Red Mountain Young Adults: Recent Episodes
Red Mountain Community Church
This is a podcast of Red Mountain Community Church. Here you’ll find recent talks from our Young Adult ministry. Our prayer is that this resource would build up your faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ and that it’d equip you to live all of life all for God.
For more information about our church and ministry, please contact our Pastor of Young Adults, Zach Hollifield (zhollifield@rmcchurch.org).
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.
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.
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.
Our Pastor of Young Adults, Zach Hollifield, takes us to Luke 14 where Jesus says that in order to follow him you must hate your family.
Christ's one cosmic act of reconciliation in his life, death, and resurrection unleashed countless redemptive reverberations throughout history and each believer's life. Echoes of Redemption are brief testimonies where we share with our community one of those sub-ripples flowing from Christ's central act of saving us.
Ieva Ābola is a Latvian Christian and missionary with Josiah Venture. She visited our Young Adult ministry and shared with us how Jesus saved her and transformed her life.
"Jesus found me." – Ieva
Our Executive Pastor, Preston Hancock, walks us through the parable of the dishonest manager where Jesus seems to commend deception.
Our Pastor of Junior High Ministry, Kenny Walmsley, walks through the time Jesus called the Canaanite woman a dog and the challenging word Jesus has for his disciples, including us, in it.
Judah served as our summer intern and as a part of the program delivered his first sermon. His text was 1 Peter 1:13-25.
Christ's one cosmic act of reconciliation in his life, death, and resurrection unleashed countless redemptive reverberations throughout history and each believer's life. Echoes of Redemption are brief testimonies where we share with our community one of those sub-ripples flowing from Christ's central act of saving us.
Zac Guess shares about how the Lord used a campus ministry at the university he attends to stretch, encourage, and grow him in his walk with the Lord.
"God provided a community for me through which to grow deeper with him and other believers." – Zac
Christ's one cosmic act of reconciliation in his life, death, and resurrection unleashed countless redemptive reverberations throughout history and each believer's life. Echoes of Redemption are brief testimonies where we share with our community one of those sub-ripples flowing from Christ's central act of saving us.
Listen as Gwynn Haas shares how the Lord has radically reshaped her view of prayer and communion with him.
"We do not go to prayer and God doesn't meet us there." – Gwynn
As a community, how do we obey the call to love one another in the church while also obeying the call to draw others into the family of God? How do we pursue one without letting the other slip? Zach points to how the Bible answers this tension and how God has actually set it up to where the two are never at odds.
How can something be unified and yet diverse? Doesn't diversity threaten unity? Scott takes us through Ephesians 4 to show us that not only does diversity not threaten unity but that the Christian concept of unity is not even possible apart from diversity.
Paul in Ephesians 4 envisions and calls for believers to be a community that is both "safe" and "uncomfortable" at the same time. How can this be? Brooklyn walks us through the chapter and demonstrates not only how this can be a reality for the church, but how it must be.
Zach frames our summer series on community by looking at Ephesians 2 and 3 to see how Christian community is at the same time essential for the Christian life while not being the ultimate goal of the Christian life.
Zach closes out our Psalm 119 series by walking us through the final three stanzas. Here the psalmist returns again to the two primary themes of the psalm: God's word & affliction. But here, the psalmist finally gives us the link between the two.
Sydney walks us through verses 129-152 of Psalm 119 and gives us 9 truths about Scripture the psalmist gives in those verses.
Scott walks us through one of the more well known parts of Psalm 119 and gets us thinking about what path we are on, what light do we have on that path, where is that path leading us, and other great questions that are prompted from the text.
(Last week we walked thought verses 65-88 in groups which is why there is no recording for those sections)
This week, Brooklyn walked us through verses 89-104 of Psalm 119 pointing out the psalmist's delight in the written word of God and explaining why the psalmist would have such an ardent affection for the Scriptures.
In Psalm 119:41-64, the psalmist demonstrates several different postures toward God that are found throughout the rest of Psalms. Joe walks us through the next three stanzas, pointing these out and ultimately bringing us to ask ourselves: what will our response be to God? What postures have we taken toward him? Which is he calling us to take up?
What is the solution to our suffering? What is our souls' greatest need in times of affliction? What do we do when we feel spiritually dry in regard to God's word? These are exactly the kinds of questions the psalmist begins to answer in verses 25-40 of Psalm 119. And the answer the psalmist gives boils down to one simple truth: life is to be had in God's written word.
Zach kicks off our 8 week series in Psalm 119. He walks through verses 1-24 showing how the psalmist presents the incredible gift of God's word, the proper response to it, and the supernatural help we need to read it as it's meant to be read.