Redeemer Lives!
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHosted by Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland, Redeemer Lives! is a podcast by and about the spirituality of the richly diverse Milwaukeeans connected to little bold Redeemer Church in the heart of the city. There are no dull people at Redeemer, and thanks be to God for that. Even during this pandemic, our Redeemer Lives, and we are living our Redeemer Lives. Production by Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland and Aaron Musser. Original music by Meredith Sipe-Sumner.
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Episodes
Sermon & Song: "Some Things Don't Need an Update" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
April 04, 2023 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBPastor Lisa preaches on gospel text Matthew 21:12-17; Jeff Bray offers "Bigger Table" by Matt Maher. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "RSVP" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
March 22, 2023 19:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBPastor Lisa preaches on gospel text Matthew 22:1-10; Jeff offers "The Washing of the Water" by Peter Gabriel. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Great. Service." Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
March 14, 2023 20:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBThis week, Pastor Lisa preaches on Matthew 20:17-34; Ella Nyren and the Redeemer Choir offer the song "Shelter Your Name" by Danielle Rose. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Not Fair! Or is it?" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland!
March 08, 2023 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Matthew 20:1-16; Jeff offers "Only by Grace, by Grace Alone" (words by Martin Luther, music by David Ward). Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Masked" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
February 28, 2023 19:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Gospel text Matthew 16:24-17:13; Jeff offers "Crowder Table" by the Highwomen. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "What Really Matters" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
February 14, 2023 19:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Matthew 11: 20-29; the Chant Claire Choir offers "Drop, Drop Slow Tears" by Orlando Gibbons. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "The 'God Sandwich' and Being Truly Human" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
February 07, 2023 19:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBPastor Lisa preaches on gospel text Matthew 11:20-29; Jeff offers the song "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" by Paul Simon. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Now Why'd He Have to Go and Say That?" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
January 31, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBPastor Lisa preaches on the Gospel text Matthew 10: 26-42; Jeff Bray and Savannah Heigl offer "King of Kings" by Brooke Ligertwood and Hillsong. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "The Divine Bent Arc" Rev. J.C. Mitchell
January 24, 2023 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBGuest preacher, Rev. J.C. Mitchell preaches on the gospel text Matthew 10:1-25; Jeff offers teh song "Pride in the Name of Love" by U2. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "You Want Me to Baptize You?" Pastor Mike Skunes
January 11, 2023 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBPastor Mike preaches on gospel text Matthew 2:19-3:12; Jeff and Pastor Mike offer "Come As You Are" by Crowder. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "God's New Beginning: A Rough Start" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
January 11, 2023 17:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Gospel text Matthew 2:1-18; Miriam Ofori offers "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "The Next Faithful Thing" Pastor Mike Skunes
December 20, 2022 20:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBPastor Mike preaches on Gospel text Matthew 1: 18-25; Jeff and Aaron offer "Joseph's Song" by Michael Card. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Let It Be With Me According To Your Word"
December 13, 2022 19:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThis week, Pastor Lisa preaches on Luke 1:26-38, 46-56; Laura and Jeff offer "Mary Did You Know." Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Prepare" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
December 06, 2022 19:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Gospel text Luke 3:1-8; Jeff offers the song "People Get Ready" by Curtis Mayfield. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Church of Mercy and Might" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
November 21, 2022 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Gospel text Matthew 18:15-20; Jeff and the Redeemer Choir offer "The King Of Love My Shepherd Is." Support the show
Sermon & Song: "The Slandered Apostle" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
November 15, 2022 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Gospel text John 12:1-8; Jeff offers "I Have Been Anointed" by Steve Warner. Support the show
Sermon & Song: "Mary Magdalene: A Ministry of Presence" Pastor Mike Skunes
November 08, 2022 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBPastor Mike preaches on Mary Magdalene's presence with Jesus at the cross and at the tomb; Jeff offers the song "Unconditional" by Willy Porter. Support the show
Sermon & Song 10/30/22: "God Makes a Way"
November 02, 2022 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBReformation Sunday! Pastor Lisa preaches on Romans 3:19-28; Jeff and the Redeemer Festival Choir offer "Reformation Song" by Bob Kauflin and Tim Chester. Support the show
Sermon & Song 10/9/22: "Namesake" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
