RUF at Ole Miss
210 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsRegardless of your beliefs or doubts, RUF is a place for you to explore Christianity and grow in your understanding of who Jesus is and what it means to follow him in community with others at Ole Miss. We are here for the “convinced” and the “unconvinced,” the lost, the found, the burned, bored, cynical, spiritual. We invite you, no matter where you are in the process, to RUF. We meet on Wednesdays at 7:30pm in Paris-Yates Chapel.
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Hebrews 11:31 “Rahab: The Risk of Faith”
April 18, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week we look at Rahab, and how she risked her faith by placing it in the word of God, his mercy, and his people.
Hebrew 11:24-26 “Moses: The Adventure of Faith”
April 12, 2024 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we look at the life of Moses, and look at how God is inviting us to a greater story.
Hebrews 11:22, Genesis 50:15-26 “Joseph: The Security of Faith”
April 04, 2024 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week we discuss the faith of Joseph as he looks to find security in God’s providence.
Hebrews 11:8-9, Genesis 32:22-32 “Jacob: The Battle of Faith”
March 28, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBThis week we look at how we can learn from Jacob’s wrestling match with God.
Hebrews 11:11 “Sarah: The Process of Faith”
March 21, 2024 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week we look at the impact that shame has on our faith, and look to the One who has taken our shame.
Guest Preacher Intern Aidan Creel, Hebrews 11:17-19, Genesis 22:1-22 “Abraham: The Sacrifice of Faith”
March 07, 2024 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBAidan Creel discusses the faith of Abraham by looking at how this test reveals God’s goodness to him.
Hebrews 11:7, Genesis 6:5-14 “Noah: The Fearfulness of Faith”
February 28, 2024 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week we jump into how we are to relate to God in view of his judgment. How are judgment and love related? How can judgment help us endure in faith?
Hebrews 11:5-6, Genesis 5:21-24 “Enoch: The Walk of Faith”
February 22, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBThis week we look at the fitb of Enoch. Seeing how we might have to slow down to catch up to God.
Hebrews 11:5-6, Genesis 5:21-24 “The Walk of Faith”
February 22, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBThis week we look at the fitb of Enoch. Seeing how we might have to slow down to catch up to God.
Hebrews 11:4, Genesis 4:1-10 “The Faith of Cain and Abel”
February 08, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBThis week we look at why Abel’s sacrifice was more acceptable than Cain’s. Looking at our need for a better covering and Jesus’ sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 11:1,13-16, 12:1-2 "Homesick: The Life of Faith"
February 01, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBWe start our series on Hebrews 11 by looking for a definition of faith, and trying to see how Christianity is both a compelling and reasonable thing to trust with your life.
Acts 28:17-28 “Unhindered Kingdom”
November 16, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBThis is our last week in our series on Acts, and we close by looking at how Paul approached the Christian life empowered by the Spirit.
Following Jesus in the Greek System (Seminar)
November 10, 2023 23:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBWe gathered with Greek students to talk about how a Christian worldview can change how we relate to our fraternity and sorority houses.
Acts 19:11-20, 23-28 “The Way of the Kingdom”
November 10, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBThis week we look at two stories that show us how Christians embodied the way of Jesus in the ancient world, and how the Holy Spirit can be at work in us in the same way.
Acts 14:8-23, “Kingdom Missions”
November 06, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBThis week we look at how Paul evangelizes to the Gentiles in a way that is both contextualized to them but also faithful to the Gospel.
Acts 13:13-45, “The Story of the King and His People”
October 26, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBThis week we look at Paul’s sermon in Antioch in Pisidia, and look at how the Gospel is an invitation to live into the story God is writing for the whole world. Some will embrace it as Good News, and others will reject it.
Acts 12:1-24, “The Upside-Down Kingdom”
October 19, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBThis week we look at the story of Peter’s jailbreak and Herod’s judgment. We try to see how embracing a posture of dependency and faith in the strength of Jesus is where life is found in the Kingdom of God.
Acts 10:9-48 “A Different Type of Kingdom”
October 12, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBThis week we look at Cornelius’s conversion, and Peter’s cross-cultural conversion. We see that God is building a kingdom that is able to unite people in Christ that were once divided.
