Ruf At New Mexico State University

We are people who inherently love and demand justice. But do we also love and demand judgment? Justice requires judgment because judgment accomplishes and implements justice. They go hand in hand, and so to want one is to want the other. Because God...

Suffering is normal for the Christian. It's outside of our control but it's under God's control. And suffering often outruns us (it tires us, cuts us, hurts us, scars us) but we will outlive it as God redeems it.

"Look!" is one of the most repeated commands in Revelation. Tonight, we look again at Revelation 5--and the Lion-Lamb it reveals and the people he ransoms and makes priests to God.

The angel in John's vision recorded in Revelation 5 asks perhaps the most important question that's ever been asked: "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?" John responds with despondent crying because "no one was found worthy to open t...

Heaven has an Oval Office too. And much more than the office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Christ's throne room humbles any who see it. It shrinks you down to size by letting you see the exalted occupant of the office, dripping with power, authority,...

In order to patiently endure as a Christian and remain faithful till the end, Jesus says you'll need to know three things in the midst of whatever situations you find yourself in: 1) He knows your situation inside and out, 2) He controls every detail...

Revelation is a message that screams, "Things aren't as they seem! There's more than meets the eye!" That's true for complacency, apathy, spiritual indifference, or a life style of "meh!". Apathy is more dangerous than it seems. Jesus is nearer and...

Revelation gives us a "God's-eye-view" of reality. It's a message aimed at powerfully adjusting our perspective and helping us see everything the way it actually is. And of all our perspectives that need adjusting, perhaps none needs more help than...

Oftentimes, to understand what something is really like or to know what is really going on, you must leave it and see it from a whole new perspective. There's a very real sense in which to understand this world, our lives, what God is doing in the worl...

The Apostle Paul begins his letter to these new Colossian Christians with a magnificent prayer for their spiritual growth and love for Jesus. In this passage he ends the letter by reaching out his arm, inviting them into the real work of the Gospel,...

In this sermon from Ephesians, Dr. Tim Keller explains the dynamics of love, respect, and nurture that should exist between parents and their kids--and where these dynamics fall off the rails into chaos. * This message is recorded by, copyrighted, ...

The Gospel changes our relational dynamics at home and at work in profound ways. This message particularly focuses in on how the Gospel changes the ways children and parents relate to one another. **PLEASE FORGIVE THE AUDIO QUALITY OF THIS RECORDING**...

We continue our discussion from last week on "Identity" and the Christian. Earlier in Colossians chapter 3, Paul shows how the Gospel resurrects our identity (who I am), our motivations (what I think I have to have), our actions (what I do/avoid), and...

God's work for us and in us (the Gospel) resurrects our Identity (who you are), Intentions (why you do what you do), Actions (what you do), and Individuality (how you do what you do).

With Ben out sick with Laryngitis, Rev. Merle Messer graciously joined us to talk about God's will--what it is, what it isn't, and how we can discern it.

You'd think it would be easy for us to remember who we are. But our grasp of our own identity is actually pretty slippery. We suffer from Identity Amnesia--every day, forgetting who we already are in Christ, we chase after Messianic shadows. These sh...

Jeff White from Las Tierras Community Church (El Paso) and the Hispanic Leadership Initiative joined us to preach on two things that aren't often associated with one another--Jesus' bodily resurrection... and our day jobs. What's interesting here is...

G.K. Chesterton famously said, "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” Our minds were meant to open so that they can close on something solid--namely Chri...

RUF Southwest Fall Conference 2016. New Mexico State, Colorado State, and Texas Tech RUF students gathered in the mountains of northern New Mexico for a weekend of compelling teaching on the beauty and hope of in our work and our rest. Many thanks to...

RUF Southwest Fall Conference 2016. New Mexico State, Colorado State, and Texas Tech RUF students gathered in the mountains of northern New Mexico for a weekend of compelling teaching on the beauty and hope of in our work and our rest. Many thanks to ...