Rusten leads our Youth Community and also provides teaching/preaching support. He and his wife live in Kingston with their three kids. He loves reading, writing, cooking, feasting, music, and family dance parties.
In 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...
In 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...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Ezekiel 37:1–14 and the valley of the dry bones. God confronts this seemingly hopeless...
In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the role of deacons within the church, the question of female deacons, the...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Matthew 18:15–18 and considers Jesus’ teaching on Church discipline, and the context of...
In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the priority of the ministry of the Word in the early Church and the...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers Ezekiel 33:7–11 and the responsibility that God gives Ezekiel to warn his people of...
In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss Acts 5 and the imprisonment of Peter and the Apostles. In a time when the...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers how God provides for the poor and the sojourner through the gleaning laws for landowners.
In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how, even during COVID-19, Governor mandates, lockdowns, etc., the message...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Acts 26:22–29 and considers how Paul's mission to proclaim the gospel confronts those who...
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the...
Ananias and Sapphira sold their property and gave most of it away. But they lied about how much they sold the property for because they wanted...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Ezekiel 13:8-14 and considers this question: What is the difference between a false...
In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the story of the woman at the well and the need to not avoid the subject of...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten looks at Ezekiel chapters 8-9. This particular passage tells an eerie story of God showing Ezekiel...
The Church tends to easily dismiss Christ in his Kingly office, either by spiritualizing his rule, or by saying that his Kingly rule is...
If you don't fear God, you will fear man—whether that means craving the approval of man or fearing what man might do to you. Fearing man or death...
Considerations and concerns upon recently hearing a local pastor on facebook:
Was there a priestly role in the garden of Eden before the fall of humanity? What are all those other sacrifices and offerings, (e.g. bread...
In this episode of Bible Thoughts, Pastor Rusten considers a couple of the specific ways that Jesus is mocked while being crucified and what those...
Have you ever heard someone tell you that the God revealed in the Old Testament is mean and grumpy and that they prefer the Jesus of the New...
It is worth considering why Jesus did not simply die a simple, clean, dignified death when he bore the sins of his people. Instead, Jesus dies the...
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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