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.
As the Gospel spreads throughout the Greek world, the Church experiences more and more conflict. Religious leaders stir up riots. Paul and his team...
God 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...
In 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...
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit...
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in...
It is popular among Christians today to reduce the Gospel to personal "spiritual" application only. We believe that Christ has no plan to make an...
Today, the Church faces constant pressure to redefine loving our neighbors to fit with the world's definition. This tendency can undermine the Gospel.
Crucial to the witness of the Church in the world is maintaining the distinction between the Church and the world. In this episode of Bible...
What does the Bible teach about angels? Why do the stories of Christ's birth have so many scenes with angels? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides...
Merry Christmas! At the fullness of time, Christ was born in Bethlehem. The coming of Jesus was the long-awaited fulfillment of the promise given...
Merry Christmas! What exactly happened on that first Christmas? Was that baby that in the manger also God? Is Jesus also a human? Did the Old...
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them...
When was the last time you read good news in a headline and didn’t feel the need to receive it with extreme suspicion? In an age of contested news...
To the Jew first, and then to the Gentile—we see that pattern throughout the book of Acts. The mission starts in the synagogues until Peter or Paul...
The Gospels often say that Jesus fulfills prophecy, but we don't always understand how. For example, how does Jesus fulfill the prophecy "Out of...
Have you ever noticed how different the sermons preached in the book of Acts are from the sermons you might hear today? Rather than being mere...
I have a problem called Scotch broom. Every year, hideous gray-green shrubs swarm the perimeter of my property spewing their seeds — and don’t try...
Within the Church, there are good kinds of unity and bad kinds of unity. There are good kinds of division and bad kinds of division. While the...
King Herod killed James and continued to persecute Christians because it was politically advantageous. God later strikes him down. Shortly after this,
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth...
Jew and Gentile. Circumcision, food laws, and the ceremonial law. The Holy Spirit and the conversion of the Gentile centurion Cornelius and his...
Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” And...
The church in Corinth was a mess! Divisions, incest, and drunkenness at the Lord's Supper are a few of the problems we learn are going on there....
Jesus commands his disciples to love their enemies because he wants them to reflect the kindness and love of God expressed in the Gospel. In this...
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