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 year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships.  Tonight we look at how to grow in our relationship to God’s grace, by following him in his world. The message of the Bible i...

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 year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships.  Last week we looked at how to relate to God himself– by placing ourselves under his loving Word, to be taught by Him . 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 year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships.  To relate with wisdom, we need more than superficial Christian cliches, or advice from influencers and chatbots. We need...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus . Many of us struggle with decision paralysis—-we don’t want to move forward until we know exactly where we’re supposed to go. In relationships, in work, we fear se...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus . At the very beginning of the gospel of John we read, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it …  The true light, which gives light to e...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus . As we come to John 19, the crucifixion sounds like a description of Jesus’ deepest and most profound moment of humiliation. But for John, this moment of suffering...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus . Why did Jesus have to die? Did he live and die and rise again just so he could be our "co-pilot?" In John's gospel we see that Jesus didn’t come to...

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 week, we are hearing from a special guest speaker: Rev. Jay Denton from Downtown Pres Church Plant here in Wilmington! QUOTES: “No man can be said to be truly converted to Christ who has not bent his will to Christ. He may give intellectual assent to 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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus . What would you do if you only had 24 hours left on earth? When every minute counts, you wouldn’t waste time, you wouldn’t waste words. We would think that the way...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. In John 16, we see why it is better to have the Spirit inside us than a physical Jesus beside us. Jesus tells the disciples that it is an “advantage” for him to go...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. In this passage. Jesus is talking to his disciples about what their lives are going to look like on the other side of his death and resurrection. And he’s going to...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. Now that they understand that Jesus is departing, his disciples are troubled. What does Jesus give to enable his close friends to face their troubles? Not a self-help...

In this passage from John 13, Jesus demonstrates and describes the kind of love that is at the center of the universe. Agape love, the kind of love that spends itself in pursuit of another person’s good, shows up at the beginning and end of John 13. The passage starts by describing Jesus’s love for his people, and ends up with Jesus commanding his people to follow his example of love in such a way...

In this world, there are all sorts of things that can totally upend our lives—violence, broken relationships, broken trust, sickness, physical suffering, disappointments … the list goes on. And try as we might, we can’t just live our lives avoiding suffering. How do we endure suffering, without getting overwhelmed by it?  Or, to put it a different way– how can we find a joy, a settled sense of sec...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. Where you do you go when you're afraid? In the final passage from our fall semester, we learn why Jesus alone is worthy of our trust and attention-- especially when we...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. What kind of story are we living in? It is a tragedy or a comedy? The difference between tragedy and comedy is not the presence of death. It’s the placement of death. ...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. In this passage, Jesus makes the case for his shepherding-- and he shows us that unlike the teachers who claim to speak for God, Jesus leads us with the perfect words...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. In John chapter 9, we continue to see evidence of Jesus's unique authority as the light-bringing God, who has come into the world. The healing of a man born blind is a...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. In John chapters 7-8, Jesus shows up at the Jewish Feast of Booths and begins to teach. As he speaks, he radically reshapes our ideas about God’s presence, the source...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. It’s very possible to be doing the right things, but for the wrong reason. This is one of many times in the gospel where you have the outward appearance of great relig...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. It's often said, "people don't care what you know until they know you care." Compassion, empathy and emotional intelligence are some of the top qualities people look f...

The message from Saturday night of our first ever "StayCo" stay-at-home conference, where we studied the idea of justification from Romans 3. Our final message is about receiving and responding to our justification. Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 60, 61, 64. Q.60. How are you right with God? A. Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned aga...

The message from Friday night of our first ever "StayCo" stay-at-home conference, where we studied the idea of justification from Romans 3. Our first night's message is about the burden and beauty of justification. Q. 33. What is justification? A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace by which he pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in his sight, only because of the righteousness...

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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. This week, in the “third sign” of John’s gospel we see Jesus bringing a healing to a helpless man, and confronting the narrow religiosity and unbelief of the Jewish le...