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.
Why is it that God sometimes rescued his people in obvious and miraculous ways, but at other times God had them take part in battles and conflict...
See moreAfter Jesus teaches his disciples to pray for forgiveness, he teaches them to pray, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." In...
See moreSometimes, circumstances and conflict reveal that we've founded our hope on something that isn't solid. In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor...
See moreWhen Jesus teaches his disciples to pray, he also teaches them to pray for forgiveness. Did Jesus intend for us to pray this every day? What does...
See moreMoments of distress and affliction remind us of our need for help and reveal what we are putting our trust in. In this episode of Sermon B-Sides...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten takes a break from the Lord's Prayer to consider an observation from the book of Job and its...
See moreMoments of distress and affliction remind us of our need for help and reveal what we are putting our trust in. In this episode of Sermon B-Sides...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers what it means to pray for God to give us our daily bread and how daily bread reminds us...
See moreEveryone's life is shaped by their fears. What you fear will determine how you live, how you speak, and what you love. Every fear outside of the...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers what it means to pray for God's kingdom to come and his will to be done on earth as it...
See moreThere is a Psalm to give a voice to every human experience. Some Psalms, known as the imprecatory Psalms, call on God to judge our enemies and evil...
See moreWe tend to think that prayer is only a practice for the sake of spiritual health, or that prayer doesn't do anything because "God is sovereign...
See moreThe ancient heresy of Gnosticism is alive and well, but the Psalms will have none of that nonsense. Want to know how to be Anti-Gnostic? In this...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at part of the Lord's prayer and considers what it means to ask God to hallow his name. What...
See moreWhat would the aroma of your family and church be if you were committed to the habit of confessing sin to one another and reminding one another of...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at the introduction of the Lord's prayer and considers what it means that Jesus teaches us...
See moreWickedness seldom comes to being abruptly, but rather it grows slowly and follows a regular progression. In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Jeremiah 44 to learn from an example of pragmatism gone awry. The Bible is not pragmatic...
See moreIn this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss Simon the magician, the worldview behind magic, the revival of the occult...
See moreIn this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss Simon the magician, the worldview behind magic, the revival of the occult...
See moreWhy do some hear the Gospel and respond with faith while others disbelieve? It can be tempting to "practice cunning or tamper with God's Word" to...
See moreIn this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the joy and deliverance that the Gospel brings to those who are dead in...
See moreIn this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Psalm 100 and considers the joy of gratitude and the hope that we have because of God's...
See moreIn this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the sermon and martyrdom of Stephen and how it unpacks and demonstrates a...
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