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.

Short Letters — Jude Part One

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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SERIES:
Daniel

Daniel 11

And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him...

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Jesus and Noah

Gangrene is a nasty condition. It occurs when your flesh or body tissue, usually in the extremities of your body...

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SERIES:
Daniel

Daniel 7

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed...

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Philippians 2:12-30

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence...

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Episode 80 - Nebuchadnezzar's Witness to the Nations - Daniel 4

Do you ever wonder why Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image to be worshipped? Or why so many nations in the past required religious uniformity...

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Episode 79 - The Religious Unity of Statism - Daniel 3

Do you ever wonder why Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image to be worshipped? Or why so many nations in the past required religious uniformity...

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Episode 78 - A Pagan King's Dream and the Kingdom of Christ - Daniel 2

In Daniel 2, God reveals his plan for history to King Nebuchadnezzar, from the time of the kingdom of Babylon to the coming of the kingdom of...

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SERIES:
Daniel

Daniel 4

King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! It has seemed good to me...

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Episode 77 - Young Men & Christian Resistance - Daniel 1

Historically, tyrants like Nebuchadnezzar have targeted young men when conquering a culture. They do this because young men are often the future of...

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Episode 76 - Relationships of Authority and Submission under Christ - Colossians 3:18-4:1

We are living during a time when authority structures have been widely deteriorated and are now being actively subverted. How are Christians to...

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Episode 75 - Died in Christ in Order to Live in Christ - Colossians 3:1-17

What does it mean that we have died in Christ? What does it mean to live in Christ? What does it mean to "put on" Christ? What happens to...

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Luke 2:15-20

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing...

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Luke 1:39-56

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house...

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Pregnant Hope

“The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight”—that line from O Little Town of Bethlehem with poetic simplicity explains that the...

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SERIES:
Colossians

Colossians 4:2-6

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the...

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Episode 74 - Training Wheels & Counterfeit Humility - Colossians 2:1–15

Why do so many churches lose the gospel? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how thankful...

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Episode 73 - The Gospel and the Father of Many Nations - Colossians 1:21–29

Why do so many churches lose the gospel? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how thankful...

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Episode 72 - What Does it Mean that Christ is the "Firstborn"? - Colossians 1:15–20

Why do so many churches lose the gospel? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how thankful...

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Episode 71 - Why Churches Lose the Gospel - Colossians 1:1–14

Why do so many churches lose the gospel? In this episode of Sermon B-Sides Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss how thankful...

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SERIES:
Colossians

Colossians 2:1-15

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face...

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Introduction to Spiritual Disciplines: Prayer

And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners...

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SERIES:
Psalms

Psalm 56

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long...

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