Red Mountain Student Ministry: Recent Episodes

Red Mountain Community Church

This is a podcast of Red Mountain Community Church in Mesa, Arizona. Here you will find some of the recent teaching series for our Junior High and High School ministries. Our prayer is that this podcast would be a resource that builds you up in your faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ and that it would better equip you to follow him.

For more information about our church and ministry, please contact our Pastor of Junior High Ministries, Kenny Walmsley (kwalmsley@rmcchurch.org).

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Here from some of our high school seniors as they share how Jesus has and is working redemption in their lives.

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Hear from three of our high school seniors as they share how the Lord has and is working redemption in their lives?

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Hear from three of our high school seniors as they share how the Lord has and is working redemption in their lives.

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Every so often in Red Mountain High School Ministry, we have a night where we take a night to focus explicitly on the gospel and the work it does in our lives. We invite someone to share the gospel and another person to share their testimony of how the gospel has reoriented their life. We also invite our friends from school who don't know the gospel.

This time around our Pastor of Young Adults, Zach Hollifield, and one of our High School Ministry volunteer leaders, Ariann Rassi, shared with us.

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Brooklyn concludes the series by looking to Jesus, the One who endured temptation to the utmost and did not sin.

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Gwynn Haas opens up the Bible's teaching on "the world": what it is, how are to relate to it, and what part it plays in our battle against temptation.

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Brooklyn tackles the topic of temptation by looking at how our Enemy seeks to use it against us.

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Brooklyn takes us all over the Bible and ultimately to Galatians as she dives into what the Bible has to say about "the flesh."

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Pastor Brooklyn opens a new series on a topic most are aware of but many are also unclear about how to handle: temptation.

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Brooklyn wraps up our series in the 10 Commandments by walking us through the 9th and 10th commandment and how they serve as a capstone for the whole list.

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Our Pastor of Young Adults, Zach Hollifield, takes up the 6th and 7th commands and asks what are we to do as breakers of them?

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Our Minister in Training (resident), Gwynn tackles the command not to murder and how this command raises questions about God's killing in the Old Testament.

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Pastor Brooklyn examines one of the most famous of the 10 commandments: honor your father and mother.

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Jared serves in our Junior High Ministry. In this talk he unpacks the biblical command of sabbath.

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Brooklyn, Pastor of High School ministries, examines the 1st commandment and its implications for the other 9.

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How do we make images of God today and therefore break the 2nd commandment? That is the question Brooklyn answers in this message of our 10 Commandments series.

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Jon is a leader in the high school ministry with the freshmen guys. He is also an elder at Red Mountain. In this talk, he explains the importance and implications of the 3rd commandment: "do not take the name of the LORD your God in vain."

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Pastor of High School ministries, Brooklyn Meeker, opens the series with an introduction to the 10 commandments and the place of the Old Testament Law in the Christian life.

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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.

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God is just. But what does that mean? How does his justice relate to his mercy, grace, and wrath? How should it inform our understanding of human justice? Brooklyn helps us find answers to these questions in Scripture.

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Sarah Fox tackles God's love and the jealous nature of it and how this attribute of God is particularly good news for us.

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

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Red Mountain's Pastor of Young Adults, Zach, walks us through the biblical truth that God is everywhere and nowhere at all times.

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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.

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Our high school pastor, Brooklyn, carefully explains the doctrine of God's omnipotence–his being all powerful.

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Pastor Kenny walks us through God's aseity and the potentially uncomfortable fact that it means He does not need us.

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Pastor Kenny opens our series on the attributes of God by introducing the concept of attributes and by demonstrating God's desire to be known by us through them.

This is a series we are doing in both our Junior High and High School Ministries. This talk was recorded in our Junior High ministry.

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Pastor Brooklyn walks us through Paul's words in Romans 8 on putting to death the deeds of the body by the Holy Spirit.

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What does it mean to set our minds on the things of the Spirit? How do we do it? What effect does doing so have on our lives? Pastor Brooklyn walks us through what Paul has to say about these questions in Romans 8.

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Pastor Brooklyn opens our series on Walking in the Spirit by giving an overview of the Holy Spirit and walking us through the first verses of Romans 8, where we will spend the rest of the series.

