Marlin Harris
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Patient Bible teaching for campus life.
RUF at Mercer University records live Bible teaching from a college ministry setting, often moving through Revelation, Psalms, and Christian formation with patient explanation. The show suits listeners who want seriousness, everyday analogies, and room for both committed faith and honest questions.
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RUF at Mercer University is a campus-ministry teaching feed built around live Bible exposition. It feels close to the room. Speakers welcome students, name the passage, read from scripture, and then move through the text with definitions, analogies, and direct application. Recent episodes center heavily on Revelation. That gives the show a distinctive mix of comfort and weight: dragons, beasts, judgment, spiritual warfare, persecution, and cosmic renewal are treated as part of a larger Christian story rather than as spectacle. The teaching is patient. It often slows down to explain why Revelation is symbolic, why its sequence is not always chronological, and how its strange images might encourage believers under pressure. Marlon Harris appears as the recurring voice in the Mercer setting, especially in the Revelation material. Andrew Burkhalter also teaches from Revelation, keeping the same broad pattern of scripture, explanation, and gospel encouragement. Conference episodes widen the range. A session on sanctification turns Peter's denial into a study of habits, intention, self-protection, and change over time. A Psalm 23 seminar led by Mallory Green uses shepherd imagery, fear, guidance, protection, and rest to speak to weary people. Across the feed, the practical questions are plain: what Christian hope is for, how people change, what to do with fear, how to read difficult biblical imagery, and why embodied future restoration matters. The show is not detached theology. It is teaching meant for students with exams, crowded schedules, questions, doubts, and real suffering. Its language can be casual, but the claims are serious. It is also not afraid of judgment, sin, evil, or costly discipleship. The recurring promise is that Christian faith offers more than escape from the world; it imagines a restored world of bodies, work, culture, creativity, and joy. That emphasis gives the show an unusually concrete account of hope. It is best approached as a series of thoughtful campus talks rather than a tightly edited interview podcast.
Made for: Best for college students, campus-ministry listeners, and curious Christians who want Reformed Bible teaching with careful explanation. It also suits people trying to make sense of Revelation, spiritual formation, suffering, and Christian hope.
What sets it apart: The show treats difficult biblical imagery with unusual patience, grounding Revelation's symbols in application rather than sensational prediction. Its live campus setting gives the teaching a direct, conversational texture.
Audio from Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Mercer University.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Careful biblical teaching connects Revelation, Psalm 23, and Christian formation to the habits, fears, and hopes of college life.
RUF at Mercer University brings campus ministry into the feed with biblical teaching shaped around the pressures and questions of student life.
Revelation's dragon arrives; your blood pressure gets permission to come down.
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A hopeful reading of Revelation that treats restoration as embodied, cultural, and concrete.
The episode presents Christian hope as restoration rather than escape, with the new heavens and the new earth described as the place where Jesus sets everything right again.
A steady Revelation 22 review that treats eternity as restored purpose, not escape.
This episode review treats Revelation 22 as a vision of restored life, not a distant escape. It follows the pastor from Genesis to Revelation with a calm campus-ministry cadence, and the plain examples do real work.
Psalm 23 comes through as a calm guide through fear, not just a familiar line.
Mallory Green treats Psalm 23 as a plainspoken guide for anyone looking for someone to follow, decide with, and rely on. The movement from wanting guidance and unconditional care to a shepherd who leads, stays near, and answers fear with presence gives the passage a steady,…
A steady talk on sanctification, college life, and the gap between good intentions and real change.
This episode treats sanctification as the slow shaping of a person into the likeness of Jesus, and it keeps that idea grounded in ordinary college life.
A careful reading of Revelation 12 that turns fear toward endurance.
Andrew Burkhalter treats Revelation 12 as more than a passage about dread, and that choice shapes the whole discussion. He walks through the woman, the dragon, and the 1,260 days with steady attention, keeping the focus on what the text says instead of letting it drift into…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Marlon Harris welcomes new people at RUF and frames the night around Revelation 22.
The speaker opens by naming the courage it takes to show up, then frames the semester's Revelation study around the book's final picture of restoration.
This episode introduces a study on the Book of Revelation, explaining its symbolic nature and purpose in depicting the time between Jesus's first and second comings.
This episode is a sermon from RUF (Reformed University Fellowship) discussing the book of Revelation, focusing on its powerful presentation of the gospel and encouragement in faith.
This episode introduces a semester-long study of the Book of Revelation, explaining its challenging nature and presenting it as a beautiful, encouraging text from God that offers a divine perspective on reality.
Sanctification is the subject.
Mallory Green opens the seminar with a warm welcome and a clear focus: the Lord as shepherd.
Andrew Burkhalter welcomes UF Large Group while Marlon Harris is in the UK for a mission trip and a college ministry conference.
The speaker opens with David Hume's trilemma, which says God cannot be both all-good and all-powerful while evil exists, and then argues that atheism makes suffering even harder to explain, citing Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality.
In a Wednesday-night talk for RUF at Mercer, campus minister Marlon Harris reads Revelation 11:1-13 and says it is about the mission of God's people between Jesus's first and second comings.
This episode introduces a semester-long series on the Book of Revelation, exploring its strange and significant content as the final book of the Bible.
This episode introduces a semester-long series on the Book of Revelation, acknowledging its complex and intimidating nature while inviting college students to explore it together.
This episode introduces a Christian ministry's Bible study series exploring questions God asks in Scripture and how they challenge listeners to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves.
This episode explores why God asks questions in the Bible, arguing that it's to engage people's hearts and minds, challenge unquestioned assumptions, and foster a deeper relationship with Him, starting with the first question in Genesis 3.
This episode explores the biblical book of Leviticus, focusing on how God desires to dwell with people despite sin, and introduces a notorious passage about sexual morality.