October 11, 2022 17:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Galatians 3:23-29; Jeff offers "I'll Be Your Water" by Keb' Mo'! Support the show
Sermon & Song 10/2/22: "To Each Is Given" Rev. Lisa Bates-Froiland
October 04, 2022 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBPastor Lisa preaches on the text 1 Corinthian 12:1-13; Jeff offers "Carry Your Candle" by Chris Rice. Support the show
Sermon & Song 9/25/22: "A Faith Flowing and Growing" Rev. Kerstin Hedlund
September 27, 2022 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBRev. Kerstin Hedlund preaches on the Gospel texts Peter 4:7-11 and Acts 10: 9-16, 34-43. Jeff, Laura, and Isaac offer the song "Imagine" by John Lennon! Support the show
Sermon & Song 9/18/22: "An Impulsive Faith" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
September 20, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBPastor Lisa preaches on Gospel texts Matthew 14:22-31, Matthew 17:1-8, and John 21: 4-8; Jeff and Miriam offer the song "Those Who Wait on the Lord"! Support the show
Sermon & Song 9/11/22: “Betrayal, Forgiveness, Healing, and Called All Over Again” Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
September 13, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBPastor Lisa preaches on the Gospel texts John 18: 15-27 and John 21: 9-19; Jeff offers the song "Come Healing" by Leonard Cohen. Support the show
Sermon & Song 9/4/22: "Jesus Knows Peter; Peter Knows Jesus" Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland
September 13, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBPastor Lisa preaches on the Gospel texts of Matthew 4:18-22 and Matthew 16:13-23; Jeff offers the song "You, Lord, You are Both Lamb and Shepherd" (text by Sylvia Dunstan, music french folk tune 17th cent.). Support the show
Caring for COVID Patients, For Real (with Mel Bock)
September 05, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBA handful of summers ago, Mel Bock visited Redeemer with her spouse and two children. They had heard about us through a story about our bees on NPR's local affiliate radio station, WUWM. The elder Bocks serve on council and the younger Bocks delight us with their curiosity about the world and their thirst for justice. For 16 years, Mel has worked as a registered nurse. The COVID pandemic has rocked her vocation and led her into an advocacy role she could not have predicted. I asked her to co...
Out of the Tomb (with Vince Prantil)
August 22, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBI’m joined today by Vince Prantil, who with his wife and two children has attended Redeemer for the last decade or so. These days, he is a weekly volunteer at Redeemer’s Outdoor Pantry, and he recently auctioneered our wildly successful RedeemerFEST fundraiser for the embryonic Mental Health Resource Center being planned at our location. Vince recently has a Lazarus-like experience that he is willing to share with us today. Support the show
Young, Gifted, and Black (with Tristan Johnson and Kiara Lathrop)
March 21, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBBefore the pandemic hit, Tristan and Kiara met with me or Intern Mark Fraley, or both of us for an hour or so after church to go through a curriculum for Confirmation that is the rite of passage for young people often around their early teens to review and question our understanding of the faith tradition and then, as they choose, to affirm their faith before the congregation and have a big celebration afterward. During the pandemic we decided to postpone confirmation meetings till we can ge...
Bountifully Baptized (with Solomon Tesfai)
March 14, 2021 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBWhen you serve as pastor of a church that worshipped an average of 30 people when you started ministry back in 2011, when conversations over closure were very relevant, you can forgive me for watching the numbers is the subsequent years of redevelopment. One little fact I love about Redeemer’s story in the last decade is this: our highest attendance for a worship service was not Christmas or Easter! Our biggest services where days when the children of a certain extended family were baptized:...
Joyfully Queer and Christian (with Aaron Musser)
March 07, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBThe Bible--and much of Western Christianity that uses it as its touchstone--is full of binary pairs of assumed opposites: light and dark, good and evil, clean and unclean, life and death, male and female. The Western culture that developed largely around the Mediterranean Sea--Northern Africa, the Middle East, and up through Europe--leaned into binaries as a key way to categorize our lived experience. It can be hard to question it or escape it--and many might wonder, well, why fight it at al...
Finding Love: A Faith Story (with Luann Blohm and Scott McIntosh)
February 28, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBWhen I meet with couples preparing for marriage, I share an idea that most have never really considered before. Their pairing, before God and in the context of Christian community, means they will be able to serve God and their neighbor differently than they would as individuals. We explore what that could mean as the years unfold. Today, as a nod to Valentine’s Day, I want you to meet two people for whom that notion has been a driving force from the beginning of their relationship. And “the...
A Growing Spirituality (with Ericka Jones)
February 21, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBEricka Jones accepted her mom’s invitation to try out the church she had just begun attending herself, steps from her apartment building. You guessed it--it was Redeemer. It has become the family’s church, with regular attendance, service in leadership, many baptisms, a wedding, and the upcoming confirmation of Ericka’s grandson. The Redeemer of today would not be what it is without Ericka. She has served as president of the congregation for 2/3rds of my time here, and even with the growth o...
