Voices from the Mountain

Sunday Evening -7-5-26-Jesse Lockhart

Sunday Evening – July 5, 2026 (Jesse Lockhart)Jesse’s evening message retells Joshua 14, where 85‑year‑old Caleb returns to claim the mountain God promised him decades earlier. While others feared giants, Caleb saw promise, and Moses assured him the land would be his. Forty‑five years later, Caleb stands before Joshua and declares he is as strong now as then because he “wholly followed the Lord.” Jesse emphasizes that God’s promises require pursuit—“If you want it, go get it.” Caleb still had to face giants, but the God who parted seas and fed Israel had not changed. When Caleb finally takes Hebron, the land once ruled by giants becomes a place of peace. The message lands on one truth: wholehearted obedience turns battles into blessings, and the inheritance God offers is available to anyone willing to rise up and claim it.

Sunday morning 7-5-26-Jesse Lockhart

Sunday Morning – July 5, 2026 (Jesse Lockhart)Jesse’s Independence Day message uses Matthew 21 to warn what happens when a nation rejects God. Jesus identifies Himself as the cornerstone—the foundation stone the builders refused—and Jesse parallels that rejection with America’s drift from its spiritual roots. When God is rejected, the Savior becomes missing, conviction fades, and salvation grows rare. Sin then overflows, just as Romans 1 describes: moral collapse, confusion, and a culture celebrating what God calls destructive. Finally, severity follows rejection, as seen when Israel’s unbelief opened the gospel to the Gentiles. Jesse closes with urgency: a nation cannot survive without its foundation. America must return to Christ, the stone the builders rejected, or it will crumble under its own weight.

Sunday School 7-5-26

Sunday School – July 5, 2026Luke 5 becomes a living illustration of obedience as the teacher ties every scene back to Noah’s faithfulness. Peter, exhausted from an empty night of fishing, still says, “Nevertheless at Thy word…” and witnesses a miracle that breaks nets and sinks boats, opening his eyes to Christ’s holiness. A leper is cleansed by humble faith, a paralyzed man is lowered through a roof because his friends refuse to quit, and Levi leaves his tax table at two simple words: “Follow me.” The chapter ends with Jesus teaching that new wine requires new bottles—new life requires new obedience. Like Noah building an ark before rain existed, every person in Luke 5 steps beyond logic and into trust, showing that obedience is the hinge of transformation.

Jesse Lockhart 7-1-26

Podcast Summary — “Encouraging Yourself in the Lord”   This message opens in 1 Samuel 30, where David and his men return to Ziklag only to find the city burned, their families taken captive, and their strength drained to the point that “they wept until they had no more power to weep.” The preacher uses this moment to paint a picture of what it feels like when life pulls the props out from under you — when you go from spiritual heights to sudden collapse, and the enemy seems to strike while you’re away, unprepared, and feeling safe.   He describes the emotional weight of seeing smoke rising from what used to be home, the panic of not knowing whether loved ones are alive, and the human instinct to look for someone to blame. David’s men even spoke of stoning him, not because he failed them, but because grief makes people desperate for a target.   From there, the message shifts to faith’s vision — how faith looks beyond the smoke. The preacher brings in Abraham interceding for Lot in Sodom, showing how sometimes all we see is destruction, but on the other side of the smoke God is still leading His people out. The smoke is the enemy’s distraction; faith is the ability to trust what you cannot yet see.   The heart of the sermon is David’s turning point:   “But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.”   When no one else had strength, when no one else could lift him, David called for the ephod — a symbol that he was going to do business with God. The preacher emphasizes that sometimes you must do your own praying, your own encouraging, your own leaning on God. Friends help, but they are human; God alone never fails.   He reminds listeners that God is the rock, fortress, deliverer, and high tower — quoting David’s own words from Psalms — and that victory in Jesus is still real, still available, still necessary. The message closes with the call to trust God when you have nothing else to lean on, because that’s when you discover He is all you need.   ---   Whitwell, Tennessee — Fairview Union Church

A new Creature - Jesse Lockhart -6-28-26

*Podcast Summary — “A New Creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17)In this sermon, Brother Jesse celebrates the miracle of salvation and the transforming power of becoming “a new creature” in Christ, reminding listeners that real salvation is not a light prayer or a small adjustment—it is a complete change of nature. He testifies of how God reached “below the bottom” to pull him out of sin, replacing old desires, old habits, old thinking, and old living with a brand‑new life filled with joy, peace, and purpose. Jesse warns against letting salvation grow stale, urging believers to return to their Bethel moments and remember where God found them, how conviction felt, and how grace first appeared. He calls the church to renew its fire, to refuse spiritual stagnation, and to rejoice again in the freshness of God’s mercy that is new every morning. With stories of healing, baptizing, shouting, and the sweetness of rediscovered joy, he reminds us that the life Christ gives never grows old—only we do—and that it’s time to stir up what God placed inside and live again in the newness of being made brand‑new. Whitwell, Tennessee — Fairview Union Church