Episodes
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Not My Circus...
Welcome to the sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio, with Pastor Rus Yoak. What if "Not my problem" is in fact "your problem"? What does the Bible have to say about being responsible for your neighbor and how do you even begin to do that? Listen on... Ezekiel 33:7-11 33:7 So you,...
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The Barefoot Prophet
Welcome to the sermon podcast for First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio, with Pastor Rus Yoak. It is more sacred to be barefoot...so would say my ancient (ahem) Appalachian ancestors. Or at least, it is more fun...and maybe healthier. But is it holy? Listen on: Exodus 3:1-5 3:1 Moses was keeping the…
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Rocky!
Welcome to the sermon podcast for First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak What's in a name? Well, ask Robert Balboa what is in a name...Don't know him? How about Rocky Balboa...Him you know. So you know Rocky, or do you? Matthew 16:13-20 16:13 Now when Jesus came into the district of...
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The Unimportant
Hello and welcome to the sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week: When the unimportant become important and vice versa. Luke 9: 46An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. 47Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a...
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Keep Your Eyes On The Road
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to this week's sermon podcast from First Lutheran Church, in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. When driving the most important thing you can do is keep your eyes on the road. If you are driving up the side of a mountain, even more so...especially if there are no guard...
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A Little Too Hygge
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast from 1st Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio for 07/30/17 with Pastor Rus Yoak. I came across the word "Hygge" the other day as I was watching a news program. I won't give a lot away but let me just say I am in favor of "Hygge"...in certain contexts... Matthew...
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Biblical Farming
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for 1st Lutheran on July the 16th 2017, from Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. The Bible is full of odd passages that beg the question: "Why do they do it that way?" and this week is no exception. Today we look at odd farming conventions in the…
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Of Yokes and Yoaks
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for July 9th, 2017 from 1st Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus. What sort of burden are you carrying? Is it heavy? In all likelihood you answered yes as it seems like we all are weighed down under this sort of trouble, but Jesus offers us an...
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The Journey: Part 4 of 4
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 28th, 2017 from 1st Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week we ask the age old question: "Why didn't the Amish show up for work last Thursday?" or better yet, "Are we there yet?" Oddly the answers to both may be the same…
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The Journey Part 3 of 4
Pastor Rus Says, Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 21st, 2017 from 1st Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. Who is Tenzing Norgay? Only the second person to ever summit Mt. Everest. Why is that important? Listen on... John 14:15-21 14:15 "If you love me, you will keep my…
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The Journey: Part 2 of 4
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 15, 2017 from 1st Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. When I was a kid (10,000 years ago) Google Maps, was just "maps". They were made out of paper and were the devil to re-fold after you opened them all the way up. Now days...
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The Journey Part 1
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 7, 2017 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week we begin a four week sermon series about the journey that our faith really is. And not only is a a huge trip...it's a family vacation...listen on. John 10:1-10 10:1...
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Suffer the Little Children...
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for the week of March 26th, 2017 from 1st Lutheran with Pastor Rus Yoak. This last Sunday we welcomed our Day Care Center from 1st Lutheran, ABC Learning center, to come and worship with us. For this Sunday we looked at the blessings...and danger of...
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Transformed 5 of 5...
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the weekly sermon podcast for Apr 2, 2017 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week we look at Jesus' relationship with one of his best friends, Lazarus, and why (unlike Miracle Max) mostly dead and entirely dead are no problem for Jesus'...
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Transformed 3 of 5...
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for 03/26/2017 from 1st Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week we look at what it means when you can see but your blind, and when you are blind and can see fine. John 9:1-41 9:1 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 9:2…
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Transformed 3 of 5...
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the weekly sermon podcast for 03/18/2017 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week we continue our way through the Lenten sermon series "Transformed: John 4:5-42 4:5 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that…
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Who's Your Daddy...no really
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the weekly podcast for March 12, 2017 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. Over and over again in fiction, movies, literature, etc... the theme of how your parents affect your life gets played out again and again. This week we look at how God wants…
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Transformed 1 of 6: God loves you...
