Red Mountain Young Adults

A type of evangelism Jesus commanded is the kind that preaches the gospel to those who have never heard it before: frontier evangelism. Pastor Zach draws out 10 realities of frontier evangelism we see in Paul's first missionary journey in Acts 13-14.

One of RMCC's elders, Alan Garcia, teaches on the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch and picks out what we can learn for our own evangelism to those who are "sexually different" from us whether that be in their identity or their views.

Zach walks through Acts 3 where we see Peter and John engage with a beggar and then preach the gospel to the crowd that gathers. From this we see the way we too must engage with those who are on the margins and also what we must include when we share the gospel.

Pastor Zach opens and frames a new series on evangelism.

Three of Red Mountain's elders field questions submitted by our young adults on membership.

Jonas explores blessings through the beginning of the Old Testament and how we can apply this principle to our lives today.

Zach looks at four passages from the New Testament that imply something like church membership to enable churches to obey what is explicitly commanded of them. Then, Zach interviews Jonas and Kayla Perry on their experience being members at Red Mountain.

Zach opens up a two week mini-series on the church and church membership by looking at how Paul presents the universal and local natures of the Church.

Jared Hudson closes out our series by looking at Revelation 21:22-22:5 where incredible realities of the New Jerusalem are revealed. He also draws our attention to what we should do with this knowledge.

Zach takes us through verses 9-21 of Revelation 21 where the beauty and dimensions of the New Jerusalem are described.

Zach opens our series by walking through the first 8 verses of Revelation 21 looking at the announcement of the New Jerusalem and God's promise to make all things new.

Zach walks verse by verse through 1 Peter 3:8-22 looking at the commands and implications Peter raises for Christians' political lives

Scott dives into 1 Peter 2:13-3:7 where Peter calls Christians to submissive living in light of Christ's work for us on the cross.

Jonas works through the first 12 verses of 1 Peter 2 and reveals the Old Testament images Peter is using to ground Christians' identity and how these images should impact how we live.

Starting off our series on politics, Zach walks through 1 Peter 1 and considers what effect our identity as exiles should have on how we live.

*Unfortunately we experienced technical difficulties recording the previous two talks. Our apologies!*

Why do we enter seasons of negative and lacking affections? Why do we suffer in general? While not giving every answer, Paul, the New Testament expert on affections, gives us 3 reasons.

Madi speaks on prayer as a primary means of cultivating our affections by taking them to God.

Madi walks us through Psalm 6 where we learn that it is actually when we bring our negative affections to God that he begins to transform them.

In this introductory talk, Zach frames the series. He walks through the Biblical understanding of affections–what are they, how are they like and unlike our culture's understanding of emotions, are they supposed to be positive, etc.? He then looks at Psalm 42 to show these realities being lived out.

Zach looks at the Tower of Babel story where we see humanity reach the climax of its ruin in Genesis 3-11.

Scott walks us through the story of Noah's family immediately following the flood. A new start begins, but the same ruin that preceded the fall remains.

In this talk, Zach walks us through the story of the flood and grapples with the questions the story typically raises.

The young adults themselves tackled Genesis 5-6:8 in groups and each presented what they found. The results are incredible!

What does sin do to human cultures? How does it corrupt the civilizations humans build? And is there any hope for human culture if it is all affected by the ruin of the fall? These are the questions answered by Genesis 4:16-26.

RMCC's Pastor of Leadership and Mission walks us through the story of Cain and Abel and what it reveals about how family has been ruined by sin and the city of man. But he also points us to the remnant God is working within families that we begin to see in the same story.

The first place ruin spreads after it spoils the relationship between God and humanity is the relationship between man and woman. This is a ruin that we all know all too well. But the good news is that remnant spreads too and also transforms all that it touches, as we see in the details immediately following the fall of Adam and Eve.

Zach introduces this new series on Genesis chapters 3-11. He takes us to Genesis 3 where we find the founding of the city of man and the initial ruin that it brings. But hidden there is also the hope that this city will not ultimately last.

Sydney Hollifield moderates (excellently we might add!) a panel made up of speakers from our series–Zach, Preston, and Scott– as well as one of our high school leaders and unofficial resident theologian, Brent Meister. They discuss all things spiritual gifts, from their own giftings to how to exercise them in the local church and everything in between. Along the way they also answer some spicy questions sent in by the audience.

