Pastor Rus Says
55 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEach week this podcast brings you the sermons from Pastor Rus Yoak at First Lutheran in Shelby Ohio.
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Not My Circus...
September 11, 2017 16:06 - 27 minutes - 7.19 MBWelcome 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, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 33:8 If I say to the wicked, "O wicked ones, you shall su...
The Barefoot Prophet
September 05, 2017 15:27 - 23 minutes - 6.43 MBWelcome 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 flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him ...
Rocky!
September 05, 2017 14:36 - 24 minutes - 6.71 MBWelcome 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 Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" 16:14 And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one o...
The Unimportant
September 05, 2017 13:48 - 18 minutes - 5.64 MBHello 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 little child and had him stand beside him. 48Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For i...
Keep Your Eyes On The Road
August 21, 2017 14:37 - 21 minutes - 6.09 MBPastor 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. Matthew 14:22-33 14:22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 14:23 And after he had dismissed ...
A Little Too Hygge
August 14, 2017 17:04 - 16 minutes - 5.4 MBPastor 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 13:24-30, 36-43 13:24 He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 13:25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy...
Biblical Farming
August 14, 2017 16:38 - 29 minutes - 7.53 MBPastor 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 Bible, and even odder behavior from God almighty. Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 13:1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 13:2 Such great crowds gathered around him...
Of Yokes and Yoaks
August 14, 2017 16:22 - 21 minutes - 6.2 MBPastor 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 entirely different sort of thing when he promises that his yoke is easy. Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 11:16 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketp...
The Journey: Part 4 of 4
May 30, 2017 15:05 - 16 minutes - 5.39 MBPastor 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 Journey Part 3 of 4
May 30, 2017 14:53 - 13 minutes - 4.77 MBPastor 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, beca...
The Journey: Part 2 of 4
May 30, 2017 14:36 - 24 minutes - 6.66 MBPastor 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 navigation is easier with GPS but you still need to know how to find your way around on life's journey, because life does not come with GPS...or does it? John 14:1-14 14:1 "Do not let you...
The Journey Part 1
May 10, 2017 12:00 - 24 minutes - 6.73 MBPastor 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 Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 10:2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of ...
Suffer the Little Children...
April 26, 2017 15:09 - 22 minutes - 6.28 MBPastor 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 youth ministry. Matthew 19:13-15 The Little Children and Jesus 13Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the discipl...
Transformed 5 of 5...
April 24, 2017 14:51 - 21 minutes - 6.21 MBPastor 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' miracles. John 11:1-45 11:1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 11:2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped h...
Transformed 3 of 5...
April 19, 2017 13:04Pastor 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 Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 4:6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 4:7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and ...
Transformed 3 of 5...
April 19, 2017 13:04 - 24 minutes - 6.76 MBPastor 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 Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 4:6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 4:7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and ...
Who's Your Daddy...no really
March 21, 2017 14:37 - 28 minutes - 7.31 MBPastor 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 to re-write that script. John 3:1-17 3:1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 3:2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that y...
Transformed 1 of 6: God loves you...
March 13, 2017 19:21 - 21 minutes - 6.24 MBPastor 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. Matthew 4:1-11 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 4:2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. ...
Humanity 101...empathy
March 10, 2017 15:00 - 21 minutes - 6.21 MBPastor 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 they did then I bet the first lesson would be on empathy. Listen today as we look at how Jesus takes this lesson as far as it can go. Matthew 17:1-9 17:1 Six days later, Jesus took with h...
Dumb Questions
December 16, 2016 13:00 - 16 minutes - 5.24 MBPastor 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 Ohio and wondered if anyone ever gave a flip, funny answer to any of the security questions and if they did, how much trouble did they get in. But, sometimes you just have to ask the obviou...
Do The Job
November 18, 2016 13:00 - 20 minutes - 6.07 MBPastor 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 important job to do in this ever shifting world. Do you feel like God has a purpose for you in His Kingdom, well get ready, because this job can be a scary one, but if we do it right, we change ...
All Saints Sunday...
November 11, 2016 13:00 - 15 minutes - 5.2 MBPastor 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 his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 6:21 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep ...
History Lessons and...
November 04, 2016 12:00 - 29 minutes - 7.62 MBPastor 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, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants an...
Big Truck!
October 27, 2016 11:58 - 13 minutes - 4.86 MBPastor 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 you try to apply them to adult life. Listen in today as we see why it is a bad idea to try to distract God. Luke 18:9-14 18:9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves...
Livin' On A Prayer
October 21, 2016 12:00 - 19 minutes - 5.83 MBPastor 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 that well. Why not? The answer to that question may be of the utmost importance. Luke 18:1-8 18:1 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. ...
Did Adam Have a Bellybutton?
October 14, 2016 12:00 - 16 minutes - 5.32 MBWelcome 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 who are split apart from him as a result of the effects of sin? Listen this week to hear.... Luke 17:11-19 17:11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Sam...
Your Roots Are Showing
October 06, 2016 12:00 - 15 minutes - 5.14 MBPastor 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 of faith and the rest will sort itself out....enough to throw a mulberry fig tree right out of the ground and into the ocean, but exactly how does that work? The answer comes with mustard....
