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, Jesus talks to us about the source of our security-- both in this life and the life to come. Everyone builds their life on some foundation, some ultimate source of truth. In this passage, Jesus warns against hearing his teaching but giving our ultimate commitments and obedience to something else. He tells this parable to invite us to examine the source of our deepest commitments, and to place the full weight of our lives upon him responding to his teaching in a life of loving obedience. We see that it's only in obedience to him that we find the security and stability we need.

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”-G.K. Chesterton

“Glorifying God does not mean obeying him only because you have to. It means to obey him because you want to — because you are attracted to him, because you delight in him.”— Tim Keller

“Obedience to Jesus’ words is not so much protection from troubles as protection in them, just as a rock under a house does not shield from storms but supports during them” - Dale Bruner