Ruf At Ole Miss

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.

We gathered with Greek students to talk about how a Christian worldview can change how we relate to our fraternity and sorority houses. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

This week we look at the death of Stephen, and try to learn where Christian courage and hope is found.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.