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Hebrews 11:31 “Rahab: The Risk of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - April 18, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at Rahab, and how she risked her faith by placing it in the word of God, his mercy, and his people.

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Hebrew 11:24-26 “Moses: The Adventure of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - April 12, 2024 18:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at the life of Moses, and look at how God is inviting us to a greater story.

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Hebrews 11:22, Genesis 50:15-26 “Joseph: The Security of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - April 04, 2024 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we discuss the faith of Joseph as he looks to find security in God’s providence. 

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Hebrews 11:8-9, Genesis 32:22-32 “Jacob: The Battle of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - March 28, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at how we can learn from Jacob’s wrestling match with God.

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Hebrews 11:11 “Sarah: The Process of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - March 21, 2024 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at the impact that shame has on our faith, and look to the One who has taken our shame.

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Guest Preacher Intern Aidan Creel, Hebrews 11:17-19, Genesis 22:1-22 “Abraham: The Sacrifice of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - March 07, 2024 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
Aidan Creel discusses the faith of Abraham by looking at how this test reveals God’s goodness to him.

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Hebrews 11:7, Genesis 6:5-14 “Noah: The Fearfulness of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 28, 2024 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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?

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Hebrews 11:5-6, Genesis 5:21-24 “Enoch: The Walk of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 22, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at the fitb of Enoch. Seeing how we might have to slow down to catch up to God.

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Hebrews 11:5-6, Genesis 5:21-24 “The Walk of Faith”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 22, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at the fitb of Enoch. Seeing how we might have to slow down to catch up to God.

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Hebrews 11:4, Genesis 4:1-10 “The Faith of Cain and Abel”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 08, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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. 

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Hebrews 11:1,13-16, 12:1-2 "Homesick: The Life of Faith"

RUF at Ole Miss - February 01, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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. 

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Acts 28:17-28 “Unhindered Kingdom”

RUF at Ole Miss - November 16, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Following Jesus in the Greek System (Seminar)

RUF at Ole Miss - November 10, 2023 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We gathered with Greek students to talk about how a Christian worldview can change how we relate to our fraternity and sorority houses. 

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Acts 19:11-20, 23-28 “The Way of the Kingdom”

RUF at Ole Miss - November 10, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Acts 14:8-23, “Kingdom Missions”

RUF at Ole Miss - November 06, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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. 

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Acts 13:13-45, “The Story of the King and His People”

RUF at Ole Miss - October 26, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Acts 12:1-24, “The Upside-Down Kingdom”

RUF at Ole Miss - October 19, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Acts 10:9-48 “A Different Type of Kingdom”

RUF at Ole Miss - October 12, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Acts 8:1-3, 9:1-22 “The King Who Pursues”

RUF at Ole Miss - October 05, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Acts 6:8-7:2a, 7:51-60 “Looking at the King”

RUF at Ole Miss - September 28, 2023 03:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we look at the death of Stephen, and try to learn where Christian courage and hope is found.

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Acts 4:32-37, 5:1-11 “Opposition Inside the Kingdom”

RUF at Ole Miss - September 21, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Act 4:1-22 “Opposition to the King”

RUF at Ole Miss - September 14, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.  

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Acts 2:22-24,36-47 “Encountering and Enjoying the King”

RUF at Ole Miss - September 07, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Acts 2:1-13, “The Kingdom Grows”

RUF at Ole Miss - August 31, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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.

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Acts 1:1-11, “The King is on the Move”

RUF at Ole Miss - August 24, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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. 

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“10 Commandments: Jesus Fulfills the Law” Luke 24:13-35

RUF at Ole Miss - April 20, 2023 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
As 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.

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“10 Commandments: Jesus & the Law” Mark 2:23-3:6

RUF at Ole Miss - April 13, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.

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Exodus 20:17 “10th Commandment: Contentment”

RUF at Ole Miss - April 06, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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.

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Exodus 20:16 “9th Commandment: Words”

RUF at Ole Miss - March 30, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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.

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Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:27-32 “7th Commandment: Commitment”

RUF at Ole Miss - March 09, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
The 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.

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