The Coffee Hour from KFUO Radio
Grab your morning coffee (and pastry, let’s be honest) and join hosts Andy Bates and Sarah Gulseth as they bring you all the stories you want to hear from around the LCMS. Catch the inside scoop from your favorite Lutheran-famous people, updates from missionaries across the ocean, and practical talk about how to live confidently and counter-culturally Lutheran in a secular world. You won’t find these stories anywhere else!
The Coffee Hour is underwritten by the Concordia University System. Learn more at cus.edu.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 330 minutes
- Episodes
- 2199
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Mental Health Monday: Building Initiative
Deaconess Heidi Goehmann, LCSW, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about how we can encourage children to build initiative, how adults can build initiative, the role of tact and timing for both children an…
Searching the Scriptures: October Lutheran Witness
Rev. Matthew Wood, serving the Lord in Indonesia working with the Indonesian Christian Lutheran Church (GKLI), joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the “Searching the Scriptures” feature in the October…
The Old Latin School in Wittenberg
Rev. Dr. Wilhelm Weber, Managing Director of the International Lutheran Society of Wittenberg, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the historical context of the Old Latin School in Wittenberg, how the…
Healing Racial Divides: True Reconciliation
Rev. Keith Haney, Author of One Nation Under God: Healing the Racial Divides in America and Assistant to the President— Missions, Human Care & Stewardship with LCMS Iowa District West, joins Andy and…
October Lutheran Witness: No Other Gospel
Rev. Roy Askins, Managing Editor of the Lutheran Witness, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the theme of the October issue of the Lutheran Witness, the chief messages to the Galatians in this letter…
Mental Health Monday: Initiative vs. Guilt
Deaconess Heidi Goehmann, LCSW, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about how guilt gets in the way of initiative, how we understand guilt as Christians, and how we move through guilt and model skill learni…
Mental Health and Care of Souls
Rev. David Fleming, Executive Director for Spiritual Care with DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel, joins Andy and Sarah during Mental Health Awareness Week to talk about how…
Value in Christ: Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Kelly Nava— pastor’s wife, mama of two, and copy editor at Concordia Publishing House, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about her experiences having a daughter with Down Syndrome, what she's learned thro…
Power of Love and Music: Bethesda Lutheran Communities
Jessica Meuse— singer/songwriter from Slapout, Alabama, and Mike Thirtle— President and CEO of Bethesda Lutheran Communities, join Andy and Sarah to talk about how Jessica was introduced to the wonde…
Healing Racial Divides: United in Christ
Rev. Keith Haney, Author of One Nation Under God: Healing the Racial Divides in America and Assistant to the President— Missions, Human Care & Stewardship with LCMS Iowa District West, joins Andy and…
Praying Colors, Morning and Evening
Rachel Bomberger—writer, editor, home-educator, mom, wife to US Navy Chaplain, and co-host of The Lutheran Ladies Lounge podcast—joins Andy and Sarah to talk about her experiences entering into the t…
Mental Health Monday: Initiative and Leadership
Deaconess Heidi Goehmann, LCSW, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about what initiative is, how we can get kids to ask how they can contribute and where they can lead, and how mistakes and forgiveness are…
Signs of the End Times?
Rev. Dr. Joel Lehenbauer, Executive Director of the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR), joins Andy and Sarah to talk about different understandings and teachings on the End Times…
LCMS Life Ministry
Deaconess Tiffany Manor, Director of Life Ministry for the LCMS, joins Andy to talk about LCMS Life Ministry, national advocacy, local witness, and how we can support life in our own vocations. Learn…
LCEF: Interest Time
Rehema Kavugha, Synod Relations Manager for Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF), and Demian Farnworth, Content Manager for LCEF, join Andy and Sarah to talk about the LCEF Magazine Interest Time, h…
Healing Racial Divides: Who Is My Neighbor?
Rev. Keith Haney, Author of One Nation Under God: Healing the Racial Divides in America and Assistant to the President— Missions, Human Care & Stewardship with LCMS Iowa District West, joins Andy and…
St. Michael and All Angels
Rev. Sean Daenzer, Director of Worship for the LCMS, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which the Church celebrates on September 29, to discuss what we know a…
Mental Health Monday: Building Curiosity and Autonomy
Deaconess Heidi Goehmann, LCSW, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about building curiosity and autonomy, roadblocks to curiosity, how shame enters into this realm of curiosity, and where we find relief fr…
Searching the Scriptures: September Lutheran Witness
Rev. Matthew Wood, serving the Lord in Indonesia working with the Indonesian Christian Lutheran Church (GKLI), joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the “Searching the Scriptures” feature in the Septemb…
Paul Gerhardt Hymn Festival in St. Louis
Matthew Gerhardt, Associate Minister of Music at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Des Peres, Missouri, and Rev. Dr. Jon Vieker, Senior Assistant to the President of the LCMS, join Andy and Sarah to talk…