Friends For Life — LCMS Life, Health and Family Ministries

About Friends For Life — LCMS Life, Health and Family Ministries

We believe that God is the author and sustainer of all life. We also know it can be hard to speak about the intrinsic value of life, health and the family when it feels like the world is trying to drown us out. We’re right here beside you. In this podcast of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Life, Health and Family Ministries, we’re coming alongside one another as a community of Christ’s redeemed people. Together we’ll explore life, health and family issues in a way that honors our heavenly Father’s value of human life, serves our neighbor, shares the faith and connects us to others who are doing the same. Join us, so that together we can be friends for life.

Publisher

KFUO Radio

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Mar 2021

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

16 of 132 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S14Ep6. Coffee Hour Crossover: Putting Love Into Practice, Part 2

   Rev. Trae Fistler, Steph, Andy Bates, and Sarah Gulseth discuss putting love into practice through LCMS Disaster Response, detailing its mercy, care, and volunteer training in this interview.

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   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S14Ep5. Coffee Hour Crossover: Putting Love Into Practice, Part 1

   Rev. Max Phillips, Karen Carter, and Reuben Schmitz discuss putting love into practice through elder and disability care in this interview with Steph, Andy Bates, and Sarah Gulseth.

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   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S14Ep4. Coffee Hour Crossover: Hard Questions About Loving Our Neighbors

   Rev. Dr. Joel Biermann and Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller join hosts Steph, Andy Bates, and Sarah Gulseth to explore challenging questions about loving neighbors in a modern world.

Inside a recent episode

S14Ep6. Coffee Hour Crossover: Putting Love Into Practice, Part 2

Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Tell us more about that interaction of spiritual care, which you do as a pastor, we do with among each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. What role does spiritual care, people volunteering from a church, what role does that play in doing all of this work? Churches typically don't have skid steers. That's not a normal budgetary line item for a property, a budget. But you're talking about this equipment that enables you to do this work. Tell us more about this interaction of doing this physical labor, but also obviously coming from a spiritual care standpoint too. Sure, yeah. At the end of the day, it's not about the chainsaws and it's not about the skid steers that we have, but it's about love for a neighbor and our love that Christ has first loved us, that we now want to love our neighbor. […]

Who has been a guest on Friends For Life — LCMS Life, Health and Family Ministries

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Trae Fistler
• Rev Max Phillips
• Karen Carter
• Reuben Schmitz
• Joel Biermann

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

37 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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Books guests

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