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Our High School Pastor, Brooklyn Meeker, walks us through the final parable in Matthew 13, the parable of the drag net, and the surprisingly good news of judgement that the Kingdom of Heaven brings.

Both our Junior High and High School ministries are doing this series separately. This talk was given at our High School Ministry.

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Sarah Walmsley walks through the joint parables of the treasure and the pearl of great price and what they reveal about the Kingdom of Heaven.

Both our Junior High and High School ministries are doing this series separately. This talk was given at our Junior High Ministry.

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Natalie Crimmins walks through the joint passages of the parables of the treasure and the pearl of great price.

Both our Junior High and High School ministries are doing this series separately. This talk was given at our High School Ministry.

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Madi Moore walks us through the parable of the mustard seed and leaven and what they reveal about the Kingdom of God here and now.

Both our Junior High and High School ministries are doing this series separately. This talk was given at our Junior High Ministry.

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Pastor of High Schooler Ministry, Brooklyn Meeker, walks us through the parable of the mustard seed and leaven.

Both our Junior High and High School ministries are doing this series separately. This talk was given at our High School Ministry.

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John Norton, one of our high school leaders and an elder at Red Mountain, walks us through the parable of the weeds and what it reveals about the kingdom.

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What the parable of the sower reveals to us about the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Pastor Brooklyn opens up and frames our newest series where we look closely at the Kingdom of God through the parables of Jesus in Matthew chapter 13.

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Joe shows us how an identity rooted in "I am what I do" is totally contrary to the identity Jesus wants to give us, which is: "I am what he has done for me."

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Kenny unpack's the lie, "I am what people say or think about me" and shows us how the identity we have in Jesus is far, far better. 

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Hear from three of our high school seniors as they share an area of their lives the Lord has and is working redemption.

Ashleigh: “God has a plan and a purpose for everything. He is working through every single aspect of your life, even if you don’t see it.”

Travis: “Your faith isn’t just in the church.”

Ella: “It is not about what you’ve done or what’s been done to you, it’s about what’s been done for you.”

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Hear from two of our high school seniors as they share an area of their lives the Lord has and is working redemption.

Judah: “The only way to truly have victory over our weakness and sin is through surrendering ourselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, engaging in the power provided through his Holy Spirit, and embracing the grace and forgiveness freely given to us by the Father through his son.“

Max: “Jesus is enough“

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Kenny addresses the lie that tells us "I am what I have" and shows us how Jesus wants to replace that lie with our true identity in him.

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Hear from two of our high school seniors as they share an area of their lives the Lord has and is working redemption.

Jacob: "God uses pain and in my case loss, to transform us into the person God called us to be, and in that ultimately create a relationship with him."

Kassidee: "Even in our weakest moments, God will never abandon us.”

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Lee walks us through the biblical understanding of being created in the image of God and how this informs our identity and how we view others. 

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Hear from three of our high school seniors as they share an area of their lives the Lord has and is working redemption.

Noah: “God loves us so much he allows pain our lives”

Ruth: “God’s love for us is so good, even when we don’t know him or when we are blame him for things, He loves us anyway.“

Ray: “Jesus wants us to forgive others no matter who they or what they have done to you because he has done the same for us.”

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We as humans desire freedom at all costs. But relationships require commitment. In this talk, Brooklyn walks us through the story of Ruth and her friendship with mother in-law, Naomi. What we find in this friendship, is that commitment is the only path that leads to deep, Christ-like friendships. 

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Pastor Kenny presents the Bible's hard truth that, due to sin, we are wired toward self-centeredness. Sadly, that tendency infects our friendships and how we view friendship in general. Jesus has a better way for us and our friendships and demonstrates it for us himself.

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Is family everything? Where are those without a typical family supposed to find fellowship and belonging? As Preston shows through the friendship between Paul and Timothy, in Christ, family is not where ultimate significance is found. 

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Are fulfilling friendships outside of marriage possible? Joe Hughes unpacks 3 foundational practices that lead to rich, Godly friendships.Taking time to look at the story of David and Jonathan in 1 Samuel 18, how can we be vulnerable, obedient, and sacrificial?

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Pastor Zach frames our series on spiritual friendship.