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OURUF
by Justin Westmoreland
The podcast for the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma, messages from Rev. Justin Westmoreland.
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RUF Winter Conference- Romans 8 - The Wonders of New Creation
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who...
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Small Stories, Big Ideas #13- No Talent Left Behind
14 "For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with...
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Small Stories, Big Ideas #12- The One about Ten Virgins and Lamps
ESV Matthew 25:1 "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5…
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Small Stories, Big ideas #11 The Story of the unjust Judge and the Widow
ESV Luke 18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my...
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RUF Parent's Weekend Sermon- Luke 21
ESV Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, "Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her…
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Small Stories #10 - Story of the Guy Who Got Mercy
9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: 'God, I thank you that I am not...
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Small Stories, Big Ideas #9 - The Workers and the Vineyard
ESV Matthew 20:1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in...
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Small Stories, Big Ideas #8 - Jesus, the Wealth Manager?
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?" 15 And he said to them, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the...
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Small Stories, Big Ideas #7 - Unexpected Mercy
25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 26 He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" 27 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all...
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Small Stories, Big ideas #6 - The Sower
ESV Matthew 13:1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he…
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Small Stories, Big Ideas #5- A Story of Great Significance
31 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and...
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Small Stories #4- The Parable of the Sower
2 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and...
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Small Stories #3- The Practical Problem of Evil
24 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared...
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Small Stories #2- Mr Short Term Memory
21 Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23 "Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle...
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Climbing out of Hell- Luke 16- RUF Sunday at CTK
19 "There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.…
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Small Stories - Big Ideas #1 - Painting the Picture of the Prodigal
ESV Luke 15:1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." 3 So he told them this parable: (Luke 15:1-3 ESV) 11 And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the...
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A Story of God's Love
ESV Luke 15:1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." 3 So he told them this parable: 11 And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the younger of them...
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The Undisputed King Sermon from the AM Baptism Service at CTK
ESV Daniel 6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; 2 and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss. 3 Then this Daniel became distinguished above…
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Freedom Project Part 13: Freedom from Suffering in Glorification
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who...
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Is Jesus Awesome (to you)? Psalm 89 at CTK
5 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! 6 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, 7 a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around...
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John Baber- Freedom Project Part 8- Freedom to Trust God
ESV Exodus 16:1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel...
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Freedom Project Part 11- Freedom to Know God Clearly- Exodus 20
ESV Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 "You shall have no other gods before me. 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven…
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Freedom Project Part 10- Freed to Be a Treasure
Exodus 19 1 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3...
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Sermon after the SAE Video: Trading Bad Songs for Glorious Good Songs
21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people. Exodus…
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The Freedom Project Part 3- Exodus 2-4- Being a Moses
God took a baby out of certain destruction. He gave him everything he needed. Then he took it away and led him into the wilderness. In the wilderness, God met with Moses and gave him a special job. In spite of Moses' fear and excuses, God insisted that Moses would be his representative to lead…
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The Freedom Project Part 2- Freedom from Band-aids
Throughout life, we medicate our wounds with band-aids, but then the magic of those band-aids runs out. But band aids only shield us from feeling the pain and slavery that we are in spiritually and emotionally, they can never heal us. In the beginning of Exodus, we see a pharoah and two regular...
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The Freedom Project Intro- God's Story of Freedom
Why do stories involving struggling toward freedom, or of slaves set free, resound with us? We'll see that those stories of shadows of God's overarching outworking in history, and those stories also mirror our day to day struggles? But it all began in the garden of Eden and continued to when…
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The Death of Death #13- The Conclusion in the Tomb of Life
38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. 39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came...
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Story of Death #7 - Tommy Duffy
Listen in as OURUF worship leader Tommy Duffy shares his powerful story of death in the death of Jesus on campus.
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Death of Death #11 - The Centurion- Rocking of a Worldview
Matthew 27:50-54 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!" Big Idea: Faith in…
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Story of Death #6 - Mary Ann Baber
Hear one of our students, Mary Ann, tell her story of communion with God through the death of death in the death of Jesus.
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Death of Death #10 - The Zombie One, Alive with Places to Go and People to See
Matthew 27:50-53 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen…
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Stories of Death #5 - Ivonne Grabow
Hear one of our seniors, Ivonne Grabow, bears witness of her journey as the death of Jesus brings death to death in her experience.
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The Death of Death #9 - The Earth Shakes and the Death of Fear
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. (Matthew 27:50-51 ESV) Big Idea: Faith in Jesus doesn’t eliminate fear, but Jesus’ death was phase...
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #8 - Access to God - Matthew 27:51
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. (Matthew 27:50-51 ESV) Big Idea: We must put our faith in Jesus’ work on the cross, particularly his putting to death religion and limited access...
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Stories of the Death of Death #4 - Darby Perry
At RUF, we believe in the benefit of weekly hearing God's word together. We also believe it is super helpful to share our stories of Jesus walking with us through the death we feel in this world which helps us to know ourselves, one another, and God. We are quick to forget that God is always at...
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #7- The Word of Commitment- Luke 23:44-46
44 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45 while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said…
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #6- Word of Completion, John 19:30
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (John 19:30 ESV) I. Jesus Accomplishes Everything for Christians II. Christians Are Required to Accomplish Nothing III. If They Believe This, Christians Will Accomplish Many Things,...
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Stories of the Death of Death 3- John Baber
Hear from John Baber as he tells us his story recorded at RUF on Sept 28, 2014.
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Stories of the Death of Death 2 - Will Turner
Check out Will Turner's story. He'd be happy to get to know you and discuss campus life and the gospel with you. Get to know him!
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #5- A Word of Thirsting, John 19:28-29a
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst." 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. (Joh 19:28-29 ESV) Big Idea: We see the Love of God is so infinite…
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #4- A Word of Abandonment, Matthew 19:46
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mat 27:46 ESV) Big Idea: We all feel forsaken. In Jesus becoming forsaken for us, we can be strengthened for when we are tested and rescued…
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Welcome Back Sunday - I Am All In- Luke 19:11-28
things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12 He said therefore, "A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 13 Calling ten of his servants, he…
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Stories of Death #1 - Philip Bretz
Students sharing their stories of death and loss and how Jesus walked with them through it and has begun rolling back death into life and salvation through the gospel.
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #3 - A Word of Affection -John 19:23-27
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24 so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose…
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #2 - A Word of Salvation Luke 23:39-43
39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!" 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our...
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The Death of Death in the Death of Jesus #1- A Word on Forgiveness of Debts
Death is an enemy we fear. Therefore, rushing toward it is irrational and sick. Death is our enemy. Only one death has been truly good news to us, and that is the death which Jesus marched toward nearly 2000 years ago at the place called the Skull outside Jerusalem. All semester we will unpack…
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The 7th Commandment- God Sets Sinners Free From Sexual Slavery
14 "You shall not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14 ESV)
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The Fifth Commandment- Dad and Mom's Weekend All the Time?
12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. (Exo 20:12 ESV)
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Fourth Commandment Part 2- You Need to Get Some Rest
8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the...
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