Acts 8:1-3, 9:1-22 “The King Who Pursues”
October 05, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBThis week we look at the famous story of Saul’s conversion. In this story we find the power of grace, the beauty of the church, and the importance of suffering.
Acts 6:8-7:2a, 7:51-60 “Looking at the King”
September 28, 2023 03:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBThis week we look at the death of Stephen, and try to learn where Christian courage and hope is found.
Acts 4:32-37, 5:1-11 “Opposition Inside the Kingdom”
September 21, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBThis week we look at how Satan not only tries to destroy the church from the outside persecution but also from infiltrating the church with hypocrisy. This difficult passages ends with an invitation to rest in the cross of Jesus.
Act 4:1-22 “Opposition to the King”
September 14, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThis week we look at this passage where the Gospel of Jesus Christ started to be met with opposition from the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. We discuss how and why we and others often oppose the Gospel, and look at how we might endure opposition as believers rooted in the hope of the resurrection.
Acts 2:22-24,36-47 “Encountering and Enjoying the King”
September 07, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThis week we look at Peter’s sermon at Pentecost. We consider that being a Christian involves both knowing Jesus personally and communing with him corporately in the church.
Acts 2:1-13, “The Kingdom Grows”
August 31, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBWe continue our study in the book of Acts by looking at the amazing story of the Spirit at Pentecost. We seek to connect God’s growing kingdom then to how he is inviting us into his kingdom now, and why God is a reliable place for us to rest our faith in.
Acts 1:1-11, “The King is on the Move”
August 24, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBWe kick off our series on Acts looking at how Luke plans to show us how God is at work through King Jesus by virtue of his life, death, resurrection, and ascension. What we find is that this work is a bit unexpected. The unexpected King is building an unexpected Kingdom.
“10 Commandments: Jesus Fulfills the Law” Luke 24:13-35
April 20, 2023 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBAs we look to see how the New Testament relates to the 10 Commandments, we go to the story of Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Here he opens the Bible with some disciples to show them how all scripture, including the law, points to him and his redemptive work in his life, death, and resurrection.
“10 Commandments: Jesus & the Law” Mark 2:23-3:6
April 13, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBThis week we dive into a story about Jesus’ conflict with the Pharisees over his supposed lack of observance of the Sabbath. Jesus uses this conflict to reveal the heart of the law and the heart of God.
Exodus 20:17 “10th Commandment: Contentment”
April 06, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBWe end our series on the 10th commandment looking at how the prohibition of coveting is actually an invitation to love and give ourselves away like God did for us in Jesus Christ.
Exodus 20:16 “9th Commandment: Words”
March 30, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBWe forgot to record last week! We are back this week talking through how God invites us in the 9th commandment to be people that speak life and blessing into others lives instead of death and curse. He changes our speech through the better word of Jesus Christ.
Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:27-32 “7th Commandment: Commitment”
March 09, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBThe 7th commandment addresses the complex relationship of marriage as Gods casts a vision for his sexual ethic. We see that Jesus cast a high view of marriage, and an even higher view of his transforming grace for the sexually broken.
Exodus 20:1-2,13 “6th Commandment: Life”
March 02, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBThis week we looked at not only what the 6th commandment prohibits, but what it invites us to. Also, there was a big storm hitting at the time so forgive the interjections of me asking if we are okay.
Exodus 20:12 “5th Commandment: Honor”
February 23, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBThis week we started the second table of the law by trying to figure out what it looks like to honor your father and mother.
Exodus 20:1-2,8-11 “Fourth Commandment: Rest” (Walker Crow)
February 16, 2023 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBOur intern Walker taught us about Gods invitation to rest in his finished work as the foundation for the Sabbath command. We learned what rest is, why we can’t rest, and where rest is found.
Exodus 20:1-2,7 “Third Commandment: Respect”
February 09, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBThe third commandment God protects us from using his name in vain. We explore why and what that looks like to break it. We also see the beauty of why we should protect God’s name.
Exodus 20:4-6 “Second Commandment: Worship”
February 02, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBIn the second commandment God commands us to not reduce him to an image of our own making. We talk about what it looks like to do this in our pride and our shame, and are invited to see Jesus as he truly is.
Exodus 20:1-3 “First Commandment: Love”
January 26, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBWe start off our series on the Ten Commandments by framing them as God’s invitation to us to “let good things run wild.” We see this in the context of the commands and the details of the first commandment in the way love is foundation for how God relates to us and how we are called to relate to him and his world.
