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.
After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they...
See moreThen the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of...
See moreThen I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that...
See moreAnd after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case...
See moreThen one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated...
See moreEphesus was full of spiritual darkness, and it was a city where the cures were as bad as the ailments. We see this in the syncretistic exorcists...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten continues looking at Bible passages on labor, work, wealth, and economics. In the opening pages of...
See moreThen Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe...
See moreIn this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten look at the gospel ministry in Ephesus. Ephesus was a strategic location for the...
See moreAnd the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his...
See moreThen I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
See moreWe often think about the fourth commandment only as a command to rest on the Sabbath day, but it is much more than that. It completely reshapes our...
See moreDoes the Bible have anything to say about my career and my workweek? In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at the beginning of the...
See moreIn the Bible, God uses normal people like Paul and Elijah as instruments in his mission. We may think that Paul and Elijah were invincible, but...
See moreAnd God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to...
See moreWhat happens when the Gospel confronts the cultured pagans of Athens? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten look at...
See moreThen I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his...
See moreAs the Gospel spreads throughout the Greek world, the Church experiences more and more conflict. Religious leaders stir up riots. Paul and his team...
See moreGod made the world in such a way that little things add up. A field bears fruit after many steps of cultivation and care. We mature by walking...
See moreIn this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how the sanctity of human life is rooted in the image of God. They also...
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