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Coffee With JesusAdvent Week 4: LoveHave a comment? Text us!How did a star, a word, and a 10-year-old girl prompt a profound plea for love?In this episode, our host discusses what it means to lead in love. We cannot lead in love if we are not grounded in love. She provides Bible passages about being grounded in love and what that love looks like. She provides practical ways to apply those passages to our life based on her recent experience managing the frustration and anger associated with moving to a new place. Listen to this episode a...
2025-12-2107 minCoffee With JesusAdvent Week 2: PeaceHave a comment? Text us!During the hustle and bustle of the season, it can be easy to lose our sense of peace. Add in major life transitions on top of that and it can be REALLY easy to lose our sense of peace.In this special Advent devotional, host Sara van Driel shares how she manages to find that peace, even in the midst of a major life transition. Join us as she shares the range of emotions she is going through this holiday season, and how she is able to find p...
2025-12-0705 minCoffee With JesusS5, Ep. 12: Where is God in our grief?Have a comment? Text us!Grief comes in many ways, and navigating through loss can be overwhelming. How can we learn to adjust to life without that loved one? Where is God in all of this?In this episode, Paige and Elizabeth continue their conversation on grief. They speak of how grief has allowed them to take a front-row seat to see God walking alongside them. They share how, through grief, one can have the opportunity to know God better and see His purpose.Listen to this episode to see how to experience...
2025-01-2123 minCoffee With JesusS5, Ep. 9: Grace Found in Grief - Holiday EditionHave a comment? Text us!It was the first holiday season without her dad, and it felt surreal. While driving her dad's car on Thanksgiving Day, she discovered a familiar leather glove lined with fur inside. Grabbing that glove felt like holding his hand and bringing him into the moment.How can bittersweet moments during grief help you heal and find gratitude?In this episode, our hosts, and her special guest, discuss the significance of living our grief well. They explain how grief is a constant transition and reflect on the meaning of 1...
2024-12-1020 minCoffee With JesusS5, Ep. 1: Where Does Our Comfort Come From?Have a comment? Text us!Anxiety, distress, and grief are emotions that we experience when going through the troubles and storms in this life. The Bible tells us that God is the source of our comfort. But how can we access that comfort?Our hosts discuss 2 Corinthians 1:3-7. They also share different situations in their own lives about how a posture of surrender led them to that ever-flowing stream of comfort. Surrendering our cares, solutions, and even our expectations to God and choosing to trust Him with the outcome allow us to experience His comfort...
2024-08-2324 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 20: Who is God?Have a comment? Text us!We call Him by multiple names: Heavenly Father, the Great I AM, Jehovah, Lord, God Almighty, but who is God? In this episode our host takes a deep dive into who God is, and who God is not.God is many things to many people. The Great I Am is more than words, more than descriptions. Jehovah is relational and loving. Discover God, discover love, and grow closer in your relationship to the Lord God Almighty.Listen as our host takes you through the Bible, discovers the awesome q...
2024-06-1122 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 17: Is it ok to Have Questions?Have a comment? Text us!Sara and her family moved 14 states north. They were committed to the new plan. Sold a house, bought another one, moved the whole family and all their belongings… But 2023 was not the year they had planned.How do you manage the overwhelming internal questioning when things don’t work out as planned? Questions such as, how do we not know? Why didn’t we take it slower? What was it about me that made it not work? What will everyone think?In this episode, our Host, Sara takes us int...
2024-04-3013 minCoffee With JesusS3, Ep. 12: A Plea For LoveHave a comment? Text us!How did a star, a word, and a 10-year-old girl prompt a profound plea for love? In this episode, our host, Sara van Driel discusses what it means to lead in love. We cannot lead in love if we are not grounded in love. She provides Bible passages about being grounded in love and what that love looks like. Sara proceeds to provide practical ways to apply those passages to our life based on her recent experience managing the frustration and anger associated with moving to a new...
2023-02-0714 minCoffee With Jesus2022 Advent Devotional: A Prayer For PeaceHave a comment? Text us!During the hustle and bustle of the season, it can be easy to lose our sense of peace. Add in major life transitions on top of that and it can be REALLY easy to lose our sense of peace.In this special Advent devotional, host Sara van Driel shares how she manages to find that peace, even in the midst of a major life transition. Join us as she shares the range of emotions she is going through this holiday season, and how she is able to find peace through...
