins is a slave to sin, but the Son sets slaves free. Pastor Carl walks us through the uncomfortable beauty of that truth—why r...
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Season 2026
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Episode 57
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26:00
From Slaves To Sin To Children Of God
Feeling “mostly fine” but drifting without a map? We take a hard, honest look at why feel-good slogans can’t rescue a soul that’s quietly lost and why Jesus’ words in John 8 cut through the fog with a freedom you can actually live. Pastor Carl ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 56
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26:00
Light In The Shadows
A scandal in the temple courts, stones in ready hands, and a single sentence that resets the room: I am the light of the world. From that turning point, we lead you through the tension between law and mercy, appearance and truth, and why Jesus’...
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Season 2026
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Episode 55
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26:00
Light In A Confused World
A crowd presses forward with stones in their hands, certain they’re on God’s side. Then Jesus kneels, writes in the dust, and turns a courtroom into a rescue. We journey through one of Scripture’s most gripping collisions of law, conscience, an...
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Episode 54
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26:00
When Shame Meets Mercy: Jesus And The Accused Woman
A crowd gathers at dawn, a scandal erupts, and stones are ready. We step into the temple court where a woman is thrown before Jesus, and a carefully staged legal trap tries to force him to choose: uphold Moses or defy Rome. Instead, he kneels a...
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Season 2026
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Episode 53
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26:00
Stale Pond Bad, Savior Good
Silence hangs over the Feast of Tabernacles as the priest carries water from the Pool of Siloam—then Jesus steps forward and breaks the quiet: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. We dive into that electric moment and trace how a ce...
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Episode 52
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26:00
Rivers Of Living Water
A quiet ritual, a circling crowd, and then a voice that breaks the silence: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.” We step into John 7 at the Feast of Tabernacles, where Jesus stands in the temple and ties centuries of longing to on...
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Episode 51
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26:00
Teachable Hearts And The Way Of Jesus
Doubt, debate, and a miracle collide in Jerusalem as Jesus teaches at the Feast of Tabernacles and confronts leaders who prize appearances over truth. We walk the crowded courtyards where a man once paralyzed now carries his mat on the Sabbath,...
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Season 2026
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Episode 50
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26:00
From Routine To Reverence
What if the most faithful move is the quiet one no one sees? We walk through John 7 at the Feast of Tabernacles and watch Jesus refuse the spotlight, ignore easy metrics, and align with the Father’s timing. That choice exposes our own drift int...
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Season 2026
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Episode 49
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26:00
From Crowds To Twelve: Why Hard Teachings Reveal True Disciples
When truth collides with our comfort, something has to give. We walk through John 6 where Jesus speaks about eating his flesh and drinking his blood, refuses to soften the claim, and invites us to trade easy answers for real discipleship. The c...
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Season 2026
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Episode 48
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26:00
Jesus Invites Us To Partake Of The Living Bread For A Life That Never Ends
What if the life your soul craves isn’t found in another rule, but in a meal—real nourishment that you can actually take in? We walk through John 6 where Jesus calls Himself the Bread of Life, then tie it back to Isaiah’s covenant of peace to s...
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Season 2026
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Episode 47
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26:00
Jesus Offers A Lifeline And A New Heart
Shipwrecked souls don’t need new opinions; they need a lifeline. We open John 6 where Jesus calls himself the bread from heaven and confronts a crowd offended by grace. Pastor Carl connects the dots from manna to murmuring, from fiery serpents ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 46
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26:00
Bread That Never Runs Out
Crowds chased boats and rumors across the Sea of Galilee, but Jesus answered with a question that still stings: why are you here? We unpack the moment He redirects people from chasing another meal to discovering the Bread of Life, the only sour...
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Season 2026
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Episode 45
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26:00
Do We Want Jesus’ Gifts Or Jesus Himself
Tired of white-knuckling your way through the week? We open John 6 and watch Jesus move from a quiet hillside retreat to an unexpected feast and then into a midnight storm, revealing a pattern of grace that meets us when our strength runs out. ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 44
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26:00
From Scripture Knowledge To Living Faith
What if deep Bible knowledge can still leave us blind to the One it reveals? We dive into Jesus’ startling words to religious experts who searched the Scriptures yet missed the living Word right in front of them. With Pastor Carl guiding us thr...
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Season 2026
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Episode 43
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26:00
Why Jesus Alone Holds Authority And Life
What if the voice that spoke galaxies into being is the same voice that can wake a dead heart now? We walk through John 5 and discover why Jesus doesn’t just offer life—He is life—and how that changes the way we face sin, judgment, and hope.
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Season 2026
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Episode 42
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