RUF at UNCW

Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
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Reformed University Fellowship is a Christian campus ministry at UNCW. RUF exists for the "convinced" and the "unconvinced," the lost, and the found. Our weekly Large Group helps students come to understand, know, and follow Jesus Christ as they walk through their college years. RUF seeks to lay a foundation for a lifetime of loving Jesus and serving him in all areas of life. Whoever you are and whatever you believe, you're welcome at RUF! For more information, visit ruf.org/uncw or follow us @rufuncw.

  1. 3d ago

    Loving With Our Stuff (Deut. 5:19, 15:7–8; Matt 6:19–21, 24; Ephesians 4:28)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. We’re a group for the convinced and the unconvinced, the confident and the doubting, the struggling and the seeking.  Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This fall, we’re focusing on the book of Deuteronomy and the Ten Commandments. Tonight’s message looks at the eighth command, which forbids stealing and commands God’s people to love their neighbor by protecting their property and possessions.  QUOTES: You shall not steal. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not take our neighbor’s money or possessions, or get them in any dishonest way, but help him to improve and protect his possessions and income.”- Martin Luther’s Small Catechism “Property is … a loan, a trust from God. Like the talents in the parable, it is a test of our faithfulness, and we may keep it only so long as we use it well. The size of our bank account, like the size of our biceps, is neither good nor bad in itself, but only in what we do with it; should we use either money or muscle wickedly, our fellow men have the duty of stopping us somehow.”— Joy Davidman “If you are selfish, and make yourself and your own private interests your idol, God will leave you to yourself, and let you promote your own interests as well as you can.  But if you do not selfishly seek your own, but do seek the things that are Jesus Christ’s, and the things of your fellow human beings, then God will make your interest and happiness his own charge, and he is infinitely more able to provide for and promote it than you are. The resources of the universe move at his bidding, and he can easily command them all to subserve your welfare.”—Jonathan Edwards LINKS: ⁠Sermon: Treasure vs. Money by Tim Keller⁠ Blog: Jesus Says Use Money To Make Friends

    Loving With Our Stuff (Deut. 5:19, 15:7–8; Matt 6:19–21, 24; Ephesians 4:28)

  2. Oct 14

    Unlearning Our Unloving (Deuteronomy 5:18; Matthew 5:27-30, 1 Thessalonians 4: 1-8)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. We’re a group for the convinced and the unconvinced, the confident and the doubting, the struggling and the seeking.  Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This fall, we’re focusing on the book of Deuteronomy and the Ten Commandments. Tonight’s message looks at the seventh command, which forbids adultery and commands God’s people to honor and protect the sexual integrity of ourselves and our neighbors.  Quotes: “God loves sex. He conceived, created, and blessed the process by which our bodies know and are known through desire, arousal, foreplay, intercourse, orgasm, and rest. Sex is meant by God to be one of the bridge experiences between earth and heaven. It awakens and intersects our deepest physical and spiritual desires … It is no wonder that the enemy of God is relentlessly committed to fouling both immanent pleasure and transcendent joy. Evil hates sex and is ruthlessly committed to tearing down the bridge between desire and holiness.” - Dan Allender “Society tells us, simultaneously, that sex is no big deal and that it’s the most important thing in the universe. Sex is so meaningless that we can have random, casual sex with our next-door neighbor, yet sex is so hugely significant that we can’t possibly live without it.”—Lauren Winner “The biblical vision of sex breaks open three pivotal truths about God's love: it is passionate, always faithful and ultimately fruitful. As we allow the gospel to shape and discipline sexual desire, our lived bodily experience puts these truths on display. Just as passion and faithfulness go together in heaven, that's how it works here on earth too” -Glynn Harrison “I am sure that unless we are confident that the Scriptures tell the truth about sexuality, about being bodies, about being full of sexual longings and desires, unless it does all this, it is hard to believe that they are true when they speak to the rest of life.” -Steve Garber From the Anglican Catechism: 320. What does it mean for you to be chaste? Whether I am married or single, it means I will love and honor others as image bearers of God, not as objects of lust and sexual gratification, and I will refrain from all sexual acts outside of marriage. (Genesis 39:6b–12; Proverbs 6:25–28; Matthew 5:29–30; Philippians 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7) 321. How do you benefit from chastity? Chastity establishes wise and godly boundaries that enable me to give freely of myself in friendship, avoid difficulty in marriage, and experience the freedom of integrity before God. (Genesis 39:19–23; Proverbs 11:5–6; Matthew 5:8; 1 Co­rin­thi­ans 7:25–40) Further Reading: The Gospel and Sex (Tim Keller)Why Consent Is Not Enough (Article)Sex Without Bodies (Andy Crouch)