Living the Bible (with Jon Jacobs)
February 14, 2021 06:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBJon Jacobs served in ordained ministry 45 years. Raised in Oklahoma, he attended Hamma School of Theology in Ohio and served parishes in Michigan before coming to Milwaukee in 1991. He served as pastor at Ascension Lutheran Church on Milwaukee’s near south side, a ministry that developed a faith community in three languages: English, Spanish, and Hmong. Jon retired in 2017 and joined Redeemer with his wife two years ago. Besides being a mentor to me and great source of collegial support, Jon...
Under Arrest, Under God (with Mark Fraley)
February 07, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBMark Fraley is a candidate for ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church, yet he interned with us at Redeemer beginning in September 2019. His year with us included much more than the Sunday routine--anti-racism training in New Orleans, a week absorbing the Lutheran church’s witness in El Salvador, and pitching in as we shifted to online ministry last spring made it a most unusual internship experience. As Mark finishes his seminary education online, he volunteers most weeks at Redeemer’s...
Garage Tale: An Audio Essay (feat. Pastor Lisa)
January 31, 2021 06:00 - 9 minutes - 6.53 MB"The podcast took an unplanned couple of weeks off... Ministry happens and does not break for podcasts, we’re finding. But we’re back to close out this first batch of pods with an audio essay before we resume the interview format. We’ll invite other essayists in weeks to come, but I thought I’d go first with 'Garage Tale.'" - Pastor Lisa Support the show
Faith In Hard Times (with Joyce Johnson)
January 10, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBOne of the most common challenge to faith is this: if we have a loving and powerful God, why does God allow bad things to happen? Long-time Redeemer member Joyce Johnson can answer this big question with her life. Joyce joins us to share a bit about her life and her faith. Support the show
Where the Church Should Be NOW (with Dayvin Hallmon)
January 03, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBI first learned the name Dayvin Hallmon as founder and director of the Black String Triage Ensemble, committed to using music as the healing force for the soul in the immediate aftermath of community violence. If I’d been more aware, I would have already known his name from his service as the first openly gay, black Kenosha County supervisor. I was honored to collaborate with him a few years back when he led music at Redeemer as our guest. In my experience, Dayvin is that rare man who easily...
Behind the Scenes at Redeemer (with Aris Townsend)
December 27, 2020 07:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBAris Townsend worked as Communications Specialist at Redeemer from June 2015 to August 2020. It was a position designed with someone of her particular skills and training, but it quickly became apparent that she arrived with additional spiritual gifts that made her work here invaluable and impactful for all who encountered her on the job. This episode, she reminisces and give a distinct look behind the scenes at Redeemer, a striving city church in a neighborhood marked by both poverty and pr...
Music in Response to Murder (with Jeff Bray)
December 20, 2020 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBIn the early hours of Friday, March 29th 2019, Johnny Smith, also known as “Tennessee”, was bludgeoned to death in his sleeping bag on the east steps of our church. I remember the events and the feelings of those days vividly. As a church, our response needed to reflect our faith and send a distinct message to the neighborhood. Part of the response was worship; Sunday morning was just 48 hours from the time we were starting to get our heads together about this. And of course, especially for ...
I Swear (with Gloria Roschke)
December 13, 2020 07:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBWhen people find out I’m a pastor, they instantly think they need to “clean up” their language. They’ll apologize profusely if they happen to utter a four-letter word in my presence. I find that surprising--of all things, wearing a collar does not make me the speech police. I’ll often tell people I’m much more offended that kids will go to bed hungry tonight than hearing you drop the f-bomb. Clearly, it has become more and more socially acceptable to use swear words in everyday conversation ...
Trauma, Mental Health, and Religion: Understanding “Spiritual Health” (with Pardeep Singh Kaleka)
December 06, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBThe God of our faith is sensitive to our struggles of illness, whether they have physical manifestations or mental manifestations or both. David's first assignment was to minister to a troubled Saul; Jesus heals the Gerasene Demoniac; Jesus addresses anxiety without shaming, etc... Join us as we consider the intersections of mental health and faith in an episode we’re calling: "Trauma, Mental Health, and Religion: Understanding 'Spiritual Health.'" Support the show
Heart, Head, Spirit: Life and Faith as an Empath (with Meredith Sipe-Sumner)
November 29, 2020 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBMaybe you’ve been hearing this word "empath", especially in the last five years. What does it mean? Basically, an empath tends to sense and feel emotions as if they are part of their own experience. Someone else’s pain or happiness become your pain and happiness. Growing into being an “empath” is a long process, ongoing, needing careful tending along the way. How do you lay all of that alongside a faith in a greater power? What about choosing to tend an ongoing relationship with God through,...