Christian Coffee Talk

Hey beautiful, Brandee Nielsen here, your host of Christian Coffee Talk,

checking in to bring you an update and wish you a happy new year!

Thank God for bringing us to this a brand new year in Christ, 2019! I pray it's off to a great start for you, just as it's been for us. We've been enjoying a much-needed year-end break from publishing new podcasts,

while working behind the scenes; conducting powerful interviews, as well as a new opportunity that will expand our reach among the 3 million listeners of Cornerstone Christian Radio based out of the UK, broadcasting in the United States, Africa, Indonesia and many more countries.

God has been so good to us, and we can't thank you enough for being a part of this mission to share the power, hope, and purpose of Christ in everyday life, on Christian Coffee Talk.

Our next new episode will air during the week of Jan 21st, beginning on Cornerstone Christian Radio on Monday, then on regular podcast platform on Wednesday, Jan 23rd, and the very next episode back on Cornerstone Christian Radio on Thursday, Jan 24th! That two new episodes per week!

We're also expanding the show from 30 minutes to one hour, so we can dig deeper into our coffee talk topics and glorify God longer.

So get ready to grab yourself a cup of joe, or whatever your favorite beverage, while we foster Revelation 12:11 among listeners, and learn more about the power, hope, and purpose of Christ in everyday life, on Christian Coffee Talk.

Check out CornerstoneChristianRadio.com broadcasting the foundations of faith around the world. You can also find us on iTunes, GooglePlay, IHeartRadio, TuneIn and Stitcher podcast platforms, and join our online community at www.facebook.com/christiancoffeetalk. To learn more about me and this ministry, check out www.brandeenielsen.com.

Till next time I'm looking so forward to you in the coffee room at Cornerstone Christian Radio!

Coffee Talk Topic: Defiant Joy

This episode's coffee talk topic explores the meaning of Defiant Joy as explained by Author, Stasi Eldredge.

Stasi says that “joy has nothing to do with happiness because joy is a completely different substance than happiness. Joy is the fruit of the spirit, and God calls us to rejoice, always. So if we’re just singing and skipping around the garden all day, then we're living in denial over the pain that sometimes comes to our lives.”

Host Brandee Nielsen says "I am so excited for you to hear the rest of what Stasi has to say! Be sure to fetch a pen and notepad because there are some incredible, quotable nuggets of wisdom offered by Stacy that you do not want to miss!

So don’t click away from our stream, but do grab yourself a cup of Joe, or whatever your favorite beverage, while we learn more about the power, hope, and purpose of Christ in everyday life on today’s episode.

Featured Guest: Stasi Eldredge

Stasi Eldredge is a New York Times and best selling author whose books have sold nearly three million copies. Her books are changing women's lives all over the world. As a teacher and a conference speaker Stasi is the director of the women's ministry at Ransome Hart where she leads captivating retreats.

Stasi loves the joy and freedom that comes from knowing the passionate, stunning love of Jesus Christ and lives to see others come to know Him more deeply.

Stacy and her family make their home in Colorado Springs. She joins us to talk about her latest book, Defiant Joy. Taking Hold of Hope, Beauty, and Life in a Hurting World.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Stasi at www.ransomedheart.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: The Unexplainable Church based on the book of acts according to author, Erica Wiggenhorn.

Coffee Talk Topic: Breaking Barriers with Gratitude

This episode’s coffee talk topic encompasses Breaking Barriers with Gratitude, and celebrates Thanksgiving Holiday in the USA, as well as our two year anniversary as a podcast!

Melodie Beattie said that “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Host Brandee Nielsen says "this powerful truth changed my life and helped me overcome a long, deep and dark oppression in codependency.

Featured Guest: Brandee Nielsen

Brandee Nielsen is our host of the Christian Coffee Talk podcast and Christian Coffee Talk for Women Online Community, which exists to encourage the power, hope, and purpose of Christ in everyday life.

