Pastor Rusten Harris

Pastor of Youth Community

Rusten leads our Youth Community and also provides teaching/preaching support. He and his wife live in Kingston with their four kids. He loves reading, writing, cooking, feasting, music, and family dance parties.

Episode 12 - Of Peacemakers and False Prophets - Ezekiel 13:8-14

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Ezekiel 13:8-14 and considers this question: What is the difference between a false...

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Episode 35 - Jesus' Mission Strategy: Confront Sexual Sin

In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the story of the woman at the well and the need to not avoid the subject of...

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Episode 11 - Don't Complain About the Culture? - Ezekiel 9:3-8

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Ezekiel chapters 8-9. This particular passage tells an eerie story of God showing Ezekiel...

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Bible 101

The Bible as God's Word is His Personal Presence — Class 3

What is the Bible? There is no other book in the history of our world that has had such an impact on civilization. Some believe that the Bible is...

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Episode 34 - He Ain't No "Have it Your Way" Burger King

The Church tends to easily dismiss Christ in his Kingly office, either by spiritualizing his rule, or by saying that his Kingly rule is...

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I'd Deconstruct That...

Considerations and concerns upon recently hearing a local pastor on facebook:

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Episode 10 - Slavery by Fear and Algorithms - Exodus 14:10-14

If you don't fear God, you will fear man—whether that means craving the approval of man or fearing what man might do to you. Fearing man or death...

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Bible 101

The Bible is God's Redemptive Story — Class 2

What is the Bible? There is no other book in the history of our world that has had such an impact on civilization. Some believe that the Bible is...

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Episode 33 - The High Priest and BBQ Pit Chef

Was there a priestly role in the garden of Eden before the fall of humanity? What are all those other sacrifices and offerings, (e.g. bread...

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Episode 9 - The Way, The Truth, and The Life - John 14:1-6

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers a couple of the specific ways that Jesus is mocked while being crucified and what those...

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Bible 101

The Bible is God's Written Word — Class 1

What is the Bible? There is no other book in the history of our world that has had such an impact on civilization. Some believe that the Bible is...

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Episode 32 - Jesus is the God Revealed in the Old Testament

Have you ever heard someone tell you that the God revealed in the Old Testament is mean and grumpy and that they prefer the Jesus of the New...

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Episode 8 - Does God Even Want Him? - Matthew 27:42-44

It is worth considering why Jesus did not simply die a simple, clean, dignified death when he bore the sins of his people. Instead, Jesus dies the...

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Good Friday 2021

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we...

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Episode 31 - "You Love Jesus, But Not the Church?"

In the book of Acts, being moved by the Gospel and the love of God, the early Christians loved each other and sold their belongings so they could...

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Episode 7 — The Only Distinction that Matters — Exodus 11:4-9

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers the final plague in the Exodus story. In the warning to Pharoah, God makes it clear that...

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Episode 30 - Rage Against the LORD

"Why do the nations rage?" Those are the opening lines from Psalm 2, one of the most quoted Old Testament passages in the New Testament. It was a...

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Episode 6 — The Daddy Cloud and the Night-Light — Numbers 9:15-23

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers the way that God leads his people like a father through the pillars of cloud and fire...

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Episode 29 - The Gospel & Public Conflict

The book of Acts is rife with conflict. The public preaching of the Gospel often resulted in the imprisonment and reproach of the Apostles. Ever...

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Episode 5 — Obeying God and Defying Tyrants — Esther 3:8-11

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers Mordecai in the story of Esther. This guy gets in trouble for refusing to pay homage to...

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Episode 28 - Wrath: A Hard Thing That Must Be Preached

In the book of Acts and throughout the New Testament, the Apostles and Jesus himself don't even flinch from discussing and preaching judgment, the...

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Episode 4 — Starving Dreaming Rebels — Isaiah 29:8

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers a small word from the book of Isaiah. In this passage, Isaiah paints a picture of the...

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Jesus 101

Jesus is Lord — Class 3

In this class, Jesus 101, Pastor Rusten Harris spent three weeks covering foundational teaching of the person and work of Jesus Christ who is God...

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Episode 27 — Signs, Wonders, and Pull-No-Punches-Sermons

Early on in the book of Acts, God works healing signs and wonders among the early Church through the Apostles. Are these signs normal in the life...

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