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Coffee With JesusS5, Ep. 14: Can We Be Grateful in Grief?Have a comment? Text us!Grieving has two perspectives: the one who grieves and doesn’t feel supported, and the loved one who wants to help but doesn’t know how. How can these two perspectives be reconciled?In this episode, Elizabeth and Paige continue their conversation on grieving well. They recommend ideas of what to do when you are grieving and don’t feel supported by those around you. They also provide examples of how to help a grieving friend with heartfelt details or just the gift of presence.Listen to this episod...2025-02-1820 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 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...2024-12-2207 minCoffee With JesusAdvent Week 3: 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...2024-12-1505 minCoffee With JesusS5, Ep. 9: Grace Found in Grief, Part 1Have 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 JesusS4, Ep. 7: How Will War Impact Christians? (Part 2)Have a comment? Text us!Christmas day in Afghanistan...Christmas eve back in the U.S.A. Our host was video chatting with is family when those dreaded words came over the loudspeaker:INCOMING, INCOMING, INCOMING!That was the start of a very long day. War is scary. War seems to be everywhere. Christians around the world are feeling a sense of dread and anxiety. Is World War 3 about to start? Is Nuclear War imminent? What do we do when it seems like the world is on fire?The first step i...2023-11-1420 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 6: How Will War Impact Christians? (Part 1)Have a comment? Text us!It happened right after breakfast. A thundering and loud BOOM shook a military base in Afghanistan. There was dust everywhere, like that of an enraged sandstorm. Shattered buildings, walls caved in, and a video revealed the story of how 1,500 pounds of high explosives threatened the lives of those in the military base.War is scary. War seems to be everywhere. Christians around the world are feeling a sense of dread and anxiety. Is World War 3 about to start? Is Nuclear War imminent? Israel has officially and formally declared w...2023-10-3122 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 5: Did We Miss the Rapture?Have a comment? Text us!From sensational news to clickbait YouTube videos, people are spreading fear. Anxiety seems to be on the rise, not just with world events, but with End Times events as well. That begs the question: Did we miss the rapture?SPOILER ALERT: No, no we did not.In this episode, our host takes us through scriptures to examine the signs and wonders, as well as where the rapture may fit in the timeline of the "end times." This episode combines eschatological teaching with the comfort and hope we have in...2023-10-1716 minCoffee With JesusSpecial Episode: God Is In ControlHave a comment? Text us!Is World War 3 about to start? Is Nuclear War imminent? Is this the end times?Israel has officially and formally declared war for the first time in 50 years. What does this mean? What do we do when it seems like the world is on fire?The first step is to take a deep breath and realized that God is in control. It may seem like a cliche, but sharing an experience from his time in Afghanistan, our host explains that God really is in control.God h...2023-10-1110 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 4: Details, God is ALWAYS There!Have a comment? Text us!Every detail of the short trip was carefully planned: flights, car rental, route to the hotel, enjoying the time away, and then back. But that short layover in the Dallas/Fort Worth airport was concerning. Will they have time to make the flight connection? Will their luggage make it on time? When worry showed up, our host decided to pray and trust that “God is in the details.” But what does it mean that God is in the details? To explain this, our host shares an account of both w...2023-10-0316 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 3: God is Not Willing That ANY Should PerishHave a comment? Text us!In this episode, our host, Sarah Tyler, gives you Jesus. What does this mean? Sarah shares an honest and loving warning about the last days that we are living in. She explains how God is fully just and fully merciful and that He doesn’t want anyone to perish. She shares God’s love letter for humanity through Jesus Christ and invites us to read through the book of John to discover that love. Why is there still hope? Why do we need God’s grace? What is God’s g...2023-09-1915 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 2: Why Was Elijah Depressed?Have a comment? Text us!In life, we face storms; we may face depression. But take heart; God is your ever-present help in times of trouble. He will be your strength. In this episode, we talk about how God intervenes when we are facing depression. Our host clarifies that just because someone is seeking help through a healthcare professional or taking medication to fight depression doesn’t mean God is not involved. Then, our host takes us to 1 Kings 19—a blunt account of the prophet Elijah overwhelmed by a deep depression.What happens in th...2023-09-0518 minCoffee With JesusS4, Ep. 1: How to Recover From Rock Bottom, Part 3Have a comment? Text us!Do you ever feel like God isn’t with you? Sometimes, when going through life’s storms, it can be hard to feel God’s presence. However, He has promised to never leave us or forsake us. When you have hit Rock Bottom, it can seem like God has left you, but our Lord will NEVER abandon you.Join us for the inaugural episode of our fourth season and listen as our host shares with you real, practical steps that you can take to turn over your fear, your anxiety, your d...2023-08-2320 min