Worthless Cash and Harley Davidsons
September 28, 2016 14:11 - 23 minutes - 6.57 MBPastor 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 motorcycles? You can't take it with you, and maybe you really shouldn't want to. Not if there is something so much better that you can... 1 Timothy 6:6-10 6:6 Of course, there is ...
Just Say No To Warm Fuzzies
September 21, 2016 14:29 - 16 minutes - 5.27 MBPastor 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 confusing. Matthew 10:4-42 40“Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will rece...
Lost Sheep and Dusty Boulders
September 16, 2016 14:41 - 13 minutes - 4.76 MBPastor 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 a shepherd. Luke 15:1-10 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 15:2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fello...
Strange Building Techniques
September 07, 2016 15:18 - 19 minutes - 3.35 MBPastor 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 done when it all looks like chaos, but sometimes the chaos is simply the unintentional side effect. Join me as we look at what goes into an unfinished plan... Luke 14:25-33 14:25 ...
A Place at the Table
August 31, 2016 18:14 - 20 minutes - 6.03 MBPastor 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 next to your least favorite cousin? How do you get to the good table and what makes it good? Jesus takes all of this and neatly explains life with it today. Luke 14:1, 7-14 14:1 ...
Follow the Rules
August 23, 2016 14:08 - 14 minutes - 5.01 MBThe 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 one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 13:11 And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand...
Burn It to the Ground
August 23, 2016 13:31 - 16 minutes - 2.9 MBPastor 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 decided to do the theological equivalent? " Luke 12:49-56 12:49 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 12:50 I have a baptism with which to be ...
Cats and Scorpions
August 01, 2016 14:54 - 21 minutes - 6.25 MBPastor 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. At least that is what my friends from Arizona say. Now the American Veterinary Association says otherwise....Sometimes obvious isn't so obvious... Luke 11:1-13 11:1 He was praying in a cert...
It Had To Be a Lawyer
July 19, 2016 13:51 - 20 minutes - 6.05 MBPastor 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 wordsmiths. Luke 10:25-37 10:25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 10:26 He said to him, "What is written in the ...
How To Pack A Car
July 06, 2016 12:00 - 22 minutes - 6.32 MBPastor 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 Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 10:2 He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, ...
What does it profit a prophet?
June 08, 2016 14:49 - 21 minutes - 6.15 MBPastor 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 sometimes meets the eye, especially when it comes to prophets (and school principals). Luke 7:11-17 7:11 Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a larg...
The Faith of a Soldier
June 01, 2016 14:56 - 17 minutes - 5.44 MBPastor 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 whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. 7:3 When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. 7:4 When th...
Holy Trinity Sunday and Fun With Heresy
May 25, 2016 14:06 - 25 minutes - 6.83 MBPastor 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 and similies...and usually a handy helping of vastly incorrect, heretical musings. So lets dive right into the fundamentally inconceivable nature of God. John 16:12-15 16:12 "I ...
Ka-Booom!
May 18, 2016 14:42 - 24 minutes - 6.71 MBPastor 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 fire in a bad way. Fire and Pentecost are like chocolate and peanut butter, they just go together. So lets blow some things up! Acts 2:1-21 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come,...
"Go!" Part 4 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: Go and Proclaim
May 18, 2016 14:30 - 19 minutes - 3.27 MBPastor 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 only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, 17:21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, ma...
"Go!" Part 3 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: Go In Peace
May 04, 2016 12:23 - 30 minutes - 5.23 MBPastor 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 world. Sort of... John 14:23-29 14:23 Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 14:24 ...
"Go!" Part 2 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: With Love
April 27, 2016 13:52 - 22 minutes - 5.05 MBPastor 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 into week two of our sermon series "Go" and we take a look at the fact that it isn't enough to go into the world, we have to go the right way. In the Kingdom of God going the right way has t...
"Go!" Part 1 of our Easter Season Sermon Series: Not Alone
April 20, 2016 14:27 - 29 minutes - 12.6 MBPastor 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 time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, 10:23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. 10:24 So the Jews gathered around him...
Fishing Apparel and the Apostle Peter
April 12, 2016 16:48 - 25 minutes - 11.3 MBPastor 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. I had fishing shirts, fishing shorts, fishing hats, etc... All made of the latest materials with the latest techniques for warding off sun and bugs while providing the optimal fishing experien...
How About "Says what everyone else is thinking Thomas" instead of doubting Thomas.
April 06, 2016 15:02 - 25 minutes - 11.1 MBPastor 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 about "Thomas Who Says What Everyone Else Is Thinking"? OK, still too long. How about "Honest Tom". I like that one. John 20:19-31 20:19 When it was evening on that day, the firs...
$30,000 Pedicure
March 15, 2016 12:31 - 25 minutes - 8.64 MBPastor 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 Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 12:2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 12:3 Ma...
Meatloaf Monday and Theology
March 08, 2016 12:59 - 19 minutes - 6.63 MBPastor 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 interpretation...but sometimes the simple truth that the scriptures convey is far more powerful, like the simple truth of God's love. Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 15:1 Now all the tax collecto...
Gardening Isn't For Wimps
March 01, 2016 13:53 - 26 minutes - 9.24 MBPastor 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 we look at the scripture about the fig tree that just does not produce figs. Luke 13:1-9 13:1 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pila...