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Grace Matters is the weekly radio ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, hosted by the Rev. Peter W. Marty. Primary Format : Christian Language : English Also Listed as: City : Chicago State/Province : IL Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Grace Matters Podcasts Methings.com listings of Grace Matters Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Grace Matters Encouraging Teens Along Life's Way (Originally Aired November 4, 2007.) An interview with Chap Clark, professor of youth, family and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, has some insights about parenting and kids. His ultimate goal is for every teenager to receive enough guidance and encouragement to know how extraordinary God's love is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Forever Mom (Originally Aired May 8, 2005.) Adopting a child requires all kinds of determination and love. Adopting five children, all on the same day, requires amazing grace. Lynn Pauley is full of such grace. She joins us to describe the privilege she enjoys in being the mother of five adopted kids from inner city Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God in the Reclamation Business (Originally Aired May 15, 2005.) Forsaken city neighborhoods are not every pastor’s dream location for starting a church. But when you believe, like Pastor Wayne Gordon does, that God loves to reclaim forgotten people and worn-down neighborhoods, you’ve got all the inspiration you need. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Easter Sunday Broadcast. Hallelujah! He is risen. Jesus lives and resurrection hope beckons. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dark Despair, Bright Hope. Host Peter Marty joined by Kathleen Norris. Ms. Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and The Virgin of Bennington. Exploring the spiritual life, her work is at once intimate and historical, rich in poetry and meditations, brimming with exasperation and reverence, deeply grounded in both nature and spirit, sometimes funny, and often provocative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Intended for the Soul There is no venue where Jonathan Rundman hasn't performed. Church basements, convention halls, coffee shops, college auditoriums, and church sanctuaries have all formed the backdrop for this talented singer and songwriter. Rundman is well known in the Christian community for his sound theology, his biblical depth, and his creative melodies. A brief taste of his character and life, as this broadcast includes, explains why Rundman is one for the faithful to know. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everybody Sharing Everything National Public Radio's broad listenership knows the name Tom Gjelten well. It is synonymous with reporting that is honest, insightful, and full of integrity. For more than 20 years Gjelten has been a foreign correspondent for NPR, serving in many of the world's most dangerous hot spots. To his work he brings faith and humility. He understands his life less as a profession and more as a calling. Truly one of radio's greats! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Down to the Bone The subject of love never gets old, at least for Christian people who want to probe the endless depths of divine love. Sondra Wheeler, professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., has authored a book entitled What We Were Made For: Christian Reflections on Love. She joins this broadcast to explore the staying quality of God’s love, and the vulnerability that is required to love well Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Release From Hatred It is not uncommon to hear divorced couples speaking admirably of their children's resilience in coping with their own separate lives. Whether it is overconfidence, guilt, or a desire to believe that one's own kids are exceptional in this regard. Author Elizabeth Marquardt calls much of it "happy talk"– talk that denies the very painful consequences that go with every divorce. Host Peter Marty reflects on the spiritual side of this pain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Refugee Named Jesus Ralston Deffenbaugh is a first-rate lawyer who understands the intricacies of immigration law. But more importantly, for the past 17 years, he has been president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a vantage point for getting inside the hopes and heartaches of refugees and immigrants around the world. In these times of contentious debate over how to handle immigration reform in America, Deffenbaugh has some wise and faith-inspired words to think about with special freshness about t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meditation – A Conversation with Maximilian Kolbe In the first of a four-part Advent series, host Peter Marty converses with different guests who could not be present for an interview. Each week, the conversation involves one of the great saints of the church. Maximilian Kolbe is this week’s guest. He is the Polish priest who voluntarily took the place of another prisoner at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp when Nazi commanders arbitrarily selected ten prisoners for forced starvation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Lesson in Humility Everett gets to teach about forgiveness, reconciliation and a host of other fascinating subjects. A personally tragic experience – the murder of his mother in the mid-1990s – caused Worthington to examine forgiveness in a whole new way. What he discovered was a fresh priority for the place of humility in shaping one's life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sayings of Jesus After spending a life immersed in scholarship with Scripture, Phyllis Tickle determined that faith and humility were often left behind among those who study the words of Jesus. She embarked on a thoughtful journey to analyze the different ways that Jesus of Nazareth typically spoke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avoiding an Itsy Bitsy Life The life of a refugee is never easy. Fleeing persecution or life-threatening circumstances in one’s own country to find a home elsewhere is next to impossible. Post 9/11 jitters and restrictions in America make the U.S. even less open to immigrants and refugees. Along comes Stormey Denise Burroughs, a young single mother and social worker in Michigan. She takes it upon herself to become the loving foster mother to four teenage boys from Burma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practice. Practice. Practice. Within 24 hours of the Nickle Mines, PA., shooting that killed five Amish girls in October 2006, the whole world knew of the tragedy. What captivated the most public attention, was the amazing capacity of the Amish people to forgive the killer and serve his family. Donald Kraybill, co-author of the book Amish Grace, joins this edition of Grace Matters to explain how honest forgiveness of the Christ-like variety can only be forged over a lifetime of practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Letter Writing from the Heart Otolaryngology happens to be shorthand for that branch of medicine that deals with ear, nose, and throat. Dr. Bruce Campbell, head and neck surgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin, practices a particular kind of medicine that includes a thoughtful inclusion of his own personal faith. His patients are the direct beneficiaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terror and Faith Jules and Gedeon are a pair of French-born brothers who enjoy working together. They also happen to be award-winning filmmakers producing the acclaimed documentary "9/11," they followed that up with a documentary on faith, entitled: "In God’s Name." This edition of Grace Matters explores the place of terror in American life, and the role of the Christian faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rhythm of the Christian Life According to Holy Scripture, God built rhythm into the universe. Work and rest were meant to be fair players with one another. Something happened to this rhythm along the way, however. Rest got bumped to the periphery and work assumed center stage. Author and minister Wayne Muller reflects on how effectively we keep – and do not keep – the Sabbath commandment. Host Peter Marty looks at the distinctive rhythm of the Christian life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Religious Illiteracy Stephen Prothero, chair of the religion department at Boston University and author of the book Religious Literacy, has conducted an interesting study of religious literacy in America. What he has found is that while many people have a deep faith and a gut sense of spirituality, their Biblical and religious knowledge is very scant. Join us for this discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Out. Upside Down. The most extensive preaching we have from the lips of Jesus is recorded in Matthew's Gospel account, "The Sermon on the Mount." Jesus opens this sermon not with command but with blessing. Martha Stortz, professor of historical theology and ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, helps us navigate these blessings of Jesus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website