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Sister Sara Says

Resources for ministry, and musings of a Deaconess.

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August 2015

The American Dream

July 4, 2015

Flags and bunting line the streets

of small town USA

We celebrate what we think it means

to be American

We know all about the american dream,

Right?

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Must Be Nice

This is the last of my four devotionals written for the Young People’s Ministry. If you’d like to read more great devotionals, please visit their website and read from the other great contributors. 

Global Young People Devotions

Must Be Nice…

If you do a Google search for bible verses about money, you’ll find an abundance of them.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil” – 1 Timothy 6:10

“Whoever loves money never has enough, whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income” – Ecclesiastes 5:10

“For where your treasure is there your heart will be also” – Matthew 6:21

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Just Say No: A Young Adult Devotional

This devotional is the third of four I wrote for the Young People’s Ministries of the United Methodist Church. If you care to read all of them together, you can find them under the Devotional page here or follow the link below to the Young People’s Ministries webpage and you can read not only mine but other young writers.

Global Young People

When I was in elementary school we were expected to participate in the D.A.R.E. program. If you are unfamiliar with the program, D.A.R.E. stands for Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education, and was implemented as a program to get us to Just Say No to drugs. To our suburban selves this seemed pretty obvious. This idea of just saying no was really easy because it wasn’t ever a temptation. Nobody we knew did drugs, no one offered us drugs, so it was pretty easy to just say no.

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Caring for Those who Journey With Us

Here is another link to my 2nd devotional written for Young People’s Ministries of the United Methodist Church. Hope you enjoy it.

Caring for Those who Journey With Us

This is the first in a series of four devotionals I wrote for the General Board of Discipleship’s Young People’s Ministries. You can find more info about the ministry programs, more devotionals, and other great things for young adults by following the link below. 

Global Young People

Words have the power, and we have to be responsible with them.
Words have the power, and we have to be responsible with them.

Words are powerful. I know you are reading this thinking, “Sure, like I’ve never heard that before,” and you may be ready to dismiss this right away, but travel back in time with me for a moment. What were “those” words in your life? The words spoken out of anger, malice, or jealously?

“I hate you”
“You are worthless”
“I don’t love you anymore”
“You can’t”
“You aren’t good enough”

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