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.

Matthew 2:13-23

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Episode 92 - Discipleship in God’s Liturgical Calendar - Exodus 12

Throughout Scripture, God divides days and seasons. He gives us holidays and feast days, and he gives us the Sabbath day. In this episode of...

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Episode 91 - God Doesn't Believe in Intersectionality - Exodus 11

Rebelling against God makes you stupid. We see this principle in Pharaoh's refusal to let the Israelites go free when his son's life is on the line...

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Episode 90 - Satan’s Tactic of Going After Women and Children - Exodus 10

The family is the fundamental building block of society. Pagan tyrants feel threatened by Christian family and the Church because they represent a...

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Exodus

Exodus 11

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Episode 89 - The Sovereignty of God and the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart - Exodus 9

What does it mean for God to be sovereign? The story of the Exodus reveals the answer to that question. God demonstrates his sovereignty through...

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Episode 88 - Judgment and Frogs in the Kneading Bowl - Exodus 8

Why does God judge? Why does God send ten different plagues to Egypt? Why frogs? Why flies? Why gnats and other swarming things? In this episode of...

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Episode 87 - When a Nation Abandons the Truth - Exodus 7

What happens when a nation abandons the truth? What lies do people start to believe? Why do nations who abandon the truth always seem to become...

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Episode 86 - Setbacks, Despair, and Christian Hope for the Future - Exodus 6

Why does God allow setbacks and roadblocks to the things he has called us to do? How do Christians fight despair? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides...

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Exodus

Exodus 7

And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron...

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Episode 85 - Rejoicing & Feasting While We Stink to the World - Exodus 5

Is there a conflict between feasting and reverence? Is the worship of the Church supposed to be joyful and triumphant? In this episode of Sermon...

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Episode 84 - Firstborn Sons, Signs, and the Bridegroom of Blood - Exodus 4

Sometimes the Bible is weird. Sometimes we rush past things too quickly to understand how the Bible is speaking to us through meaningful signs and...

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Episode 83 - God: the Self-Sustaining and Consuming Fire - Exodus 3

Why does God reveal himself to Moses through the burning bush? How does knowing God prepare Moses his great and difficult task of confronting...

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Episode 82 - When God Raises Up His Man - Exodus 2

In the midst of conflict and tyranny, God raises up his man. While Pharaoh decrees forced abortions for all the new baby boys born to the Hebrews...

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Episode 81 - When a Nation Turns on the Christians - Exodus 1

In the opening chapter of Exodus, Egypt, the nation that used to know the God of Joseph, has become serpent-like. In this episode of Sermon B-Sides...

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Psalms

Psalm 66

Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name;

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Psalms

Psalm 61

Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint...

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Psalms

Psalm 60

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us...

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Taking Love Hostage

I recently rewatched the 1994 hit film Speed. It’s all about hostage situations...

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Pride Month Wants Your Kids

As we witness pride month’s brazen public displays of cultural conquest, I’m reminded of a saying...

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2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers...

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1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you...

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Short Letters — Jude Part Two

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ...

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