Ruf At New Mexico State University

Are you more prone to worry or to prayer? Worry is the native tongue of the kingdom of self; prayer is the native tongue of the Kingdom of God. So, how do we learn this new language and learn to speak it in the ordinary ups and downs of college life?...

A disciple is someone who’s chasing what they love, immersed in what they love, re-ordered by what they love, and surrendered to what they love. And so to be Jesus’ disciple is to be a person who’s increasingly chasing Jesus, immersed in his love, reor...

When we think of God’s Kingdom power and his transforming grace, we all long for it to come to us in a torrential downpour. But Jesus corrects our expectations and tells us his transforming graces and kingdom power come to us and come to the world more...

Life for the Christian in the Kingdom of God does not plod along aimlessly or lazily. Instead, it’s an entrepreneurial, risk-taking, envelope-pushing and strategic way of life. In the Parable of the Talents Jesus calls his followers to recognize the...

Rev. Chris Horne, RUF campus minister at Appalachian State University, joins us at Southwest Fallco 2017 to talk about the people God is patiently but powerfully making us into by his grace.

Rev. Chris Horne, RUF campus minister at Appalachian State University, joins us at Southwest Fallco 2017 to talk about the people God is patiently but powerfully making us into by his grace.

Rev. Chris Horne, RUF campus minister at Appalachian State University, joins us at Southwest Fallco 2017 to talk about the people God is patiently but powerfully making us into by his grace.

Rev. Chris Horne, RUF campus minister at Appalachian State University, joins us at Southwest Fallco 2017 to talk about the people God is patiently but powerfully making us into by his grace.

In John 3, Jesus explains what is required of a person to enter and be a part of his Kingdom. He shows us how God meets us on our turf but on his terms; that the way into his Kingdom is through mercy-driven transformation, not effort-driven...

Daniel Davalos joins us as our guest preacher tonight and, from John 11 and Jesus' resurrection of Lazarus, helps us see where Jesus is when we need him most and what it means to enter into our grief without it overshadowing our Gospel hope.

After talking about the character of his Kingdom disciples and their impact on the world, Jesus starts to clear up misconceptions about the Christian’s new relationship with God’s law. We learn that God doesn’t grade on a curve, that the law is more li...

The Beatitudes describe the character of the Christian and this famous passage on "salt and light" describes the function and impact of the Christian in the world. Christians will have a preserving impact, an illumining impact, and an impact that trigg...

The Beatitudes describe the effect God's grace has on a person. These are the "vital signs" of those Jesus has brought to life in his Kingdom. But these marks of transforming grace are not what you might expect. Grace opens your eyes to your spiritual...

The way we prepare to receive our King and his Kingdom is repentance. Turns out we're not blank slates; we're already allegiant to dozens of lesser kings and tinier, oppressive kingdoms. And so receiving the True Kingdom involves...

We all live for a kingdom, but we were specifically made to live for the expansive, transcendent Kingdom of God. So if that's true, why do we so naturally and easily settle for tiny little kingdoms and miss the big Kingdom? Because, as Paul Tripp...

Our graduating seniors share about what God has done in them and through them during their time in RUF these past four years.

The story of the Bible is the story of God turning the broken down, decaying house of this world into a dream home. And not just any dream home... but a home where the Redeeming God will live with his redeemed people forever. This is what the future...

To be in relationship with God means to be *married* to him. And so it's no surprise that the story of Scripture is the story of God pursuing his bride, ransoming her, cleaning her, and loving her. Revelation 19 shows the climax of God's love for his...

In these chapters, Jesus is pulling back the curtains and helping us see why temptation in this life seems (is) so super-charged and ever-present. It's not just the sin within us that makes us so prone to walking away from God. It's also forces much,...

Revelation 12 is a fast-forward summary of God's plan of rescuing his world and how the Devil has opposed him at every point. The devil's opposition has a laser, remarkably disciplined focus to it. It is focused on undermining the faith and confidence...