Red Mountain Young Adults

Zach walks through the first five verses of 1 Corinthians 2, where Paul shows how his weakness in preaching demonstrates the Spirit's power.

Zach closes out 1 Corinthians 1 by walking us through 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. In this passage, Paul says that God has set up salvation in a way that contradicts human understanding and that He has done so for specific reasons. Zach walks through the passage, ultimately landing where Paul does on "why" God has done it this way.

Zach begins the next mini-series in our study of 1 Corinthians by looking at verses 10-17 of chapter 1. There, we discover what the most troubling problem is in the Corinthian church. What it is may come as a surprise to us, but Zach shows why Paul thought it was the most crucial issue for the church back then and why it remains so today.

CJ walks us through Paul's opening prayer to the Corinthians in verses 4-9 of 1 Corinthians. In this prayer of thanksgiving, we see that Paul reminds the Corinthians that their gifts are not their own and the glory belongs to God alone.

Zach opens our year-long study of first Corinthians with the first of two talks in an intro miniseries called Backstories. He walks us through Acts 18 where the church in Corinth is started, as well as the first three verses of 1 Corinthians. What we discover is that God is the main actor in this story of Paul and the Corinthians, and that it is His gospel of grace that is central to everything.

Zach recast the vision of RMYA and shares what the Lord is leading in the ministry into in 2026.

How is being unmarried truly a gift? Why do we feel like it really isn't? Even if we think it is, why do most of us not want it for ourselves? How do married and the unmarried value one another and use their gifts to build one another up? Using 1 Corinthians 7, Brooklyn wrestles with these questions in this talk.

Zach looks at Paul's instructions to those who are married and considering divorce. He then zooms out and points out 7 things Paul does in the passage that can serve as principles for us as we navigate assignments we want out of.

Zach walks through verses 1-5 of 1 Corinthians 7 and teases out Paul's instructions to the married while also showing their implications for the unmarried.

Zach beings our series in 1 Corinthians 7 by talking about verse 17-24 where Paul lays out the core principle of the chapter. He also interviews Marco and Gwynn, missionaries in South Africa, about how they have experienced "living assigned" in the last year.

In the final chapter of Job, it says, "and the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before" (Job 42:10). Zach Hollifield closes out our series in Job and explains how Christians are to interpret God restoring all that Job had lost and how this story points towards the ultimate restorer, Jesus.

"God is sovereign. He's so big. And he can use affliction to bring redemption."

38 chapters into the book of Job, God speaks. And the result, though not all of his questions are answered, is that Job sees.

Preston Hancock, one of Red Mountain's elders and pastors, takes us through Elihu's speeches and shows how they improve upon what Job and his friends have said while preparing the way for God to speak.

Zach takes us through chapter 28 of Job, the wisdom poem, to see what it has to say about the possibility and limits of human wisdom.

In Job 42:7 God says that Job spoke rightly of him while his friends did not. But it is Job who spoke the harshest things about God. How can that be? Zach opens and closes; but in between, 4 YAs (Dylan, Jared, Nicolette, and Caitlyn) share what their table groups discovered about Job's speech about God that rendered him right and his friends wrong and what that has to teach us for when we ourselves are in the midst of suffering.

In this second message in our series on Job, Jonas looks at the response of Job's friends–both the good and the bad–and the role others are meant to play in our suffering.

Zach opens our series by walking through chapter 1 and 2 of Job where we see the proper response to human suffering.

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