September 10 2011
We normally don't really know what to do with the Holy Spirit. Some of us feel His presence, some of us don't. Some of us think the Spirit is just weird. But the Holy Spirit is God Himself at work in our lives. He is God in us, and is God at work in us. But we still have to figure out what the work is and how to deal with it. Campus minister Justin Westmoreland helps us look at the work of the Spirit both then and now in his message from Acts to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
Acts is a sort of sequel to Luke's gospel. It tells us the story of God at work. Jesus has risen physically from the dead and gone on to be with his Father. But that's not the end of the story. God is still at work doing something that most people might not expect. He is building His Kingdom and taking over the world. We learn about this in Acts here from this message from campus minister Justin Westmoreland at the first Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
May 11 2011
We all want to be loved. We all long to be loved. And yet we are often too easily satisfied with love we find in this world. But there is a better love, a greater love. A love that will fill us, a love that will not disappoint us, and therefore is like no other love. And that is the love of God in Jesus Christ. God's love for his people. God's love for you. And that love is seen and described in the love story of the Song of Solomon. Pastor Ricky Jones from Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Tulsa, OK shares that love from the Song of Solomon with us in his message at the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) North Texas Presbytery meeting which was hosted by OURUF.
May 1 2011
This was campus minister Doug Serven's last RUF as campus minister. We're not done podcast though, there are still senior talks, and RUF 10 Year Extravaganza, and RUF Summer Conference podcasts coming, and campus minister Justin Westmoreland will begin bringing the Word to you starting next year.
In this final message, Doug takes us through the end of the book Isaiah, showing that there is one coming, that will bring healing, that will bring reconciliation, that will bring forgiveness. One who will pay our debt. Restoration is coming. And that one is Jesus Christ. Join us campus minister Doug Serven delivers his last message from Isaiah to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
April 21 2011
God, speaking through the prophet Isaiah, promised many things to his people, Israel. He promised wrath for sin and disobedience; he promised forgiveness of sin and salvation; he promised that his promises would go out to the Gentiles. What Jesus read from Isaiah 61 he said that HE was the fulfillment of all those promises. And not only that, but that he was the one who made those promises, the One around whom all things revolve. This was shocking; so shocking that the Pharisees schemed to kill him, which would truly bring about the fulfillment of those promises. Campus minister Doug Serven shows us that fulfillment, and the centrality of Jesus in his message from Isaiah to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
If you're wondering where the podcast has been the last two weeks, we had technical difficulties. But don't worry, we're in the process of getting those sermons prepared to post, and they'll be up soon.
April 1 2011
Isaiah prophesied to Hezekiah that his life was about to end, and Hezekiah pleadingly turned to God. God saved Hezekiah from the death that was coming and gave him 15 more years of life. Of course all of this was part of a greater salvation. A salvation available to all man from the brokenness and pain of the world, particularly that caused by sin. It isn't fully here yet, but it is at work, through the salvation and healing that Hezekiah healing pointed forward to, the healing that comes from Jesus Christ. Campus minister Doug Serven shows us this healing in his message from the book of Isaiah to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
March 31 2011
We all turn to something to save us. We have somewhere we go, something we go to, when we feel beaten down, tired, when we know we've made a mistake, we go somewhere for comfort. Yet, all these things don't really deliver. These things only comfort a time and then leave us. Sometimes they even enslave us further, and make things worse. But there is one who yoke is light. One who has come to truly save us, and his burden is easy to bear. Jesus has come to bring a true salvation, one that lasts, and one that really frees us. This Savior was predicted in 700 BC by the prophet Isaiah, and campus minister Doug Serven shows us Isaiah's prediction of this great salvation in his message from the book of Isaiah to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
March 20 2011
If you feel like you're missing out because you haven't heard from OURUF over Spring Break, here's an OURUF short to make you feel better. Campus minister Doug Serven interviews former campus minister and current church planter Rev. Andy McDonald.
March 10 2011
The book of Isaiah is a book of hope, and it's main hope is the prediction running throughout the book of the One who will come. One born of a virgin to be the ideal ruler from the house of David. This is the prophecy, the promise, and the hope of the book of Isaiah. Someone born of a virgin, who is going to be the great King, that is from the line of David. This seems strange to us, but it is foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ, the great King of the world from David, born of the virgin Mary, and the hope we are all looking for in our every day lives. Campus minister Doug Serven shows us how Jesus is the hope we've been waiting for, and the hope predicted in this ancient book in his message from Isaiah to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
March 3 2011
Sometimes, we think we're the best at things. That we know what's going on and everyone else needs to change. Then we find ourselves in the presence of true greatness, of someone so much better than us, and we feel small. Isaiah found himself in the presence of greatness, of THE greatness, of God Himself, and Isaiah was undone. His only hope for being in God's presence was the grace of God which cleansed Isaiah. This Cleansing is also offered to us in Jesus Christ, and Rev. Doug Serven shows us how this story in Isaiah 6 points us to Jesus in his message to the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma.
