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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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Exodus 20:1-2,13 “6th Commandment: Life”

RUF at Ole Miss - March 02, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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.  

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Exodus 20:12 “5th Commandment: Honor”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 23, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This week we started the second table of the law by trying to figure out what it looks like to honor your father and mother.

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Exodus 20:1-2,8-11 “Fourth Commandment: Rest” (Walker Crow)

RUF at Ole Miss - February 16, 2023 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
Our 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.

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Exodus 20:1-2,7 “Third Commandment: Respect”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 09, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
The 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.

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Exodus 20:4-6 “Second Commandment: Worship”

RUF at Ole Miss - February 02, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
In 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. 

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Exodus 20:1-3 “First Commandment: Love”

RUF at Ole Miss - January 26, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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 ...

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Galatians 6:11-18 “Subversive Salvation”

RUF at Ole Miss - November 28, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
At 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. 

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Galatians 6:1-10 “Being Spiritual”

RUF at Ole Miss - November 10, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
As 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 re...

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Dating Seminar with Q&A -Les Newsom

RUF at Ole Miss - November 09, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
Les 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. 

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Luke 18:9-14 "Righteousness" (Walker Crow)

RUF at Ole Miss - November 09, 2022 17:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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. 

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Galatians 5:16-24 “The War Within”

RUF at Ole Miss - October 27, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
The 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 ...

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Galatians 5:1-15 “The Free Life”

RUF at Ole Miss - October 20, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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. 

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Galatians 4:7-20 "From Slave to Son"

RUF at Ole Miss - October 13, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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...

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Galatians 3:15-29 "Reframing God's Rules"

RUF at Ole Miss - October 07, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
If 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.

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Galatians 3:1-14 "Grace, Grace, Grace"

RUF at Ole Miss - September 29, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
(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 th...

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Galatians 2:11-14 "A Fight About Freedom"

RUF at Ole Miss - September 15, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
For 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 fou...

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Galatians 2:1-10 "Anchored to Assurance"

RUF at Ole Miss - September 08, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
We 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 ...

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Galatians 1:11-24 "The God of Our Stories"

RUF at Ole Miss - September 01, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
The 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 ...

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Galatians 1:1-10 "Don't Reverse The Gospel"

RUF at Ole Miss - August 25, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
This 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. 

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Revelation (11) - It's All Worth It - 19-22

RUF at Ole Miss - April 21, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
God 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. 

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Revelation (10) - The Great Prostitute of Worldliness - 17-19

RUF at Ole Miss - April 14, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
Satan is trying to battle the church and Jesus kingdom in a last ditch effort and one of the main weapons Satan uses is the allure of the world.  As has been said so much in this series, big thanks to Ricky Jones for so much insight into this as well as Way Rutherford and Alex Watlington. 

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Austin Braasch - Jesus and Doubts - John 20:24-31

RUF at Ole Miss - April 07, 2022 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
Incoming RUF Ole Miss Campus Minister Austin Braasch looks at John 20 and invites us to bring our doubts to Jesus.  

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Revelation (9) - The Conflict Behind It All - 12

RUF at Ole Miss - March 24, 2022 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
John sees in picture book fashion, the behind the scenes story that shapes and informs the story we see.  What John "sees" will begin to make sense of world history and your life.  Thank you Ricky Jones for insights, etc. 

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Revelation (8) - The Trumpets - 8-11

RUF at Ole Miss - March 10, 2022 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
Big thank you to Rickey Jones for most of the thoughts and applications behind this message.   The trumpets show us world history from the perspective of the world. Hear the trumpets! They are mercifully calling for repentance.   

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Revelation (7) - The Sealed - 7:1-17

RUF at Ole Miss - March 03, 2022 02:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
What John sees next is an overwhelming view of God's people throughout all time. They are sealed, diverse and sheltered by God's presence.

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Revelation (6) - The Cry That Moves History - 6:1-17

RUF at Ole Miss - February 24, 2022 02:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
The lamb opens the scroll and we see what world history will be like from the church's perspective.  Come Jesus Come is the cry!

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Revelation (5) - The Scroll - 5:1-14

RUF at Ole Miss - February 17, 2022 02:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
John continues to look into heaven. There he looks at the crisis of world history.  If no one is able to open the scroll and enact the plan of God to heal the world, then weeping is all we have.  But there is someone!  Thank you Rickey Jones for much of this

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Revelation (4) - The Throne Room - 4:1-11

RUF at Ole Miss - February 10, 2022 02:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
In a world that seems out of control, God lets John see into heaven where indeed there is someone on the throne.  It's what we all need to know!  Thank you Rickey Jones and Alex Watlington for insights into this passage

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Revelation (3) - No Problems Is A Problem - 3:14-22

RUF at Ole Miss - February 03, 2022 03:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
In the letter to the church in Laodicea, Jesus sees behind the masquerade to lovingly call for change in them and in us.  

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