The Coffee Hour from KFUO Radio

Rev. Dr. Bill Harmon, President of the LCMS Southeastern District, joins Andy and Sarah for our Set Apart to Serve Series to talk about his path to becoming a pastor, how the encouragement of others was so important for him, how a church cultivates a culture of church worker formation, and the internship program his most recent congregation was able to implement.Learn more about the Set Apart to Serve Initiative at lcms.org/setaparttoserve.Christ’s church will continue until He returns, and that church will continue to need church workers.Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is an initiative of the LCMS to recruit church workers. Together, we pray for workers for the Kingdom of God and encourage children to consider church work vocations.Here are three easy ways you can participate in SAS:1. Pray with your children for God to provide church workers.2. Talk to your children about becoming church workers.3. Thank God for the people who work in your congregation.To learn more about Set Apart to Serve, visit lcms.org/set-apart-to-serve.

Benjamin Kolodziej — member of Faith Lutheran Church in Plano, Texas, highly active church organist and composer, and author of Joyful Singing: A Story of Texas Lutheran Music (available on Amazon.com), and Rev. Sean Daenzer — LCMS Director of Worship and Chaplain for the LCMS International Center, join Andy and Sarah to talk about the role music plays in church services, how music directors/kantors and pastors work together to put together each church service, and the very exciting upcoming church music conference in Austin, TX on September 8-10. Learn more and register at stpaulaustin.org/events/in-service-to-the-gospel-through-word-music.

Rev. Tyler Walworth — pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church and School in Dearborn, Michigan, and Our Savior Lutheran Church of the Deaf in Birmingham, Michigan, and Administrator of St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf in Dearborn, Michigan, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the Deaf community in the Metro Detroit area, how St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf started, the partnership between Emmanuel Lutheran and St. Martin School, and the amazing impact this school has on families with Deaf children. Learn more about St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf at smlid.org and Ephphatha Lutheran Mission Society at elms-deaf.org.https://youtu.be/p2xYmwYiNqw

David Vandercar, Men's Gathering planner and Executive Director of Lakeview Ministries in Seymour, Indiana, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about why it's valuable for men to gather for prayer and fellowship, what happens at the Men’s Gathering, how this Fall Gathering is different from the annual Spring Gathering, what's on deck for this year, and who can come to this event. Learn more and register at mensgathering.us.

Scott Jarus, Project Chairman—MAC Homeschool Zoo Days with the Missouri Association for Creation, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the work of the Missouri Association for Creation, how a visit to the zoo can be a meaningful way to learn about Creation, the exciting things that happen during a MAC MAC Homeschool Zoo Day, and how to register. Learn more at missouricreation.com/zoo-day and email Scott at maczootour@gmail.com.

Rev. Charles Henrickson — Instructor of Online Greek and Latin Courses for Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education (CCLE) and Pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Bonne Terre and Grace Lutheran Church in De Soto, Missouri, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about when he first studied Greek and Latin, how these languages have served him, why a layperson would want to learn Greek and/or Latin, and how adults can learn Greek and/or Latin online with CCLE. Learn more at ccle.org/2022-2023-adult-greek-and-latin-online-classes. Resources mentioned in this episode include Wheelock's Latin, Fundamental Greek Grammar, and a Greek New Testament.

Ruthann Gieseke, Teacher at Green Park Lutheran School in St. Louis, Missouri, joins Andy and Sarah for our Set Apart to Serve Series to talk about her path to becoming a teacher, the influence of teachers in the lives of children and youth, how teachers help children and youth begin thinking about church work vocations, and how parents play an integral role in this encouragement.Learn more about the Set Apart to Serve Initiative at lcms.org/setaparttoserve.Christ’s church will continue until He returns, and that church will continue to need church workers.Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is an initiative of the LCMS to recruit church workers. Together, we pray for workers for the Kingdom of God and encourage children to consider church work vocations.Here are three easy ways you can participate in SAS:1. Pray with your children for God to provide church workers.2. Talk to your children about becoming church workers.3. Thank God for the people who work in your congregation.To learn more about Set Apart to Serve, visit lcms.org/set-apart-to-serve.

The Rev. Dr. Adam Koontz, pastor and evangelist of Trinity Lutheran Church in Denver, Colorado, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about his article in the August 2022 issue of The Lutheran Witness titled "Four Accounts: One Truth, The Baptism of Jesus," including some misunderstandings regarding events recorded in Scripture in multiple accounts or by multiple writers, how to best approach these sections of Scripture, how each Gospel writer delivers the account of Jesus' Baptism, and how this can be beneficial for us as we digest God's Word. Read Dr. Koontz's article at witness.lcms.org/2022/four-accounts-one-truth.Find online exclusives of the Lutheran Witness at witness.lcms.org and subscribe to the Lutheran Witness at cph.org/witness.

Rev. Roy Askins, Managing Editor of The Lutheran Witness, joins Andy to talk about the “Searching the Scriptures” feature in the August 2022 issue of the Lutheran Witness titled "United in the Bond of Peace" on Ephesians 4:1-16. This year, "Searching the Scriptures" will study the book of Ephesians, so stay tuned each month for the next Bible study. Follow along and search the Scriptures with us!Find online exclusives of the Lutheran Witness at witness.lcms.org and subscribe to the Lutheran Witness at cph.org/witness.Ephesians 4:1-16Unity in the Body of Christ4 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says,“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”[a]9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?[b] 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds[c] and teachers,[d] 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,[e] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.Read full chapterFootnotesEphesians 4:8 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and womenEphesians 4:9 Or the lower parts of the earth?Ephesians 4:11 Or pastorsEphesians 4:11 Or the shepherd-teachersEphesians 4:13 Greek to a full-grown manEnglish Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. esv.org

Rev. Dr. Ross Johnson, Director of LCMS Disaster Response, and Rev. Michael Meyer, Director of Training with LCMS Disaster Response, join Andy to talk about how LERT and Disaster Response become a part of LCMS congregations, what happens at the LCMS National Disaster Response Conference, the theme of this year's conference “Day by Day We Magnify Thee: LERT in the Life of the Church,” and how to register and and attend this conference. Learn more at calendar.lcms.org/event/2022-lcms-national-disaster-response-conference.