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for March 13 2017 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. This week we begin our Lenten sermon series: Transformed. We will spend the season of Lent looking at how God takes our broke lives and transforms them into something amazing....
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Humanity 101...empathy
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for Feb 26, 2017 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. Have you ever wished that there was some course that all people had to take and pass on being a decent human being before they could interact with the rest of polite society? If…
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Dumb Questions
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. Ever wonder who comes up with the sill questions you get asked on government forms? I found myself answering a bunch of "standard questions" when I transfered my license over from Florida to...
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Do The Job
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to this week's sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. As we look over the events of the last week, Veterans Day and Election Day included, the world looks like a slightly different place. Here in the Kingdom of God we have a rather...
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All Saints Sunday...
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the Sermon Podcast for First Lutheran Church in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This All Saints Sunday we pause for a moment to think about what it is that really is at the heart of not only All Saint's Sunday, but all Sundays. Luke 6:20-31 6:20 Then he looked up at...
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History Lessons and...
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to our weekly sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. This week we commemorate Reformation Sunday with some history, as well as some history in the making for the upcoming year. Listen on... John 8:31-36 To the Jews who had believed him,...
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Big Truck!
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the sermon podcast for First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. As parents we all develop these little tricks and techniques for entertaining/distracting toddlers. These are essential skills if you want to survive the terrible twos, but awful skills when…
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Livin' On A Prayer
Pastor Rus Says: Welcome to the Podcast for October 21st 2016 from First Lutheran Church in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. If you grew up in the eighties you can probably sing all the words to "Livin' On A Payer" with me...the problem is most of us aren't...either praying, or even living all...
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Did Adam Have a Bellybutton?
Welcome to Pastor Rus Says: This week we look at the things that bring us together, and how, ultimately, sometimes we get split apart. It can be something silly like whether or not Adam had a bellybutton or something almost as silly like which mountain to worship on. How does God feel about those...
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Your Roots Are Showing
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for October 7 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. When Jesus talks to his disciples he tells them the secret to having an amazing faith life is simple and small. Have some mustard. Actually he says have a mustard seed worth…
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Worthless Cash and Harley Davidsons
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for Sep. 25, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus. You can't take it with you, but a better question is would you really want to? What is so valuable in this world after all compared to the treasures that really matter? Cash? Nice...
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Just Say No To Warm Fuzzies
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for September 18th, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Oho with Pastor Rus. What is love? Well Jesus seems to think it is a whole lot more than warm fuzzies or butterflies in your stomach. Love may be the most important thing on earth, but it sure is...
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Lost Sheep and Dusty Boulders
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for 9/16/16 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. When is a boulder not a boulder? When it's a sheep. Confused? Don't worry it will all make sense as we take a look at what happens to sheep in the Australian outback when they go without…
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Strange Building Techniques
Pastor Rus Says. Welcome to the sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio for Sep 7th 2016 with Pastor Rus Yoak. I have seen lost of strange things in my travels and how people build their homes has fascinated me. Sometimes I discover that there is logic to the madness of how things get...
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A Place at the Table
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio for August 28th, 2016 with Pastor Rus Yoak. Attending a wedding can be a strange experience of odd social graces. Some are more odd than others. What do you do when you get stuck at the kiddie table? Or stuck sitting...
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Follow the Rules
The sermon podcast from August 21st 2016 at First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. We all know that rules are important, and following them can be essential....but sometimes the rules are less important than the one who makes the rules.... Luke 13:10-17 13:10 Now he was teaching in…
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Burn It to the Ground
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the Sermon Podcast for August 14th 2016 from 1st Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak We all know that yelling fire in a crowded theater, when there is not fire, is both a bad thing and an illegal thing. What do we do then when the normally peaceful Jesus…
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Cats and Scorpions
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for July 23, 2016 From First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus. Everyone knows that cats are immune to scorpion stings, that's why if you live in Arizona you get a cat. They hunt and kill off all your scorpions without any harm coming to them.…
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It Had To Be a Lawyer
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak. Why is it always the lawyer in these stories that somehow manages to try to worm his way either into or out of heaven? Join us today as we see how Jesus turns the tables on one of these...
