Category: Bonus Episode

Contributor Spotlight: Yilda Rivera

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date January 5, 2026
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Welcome to Coffee With Jesus Contributor Spotlight! This month we shine the spotlight on Ms. Yilda Rivera!

Yilda Rivera is a freelance B2B copywriter, web copy specialist, author, and a technical writer/editor. She helps companies and organizations write engaging content and web copy to connect with their audience.

Yilda is also a breast cancer survivor. As a result of that cancer journey, she wrote “Courage Under Fire” (Valentía en la Batalla, Spanish version).

The purpose of her book is to encourage those going through adversity to find hope and strength through the knowledge of the Lord.

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Bonus Episode

Special: Hurting During the Holidays, Help for the New Year

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date December 26, 2025

Our hosts this week share what has helped them when they have been hurting during the Holidays and how to be aware of how you can help others who are hurting. “I am the light of the world. No follower of mine shall wander in the dark; he shall have the light of life.” – John 8:12

Podcast Host: Elizabeth Bristol
Co-host: Paige Van Meter Sturgeon
Description by: Paige Van Meter Sturgeon

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Bonus Episode Season 6

2025 Advent Devotional: Did You Hear the Little Drummer Boy

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date December 16, 2025

One can argue that music is the best part of the Christmas season.

In this advent devotional, our host talks about the humor in some of our favorite songs, and he also discusses the deeper meaning behind them. How does a poor boy with a drum apply to our lives today?

Listen, as our host shares how he was convicted recently in regard to his own talents. Join us for this short advent devotional as our host asks, “Will you play your best for him?”

Podcast Host: Todd Uebele

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Contributor Spotlight: Elizabeth Bristol

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date December 1, 2025

Welcome to Coffee With Jesus Contributor Spotlight! This month, we shine the spotlight on Elizabeth B. Bristol.

Elizabeth Bristol is an esteemed author.

While working as a missionary in Palestine and Mozambique, Elizabeth found purpose for her wanderlust. She loved feeding people and spending a night each week on top of the Mount of Temptation fasting and praying. She loved the miracles and healings she saw, even though she often wondered, Will I live through this?

She’d always thought hanging out with God would be boring and she’d have no cool friends. What a big lie that turned out to be. She’s driven across the country 48 times often arriving at “just the right time” to process a road-killed moose or throw on a hoop skirt and dance the Virginia Reel at a Civil War reenactment. She’s spoken to all kinds of groups and worked as a camp counselor where she created a virtual mission trip for kids.

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Contributor Spotlight: Paige Van Meter Sturgeon

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date November 3, 2025

Welcome to Coffee With Jesus Contributor Spotlight! This month, we shine the spotlight on Paige Van Meter Sturgeon.

Paige Van Meter Sturgeon has a Masters degree in Christian Counseling.

In her life journey, she’s helped adolescents and adults work through the trauma and grief in their lives. She wrote the Anchor for Life program used as a suicide prevention course available to be used online for high school students.

She also wrote “Strides4Healing” a workbook created for people who have lost someone to suicide. She created a library in a little parsonage house a church is letting her use and she runs it as a resource space and library for student use in her home state of KY.

She loves helping all ages read the stories of their lives and to help them see God’s transformative power working in them.

https://coffeewithjesus.info/winterofgrief.pdf

https://www.anchorforlife.org/

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Bonus Episode Season 6

Special Episode: Where is God During the Storm?

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date July 21, 2025

“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.” ~ Isaiah 58:9

When we call out to God, He will answer. It may not seem like He is there. When in the midst of a storm, it is difficult to see the sunlight on the other side, but the light is there. God is there as well, helping us, carrying us, strengthening us, each and every step we take.

In this episode, our host shares his experience in one of the biggest storms he has ever faced, both literally and metaphorically.

Listen and know that God is with you during the storm. With each and every step you take, our Heavenly Father is right beside you.

Podcast Host: Todd Uebele

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Bonus Episode

Special Episode: What if I Mess Up Lent?

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date March 25, 2025

Did Lent sneak up on you this year? Do you feel you are not meeting your own Lenten observances? Do you feel like you somehow messed up Lent this year?

If so, you are not alone.

Join us as our host discusses his own shortcomings this Lenten season. Listen and know that our Father’s patience is infinite. Be encouraged to keep going no matter how many times you may miss your goals for Lent.

Please accept our apologies for the background noise in this episode.

Podcast Host: Todd Uebele
Special Guest: Bryan Wilson

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Bonus Episode

Special: Advent Devotionals

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date December 1, 2024

Welcome to the Coffee With Jesus Advent Series!

Week 1: Hope

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Romans 15:13

We can all find hope in family…and yet family comes in many forms.

In this Advent special, our host talks about family, about hope and about decorating for Christmas.

Our host will go all out with the decorating at my house. Clark Griswald? He’s an amateur. While some may think that misses the point and the spirit of Christmas. There is a reason why our host enjoys Christmas to its fullest each year. One year, he almost didn’t survive Christmas.

Podcast host: Todd Uebele

Week 2: Joy

Every year the debate rages: When should we start putting up our Christmas tree? Our Christmas decorations?

Our host used to firmly be the in not-before-thanksgiving camp. He was a staunch supporter of waiting until December. But that changed one year.

What caused the change of heart? What caused our host to decide it was ok to start putting up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving?

Listen to this episode and find the JOY we all have in Christmas, and let’s all do our part to spread that joy to others.

Podcast Host: Todd Uebele

Week 3: Peace

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 it all.

Our prayer for you is that you too will find peace this holiday season.

Podcast Host: Sara van Driel

Week 4: Love

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 and learn how Sara started pondering the meaning of leading in love and how a star, a word, and a 10-year-old girl inspired our host to share her heart with us with a profound plea for love.

Podcast Host: Sara van Driel

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Bonus Episode

Special: Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date November 25, 2024

The debate rages every year, and sometimes, it gets heated. Sometimes, it can rob the joy right out of season. It can be easy to lose focus on what it really is all about.

Should Christians celebrate Christmas?

Looking into the history and, more importantly, digging into the Scriptures, our host dives in to this very question.

Listen to what he has to say and then open your Bible, pray and seek God’s will for you and for your family.

Podcast host: Todd Uebele

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Bonus Episode Season 4 Season 5

Bonus Episode: God is Always in Control

Post author By Todd Uebele
Post date July 15, 2024

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Recent events, in America and all over the world, have caused fear and anxiety to spread. In this short, bonus episode, our host seeks to reassure people and let everyone know that God is still in control.

No matter what happens in America, no matter what happens in Europe, no matter what happens in the Middle East, God is in control. Bring your anxieties to the Lord and He will be your comfort.

Listen and be encouraged. Gain strength from our Heavenly Father and know that God is always in control.

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Podcast Host: Todd Uebele
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