    Unlearning Our Unloving (Deuteronomy 5:18; Matthew 5:27-30, 1 Thessalonians 4: 1-8)

  3. Oct 7

    Loving Life (Genesis 1:26-27, Deuteronomy 5:17; Matthew 5:20-24)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. We’re a group for the convinced and the unconvinced, the confident and the doubting, the struggling and the seeking.  Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This fall, we’re focusing on the book of Deuteronomy and the Ten Commandments. Tonight’s message looks at the sixth command— “thou shalt not murder.” In this command is embedded, not just a prohibition against unlawful taking of another life, but also the positive command to protect the dignity, worth, and bodily health of every human person. This command is about valuing what God values— his image, borne by every single human, no matter their age, race, ability or even their moral culpability. The image of God means that even the lives of our enemies are precious and need protection.   “The holiness of God is at war with all bitterness, hatred, and hurting. And where divine holiness collides with our hostility the crash is called the wrath of God. God's wrath is God's war of love against everything gratuitously hurtful. God's love would not be love if it did not work to remove all that ungraciously hurts. The wrath of God does not disprove; it proves the love of God.”- F. Dale Bruner  “When you fail to condemn a murder because you don’t like what the victim said or believed, you are suggesting at some fundamental level that some speech or ideas should be punishable by death. That is atavistic. That is literally barbaric in that it is a throwback to a time when the powerful could kill the powerless simply because they gave offense. Every person who surrenders, even at the margins, to the idea that one can justify murdering people for expressing their beliefs is not a sophisticated modern advocate of some edgy new way of thinking. They are, all of them, reactionaries at the most metaphysical level, rejecting the core convictions of not just “modernity” but of Judeo-Christian civilization itself.” — Jonah Goldberg “The only thing to say about the people who say they love God and hate their brother is that they are liars. They are persuading themselves that they are loving God when they are not loving Him at all. For if they know anything about the love of God, they know that those who hate their brother cannot be loving God, because God has loved them even though they were sinners. To know anything about the love of God is to know it means loving the unworthy, loving that which is objectionable.” - D. Martin LLoyd Jones “Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners.”— Miroslav Volf “The fact is… anger isn’t the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference.” – Rebecca Pippert Anglican Catechism: Q. 316. How else can you obey this commandment? A. As a witness to the Gospel and a follower of Christ, I can also keep this commandment by forgiving those who wrong me, patiently refraining from ungodly anger and hateful words; defending the unborn, vulnerable, and oppressed; rescuing those who harm themselves; and seeking the well-being of all.

    Loving Life (Genesis 1:26-27, Deuteronomy 5:17; Matthew 5:20-24)

  4. Sep 30

    Learning to Live with Authority (Deuteronomy 5:16; Romans 13:1-7)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. We’re a group for the convinced and the unconvinced, the confident and the doubting, the struggling and the seeking.  Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This fall, we’re focusing on the book of Deuteronomy and the Ten Commandments. Tonight’s message looks at the Fifth Command, which not only shows us how to relate to our families of origin, but also gives us a framework for flourishing in all other human relationships. Extra Credit: https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/obeying-rulers-with-the-reformed-tradition/ https://www.crossway.org/articles/the-5th-commandment-is-for-adults-too/ https://timothykeller.com/blog/2011/2/3/three-ways-with-families Quotes: “Power is a gift—the gift of a Giver who is the supreme model of power used to bless and serve. Power is not given to benefit those who hold it. It is given for the flourishing of individuals, peoples, and the cosmos itself. Power's right use is especially important for the flourishing of the vulnerable, the members of the human family who most need others to use power well to survive and thrive: the young, the aged, the sick, and the dispossessed. Power is not the opposite of servanthood. Rather, servanthood, ensuring the flourishing of others, is the very purpose of power.”- Andy Crouch “A society that destroys the family destroys itself. “- Joy Davidman

