Voices from the Mountain

“And the Word of Their Testimony” – Morning Service (4‑19‑26 AM)
This message centers on Revelation 12:11 and the power of a believer’s testimony, declaring that Christians overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and by openly declaring what Christ has done for them. The preacher contrasts true salvation with the shallow “do‑better” religion of the age, insisting that real conversion makes a new creature with new desires, including a longing for God’s house. He walks through biblical examples—the healed leper, the Samaritan woman, and others—showing how every person touched by Christ had to tell it. He urges believers not to leave their families guessing at their spiritual condition, reminding them that the testimony they leave behind will either stand for them or against them. The message ends with a heartfelt plea for God’s people to speak boldly, live faithfully, and leave behind a clear witness of genuine salvation.  
Location: Whitwell, Tennessee — Fairview Union Church

Sunday School – Romans 10–11 (4‑19‑26)
In this lesson, the teacher walks the class through Romans 10 and into 11, pressing hard on the difference between merely believing the Bible is true and actually being born again. He explains Paul’s burden for Israel, showing that even God’s chosen people must come the same way as the Gentiles—through conviction, confession, and the new birth. He warns against modern easy‑believism and the false idea that acknowledging God is enough, reminding listeners that salvation requires the Lord dealing with the heart and a sinner responding in repentance. Using his own testimony, he describes conviction as both fear and love pulling a person to Christ, and he celebrates that the gospel now gives equal access to Jew and Gentile alike. The lesson closes by highlighting Israel’s stumbling, the grafting in of the Gentiles, and God’s ongoing plan of grace.  
Location: Whitwell, Tennessee — Fairview Union Church

Brother Joe Sanders preached a revival message centered on the reality that every believer is pulled between the natural eye and the spiritual one, and that the devil knows exactly how to lure God’s people away from focus, worship, and obedience. Using James 1, he reminded the church that trials, irritations, and temptations are not signs of failure but signs of spiritual activity—because the enemy only bothers those he hasn’t already trapped. With vivid illustrations, including a fisherman’s tackle box full of custom lures, he showed how Satan tailors distractions, frustrations, drifting thoughts, and everyday annoyances to draw Christians off course. Yet the Spirit keeps the believer steady when the flesh wants to rise and fall with every circumstance. The call of the revival was clear: stay alert to the lures, ask God for wisdom, resist being drawn away by your own desires, and keep your heart tuned to the Lord so He can do His perfect work in you.
 
Gum Springs Church – Revival – Brother Joe Sanders
 
Tracy City TN 

Bro. Joe Sanders preached on the deep hunger every believer carries for spiritual food, reminding us that the church, the preacher, and the people are rarely the problem—our appetite is. Using Ruth in Boaz’s field, he showed how God leaves “handfuls of purpose” for those willing to work, press through resistance, and stay close to the source of blessing rather than living off someone else’s overflow. He warned that hobbies, possessions, and even God‑given blessings can become idols when they outrank the Lord, and he urged the church to return to prayer, worship, and the Word with the same desperation Ruth had when she gleaned in the heat of the day. Through childhood stories of scarcity, seasons of financial struggle, and miracles like unexpected medical bills being wiped away, he testified that God faithfully provides for His people—but only when we stay in the right field, seeking Him above everything else.  
Gum Springs Church – Revival – April 17, 2026

Brother Joe Sanders preached from Matthew 6 on the call to stop worrying and start seeking—reminding us that life changes when we truly “seek first the kingdom of God.” He walked through the stories of the woman with the issue of blood, the woman caught in adultery, the Samaritan woman at the well, and Zacchaeus, showing how every one of them was transformed the moment they pushed through fear, shame, or obstacles and simply went to where Jesus was. He warned that many believers avoid the Lord the same way we avoid people we don’t want to meet in a hallway, but real change only comes when we draw near, confess honestly, and let Him work. With personal testimony of his own salvation and the reminder that the devil only wants destruction while Jesus offers life, he urged listeners to stay close, stay humble, stay growing, and never let routine replace relationship—because Jesus still passes by, still sees us as we are, and still makes the difference when we choose Him.  
Gum Springs Church – April 16, 2026- Tracy City TN 