Brandee humbly embraces her conviction as a surrendered sister, worship leader, and author, with a great passion for fostering Revelation 12:11 among women. Her convictions include abortion awareness, human trafficking, abuse, neglect, agnosticism, codependency, and a host of other emotional dysfunctions.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Brandee at www.brandeenielsen.com/about

Subscribe to the Christian Coffee Talk Podcast on iTunes Podcast, Google Play Podcast, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Stitcher.

Join our growing Online Community to connect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!

Check out our theme song, Jesus Kind Of Love by www.NateJacksonMusic.com.

Coffee Talk Topic: Making Lasting Connections with Your Kids

This episode’s coffee talk topic encourages parents to make lasting connections with their kids by being a Read Aloud family!

Deuteronomy 6:5-10 (NIV) tells parents to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."

Featured Guest: Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie is an author, speaker and podcast host. On the immensely popular Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Sarah helps parents all over the world make meaningful, lasting connections with their kids through books. Sara lives in the Northwest with her husband Andrew, and homeschools their six kids.

Mackenzie says "I started writing the book thinking it was sort of a Manifesto on reading aloud. As soon as I started writing it I realize that that's not really what it was about. It was more of a call to connecting with our kids.

While I knew that the sharing of stories with our kids is valuable, I realized the most valuable thing was connecting with our kids. I think for so many of us Christian parents, our desire is to really make a deep, heart-to-heart, lasting connections with our children. Stories are a simple and profound way to get there."

Host Brandee Nielsen says, "I love how Sarah's book inspires families to get out from behind their smartphones and tablets to read together, which helps make lasting connections. I've heard it said that one of the greatest professions our youth should aspire to early is becoming a chiropractor. All the kids today walk around with their heads down staring into their phones."

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Tina at www.readaloudrevival.com

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Join our growing Online Community to connect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!

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Coffee Talk Topic: There Is Hope

This episode's coffee talk topic encourages us that no matter our situation or circumstance, there is hope! The Old Testament teaches us that hope is trust. In the New Testament, Paul says that Jesus Christ is our hope, just as the Prophet Jeremiah proclaimed that God is the hope of Israel.

Featured Guest: Tina Levene

Tina Levene is an author, speaker, a humorous motivator, and professional staff development trainer. Levene works with businesses, ministries, and educational institutions to create a safe, positive and high-performance culture by igniting passion and developing leadership skills.

Long affiliated with the Florida Juvenile Justice System, Tina's famous and favorite quote is There Is Hope, which she impresses upon the troubled youth to realize their true worth and potential. Tina says

"yes I'm an author, keynote speaker, yadda-yadda, but first and foremost I'm a faithful follower of Jesus. I'm a big fan of Jesus. I'm a Jesus freak! I jump on any opportunity to spread hope and instill hope in other people.

Working in the Juvenile Justice system, I've had a lot of exposure to people struggling with hurts habits and hang-ups. It's hard to say there's hope to a young girl who may be a victim of human trafficking who's in jail, but there is. There is hope. One of the things I remember her saying to me is "Miss Tina when you come in here I know there's hope because I see you and I see you smiling. I always tell everyone There is Hope."

Tina founded her Tina Talks Truth platform to encourage women and men who struggle with addiction and other life challenges, based on her healing journey from addiction. She says

"the biggest contributor to addiction is a void inside of people that struggle with addictions. It may be low self-esteem or a broken down family component. There's no spiritual backbone or guardrail in that person's life. Something is missing.

That's what it was for me. Something was always missing. So First I had to establish that there is a God. Then I had to establish that He loves me. He loves me no matter what. There are no conditions to how much God loves you."

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Tina at www.tinatalkstruth.com

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Join our growing Online Community to connect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!

Check out our theme song, Jesus Kind Of Love by www.NateJacksonMusic.com.

Coffee Talk Topic: A Light So Lovely

This episode's coffee talk topic illuminates a light so lovely it begs us to identify and know it’s source, as well as encourages us to amplify it through our God-given gifts. Even in the face of life’s challenges such as breast cancer, or chasing the next best thing that never comes.

We're joined by two guests who exemplify this light in the face of life’s pain, who share powerful testimonies sure to encourage us through the source of light for every life circumstance, Jesus Christ. Hannah Brencher and Sarah Arthur.

