At Home With Sally
848 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.7K ratingsHome is the place where the whispers of God’s love are heard regularly, the touch of His hands is given intentionally throughout the day, the words of His encouragement and affirmation pointed to lay the foundation of loving relationships where a woman conducts the beauty of this life within its walls. I hope you will find inspiration to cultivate such a life. I welcome you here!
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Episodes
Awaking Wonder: Inspiration for a New Season - Episode 737
January 05, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBWhether you are single, married, working outside your home, or a stay-at-home mom, you are called by the heart of Jesus to give of yourself to others.
Tea Time Tuesday: Keep Up Your Courage, Friends - Episode 736
January 03, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBToday, I review the disastrous storm in which Paul found himself and other passengers who were scared. He teaches us about how to rally others to courage and faith.
The Lifegiving Home Plan: 2023 - Episode 735
December 30, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBThere is no one right way to live life in a home. No one size of routine or rules or order fits all. Homes with young children will be quite different from a single-adult home. Elderly adults will order their lives by different life rituals than will young marrieds or students. But the more carefully we plan our days, the better our homes will provide us with freedom and enjoyment as well as purpose and accomplishment.
Tea Time Tuesday: Decluttering Your Heart & Soul For 2023 - Episode 734
December 27, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBMany years ago, I began the habit at the beginning of the new year to declutter my heart and soul.
Tea Time Tuesday: Pondering Mary this Christmas - Episode 733
December 20, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBPondering Mary, one of my favorite role models, I speak today of what was in her heart when God says, "Greetings, you who are highly favored. The Lord is with you."
Advent: Living in His Light With Malcolm Guite - Episode 732
December 19, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBToday on my podcast, I am reintroducing you to my friend, Malcolm Guite, a scholar in Cambridge, a Poet and very winsome and informative teacher. You will love hearing about why and how we celebrate Christ throughout the church year. This podcast has been a favorite in the past couple of years, and now it has become a tradition to play it again, to bring all of us from the dark world, this year a Covid-filled year, into the light of Christ’s reality.
Tea Time Tuesday: Just One Cup - Episode 731
December 14, 2022 04:00 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBWhen Jesus said, “whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward," I’m quite sure He also had in mind "whoever gives a steaming cup of tea!”
Choosing Lifelong Faith - Episode 730
December 12, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBFaith requires a listening heart. God is so willing to use normal people—who are listening, willing to obey. What risk will you take, by faith, to live a story that others will tell for generations to come?
Tea Time Tuesday: Canticles to Memorize, Orzo, Michael Card & An Adventure - Episode 729
December 07, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MBToday, my forever friend, Jacqui and I speak of friend formation, and tell of our intentional and purpose driven fun times and how it has shaped us. Such fun. Hope it encourages you.
Building a Long Term Marriage - Episode 728
December 05, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBNothing quite prepared me, as an untrained young woman, to know how to bear all of the stresses we would face by being a family. And yet, I had been taught to seek God’s word, to pray and to obey and live in wisdom.
Tea Time Tuesday: Preparing Your Heart to Face the Holidays with Grace - Episode 727
November 29, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes - 47 MBThis week, I am asking myself what I need to do to prepare my heart to be present to my people, ready to serve and to determine not to give into the weariness or demands.
In the Cold Winter Seasons, Find the Light - Episode 726
November 28, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBIn my life as a mom, there have been countless times, I felt like I was not accomplishing anything productive from day to day. Five scriptures have been especially helpful to me when I am overwhelmed.
Welcoming Holiday Celebration with Joy - Episode 725
November 22, 2022 13:24 - 41 minutes - 19 MBTo me, Thanksgiving is the entry way to preparing my heart to be filled and renewed with a love for Christ. I need child-like excitement and gratitude to fill my heart again, so that I might bring light into my year ahead.
Growing Gratefulness - Episode 724
November 21, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBGiving thanks starts with a humble heart, one that does not demand but receives the gifts of everyday moments with joy. A grateful heart sees the fingerprints of God in normal every day circumstances, a lens through which we see life, people, simple pleasures as a gift.
Tea Time Tuesday: Goodness: The Power to Fight Darkness - Episode 723
November 15, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBWhen we read in the Word, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good,” this is a call out of passivity to action, to engaging, to spreading the moral excellence through each aspect of our lives that God has called us to. Today, I discuss what that has meant to me lately. I hope it will encourage you.
Why Stories Matter (& Nathan's New Movie!) - Episode 722
November 14, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBStories have the power to change and inspire us in ways nothing else does. I hope you'll join us in this journey of bringing a good story to life that just might be the thing to help a world in need.
