This Week in RUF

Bible Studies and Community Groups start THIS WEEK!


If you haven't signed up for an RUF Community Group, it's not too late to hop in one.  You can email Matt Howell at matt.howell@ruf.org.  Let him know who you are and who you'd like to accompany you.

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Freshman Bible Study: The Gospel and Your Life.  Monday nights at 7.  The Living Learning Center.

Sophomore Bible Study: Answering Objections to Christianity.  Tuesdays at 5 pm.  McRae Peak.  (Although for the first week there will be a weird glitch and we’ll go from 5:30-6:30.  The rest of the time is from 5-6.)

Junior/Senior Bible Study: Romans.  Thursdays at 5 pm.  Kelli Mitchum’s Apartment (311 Hardin Street, Apartment 3.  Steeplechase Hardin Street Apartments, right across from Canon and beside Stick Boy.  You can park for free at Legends after 5).  

Graduating Seniors Bible Study: Living Faithfully in the Real World (The Book of Daniel).   Saturdays (once a month) at 9 am.  The Howell’s house.  (165 Painted Mountain Lane, Vilas, NC  28692)  Free coffee and breakfast included! First meeting: January 28.

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RUF Community Groups


What does it look like to be involved in real, authentic, honest community - where you are known and you know others?

If you are interested in being a part of or hosting an RUF Community Group this Spring, email our campus minister, Matt Howell at matt.howell@ruf.org.

Tuesday nights, 8 pm.

Plan on joining one.

This Spring in RUF...


The book of Judges is an obscure, odd, and offensive book in the Old Testament.  It contains some of the weirdest stories in the Bible, which is honestly why churches often ignore this book.  Furthermore, it is over-the-top gory.  You get 6 verses into the first chapter and someone is already being tortured and mutilated.  I think most religious people would be shocked to discover the amount of blood and guts that fill its pages (and it’s in the Bible!).

So what would we benefit at all from spending an entire semester exploring what this book is about and what is has to say to us?  

Well, we will discover over and over again the root of our faithlessness and the beauty of God’s unrelenting, gracious pursuit of real sinners.  Here in the book of Judges we begin to find out why it is that redemption has to be so violent and bloody...and why the bloodiness of it all is actually what electrifies us to gratitude, worship, obedience, and mission. 

Would you join us this semester as we explore the most Rated R book in the Bible together - the book of Judges?


Are You Eff?

RUF Large Group: Wednesday nights at 8:30 pm in the Grandfather Mountain Ballroom.  This is best entry point for people to check out RUF - it is low pressure and casual.  Swing on by and bring a friend with you.

RUF Small Groups: There are lots of opportunities to connect with other students in smaller contexts.  Dinner groups, Bible studies, movie nights, etc.

Freshman Bible Study: A great way for freshmen to get to know each other.  Mondays at 3:00 in the Catawba River Room.  Tuesdays at 3:30 in the Catawba River Room.  Yep.

Parties/Activities: We like to hang out and enjoy the benefits of community.

We hope that you feel comfortable and welcomed at RUF regardless of what you believe.  RUF is a Christian organization that exists for people at all places spiritually - the convinced and unconvinced, the skeptical and the spiritual, those who are "on fire" and those who are burnt out.

RUF Wednesday Nights


At Reformed University Fellowship, we are trying to create and cultivate a safe community that believes that "you're never so bad you're beyond the reach of God's grace, and you're never so good you're beyond the need of God's grace." RUF meets every Wednesday night at 8:30 pm in the Grandfather Mountain Ballroom (1st floor of the Union).  

Come check it out...and bring a friend.

And if you're hungry beforehand (which you will be), feel free to swing by Crosspoint Community Church (behind EarthFare on King Street) at 6:30 for a free spaghetti dinner.

RUF at App is on iTunes!


All of our weekly Large Group sermons are available on iTunes.  You can click the icon to the right or simply search for "RUF at App State."

Check it out.  Listen in.  Eavesdrop.