Galatians 6:11-18 “Subversive Salvation”
November 28, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBAt our last Large Group of the Fall semester we finish our series on Galatians by looking at the subversive tactics of false teachers and the subversive grace of Jesus Christ. We try to consider about how this grace can turn the world upside down with its beauty and power.
Galatians 6:1-10 “Being Spiritual”
November 10, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBAs we near the end of our time in the book of Galatians, Paul starts to get really practical. The invitation of life in the Spirit is an invitation to participate in the tall task of love of God and one another. We look at this in the context of how we often misunderstand what being spiritual really means in the modern world.
Dating Seminar with Q&A -Les Newsom
November 09, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBLes Newsom, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Oxford, joined us to help us think through a biblical and Gospel-centered approach to dating. He also answered some questions from the audience after teaching.
Luke 18:9-14 "Righteousness" (Walker Crow)
November 09, 2022 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBThis week we took a pause from our series on Galatians and heard from our intern Walker Crow as he talked about the parable Jesus told about Pharisee and the Tax Collect.
Galatians 5:16-24 “The War Within”
October 27, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBThe Apostle Paul continues to apply the freedom of the Gospel to our everyday experience of life. This week we explore battle for our spiritual lives is often inside of our own hearts instead of determined on outside conditions. In the life of the believer Spirit and the flesh wage war against one another, and engaging in this battle is what the process of sanctification is grounded in.
Galatians 5:1-15 “The Free Life”
October 20, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThis week we look at how Paul starts to apply his doctrines of grace to the life of the believer and the believing community. We consider three ways the cross of Jesus Christ changes how we relate to God, ourselves, and our neighbors.
Galatians 4:7-20 "From Slave to Son"
October 13, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBThis week we take Galatians 4 in whole as we try to understand what it looks like to live into the reality that through faith in Christ we have been adopted as sons of God and are no longer slaves to our idols. We contrast the experience of a life of a slave with one of a son and apply it to our own lives today as we try to walk in faith with Jesus.
Galatians 3:15-29 "Reframing God's Rules"
October 07, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIf we are justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone then what do we do with God's law? This week we learn why God gave the law, and how he is inviting us to relate to it in view of the Gospel.
Galatians 3:1-14 "Grace, Grace, Grace"
September 29, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB(We didn't get last weeks recording) This week we are continuing to look at Paul's argument against the Jewish false teachers heresy they were spreading around the church in Galatia. We find out that not only does Paul argue that grace is what gets us in to God's favor but it's also the thing that keeps us in God's favor. Becoming a Christian and being a Christian have the exact same fuel source, grace.
Galatians 2:11-14 "A Fight About Freedom"
September 15, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBFor the last three weeks Paul has been illustrating his doctrine of grace found in the Gospel through real life stories. This week he has a confrontation with his friend and fellow-Apostle Peter when he divided with a diverse group of believers out of fear. Paul calls him back to the freedom found in the perfect love of Jesus.
Galatians 2:1-10 "Anchored to Assurance"
September 08, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBWe continue our walk through the book of Galatians this fall trying to understand why the Apostle Paul is fighting so hard to protect what he calls "the freedom we have in Christ." This week he takes us through a story that helps illustrate what it looks like to have full assurance in the grace of Jesus Christ and how that changes how we relate to God, ourselves, and one another.
Galatians 1:11-24 "The God of Our Stories"
September 01, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBThe Apostle Paul defends his Gospel to the church in Galatia that is in danger of believing a false gospel. To do this he shows how the Gospel of Jesus Christ transformed his own story by the way God graciously drew Paul to himself, saved him, and equipped him for ministry. This text invites us to see how God can transform and use our own broken stories through his grace.
Galatians 1:1-10 "Don't Reverse The Gospel"
August 25, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBThis semester we are going through a series on Galatians where we are looking at how Paul is showing us that the Gospel provides for us a freedom that is worth fighting for. A freedom in Jesus Christ that liberates us from our enslavement to sin and all of the burdens it places upon us.
Revelation (11) - It's All Worth It - 19-22
April 21, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBGod loves us enough to show us the ending of this story we live in. And we are all invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb. As for so much of this series, thank you specifically to Ricky Jones for the insights, illustration and application.