Coffee Talk Topic: Trading Shame for Joy

This episode's coffee talk topic encourages us to trade shame for joy, so that those who have lost joy to shame in their lives, will regain the courage to seek and find it again.

Coffee Talk Topic: Joy in Conflict

Host Brandee Nielsen asked Joe Battaglia, "is it even possible to experience joy in conflict?" This episode explores the possibility that it may be the very conflict between two people that brings them together.

“The more we become ideologues on any side of any aisle, the more we’re going to become separated from people. Jesus never wanted to be separated from people. How do you share the gospel with someone you never want to talk to, who you think is evil, and that you want to die?” ~Joe Battaglia

Featured Guest: Joe Battaglia

Joe Battaglia is a thought leader, author, and speaker who's a true pioneer and veteran in Christian Media. He’s the founder and president of Renaissance Communications, a media company with a mission to provide media platforms for gifted communicators of Biblical truth.

Renaissance Communications has been involved in the promotion of hit movies such as Fireproof, War Room, Risen, Courageous, God’s Not Dead, I Can Only Imagine and many more.

Joe is an Executive Producer and General Manager of the nationally syndicated, # 1 ranked, faith-based radio program, “Keep the Faith.” Joe joins Christian Coffee Talk today to share about his latest book, Unfriended, Finding True Community in a Disconnected Culture.

"People have looked so inward for so long, and have become so detached from people who are unlike them that the natural result is fear. Unless we go out of our way to be with people that are not like us, they will not go out of their way to tell people about us. So if we want people to talk about Jesus, we need to be in their path." ~Joe Battaglia

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Joe at www.joebattaglia.com

Subscribe to the Christian Coffee Talk Podcast on iTunes Podcast, Google Play Podcast, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Stitcher.

Join our growing Online Community to connect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!

Check out our theme song, Jesus Kind Of Love by http://www.NateJacksonMusic.com.

Coffee Talk Topic: Married Couples in Ministry

This episode's coffee talk topic inspires Married Couples in Ministry on a special episode that features two separate interviews, with two amazing married couples for Christ.

Featured Guest No. 1: Scott and Bethany Palmer, The Money Couple

Scott and Bethany Palmer are Financial Advisors, collectively known as “The Money Couple.” They're one of God's Married Couples in Ministry, with a specific assignment to help others strengthen their relationships through a scientific, behavioral finance approach. Together they've identified that we have at least 2 of 5 money personalities, published in a book called: The 5 Money Personalities.

Bethany says "understanding how God made you when it comes to viewing money, is the foundation to who you are and how God Made You."

Scott says "if you statistically look at marriages in America we've got a 50% divorce rate. 70% of those cited money as the number one reason for their divorce. If it were just about the budget or credit card debt, those are quick fixes. 80% of couples have opposite money personalities. So what we have to do as couples, is to learn how our differences strengthen each other."

Host Brandee Nielsen says "this program is not just for those couples who are having issues with money. The program would also be fantastic for premarital counseling!"

Featured Guest No. 2: Jim and Martha Brangenberg, iWork4Him

Jim and Martha Brangenberg founded and host the popular, iWork4Him radio program, which encourages listeners to look at their workplace as their mission field.

Jim says "we live 95% of our lives outside the four walls of the church. One of the things I get to do is to help Christ followers connect what they hear on Sunday with what they do in their 9 to 5 because their work-place is a mission field. And in the mission field, they may be the only Jesus their co-workers and employees may ever meet."

Martha says "our faith is not to be compromised. Our faith infiltrates our whole life if we have given our life to Christ.

How our ministry helps people is by inspiring them to look at their work-place differently.

We're helping them to look at their life. To look at what they do every day and the way God has equipped them to do what they do. To look at why they're doing it, and what purpose they're giving it."

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Scott and Bethany at https://themoneycouple.com

Connect with Jim and Martha Brangenberg at https://www.iwork4him.com

Subscribe to the Christian Coffee Talk Podcast on iTunes Podcast, Google Play Podcast, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Stitcher.

Join our growing Online Community to connect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!

Check out our theme song, Jesus Kind Of Love by www.NateJacksonMusic.com.