Brother Danny Coffelt preached from Matthew 5:6, reminding us that just as the body cannot survive without food and water, the soul cannot live without the righteousness of God, and Jesus alone is the Bread of Life who fills the inner man. He walked through Scripture—from manna in the wilderness, to Elijah at the brook, to the feeding of the five thousand—to show how God has always provided physical nourishment, but Christ calls us to a deeper hunger: a craving for holiness, for His Word, for the living water that springs up into everlasting life. He warned that many believers today don’t recognize spiritual starvation because we live in physical abundance, and he contrasted true spiritual feeding with the entertainment‑driven “shows” that left many churches empty after COVID, proving they had fed the flesh but not the spirit. Hunger for God, he said, is proven by faithfulness, by longing for His house, by refusing to let the inner man dry up, because those who truly hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled—overflowing, sustained, and transformed by the presence of God.
 
Bakers Chapel, Tracy City Tn– April 15, 2026

Brother Jesse Lockhart preaches from James 1:22 with a clear, urgent call for believers to move beyond merely hearing God’s Word and become true doers of it, reminding us that Christianity is not a spectator’s life but a life of obedience, action, and reasonable service. Using Naaman’s story, he shows how God rarely asks us for great feats—only simple obedience—and how pride, distraction, and self often keep us from doing what we already know is right. He warns that sin is not only the wrong we commit but also the good we refuse to do, urging self‑examination like the man looking into the glass who must not forget what he sees. God speaks to the heart, never contrary to His Word, and His blessings rest on those who continue in obedience, not forgetful hearers but faithful doers who trust Him through every muddy Jordan He leads them into.  
 
Fairview Union- Whitwell TN 

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Brother Joe Sanders at Gum Springs Church in Tracy City, Tennessee, preaches from Genesis 37:12–14, showing how Joseph’s simple errand to check on his brothers became the beginning of a long, painful, God‑directed journey that neither he nor Jacob could have imagined. He reminds listeners that God’s plans rarely match our expectations, that His ways are higher than ours, and that following Him often requires leaving comfort, enduring hardship, and trusting when nothing makes sense. Through personal testimony—family loss, financial struggle, layoffs, and unexpected provision—Pastor Joe emphasizes that God grows His children not by pampering them but by walking with them through trials, teaching them to trust, forgive, and stay faithful. Like Joseph, Daniel, David, and the three Hebrew boys, believers are called to honor God daily, even when the path is unclear, knowing He never abandons His own and uses every season to shape them for His purpose.
 
Tracy City , Tennessee

In this revival message from Gum Springs, Brother Joe Sanders calls the church to return to the simple, surrendered prayer Jesus prayed in Gethsemane—“Not my will, but Thine be done.” He warns how easy it is to pray for God’s will in everyone else’s life while never asking for it in our own, and how believers slowly grow calloused when they get used to church attendance without true seeking. Through stories of work, frustration, talent, and everyday life, he reminds listeners that God can use anyone who makes themselves available, but the devil works to keep hearts distracted, comfortable, and spiritually dull. Sanders urges the church to move beyond routine, beyond excuses, and beyond comparing themselves to others, and instead come to the altar asking God to cleanse, guide, stir, and use them—because one willing Christian can make a difference in a family, a church, and a community when they truly seek the Lord’s will.
 
Gum Springs Church - Tracy City TN 

The Good Samaritan – Luke 10  
The final message used the Good Samaritan to show the downward path of a soul that leaves God’s presence. Like the man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho, anyone who departs from God always goes down—into danger, into wounds, into scars that sin never fails to leave behind. The thieves represent the enemy waiting for distance, waiting for someone to wander just far enough from God to be cut off and attacked. Yet the heart of the message was the compassion of the Samaritan, a picture of Christ Himself, who finds us stripped, wounded, and half‑dead, lifts us up, binds our wounds, and carries us to safety. It is a reminder that while sin takes everything from us, Jesus restores what we cannot fix on our own.  
Whitwell, Tennessee — Fairview Union Church