RUF at UGA

*This file includes UGA RUF worship music, scripture readings, and our weekly message.  We hope it's a blessing to you!

* This file contains UGA RUF large group worship songs, scripture reading, prayer, and our message from Ruth 2.

* This file includes a student-lead scripture reading of Ruth 1, a recording of "Come Thou Fount" by UGA RUF worship team leader Colin Stevens, a time of prayer, and our message on Ruth chapter 1.
* Credit and gratitude is due Paul Miller (author of A Loving Live) for the sermon title.

The arrival of Coronavirus has literally changed everything in our lives and the sand is shifting beneath our feet--from shopping and friendships to our finances and health.  God invites us to tell him of our troubles as these changes bring uncertainties, troubles, suffering, and fear.  But he also tells us of a rock that still sits underneath our feet--a rock that hasn't changed and isn't shifting though the rest of the earth gives way.  So, what is the Christian's response in the initial days of a pandemic, when we're still trying to wrap our heads around it's magnitude?  We cry out to God because of all that's changed and we stand firm in all that's not changed--specifically, God's redeeming and renewing work accomplished in Jesus and applied by his Spirit even tonight as sickness spreads.

Our beloved intern, Trevor Heffner, takes us through one of the darkest chapters of Israel's relationship with God and helps us see Gospel light.  

First Israel was distracted from God.  Then their distractions became their god.  Then God became a burdensome distraction from their gods.  This is the dark pathology of half-hearted discipleship.  And our whole-hearted, covenantal God is heaven-bent on delivering us from it.
 
 

Do you see your weakness as an obstacle to the Spirit's work in you or an opportunity for it?