Ruf At New Mexico State University

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 ...

We were made to treasure and glorify our God. But sinister and dark sin shipwrecked our original design and we began to treasure what our God made while rejecting our God. In other words, we lost the treasure we were made for. But this treasure has...

Endurance doesn't come naturally to us. We're people who are experts in starting new things but not finishing what we start. We're prone to flake-out, burn-out, freak-out, or sit-out. Consistency is... complicated. And that includes consistency in...

A pendulum returns to the middle when it stops swinging. That's it's point of equilibrium. Did you know our lives have a point of equilibrium, too? Left to ourselves, we eventually drift back to a place where life is all about... me. Relationships are a...

Our prayers reveal what we're convinced our true needs are; and our prayers for others reveal what we think their greatest and most urgent needs are. If this holds true, then the Apostle Paul's inspired prayers for the Colossians in 1:9-14 reveal what...

What is RUF all about? Paul's introduction in his letter to the Colossians actually captures it pretty well--we're about the Bible, the Gospel that it proclaims, and the Community in which that Gospel gains transformative traction in our lives.

If God is God, if he is the rightful King of all, then why are so many opposed to him? Why does he allow himself to be ridiculed and dismissed? Why does it seem Jesus is losing ground in our culture and our generation? And how are we to live in a world...

There a kind of joy that can outlast the adrenaline rush. Can invade even sadness. Survives the endless monotony of life. And soars even when the wind isn't blowing. Few of us know this kind of joy, even though all of us are looking. Psalm 126 puts...

Psalm 88 is called the "saddest psalm" because unlike the other 149 psalms, it doesn't resolve. It finishes with no silver lining or happy ending, just "You have made darkness is my closest friend." What can a psalm like this show us about everyday...

We are surrounded by Glory. We're made for Glory. And the world around us preaches to us day and night, testifying of God's glory. But we are also people who are largely blinded to the glories all around us and where they point. And so Psalm 19...

Psalm 69 is a window through which we see Jesus. In a sense, it provides an "insider account" of his death and suffering on the cross. And so in it, we see the clearest picture of his truest instincts and loves when all hope seemed lost and he was...

We're forgetful and distracted people. We're people who forget about God and forget God himself... often. And Psalm 78 helps us see why it's so easy for us to forget God, how He he helps us remember him, and how we have hope that even when we forget...

Our intern Sean Troxel teaches on Psalm 33 and what Gospel hope looks like in action.

When you lose perspective, you lose heart. And when you lose heart, you lose your footing and start slipping. That's the way it goes with school, relationships, and life as a Christian. But Psalm 73 doesn't just point out the dangers of losing perspect...

It's interesting how much effort we put into covering up our sins from God and others. And yet God is precisely the One who's invested infinite effort covering up our sins! Psalm 32 invites the forgiven-but-still-hiding out of our shadows of silence; ...

Psalm 51 is not just an intimate picture of David coming to the Lord in the noise of his own guilt; it's also a template for how we can approach God with our guilt. That approach begins with comparing ourselves to God, not some other standard. It...

Each new 24 hours brings with it a whole host of new stressors and reminders that we're not nearly as in control of our lives as we like to think. Is there any way out of an exhausted, anxious, over-committed life spent trying to manage the...

True faith in the Lord can thrive even in moments of panic when life is falling apart, when circumstances are getting worse not better, when the sky is falling. Psalm 3 shows us that it sounds like freaking out, crying out to the Lord, and calmly...

Psalm 1 holds before us two pictures--spiritual decay and spiritual resurrection. But it's not painting these vivid pictures so that we can get our life in order and do better at "choosing the right path." Instead, it's showing us what God in his...