Pastor Zach gives a brief overview of what each spiritual gift is and biblical as well as real life examples of each of them as they appear in the list Paul gives in Romans 12.

One of our YA staff and an elder at RMCC, Scott, tackles the controversial topics of prophecy and tongues in chapter 14 of 1 Corinthians.

Pastor Zach examines the "more excellent way" Paul commends to the Corinthians.

Preston Hancock walks through the framework of "spiritual things"–gifts, ministries, activities–Paul lays out in the first half of 1 Corinthians 12. *Unfortunately, there was a mishap with recording the first talk in this series

Christ's one cosmic act of reconciliation in his life, death, and resurrection unleashed countless redemptive reverberations throughout history and in every believer's life. Echoes of Redemption are brief testimonies where we share one of those ripples flowing from Christ's central act of saving us. Mia Haas spent the summer doing a missions internship in the Eastern European country of Slovenia. She shares about the work God is up to there and how the Slovene church has impacted her walk with Jesus. "If we look at God's consistent character in the Bible, we see God using the youngest, smaller brother, the slave, the unwanted wife, the 8-year-old king, the sinner. And honestly we should expect God to use and work through small countries and people groups like Slovenia." – Mia

Pastor Zach wraps up our series in Colossians by walking through the second half of chapter 3 where Paul looks at the other side of sanctification.

Like home renovation, sanctification entails both dismantling and assembling. In verses 1-11 of chapter 3, Paul turns his attention on the dismantling work of sanctification in the life of a Christian.

This week we tried something different, we split into groups and dissected the passage together. Then a person from each "team" shared what their group saw in the text. Together we saw the mystery of the gospel, the toil of the Christian life, and the treasures to be found in Christ!

Scott walks us through verses 9-23 of Colossians 1 where we see Paul dive into sanctification and Christ's glory.

Pastor Zach opens our Summer series on the book of Colossians by walking us through the context and the first 8 verses of the letter.

Christ's one cosmic act of reconciliation in his life, death, and resurrection unleashed countless redemptive reverberations throughout history and in every believer's life. Echoes of Redemption are brief testimonies where we share one of those ripples flowing from Christ's central act of saving us. Madi Moore, who works on staff at Red Mountain and is a staple of our young adult ministry, shares about how the Lord revealed to her in just the she needed his good design for marriage where she had seen it as anything but. "The Lord pulled me out of my apathy with his beauty." – Madi

In our final talk on the attributes of God, Pastor Brooklyn draws our attention to one we rarely think about but one that has tremendous impact on our lives: God's blessedness.

In Exodus 34 God says that he is "a God merciful and gracious...but who will by no means clear the guilty?" How can these two things be? Shouldn't God have to pick one? And if he is merciful and gracious at all, doesn't that raise issues of his justice? Listen as Zach turns to Romans 3 where Paul answers these exact questions.

Sarah Fox tackles God's love and its jealous nature and why this attribute is particularly good news of us.

What does it mean that God is holy? How does God's holiness relate to the holiness we are called to grow in? Pastor Brooklyn answers these questions.

On of our elders and high school ministry volunteers, Jon Norton, takes us to the story of Abraham to help us understand God's omniscience.

Our Pastor of High School Ministry, Brooklyn, turns to the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead to see God's all powerfulness in action.

Zach walks us through the biblical truth that God is everywhere and nowhere at all times.

Pastor Zach walks us through the first attribute in our series, God's Aseity.

We can only love that which we know. If that is true, what are the implications of our knowledge of God?  In this series we will go deep into the nature of God to know him better that we might love him more. In this first talk, Pastor Zach introduces the series and demonstrates how knowledge and love are connected. 

In 2 Peter 1:16-21 Peter gives two foundations on which he is going to build his case for the second coming of Christ. The order of importance he gives them might surprise you.

Pastor Zach kicks off a series in 2 Peter where we will look at how Peter encourages believers on how to live in light of Christ's promised return. In tonight's passage, we walk through the first 15 verses and see the twofold motivation Peter gives for pursuing sanctification in the Christian life.