    Learning to Live with Authority (Deuteronomy 5:16; Romans 13:1-7)

  5. Sep 30

    Fall Co 2026: "How the Gospel Advances" (Philippians 1:12–18)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. This message is from the Sunday Morning service at our 2026 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone. Our speaker was Rev. Russ Whitfield, and the theme of the weekend was "Hope in Hard Places." Discussion Questions: What happened to Paul that looked like a setback? How did God use it to advance the gospel?Paul’s courage gave other Christians confidence to speak about Jesus. When has someone else’s faithfulness in a hard season encouraged you?What difficult circumstance in your life might also be an opportunity to show others what Jesus is like?Paul could not control his circumstances or other people’s motives. What enabled him to rejoice anyway?As you return to campus, where has God placed you to participate in the advance of the gospel?

    Fall Co 2026: "How the Gospel Advances" (Philippians 1:12–18)

  6. Sep 30

    Fall Co 2026: "From Blues to Gospel" (Psalm 42)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. This message is from Saturday Evening at our 2026 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone. Our speaker was Rev. Russ Whitfield, and the theme of the weekend was "Hope in Hard Places." Discussion Questions: When you feel discouraged, restless, or cast down, do you feel free to bring these feelings to God? Why or why not?What does the psalmist do in response to his pain and how does this guide us?Are there any negative or discouraging messages that have you been repeatedly telling yourself?  What truths about God do you need to preach to yourself in response?

    Fall Co 2026: "From Blues to Gospel" (Psalm 42)

  7. Sep 30

    Fall Co 2026: "God Meant it For Good" (Genesis 50: 15-21)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. This message is from Saturday Morning of our 2026 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone. Our speaker was Rev. Russ Whitfield, and the theme of the weekend was "Hope in Hard Places." Discussion Questions: Joseph tells his brothers, “You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” What does this show us about the difference between God’s purposes and human intentions?Why is it important that Joseph calls what happened to him evil instead of pretending it wasn’t painful or wrong?Where are you finding it difficult to trust God’s purposes right now?How does the cross help us trust that God can bring good through evil and suffering?Is there a painful experience in your life that is difficult for you to understand? How have you interpreted it? How does Genesis 50 offer you a better lens?

    Fall Co 2026: "God Meant it For Good" (Genesis 50: 15-21)

  8. Sep 30

    Fall Co 2026: "Surely the Lord is in This Place" (Genesis 28:10-22)

    Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. This message is from Friday Night of our 2026 Fall Conference at Camp Greystone. Our speaker was Rev. Russ Whitfield, and the theme of the weekend was "Hope in Hard Places." Discussion Questions: Where in your life do you currently feel uncertain, alone, or anxious? When you feel anxious, how do you usually try to deal with it?Why was Jacob surprised to discover that God was with him? What would it look like for you to trust that God is present in your difficult places?

    Fall Co 2026: "Surely the Lord is in This Place" (Genesis 28:10-22)
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Reformed University Fellowship is a Christian campus ministry at UNCW. RUF exists for the "convinced" and the "unconvinced," the lost, and the found. Our weekly Large Group helps students come to understand, know, and follow Jesus Christ as they walk through their college years. RUF seeks to lay a foundation for a lifetime of loving Jesus and serving him in all areas of life. Whoever you are and whatever you believe, you're welcome at RUF! For more information, visit ruf.org/uncw or follow us @rufuncw.

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    Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    132
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
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