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 examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. This week, in the “second sign” of John’s gospel we see a real-life illustration of what it means to believe in Jesus and receive life in his name (John 20:31). 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 year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus. In John 4, we have a case study in what it looks like for someone to pass from spiritual darkness into light, from death to life. This passage isn’t intended by Jo...

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. Celebration is wonderful! It's a core need of the human soul. But if we're honest, we're all a little disappointed when seasons of celebration end, sum...

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 our world today, we're constantly bombarded by advice on what to do to become more healthy people. Seek after physical health or emotional health. Set bette...

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. We live in a world that values self-expression— it seems natural to us that someone would want to share, display, and communicate about ourselves to others. When h...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. At our final on-campus meeting of the semester, we had some graduating seniors (and our departing intern, Bailey) share about how God met them during their time in RUF. Then Sam closed us out with a reflection on the Aaronic blessing from Numbers 6. The sto...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. In our final series of the Spring semester we are looking at how to relate to God through prayer, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as our guide. This week in our series on prayer we look at “supplication,” which is a fancy word for petition, which 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. In our final series of the Spring semester we are looking at how to relate to God through prayer, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as our guide. We tend to want to put our best food forward, sweep our failures under the rug, and downplay our shortco...

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. In our final series of the Spring semester we are looking at how to relate to God through prayer, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as our guide. As we begin the prayer, Jesus focuses our attention on God himself, the audience and object of our adora...

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. Tonight we look at the final aspect of fruit, Self-Control, and we discuss how people in Christ are called to relate to their desires. Nothing builds vibrant relationships...

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. For this week's message we're examining the gentleness of Jesus. Gentleness (or meekness) is the aspect of Jesus’ heart that he gives to his people which allows 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 how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. This week, we look at the aspect of Jesus's character called "faithfulness." Maintaining faithfulness in relationships has always been difficult— it’s why Jes...

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 look at the aspect of Jesus's character called "goodness" (Gal 5:22). How do we live a life where we grow in genuine goodness and integrity? The...

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...