Building a House for Eternity - Episode 721
November 08, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBI have come to realize that embracing God's call to the duties of motherhood doesn't diminish my abilities to use my gifts, strength, and training, but fulfills a part of God's design.
Minding Your Mind - Episode 720
November 07, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBWhat if someone could read your thoughts—would you like what they see? Worship the Lord Your God with all of your mind, we are told. I call it “minding your mind” because thinking, learning, understanding, creating—so many things we do with our minds, are to be a focus of our worship of God. Worshipping God with our mind requires a focus, intentionality, effort, a plan.
Minding Your Mind - Episode 720
November 07, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBWhat if someone could read your thoughts—would you like what they see? Worship the Lord Your God with all of your mind, we are told. I call it “minding your mind” because thinking, learning, understanding, creating—so many things we do with our minds, are to be a focus of our worship of God. Worshipping God with our mind requires a focus, intentionality, effort, a plan.
Seasons of Life - Episode 719
November 03, 2022 03:00 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBWhatever season you find yourself in is eventually going to pass. God is aware of your season and He will give you wisdom, strength, grace to walk through the seasons with Him by your side to provide you with insight and understanding into the ways he is working in the world.
Tea Time Tuesday: Our Dwelling Shapes Us - Episode 718
November 01, 2022 03:00 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBWhen the places inside home are intentionally crafted, these seasons can become the places where memories can be shaped and stored forever.
The Grace of Aging Well - Episode 717
October 31, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes - 23.7 MBThere are many gifts of aging, gaining experience. It comes from waiting, learning, storing up experience and understanding.
Tea Time Tuesday: Living a Story That Holds a Legacy - Episode 716
October 25, 2022 03:00 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBAs I watch the leaves rain softly to the ground, and the colors give their last bit of glory before disappearing into a pile on the ground, I am reminded that my own life is reflecting seasons. I want to take advantage of this time to its fullest that I may have been a good soldier in this battle between darkness and light and left a bit of the glory and light I have known.
Freedom: From a Life of Bondage to a Life of Joy - Episode 715
October 24, 2022 03:00 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBFreedom in a biblical sense means: emancipation, the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. We do not have to be slaves to our shame, our failures, our weakness. We have been emancipated, let out of guilty land, because of His work.
Launch Day: Giving Your Words! - Episode 714
October 18, 2022 11:14 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBToday, Giving Your Words is officially out in the world. Many of you have asked Clay to join me in an interview about our book. So today, we have a special podcast for you about how Giving Your Words came about—from his perspective.
Giving Your Words: An Interview with Clay Clarkson - Episode 713
October 17, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 45 MBOur hope is that parents all over the world will become even more skillful at leaving their children a legacy of words and messages giving hope, foundational faith, unconditional love.
Tea Time Tuesday: Aslan's Sympathy, Delicious Tartes, & Adventure - Episode 712
October 12, 2022 03:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBToday I speak of choral music, tastes of French food, adventures in a flower farm cafe, the best bread, finding light in the darkest clouds of life, Jacqui adventures, and more.
Tea Time Tuesday: A Murder Mystery, Coffee Treat, Dear Wallflower Podcast, & More - Episode 711
October 04, 2022 03:00 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBLast week’s adventures took me on journeys fun and mysterious. Join me for another fun podcast of Tea Time Tuesday!
Giving Your Words: Discernment: Wisdom to Navigate Life - Episode 710
October 03, 2022 03:00 - 41 minutes - 57 MBToday's word is discernment: the insight to understand what is true to navigate life in wisdom.
Tea Time Tuesday: Are You a Good Samaritan? - Episode 709
September 27, 2022 02:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBJoin me today on my podcast as I talk about becoming a Good Samaritan in the normal moments of your life, cultivating compassion for those who need sympathy.
Instruction: Nurturing Minds to Apply Wisdom - Episode 708
September 26, 2022 03:00 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBInstruction teaches one how to do something, how to apply wisdom and skill to life and the steps to do something. It provides practical steps to take.
Leaving a Faithful Legacy - Episode 707
September 21, 2022 03:00 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBThis week, I have been pondering how commitments, vows, and dedications of words hold us faithful to ideals we have committed to. Join me on Tea time Tuesday as I ponder the importance of making commitments to God, to review them, to live by them.
Tea Time Tuesday: Hope in the Mess of Life - Episode 706
September 13, 2022 03:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBToday I will share about how life has been — beautiful and wonderful amidst many mistakes, many flaws, many immature moments. Yet, God's grace is like a beautiful cloth that covers the scars on my well-beloved old tables. His love and grace cover my imperfections.
