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.

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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SERIES:
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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Episode 3 — Two Midwives That Wouldn't Compromise — Exodus 1:15-22

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers the story of Shiphrah and Puah in Exodus chapter one. The slaughter of Hebrew boys could...

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SERIES:
Jesus 101

Jesus is Savior — Class 2

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 26 — All 'Bout that Feast, 'Bout that Feast, No Commies

The early Church was known for their love for another and how they shared they shared with one another out of their love. Many take this...

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Episode 2 — Fear Not Conspiracies! — Isaiah 8:11-15

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers how the fear of God is key to living in the midst of tumultuous times. The idea that God...

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SERIES:
Jesus 101

Jesus is God — Class 1

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 25 — Babel, Baptism, & Babies

While we lament our divisions as a people, we also must remember that there was a kind of unity on display in the story of the Tower of Babel that...

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Episode 1 — What is the Transfiguration all about? — Matthew 17:1-8

In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers the story of Jesus' Transfiguration in the Gospel of Matthew. While perhaps this is a...

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Episode 24 - Q&A: Ask Anything - Part 2

Join us for the second half of our Ask Anything episode of Sermon B-Sides. Pastor Jon & Pastor Rusten answer your submitted questions including...

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Episode 23 - Q&A: Ask Anything - Part 1

Join us for the first half of a special two-part Q&A episode of Sermon B-Sides. Pastor Jon & Pastor Rusten answer your submitted questions...

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Is the Future Faceless?

The reality of public life simply is not what it was prior to 2020. Even a trip to the grocery store can feel like wandering through some...

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Episode 22 - Acts: The Warning of Judas & Early Church Bible Study

Ever wonder how it is possible that Judas, who witnessed Jesus and all that he did in person, could possibly have betrayed him?

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Announcement and Upcoming "Ask Anything" Episode

A quick announcement for Sermon B-Sides about an upcoming "Ask Anything" Episode.

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Episode 21 — Acts: 2021, Acts, and the Question of the Church

The circumstances of 2020 and 2021 have been cause for pastors and the Church to ask questions that have not had to be considered in our lifetime...

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