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 20 — Advent: PEACE OUT 2020!

Coming out of 2020, one of the most volatile years many of us have experienced, we are all hungry for peace. Our politicians are promising peace...

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Episode 19 — Advent: Joy & Ultimate Reality

For Christians, joy is not accidental, superfluous, or a distraction. In this episode, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how the joy and delight...

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Episode 18 — Advent: Love, Love, Love

During this episode of B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the Advent theme of Love. Though our culture puts a high value on love, often...

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Episode 17 — Advent: Real Hope in Dark Times

During this episode of B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the Advent theme of "Hope." In what has been an incredibly disorienting year...

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Episode 16 — The Idolatry Behind Broken Desires

In this final episode on the Ten Words about the 10th commandment, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the tenth commandment: Does the 10th...

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The Promise of the Kingdom

Let’s be honest. 2020 has been a political dumpster fire of a year.This year has brought to our attention how much our civil government can have a...

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The Joy That Christmas Produces

Let’s play a word association game. What’s the first thing you think of when you hear these words and phrases?

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Joy — 1 John 1:1-4

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands...

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Episode 15 — Living in the Truth vs. Exchanging Reality for Lies

Grab a beverage and join the conversation. In this episode about the 9th commandment, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the importance of...

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Episode 14 — Theft, Property, Socialism, & Providence

Grab your favorite beverage and join us for Sermon B-sides. In this episode, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the 8th commandment: "Thou Shalt...

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Episode 13 — Sex & Slaughter

In this episode of B-sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten consider more questions from our God & Government According to the World lecture from...

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Special Episode of B-Sides — Q & A on God and Government

In this episode of B-sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten consider more questions from our God & Government According to the World lecture from...

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Episode 11 — Family, Mission, Slavery and the Fifth Word

What does obedience to parents have to do with national security? What might doing the dishes have to do with God's mission in the world? How does...

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Episode 10 — The Sabbath and Election Day

It's election day, so grab your favorite beverage and kick back and relax while we discuss what the Sabbath might teach us about the current stress...

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God & Government According to the Word

On the evening of October 27, 2020, Pastor Rusten Harris from Coram Deo Church delivered a new address in a lecture series titled...

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Episode 9 — What Does it Mean to "Take the Name in Vain?"

Grab your favorite beverage and join us while we discuss construction site language and how bizarre it is that even atheists invoke the name of God...

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Ten Words

The Fifth Word

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you."

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Episode 8 — The Pre-Biography of Christ

Have you ever thought about the Ten Commandments as a biography? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides Pastor Jon Needham and Pastor Rusten Harris...

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Book Review: Echoes of Exodus

Let's be honest. The Old Testament can be challenging. In a world that increasingly looks back on our forebears with what C.S. Lewis called...

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Episode 7 — The Marcions are Coming!

Coram Deo Church is going through a series on the Ten Commandments (Ten Words), and in this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon Needham and...

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Episode 6 — The "Cringe-Factor" of the Psalms

In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon Needham and Pastor Rusten Harris discuss the brutal honesty of the Psalms, Anger, Hippie Jesus, how...

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Episode 5 — The Dangers of Tranquility

In this episode In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon Needham and Pastor Rusten Harris discuss the dangers of tranquility and God's grace...

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SERIES:
Psalms

Psalm 32

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whom...

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Episode 4 — Worship as Warfare

In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon Needham and Pastor Rusten Harris discuss the scriptural theme of worship as warfare and the...

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