The Coffee Hour from KFUO Radio

Benjamin Kolodziej, member of Faith Lutheran Church in Plano, TX, highly active church organist and composer, and contributor to the Lutheran Service Book Hymnal Companion, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about three upcoming hymns in the Three Year Lectionary for Series A, Propers 14-16: Lutheran Service Book 717, 615, and 645. Learn more about the LSB Hymnal Companion and find your copy at music.cph.org/lutheran-service-book-companion-to-the-hymns.This is a rebroadcast from August 5, 2020.

Rev. Dr. Arthur Just, Professor of New Testament Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne and Associate Executive Director of LCMS International Mission for Theological Education, joins Andy and Sarah for our Set Apart to Serve Series to talk about his path to becoming a pastor and missionary, who encouraged him as he considered these vocations, the need for church workers today, and how adults can encourage young people to consider church work vocations. Learn more about Dr. Just at lcms.org/just and international theological education at international.lcms.org/category/theological-education.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.

Rev. Delwyn Campbell, domestic missionary and pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Gary, Indiana, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the community of Gary, how the community has changed and the place of St. John in the community, and how this church is reaching into the surrounding community. Learn more about Rev. Campbell and the work in Gary at lcms.org/campbell.

Erin Alter, Director of Short-Term Missions with LCMS International Mission, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the 5 Minutes with a Missionary Podcast, why she and the International Mission team developed this podcast, the stories you can hear in Season 1, and what to look forward to in Season 2 dropping in September! Subscribe to the 5 Minutes with a Missionary Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, or listen at kfuo.org/missionarypodcast.Learn more about LCMS International Mission at international.lcms.org.

Rev. Doug Griebenaw visited the 2022 Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education Conference at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and had the opportunity to chat with CCLE board members and conference presenters.Hear his conversation with Mr. Nathaniel Pullmann, Headmaster of Redeemer Classical School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as they discuss ideas for starting a classical Lutheran school at your church. Find more information on the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education at ccle.org.

Rev. Doug Griebenaw visited the 2022 Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education Conference at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and had the opportunity to chat with CCLE board members and conference presenters.Hear his conversation with Rev. Robert Paul, Associate Pastor and Headmaster of Memorial Lutheran Church and School in Houston, Texas, as they discuss why classical education is Lutheran. Find more information on the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education at ccle.org.

Rev. Jeremy Klaustermeier, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Warrenton, MO, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study Romans 11:25-36.A mystery indeed! St. Paul’s original readers, especially the Jews, would have been bewildered at the notion that the Gentiles were part of God’s plan from the beginning. But after explaining in first half of this chapter how they are grafted into the “olive tree” that is the true Israel and rooted in Christ, the Apostle now says that a “partial hardening” has come upon the Jews “until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.” (v. 25). What does this mean? And what does it mean that “in this way all Israel will be saved?” (v. 26) In this episode, Pastors Booe and Klaustermeier cover the mystery and controversy of this difficult passage.

Rev. Doug Griebenaw visited the 2022 Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education Conference at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and had the opportunity to chat with CCLE board members and conference presenters.Hear his conversation with Rev. Steve Kieser, President of the CCLE Board of Directors and Associate Pastor and Headmaster of Faith Lutheran Church and School in Plano, Texas, as they discuss the work of CCLE, classical Lutheran education, and the history of the CCLE conference. Find more information on the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education at ccle.org.

Rev. Doug Griebenaw visited the 2022 Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education Conference at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and had the opportunity to chat with CCLE board members and conference presenters.Hear his conversation with Rev. Paul Cain, Pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Sheridan, Wyoming, as they talk about the importance of classical education and especially studying rhetoric. Find more information on the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education at ccle.org.

Rev. Doug Griebenaw visited the 2022 Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education Conference at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and had the opportunity to chat with CCLE board members and conference presenters.Hear his conversation with Dr. Jackie Veith, Executive Director of Educational Certification for the Consortium for CCLE, and who serves on CCLE Board, as they discuss what accreditation is and how schools benefit from this. Find more information on the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education at ccle.org.