David Rufner

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David Rufner

David J. Rufner is the 1517 Director of Relations and Development. His B.A. in Philosophy is from Concordia University - Chicago, and his M.Div. is from Concordia Seminary - St. Louis. He and his wife, Megan, have four excellent children. David enjoys cooking, sipping bourbon, smoking meats, reading, parties with neighbors, hiking, camping, and long road trips with his family to lands where mountains loom and canyons yawn.

Jesus Published and Blazed Forth

12/22/20

10 mins

David Rufner

I hope this Christmastime affords ample opportunities for you to publish the Good News of Jesus Christ.
An American Myth Meets the Gospel of Jesus

02/05/20

10 mins

David Rufner

This is our frontier religion: God is waiting to shower blessings upon us if only we will unlock those blessings with the right kind of works, and a sufficient quantity of the same.
The American Story in Light of the Gospel

05/14/19

16 mins

David Rufner

In these two stories - one ending and the other beginning just a day apart - we find many ingredients that are uniquely American. We find grit, determination, and conquest.
The Psalms on His Lips

04/25/19

12 mins

David Rufner

Suddenly Psalm 1 is opened to you and to me and to all people as Jesus walks with us, stands with us, sits with us, and gives us His words and gifts of life!
Jesus and Pint-Sized Preachers

01/30/19

12 mins

David Rufner

Jesus is the heart of the Gospel, and the Gospel is Good News. But it is always Good News that comes to us best on the lips of another.
Betrayal and the Plunge

11/08/18

15 mins

David Rufner

We take what we perceive to be freedom and turn it into a new credo, a new law, an idol to be lifted up and lived out.
The Gift of Belonging

10/17/18

11 mins

David Rufner

It is only when individuals are bound together in community that they become fully human.
Mind the Gap Between Dreams and Reality

06/25/18

11 mins

David Rufner

Led by God’s Word we can grasp why this gap exists, grows, and threatens us. Simply put, we don’t take sin seriously. We don’t take the effects of our sinful rebellion on all of creation seriously.
- God's Word
- God
- Sin
Community in the Worn and Used

06/18/18

9 mins

David Rufner

And your life, weary and broken as it is, is hidden by God in Christ—tucked away in God’s enduring and eternally given Word, in Jesus.
The Gift of Ashes

02/14/18

11 mins

David Rufner

Gone, abolished, put away with, undone, and destroyed are any and all notions that my repentance unlocks, sets free, or earns God’s forgiveness.
Life Wrapped in Death, Wrapped in Life.

01/17/18

10 mins

David Rufner

In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.
Joyful Birds, Joyful People

12/29/17

10 mins

David Rufner

Even now we sing as we live in His gifts, and await His second Advent—His second-coming.

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