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RUF Fall Conference 2013 at Camp Kaleo in Forsyth, GA with RUF's from UGA, Ga Tech, GSU, Kennesaw State, Emory, Mercer, and SCAD and featuring our speaker, former Mercer Campus Minister Chris "Buck" Rogers.

RUF Fall Conference 2013 at Camp Kaleo in Forsyth, GA with RUF's from UGA, Ga Tech, GSU, Kennesaw State, Emory, Mercer, and SCAD and featuring our speaker, former Mercer Campus Minister Chris "Buck" Rogers.

RUF Fall Conference 2013 at Camp Kaleo in Forsyth, GA with RUF's from UGA, Ga Tech, GSU, Kennesaw State, Emory, Mercer, and SCAD and featuring our speaker, former Mercer Campus Minister Chris "Buck" Rogers.

RUF Fall Conference 2013 at Camp Kaleo in Forsyth, GA with RUF's from UGA, Ga Tech, GSU, Kennesaw State, Emory, Mercer, and SCAD and featuring our speaker, former Mercer Campus Minister Chris "Buck" Rogers.

The last of his "I am" statements, Jesus says that he is the true vine. If Jesus has revealed anything about what it means to be in relationship to him, it's that we either find our entire lives in him, or we have no life at all.

As Jesus continues to comfort and exhort his disciples in the Upper Room, and after he claims to be the way, the truth and the life, he makes an amazing promise to calm their troubled hearts. He will send "another" Advocate. Who is this Advocate? What does he do? And how is that he is "another" advocate?

The Farewell Discourse, unique to John's gospel, is Jesus' words of encouragement and instruction to his disciples in the Upper Room the night of his betrayal. Here at the beginning, we see Jesus has come to glorify his Father, and bring us back into the glory He has known for eternity.

Jesus walks into a context of death and sorrow, he weeps, and he claims to be the resurrection and the life. Christianity alone claims that God came deliberately to put himself on the hook of human suffering (Keller), and reality of his resurrection is that he has turned evil, suffering, even death itself on their heads.

What makes Jesus the good shepherd, especially in contrast to the false shepherds, the thieves and robbers? The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, his sheep know his voice, and they are eternally secure in his hands.

In continuing discourse with those who heard him claim to be the light of the world, Jesus continues to draw out what this means for us. In so doing he points to the Truth about our darkness, the Lies we believe in the darkness, and he goes to the videotape of who he really is.

If Jesus is the Light of the World, why were (and are!) so many blind to his person and mission? Jesus as light exposes things to show what they really are. Are you in the light? Do you really want to be?

Why are you following Jesus? Jesus says our need of Him lies at the core of our being, and to believe and follow him is feed on him for life itself.

Jesus intentionally breaks every social barrier - gender, race, morality - to lead a woman to living water.

Did Jesus really say you must be born again? Don't let familiarity with this concept and the most well known Bible verse cause you to miss the utter beauty of the gospel as it is so clearly laid out for us in this passage.

As John transitions from the eternally begotten Word of God to Jesus of Nazareth, the invitation is to come and see.

St. Augustine said of the gospel of John that it was deep enough for an elephant to swim and shallow enough for a child not to drown. The first 18 verses of the gospel, commonly known as the Prologue, show forth the infinite depth of God's most perfect revelation of himself in the person of Jesus Christ, the eternally begotten Son and Word of God.

Elliott's first sermon with RUF at Mercer. RUF strives to reach students for Christ and equip them to serve. In others words, our hope and prayer is that believers would be strengthened in their faith and that the lost would be claimed for Christ. We believe the gospel is sufficient to do both.