2022-12-2007 minCoffee With JesusS3, Ep. 4: God Is ALWAYS With YouHave a comment? Text us!Do you ever feel like you are all alone and by yourself? Like the storm just won't end, and the waiting is too heavy to bear?When things don’t go well, we sometimes withdraw into ourselves. After all, it’s not easy to be vulnerable…not with others; even less with God. But when we retreat into ourselves, we may miss God’s promise in Romans 8:38-39.In this episode of Coffee With Jesus, our hosts, Sara and Todd, talk about how they were able to experience God’s pr...
2022-10-0423 minCoffee With JesusS3, Ep. 1: How Do We Determine God's Will?Have a comment? Text us!Do you struggle when trying to discern God's Will? Do you have a tough time, deciding which choice is the correct choice?Determining God's Will can be difficult for many. It is something that our hosts struggle with daily. In this episode of Coffee With Jesus, Todd and Sara share their struggles, their successes and their failures. Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him and he will make your paths straight."
2022-08-2323 minCoffee With JesusS2, Ep. 22: A Scar, a Smile, a SongHave a comment? Text us!Sometimes songs transport us to moments in life. Other times, they keep speaking to us through the life journey itself. In this episode, our host, Sara, shares her story and a song that God used to remind her of His purpose and ever-flowing hope amid tears, hurt, and prayers from the deep. Going through a health condition that shattered her dreams of having more kids, lifesaving transfusions, surgery, and further surgery complications, Sara found peace and strength.Listen to this episode to know how a scar that once...
2022-05-3125 minCoffee With JesusS2, Ep. 21: How Do We Hear God?Have a comment? Text us!Picture this: you are alone in a quiet house. You head to your go to devotional spot. You close your eyes and start to pray...Suddenly, bedlam erupts in your brain.How do you still the noise? How can you hear God in the cacophony?In this episode of Coffee With Jesus, our hosts dive into this question. A question they themselves sometimes struggle with. If you have trouble hearing God, or even talking to Him without all sorts of distractions and background noise, then you...
2022-05-1725 minCoffee With JesusS2, Ep. 17: How Do You Stop All-Consuming Anxiety?Have a comment? Text us!The amount of constant decision-making we have to do every day is insane. It is aggravated by the things occurring in the world around us—things that we have no control of whatsoever. The worry we felt yesterday may have increased to stress today, and by tomorrow, anxiety may be taking over.So, how can we stop anxiety when it shows up? We know God promised us peace beyond all understanding. Yet, how do we get there?In this episode, our hosts Todd and Sara go over the bl...
2022-03-2223 minCoffee With JesusS2, Ep. 15: Be Still, Part 2: "God Help!"Have a comment? Text us!Do you have trouble being still? Is it difficult for you to quiet the chaos and draw close to GodThis sequence of words may not be very appealing: “Be still, and know…” (Psalm 46:10)First, being still is not as easy as it sounds. Second, we want to keep moving…discovering, knowing what lies ahead and what’s next… There is this natural urge to figure out and control our domains, even when doing ministry work. There’s so much to do and know. How can we just stop?
2022-03-0123 minCoffee With JesusS2, Ep. 14: Be Still, Part 1: I AmHave a comment? Text us!Do you have trouble being still? Is it difficult for you to quiet the chaos and draw close to God?The words "be still" are probably two of the most important words in the Bible, but they are also some of the most difficult to follow. In this episode of Coffee With Jesus, Co-hosts Todd Uebele and Sara van Driel share some practical ways to "be still" before God. They will not only share their own struggles with being still, but they will also share ways they have found to...
2022-02-2221 min
Coffee With JesusS2, Ep. 4: God on the FlyHave a comment? Text us!How does fly fishing relate to our life in Christ Jesus? Join us in God on the Fly, as our hosts Rick and Sarah reflect on what fly fishing taught them about God and loving others. The serenity they experience in fly fishing allows them to connect with the majesty of God, and the interaction with the fish speaks to them about how to value and be sensitive to the people around us. They both relate those fly-fishing experiences to their day-to-day life in their Christian journey. Accompany Sa...
2021-10-0527 min