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Summer Book Club all meetings on the Serven porch invitations and dates via facebook
Mid June True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer
There will be a change for July Book Club.
We'll be reading Fast Food Nation instead of What Are People For? - it seems the Berry book was too hard to get ahold of.
The Maynards will be hosting at their house on July 22nd.
1102 Canterbury Ave.
Norman, OK 73069
See you there!!!
Mid August So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger
Grad Student Discussion Group
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Whether we like it or not, we are all influenced by the patterns that we observe. Human brains are unmatched for their ability to extract patterns from complex perceptual input, and most of this pattern recognition occurs subconsciously (were not aware of it).
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From a Badminton strategy website
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Aside the Jesus Tshirt at Summer Conference
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Happy Summer!!!
Summer Book Club all meetings on the Serven porch invitations and dates via facebook
Mid June True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer
There will be a change for July Book Club.
We'll be reading Fast Food Nation instead of What Are People For? - it seems the Berry book was too hard to get ahold of.
The Maynards will be hosting at their house on July 22nd.
1102 Canterbury Ave.
Norman, OK 73069
See you there!!!
Mid August So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger
OURUF Blogs
What Doug Is Reading
(Ergo, What You Should Click and Buy)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, L See -  A melancholy book about 1840s China featuring footbinding (8)
Buffalo for the Broken Heart, D O'Brien -  A rancher switches to buffalo (6)
Outliers, M Gladwell -  Success = fortuitous circumstances and lots of work. (9)
Lonesome Dove
I love this novel. (10)
The Extra Mile, P Reed -  A boring but short running book (3)
The 19th Wife, D Ebershoff -  Polygamy is bad. (5)
Crazy for God, F Schaeffer -  Frank Schaeffer is not happy with his parents. This book scares me. (7)
The Blind Side, M Lewis -  One of the best sports books I've read - about football, recruiting, economics and a love for the game. (10)
Blink, M Gladwell - 
The power of a thin-slicing microdecision for good and ill. (9)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, J Diaz -  A creative Pulitzer winner. Dominican, insightful, dramatic, funny and sad. (8)
The Appeal, J Grisham - 
Another Grisham courtroom thriller about pegging the bad guys (7)
One Fearful Yellow Eye, J Macdonald -  MacDonald is the best with pace and description (7)
Pale Gray for Guilt, J MacDonald -  This Travis McGee novel was economically complicated (5)
Moneyball, M Lewis - 
If you love baseball, you MUST read this book. Wonderful and inspiring for the small market guys. (10)
50/50, D Karnezas - 
Karnezas ran 50 marathons in 50 straight days in all 50 states! (8)
The Dawkins Letters, D Robertson -  The author challenges atheist myths by responding to Richard Dawkins' book. Helpful, short and easy to read. (8)
Lone Survivor, M Luttrell -  A Navy Seal gets out of Afghanistan. (4)
Concise Theology, JI Packer -  A nice little theology book (7)
Samson and the Pirate Monks, N Larkin -  True brotherhood and honesty. (10)
My Beautiful Idol, P Gall -  A novel about idolatry. Sometimes good. Sometimes boring. (7)
5 books on the Book of John.
The Call of the Wild, J London -  Eh. (5)
Darkness at Noon, A Koestler -  From Steven R. A novel about how Stalinist Russia stinks. (6)
The Broken Window, J Deaver -  A great thriller with twits and turns. (8)
Holding Hands, Holding Hearts, R Phillips -  One of the better dating books out there. (7)
Boundaries in Dating, H Cloud -  Filled with pretty good advice. (7)
Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc. Subtitle says it all. (8)
October 1964, D Halbertsam -  I love it when the Cards win the WS. (10)
True Spirituality, F Schaeffer -  True Spirituality is inward and goes outward. (7)
Summer of '49, D Halberstam -  Yankees win which is bad but the story and writing is so good (8)
What Doug Was Reading in 2007
 TwentySomeone, the book Doug co-authored, came out in December of 2003. Click Here to order.
 NEW RUF T-shirts are in! Click Here or contact Doug for more information.
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 Officially, you could say that RUF is a Christian student organization at the University of Oklahoma. But that doesn't say too much. We're a community of OU students who seek to: know Jesus Christ, know Him better through understanding and committing to the Bible, praise Him in all we say and do, share that love...
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The Interviews -Brent Corbin
6/30/09
I first remember Brent Corbin sitting in my living room playing the djembe mostly well, but also slightly off beat. I think he had dated or at least had like Courtney Mason (so had many others), but now he was dating this other girl. We talked about her a lot, until he broke up with her and she was devastated. This was the first of many conversations with Brent about God, about women, about dating, about repentance, about growing up.
Thankfully, Brent really, really did change. Slowly to be sure. With hilarious stories of spectacular mess ups along the way. But his heart is one touched by Jesus. He loves the church. He loves the campus. And he loves his wonderful wife Sarah, which is a beautiful thing.
1. How did you first get involved with RUF? I was involved with a different Bible Study (YHWH - great name, I know) that eventually merged into RUF when the leader of that study moved from Norman.
2. What was/is your favorite part about RUF? I think initially I was drawn to the clear teaching of the gospel and hearing the good news about salvation that didn't depend on my efforts. As I became more involved I found the music having a shaping role in my heart and life, and then even further along it was the relationships that I had made through the group that, combined with the teaching and the music, made a lasting impact on my soul.
4. What traditions did you have at RUF that meant the most to you? I enjoyed having the worship leader (in my case Wade) talk through some of the songs, even though sometimes he talked forever. It made me pause and realize that we aren't just glorifying the good playing and singing, but rather that our words have weight and bring glory to God, the only one worthy of our worship. I also really like 151 seconds. Not sure why you quit doing this.
- Do you have an appropriate funny moment that you can share? none are appropriate
5. How did God use RUF in your life? God is still using RUF in my life. After interning with RUF for 2 years and seeing students' lives changes firsthand through the gospel, I will graduate seminary in 1 year and hopefully become a campus minister. To ask the question of how God used RUF in my life is synonymous with asking me how the gospel has been used in my life, because RUF is where i began to understand the gospel, and my need for grace to set me free from a desire to perform for God. I have been changed, I am changing, and by that same grace, I will continue to be changed into one who can,
somehow, be used to spread the good news of God's kingdom to those around me.
6. What did RUF teach you about Jesus and the church? It was in RUF that I began to see how important involvement in church is. Beforehand, it was more of a box-checking or just going because I needed some kind of boost or recharge. But I began to see that when God calls broken, needy people together and calls them to worship Him together, then there is something powerful happening. All distinctions and differences mean nothing. The body of Christ coming together to praise their King together is a glorious thing and is the primary vessel through which our lives are comforted and changed.
7. What are you doing now? Where are you in church? I will graduate seminary in 1 year and hope to go on to be a campus minister with RUF after that. My wife, daughter and I worship at Christ Central Church (PCA) here in Charlotte, NC.
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