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...

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:

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?

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.

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 rails.

Welcome to the sermon podcast from 1st Lutheran in Shelby, Ohio for 07/30/17 with Pastor Rus Yoak.

Welcome to the sermon podcast for 1st Lutheran on July the 16th 2017, from Shelby, Ohio with Pastor Rus Yoak.

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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 thing.  Listen on:   Luke 24:44-53 24:44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you--that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled." 24:45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 24:46 and he said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 24:47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 24:48 You are witnesses of these things. 24:49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high." 24:50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. 24:51 While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. 24:52 And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; 24:53 and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

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 commandments. 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 14:17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. 14:18 "I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 14:19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 14:21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."