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How To Pack A Car
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to Pastor Rus Says, the weekly sermon Podcast from 1st Lutheran in Shelby Ohio for July 3, 2016. This week: We look at the age old problem of how much is enough when packing for a trip and exactly What-Would-Jesus-Pack...or WWJP? Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 10:1 After this the…
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What does it profit a prophet?
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the weekly podcast from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio, with Pastor Rus Yoak. We called my elementary school principal "The Skull" and we all quaked in fear of him. Imagine my shock when I discovered that his grandkids really liked him. Seems there is more to life than...
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The Faith of a Soldier
Pastor Rus Says Happy post-memorial day. Today we look at what it takes to have the faith of a soldier and how Jesus found faith in the strangest place. Luke 7:1-10 7:1 After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. 7:2 A centurion there had a slave...
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Holy Trinity Sunday and Fun With Heresy
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the Podcast for First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio from Pastor Rus Yoak. Each year we spend a week in the church on Holy Trinity Sunday discussing and meditating on the nature of the Trinity. This usually involves a lot of head scratching, and poorly thought out metaphors…
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Ka-Booom!
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 15, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus. Somehow things tend to explode when I am on a camping trip. I have never personally blown anything up while camping but I have been along on numerous trips where something caught…
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"Go!" Part 4 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: Go and Proclaim
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 8, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. This last week of our "Go" series we tackle both the last element of what it takes to Go, as well as Mother's Day. The two kind of go together actually. John 17:20-26 17:20 "I ask not...
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"Go!" Part 3 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: Go In Peace
Pastor Rus Say Welcome to the sermon podcast for May 1, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. This is the third part of our Easter sermon series: "Go". The world isn't a very peaceful place so when Jesus tells us to "Go in peace" how can we do that? Easy, live in a different...
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"Go!" Part 2 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: With Love
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for April 24, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. Please forgive the recording quality on this one, Libsyn (my podcast host) is being stingy with the bandwidth at the end of the month. Next week should be back to normal. Now we go...
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"Go!" Part 1 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: Not Alone
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the podcast for April 17, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio. This week we begin our Easter season sermon series "GO" with an insight into how God sends his people. Included this week is the promise that we don't have to go it alone. John 10:22-30 10:22 At that…
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Fishing Apparel and the Apostle Peter
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for April 10th, 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus. I am a sucker for gear. I love a gadget and a gadget I can wear is even better. So when I moved to southern Florida I bought into the high-tech fishing clothing thing big-time.…
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How About "Says what everyone else is thinking Thomas" instead of doubting Thomas.
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for 4/8/2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. Sometimes a name says it all. Frankly I think Doubting Thomas' name says the wrong thing. How about, "Thomas Who Shoots His Mouth Off Without Thinking"? OK, that may be too long.... how...
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$30,000 Pedicure
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for March 13th 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus Ever had a $30,000 pedicure? Would you get one? How would you react if someone you knew got one...what if it was Jesus? John 12:1-812:1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to...
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Meatloaf Monday and Theology
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for March 6th from First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio with Pastor Rus. Sometimes we over complicate life. Sometimes simple really is better. In today's text, because we see it so often, there is a temptation to try to "dress it up" with a daring or clever...
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Gardening Isn't For Wimps
Pastor Rus Says Welcome to the sermon podcast for February 28th 2016 from First Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio. This week I look at the ups and downs of growing your own food, and why an banana tree is lousy landscaping but my apple trees make great landscaping...although an awful food source. Likewise...
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