Regardless of your beliefs or doubts, RUF is a place for you to explore Christianity and grow in your understanding of who Jesus is and what it means to follow him in community with others at Ole Miss. We are here for the “convinced” and the “unconvinced,” the lost, the found, the burned, bored, cynical, spiritual. We invite you, no matter where you are in the process, to RUF. We meet on Wednesdays at 7:30pm in Paris-Yates Chapel.
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2 Kings 2:1-14, "Life of Elijah: The Legacy of the Prophet"
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We close our series looking at the last story from Elijah's life, and considering the legacy that he leaves us with.By Austin Braasch
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(Intern Aidan Creel) 1 Kings 19:1-18, "Life of Elijah: Listening For God"
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This week our intern Aidan taught on the story where Elijah hears from God in the wilderness.By Austin Braasch
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(Intern Aidan Creel) 1 King 19:19-21, "Life of Elijah: The Cost of the Call"
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This week our intern Aidan preached on Elijah passing the mantel of the prophet to Elisha.By Austin Braasch
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Summer RUF- 1 Kings 18:1-40, "Elijah: The Battle of the Prophet"
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Summer RUF looks at the life of Elijah, and this dramatic story of his showdown with the prophets of Baal.By Austin Braasch
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Summer RUF- 1 Kings 17:1-7 “The Introduction to the Prophet”
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This summer we are having a 5-week series on the life of Elijah. Excuse the cries from my son in the background. He did not want to go do bedtime.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 12:1-2 "Jesus: The Fuel and Finish Line of Faith"
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Sorry for the extra noises on the recording. iPad wasn't working well. This week we finished our series in Hebrews 11 by looking to Jesus.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrew 11:24-26 “Moses: The Adventure of Faith”
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This week we look at the life of Moses, and look at how God is inviting us to a greater story.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:22, Genesis 50:15-26 “Joseph: The Security of Faith”
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This week we discuss the faith of Joseph as he looks to find security in God’s providence.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:8-9, Genesis 32:22-32 “Jacob: The Battle of Faith”
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This week we look at how we can learn from Jacob’s wrestling match with God.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:11 “Sarah: The Process of Faith”
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This week we look at the impact that shame has on our faith, and look to the One who has taken our shame.By Austin Braasch
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Guest Preacher Intern Aidan Creel, Hebrews 11:17-19, Genesis 22:1-22 “Abraham: The Sacrifice of Faith”
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Aidan Creel discusses the faith of Abraham by looking at how this test reveals God’s goodness to him.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:7, Genesis 6:5-14 “Noah: The Fearfulness of Faith”
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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?By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:5-6, Genesis 5:21-24 “Enoch: The Walk of Faith”
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This week we look at the fitb of Enoch. Seeing how we might have to slow down to catch up to God.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:4, Genesis 4:1-10 “The Faith of Cain and Abel”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Hebrews 11:1,13-16, 12:1-2 "Homesick: The Life of Faith"
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 19:11-20, 23-28 “The Way of the Kingdom”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Following Jesus in the Greek System (Seminar)
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We gathered with Greek students to talk about how a Christian worldview can change how we relate to our fraternity and sorority houses.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 13:13-45, “The Story of the King and His People”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 10:9-48 “A Different Type of Kingdom”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 8:1-3, 9:1-22 “The King Who Pursues”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 6:8-7:2a, 7:51-60 “Looking at the King”
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This week we look at the death of Stephen, and try to learn where Christian courage and hope is found.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 4:32-37, 5:1-11 “Opposition Inside the Kingdom”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Acts 2:22-24,36-47 “Encountering and Enjoying the King”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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“10 Commandments: Jesus Fulfills the Law” Luke 24:13-35
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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.By Austin Braasch
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“10 Commandments: Jesus & the Law” Mark 2:23-3:6
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Exodus 20:17 “10th Commandment: Contentment”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:27-32 “7th Commandment: Commitment”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Exodus 20:1-2,8-11 “Fourth Commandment: Rest” (Walker Crow)
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Exodus 20:1-2,7 “Third Commandment: Respect”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Exodus 20:4-6 “Second Commandment: Worship”
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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 him and his world.…
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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 really means in the modern world.…
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Luke 18:9-14 "Righteousness" (Walker Crow)
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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.By Austin Braasch
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Dating Seminar with Q&A -Les Newsom
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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 one another, and engaging in this battle is what the pr…
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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.By Austin Braasch
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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 own lives today as we try to walk in faith with Jesus…
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Galatians 3:15-29 "Reframing God's Rules"
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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.By Austin Braasch
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(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 that keeps us in God's favor. Becoming a Christian and b…
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