Wisdom: The Word of the Day - Episode 705
September 12, 2022 03:00 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBAll of us need wisdom every day. Jesus tells us to worship him with our minds — to love Him with our minds. The ability to think biblically is no small matter in a world that shouts to us with values that are worldly, pumping out lies about life, family, and morality, in thousands of ways every day.
Tea Time Tuesday: When Tea Becomes a Ritual - Episode 704
September 06, 2022 03:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBWhen tea time becomes a ritual, it enables us to see greatness in even the small things.
Words Are Friends That Speak To You Your Whole Life - Episode 703
September 05, 2022 03:00 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBWords become ways to influence a child when they work themselves into a child’s inner being. They shape their worldview, systems of theology, ways of relationships, view of themselves, self-image, and so much more.
Life with Sally Membership: Celebrating 5 Years - Episode 702
August 30, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBWhat started as a simple idea conceived in my living room has blossomed and grown into a site where hundreds of women from all over the world come to be encouraged and challenged to use their agency to bring God’s kingdom to those around them.
Reflections from a Weekend - Episode 701
August 29, 2022 03:00 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBIt is encouraging to be amongst friends that are driven and excited about finding ways to minister to women who are lonely and doing their best to parent the children that God has blessed them with. I pray you will be encouraged by our conversation and find something to carry you through this season with courage and hope.
What if Love is the Point? (with Carlos & Alexa PenaVega) - Episode 700
August 25, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBHearing Carlos and Alexa's love story, how they met and got married, was a picture of God’s providence in their lives. They now have 3 young children, and have continued to have flourishing careers as actors, musicians, and performers. Both are dynamic and articulate about their lives and faith, personal and warm, inspiring and grounded. I know you will love this podcast.
Sometimes Supermama Has to Take a Break - Episode 699
August 23, 2022 03:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBMy friends, pray for me to run this marathon well and finish still alive. Sending love, prayers, and lots of wishes for you to have a bit of fun tucked into the days of your lives. I’ll be taking a podcast and Tea Time Tuesday break, but will be back soon!
Remembering... - Episode 698
August 22, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBLast week, I explored a wild canyon with the man who is my real life valiant hero.
Tea Time Tuesday: The Out of the Box Life - Episode 697
August 16, 2022 03:00 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBI have been pondering "should" lately — we are often ruled by them: “You should…” but most of my life, I have lived by the beat of a different drummer and it has led me to joy, peace, delight, deep love.
I Wish I Had Trust Him More & Complained Less - Episode 696
August 15, 2022 03:30 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBNo amount of ranting or complaining can change the fact that we live in a fallen world. I wish I had known sooner that I needed to accept this reality, to determine to grow up, to build up my strength little by little.
Tea Time Tuesday: Faithfulness in Your Long Life Journey - Episode 695
August 09, 2022 03:00 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBHow we live through these seasons following hard after God at every point, leaves us with a soul satisfying story, because we learn that God was with us and faithful at every point.
Daily Acts of Crafting the Art of Life - Episode 694
August 08, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MBWe must rule over our domains in such a way to have order, rhythms, traditions, and anchors in our schedule that provide for this divine reflection of what God has done.
Mothering without Fear (with Jennifer Pepito) - Episode 693
August 03, 2022 03:00 - 20 minutes - 27.5 MBToday, I am so happy to share my conversation with you that my friend Jennifer Pepito and I had earlier this week. As a seasoned mama of 7, she brings gentleness, peace, fun, insight, and wisdom to us mamas on our journey.
Tea Time Tuesday: Put Away Anger - Episode 692
August 02, 2022 03:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBGrowing older wisely means to have more ability to love generously, to forgive, to allow people time to grow as you need time to grow, and to watch over your heart that it might not be eaten up by self-righteousness of bitterness. Put anger and harsh criticism away and put on love.
Tea Time Tuesday: Put Away Anger, Put on Love - Episode 692
August 02, 2022 03:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBGrowing older wisely means to have more ability to love generously, to forgive, to allow people time to grow as you need time to grow, and to watch over your heart that it might not be eaten up by self-righteousness of bitterness. Put anger and harsh criticism away and put on love.
Get Your LifeGifts Disciple Planner - Episode 691
August 01, 2022 03:00 - 40 minutes - 18.3 MBWe came up with a model that worked for our family called LifeGIFTS. Each letter in the word gifts stood for one of the five areas I held as a grid in my mind to focus on each day: grace, inspiration, faith, training, and service.
Tea Time Tuesday (with Nathan & Keelia) - Episode 690
July 26, 2022 03:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MBGiggling, belly laughing and guffawing they say are good for your soul — even scripture teaches that a joyful heart is good medicine. Today on my podcast, Keelia, Nathan, and I could not stop laughing. We hope you enjoy the merriment.