Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This spring, we’re looking at the parables of Jesus from the New Testament book of Luke.

In this week's message, we look at the second half of the parable of the two sons in Luke 15. Jesus's teaching in this parable confronts all of us with our lost state, and also invites us to be reconciled to God the Father through the costly work of our elder brother, Jesus.

(*Thanks to Matt Howell, Brian Habig, and Tim Keller for many of the thoughts and illustrations contained in this message! )

QUOTES:

“Confession is not a transaction, not a negotiation in order to secure forgiveness; it is the after-the-last gasp of a corpse that finally can afford to admit it’s dead and accept resurrection.” — Robert Capon 

"The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him, is not to believe that He loves you.”— John Owen

"All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful" – Flannery O’ Connor

“Before you can have peace in your hearts, you must not only be sick of your sins, but you must be made sick of your righteousness, of all of your duties and performances …  If you have never felt the deficiency of your own righteousness, you can never come to Jesus … If you are not thus brought out of self, you may speak peace to yourselves, but yet there is no peace." —George Whitefield