Shelby Road Baptist Church
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Everyday stories, Scripture, and Sunday conviction.
Shelby Road Baptist Church is a Sunday-sermon feed shaped by direct biblical teaching and familiar, room-level storytelling. Pastors move from glow-up jokes, cooking shows, treasure hunts, and work stories into questions about grace, discipleship, resurrection, idolatry, and following Jesus.
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Shelby Road Baptist Church is a long-running feed of Sunday sermons in the biblical-teaching tradition. The format is straightforward. A pastor stands before the room, opens a passage, and carries the congregation from a familiar story into a theological claim. The openings are often disarmingly ordinary: a glow-up trend, a treasure hunt, a cooking show, a food-service job, a cross-country skiing mistake, or the shocking question of pineapple on pizza. The movement after that is the point. Humor lowers the room’s guard, then the sermon turns toward resurrection, grace, obedience, idolatry, sacrifice, or the value of following Jesus. Pastor Steve Lister appears frequently, with a style that likes repetition, rhetorical questions, and concrete illustrations. Pastor Will Atha also appears in recent episodes, especially in series messages that press listeners to examine what they treasure and whom they treat as a hero. The teaching is accessible. It does not assume a seminary classroom, though it expects the Bible to be read closely and applied personally. Sermons often circle a point more than once, naming how pride, guilt, self-reliance, or misplaced dependence can hide in normal religious life. The Easter message frames Mary’s garden encounter with the risen Jesus as hope for bodies, grief, and death. The parable sermons return to the kingdom of God as treasure, hidden growth, cornerstone, and stumbling block. The American Idols series treats family and hero worship as good gifts that can become ultimate things. The show is gentle in manner, but it asks for decisions. It regularly moves toward prayer, confession, surrender, or a direct appeal to trust Jesus. That gives the feed a practical shape: not just explanation, but a weekly call to examine life in light of Scripture.
Made for: Best for Christians and churchgoers who want accessible sermon teaching with humor, direct biblical application, and a steady pastoral tone. It also fits people exploring Christianity through regular Sunday messages rather than interview-style conversation.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its plainspoken bridge between ordinary life and doctrine: burgers, treasure hunts, kitchen shows, and first jobs become routes into grace, resurrection, idolatry, and discipleship. It feels local and room-aware rather than polished for a studio.
Sunday Sermons from Pastor Steven Lister and the teaching staff at Shelby Road Baptist Church.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal humor, close biblical teaching, and pointed self-examination make these sermons practical without softening their theological convictions.
Shelby Road Baptist Church turns biblical teaching into direct self-examination. Pastor Steve Lister and Pastor Will Atha begin with personal stories and easy humor, then move toward close attention to scripture and its demands on daily conduct.
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A warm Easter sermon that makes resurrection hope feel plain, pastoral, and concrete.
Shelby Road Baptist Church begins with light church humor and a string of glow-up jokes before settling into a resurrection message about the risen Jesus and the hope tied to him.
A plainspoken call to treat Jesus as worth everything, not just worth admiring.
This sermon closes In Other Words by treating following Jesus as something worth more than the life already known. It starts with a childhood treasure-hunt memory and moves to a clear point: discipleship is not a reward postponed for later, but a present reality shaped by joy,…
A plainspoken sermon on grace, pride, confession, and the habit of trying to earn what is already given.
This sermon keeps circling the ways grace gets muffled: when people rank other people's sins, when they wait for a clean stretch before calling themselves forgiven, and when they treat God's approval like a mood swing.
A plainspoken sermon on desire, temptation, and lasting joy.
Pastor Steve Lister uses 1 John to move from Christmas wish lists and childhood disappointment into a sharper question: would someone choose sin to get what they think will satisfy them?
A plainspoken message on pride that turns everyday directions into a call for self-examination.
The piece starts with a simple road map from Shelby to Muskegon, Ludington, and Traverse City, using it to show how spiritual direction can seem clear until pride gets in the way.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Lister opens by playing a voice demo of his AI assistant "Jarvis," which estimates that well over 70% of what people see on major platforms is ranked, recommended or filtered by AI.
In the Easter Sunday 2026 sermon at Shelby Road Baptist Church, Pastor Steve Lister opens with glow-up photos of church staff and frames the resurrection as 'the greatest glow-up in the history of the universe,' centering the message on John 20's account of Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb.
A humorous collection of Chuck Norris jokes and memes, shared with personal anecdotes about the speaker's father and their shared appreciation for Chuck Norris.
In 'In Other Words, Week Five: Don't Miss the Treasure,' Pastor Will Atha of Shelby Road Baptist Church preaches on Matthew 13:44-46 — the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price — arguing that the kingdom of heaven means the rule of Jesus in a believer's life now and visibly in a future earthly kingdom.
In 'In Other Words, Week Three: Cornerstone or Stumbling Block?' Pastor Steve Lister of Shelby Road Baptist Church preaches on Matthew 20:1-16 — the parable of the workers in the vineyard — arguing that God's grace is either the cornerstone of a believer's life or the stone they trip over.
Pastor Steve Lister uses the cooking show 'Chopped' as an analogy to explore what God expects from people, comparing life's varied circumstances to different ingredients given to chefs.
Pastor Steve Lister shares a personal story about his first job at a restaurant to illustrate how God is always working in our lives through everyday experiences.
At Shelby Road Baptist Church, Pastor Will Atha uses John 9 to define hero worship as giving people influence that belongs only to Jesus.
A pastor humorously discusses shocking truths in life, using examples like pineapple on pizza and toilet paper orientation, while introducing a sermon on Luke 14 about family.
Enjoyment can turn into an idol.
Pastor Steven Lister shares a personal story from the COVID era to illustrate a spiritual lesson.
A sermon about how the birth of Jesus changed the world, focusing on its impact on caring for the poor, children, and women.
Pastor Steven Lister discusses various forms of suffering and trials ('thorns') in life, drawing from biblical teaching.
A sermon on moving from obligation to desire in following God's commands, using the book of Titus.
A Sunday sermon at Shelby Road Baptist Church with audience participation about marriage duration.
This episode explores how second-place Olympic athletes are often forgotten despite narrow losses to famous winners, using examples like Ralph Metcalf losing to Jesse Owens.
Which way do you go?
Pastor Steven Lister uses a visual object lesson with a sun and earth model to teach about God's creation.
A Baptist pastor delivers a sermon, opening with a reflection on a worship song and a humorous anecdote about a church member's surgery.
Pastor Steven Lister introduces a series on 'game changing' Bible verses, using a humorous analogy to discuss caring about others' opinions.
Pastor Steven Lister introduces a sermon series on game-changing Bible verses, starting with 2 Chronicles 6, and shares a personal story about his childhood dream of being a school bus driver.
This episode discusses how certain Bible verses, like 2 Peter 1:3, can be game-changers in life, addressing feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness in fulfilling God's calling.
Pastor Steven Lister teaches from Colossians 3 about how God uses the Bible to instruct believers in virtues like kindness, patience, and forgiveness.
Pastor Steve shares a personal Disney story about taking his young children on the People Mover instead of Space Mountain, using it as an anecdote to introduce a sermon message.