RUF at UNCW

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. C.S. Lewis said “courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." Similarly,...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. This week, we’re looking at patience. The essence of patience is the willingness to endure suffering. Waiting is painful. And patience is the aspect of Jesus’s heart that G...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. This week, we’re looking at the aspect of christian character that Galatians 5 calls "peace." In the Bible, peace is more than an absence of conflict. Peace (also...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. We don't want to just dispense relationship advice, but hope to show you the gospel in a way that actually transforms character and empowers wisdom. This week, we conti...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. We don't want to just dispense relationship advice, but hope to show you the gospel in a way that actually transforms character and empowers wisdom. Over-focusing on th...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this weeks passage from John 1, we see how the Incarnation -- God taking on human flesh and blood-- is the final step in th...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's passage from Ezekiel 37, we see that once again, God provides exactly what his people need. When we are stu...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In these passages from Leviticus and Hebrews, we look at an Old Testament figure-- the priest; and an place— the temple. And w...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this passage from 2 Samuel, God makes very specific promises to King David about his future plans for the people of God. An...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Deuteronomy, we continue with the story of Moses and the children of Israel. God has brought t...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Exodus 2 & 3, we learn how our covenant relationship with God relates to the forces outsid...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Genesis 17, we see how throughout the Bible God names and claims his covenant people as his ow...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Genesis 12 & 15, we see how God further defines His relationship to us as one based on a c...

In this message from our 2023 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone, Rev. Sid Druen teaches us how the doctrine of faith and repentance takes us beyond our efficiency. In this final sermon, we see Jesus tell two stories that celebrate human honesty and how diligently God seeks us and how much He rejoices over us. Outline: Repentance looks like: (1) Looking Up and Feeling Lost, (2) Being Diligently Sou...

In this message from our 2023 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone, Rev. Sid Druen explores Jesus' teaching on the reality of prayer. In Matthew 7, Jesus shows us that we can pray how we want because of who we pray to (our Father in Heaven); and that this Father’s character changes why we pray (and how we live). Outline: (1) Jesus says how to pray (2) Jesus says who we pray to Discussion Question...

In this message from our 2023 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone, Rev. Sid Druen shares how the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount takes us beyond our self-image. In the Matthew 6, Jesus diagnoses our false tendency to perform; and Jesus prescribes a physical therapy (a different, more real practice) as well as an internal medicine (seeing ourselves as God the Father sees us). Outline: (1) Jesus’...

In this message from our 2023 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone, Rev. Sid Druen teaches us how the Kingdom of God actually operates in this world, and this changes both how we live and how we measure progress in our lives. We hope you are helped by it! Outline: What seems small and contained is actually large and all-over-the-place, in God, What looks flaky and hidden is actually transformational...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Genesis 6-9, we explore the story of Noah, his family, the flood, and the promises that God ma...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Genesis 3, we look at the how sin and alienation from God entered into God's good creation...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message, we look at the Genesis creation account and what it says about who God is and how he relates to us...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message, we look at Jesus' resurrection appearance to two of his disciples in Luke 24:13-35 and what th...

In our final sermon from the Apostle's Creed, we ending with a message of hope about what the God is doing right now, and has promised to do in the future. The last four phrases of the Apostles Creed ( the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of Sins, the Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting)remind us that our hope does not rest in what we can do or accomplish. Our hope rests in what...

This week in our series on the Apostles' Creed we’re continuing to talk about the work of God the Spirit. The Spirit is the Helper who applies redemption to God’s people, empowering them to live as God's servants and witnesses in this world. Tonight, we will see the good news that God hasn't left us to ourselves, and he doesn't expect you fix yourself by yourself! God is loving his...

In this week's Large Group message, guest speaker RUF Area Coordinator Jason Little teaches us about Jesus's famous last prayer from John 17. In this prayer, we are invited to see the unseen reality that holds our lives together: that we are not our own, and that we are infinitely loved. In this prayer, we learn that we belong to the Father, not because of anything WE do, but because Jesus...

We’re moving from the work of God the Father and God the Son— who plan and accomplish redemption (respectively), to the work of God the Spirit, who applies that redemption to God’s people.  In this passage from John we hear Jesus talk about his own project of redemption. Why Jesus is confident that his plans for redemption will not fail? He is confident not because of anything in us, because he kn...