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A few nights ago, our family was headed around one of the loops in our neighborhood when I overheard my boys continuing a conversation that had been ongoing for a couple of days. It was over some other kids in the neighborhood and the suspicion that these kids were...
Some of my favorite memories growing up were of Easter Sunday. It could have been because of the new dress (and matching hat!) I got for the occasion. Whatever the reason, Easter, in my mind has always represented Spring, family photos, egg hunts, smiling faces and...
In psychology there’s what’s known as the five stages of grief. They are the agreed upon steps that anyone who has experienced loss walks through. It begins with denial, then isolation, moves to anger and then depression, then bargaining and eventually acceptance. We...
I grew up reading the Left Behind books. Left Behind was a book series based off of the literal interpretation of the New Testament book of Revelation set in modern times. It was full of doomsday plagues and seals, dragons and beasts and lakes of fire and looming...
With the news of COVID-19 spreading and multiple church school and church closures for the foreseeable future, I know a lot of families are wondering two things: What will we do with all this time? Without attending church, what can we hope to do with our kids to...
I have a friend who is working on a research project on women leading in ministry, and for those who aren’t in ministry or aren’t aware, this is one of the more divisive topics of the day, particularly in some denominations. The idea is that the apostle Paul writes to...
I’ve always had a hard time with Easter. I think it’s that so much of the day is a celebration of life defeating death, of hope triumphing over loss, of gladness trumping mourning that sounds good, but just doesn’t seem all that true—at least not all of the time—in...
I’ve always had a kind of obsession with personality tests and anything like it. So it was no surprise that when the old, but newly mainstream, Enneagram started making waves in my circles I was drawn to it. I loved it immediately, for a lot of a reasons, not the...
The problem with allowing the human race tell the story of a God of wonders, is how insistent humanity is in creeping into the interpretations and understandings of the larger than life stories describing this entirely other God. That despite our best efforts, at end...
It's officially the Christmas season! And a little late in the game this year, I started thinking about the the Advent season and what I could do to help my kids face the season with more intentionality. So....this 20 Day Advent for Kids devotional was born! I will be...
My husband has been a pastor for as long as I’ve known him and ever since I graduated college, I’ve been involved in some sort of full time ministry. It’s our job to do religion well. Literally. We are professionals at this. Which is why I don’t often tell people...
Two years ago Rodney and I were in Rome, Italy where we took a quiet tour of the catacombs, an underground burial place that primarily housed the bodies of early Christians, some 500,000 bodies to be exact. The tour guide took us five stories below ground where the...
Hi! I’m Sarah, wife to Rodney, mom to Asher and Pace, and writer—although I’m still trying to figure out how to do all three of those things. Sometimes I like books more than people, and all of the time I like French fries more than salad. I live in Georgia but I dream of the mountains.
