Women’s stories of faith after brokenness.
Daughters of Sarah is a Christian women’s testimony show shaped around stories of hardship, provision, and restored hope. Aubrey Norman speaks with guests whose lives move through job loss, trauma, missions, ministry, family, and questions of identity with a steady focus on trusting Jesus.
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Daughters of Sarah is a Christian women’s faith-story podcast organized around testimony rather than teaching points. Each episode gives a guest room to tell what happened, how it felt, and where she now sees God’s hand. The show’s center is hope through relationship with Jesus. Its texture is much more particular than a devotional slogan. One conversation moves through the 2008 market crash, layoffs, severance, and the fear of money running out. Another sits inside a trauma room, where a guest remembers being labeled as a Jane Doe, learning that her lung had partly collapsed, and trying to comfort her mother through the shock. The episodes do not hurry past pain. They also do not leave pain as the final word. Aubrey Norman repeatedly frames the conversations around Sarah’s faith, God’s timing, and the call to be women of faith rather than fear. That framing gives the show a clear devotional backbone. The interviews themselves stay personal, conversational, and emotionally close. Guests talk about ministry, family, church community, missions, recovery, work, obedience, and identity with the plainness of people who are still making sense of their own stories. Kim Zember’s episode includes reflections on Ethiopia, the poor and marginalized, sexuality, and finding Christ as greater than competing desires. Peggy B.’s episode reaches back to a long-ago connection at Northwest Bible Church and a women’s ministry season. Tanya Gioia’s excerpt turns on surprise, God’s timing, and the sense of showing up for what God is doing. Morgan G.’s story carries the urgency of physical danger and the later possibility that her story might comfort someone else. The show is intimate without being performative. It values vulnerability, but its real emphasis is witness: a life is told so another woman might be strengthened. The best fit is a listener who wants faith encouragement in the language of lived experience. Daughters of Sarah treats brokenness, disappointment, and mess as places where testimony begins, not evidence that God is absent.
Made for: Women who want Christian encouragement through honest testimony, especially listeners drawn to stories of healing, obedience, hardship, and renewed trust in Jesus.
What sets it apart: The show stays close to the concrete details of women’s lives instead of abstract encouragement, letting hospital rooms, job loss, ministry history, missions, and family moments carry the spiritual weight.
The heart behind this podcast is for women to hear testimonies of God’s goodness, love and faithfulness through the stories of other women (including the brokenness, disappointments and mess) in order to find their own hope and healing. My prayer is for women to be ministered to through the lives of other women by being encouraged and strengthened in their own faith and trust in Jesus.
Aubrey Norman makes room for the testimony you need after life stops cooperating.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A direct account of faith under pressure, told with warmth and restraint.
Aubrey Norman opens with a welcome that stays rooted in testimony, and the episode keeps its focus on faith under pressure. She moves through layoffs, money running thin, and a 2 a.m. prayer when she had $200 in checking and a $450 car payment.
A hospital story framed by Sarah, scripture, and the stubborn work of trust.
Daughters of Sarah opens season three with Aubrey Norman anchoring the discussion in Sarah, Hebrews 11, and 1 Peter 3:6 before Morgan's account shifts into a trauma room.
Kim Zember's story turns on a trip to Ethiopia and a faith that reorders desire.
Aubrey Norman sits down with Kim Zember for a testimony that traces Ethiopia, street encounters, and a faith story that keeps circling back to Jesus as the one who reorients everything.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Daughters of Sarah features Brenda Peitzman discussing biblical grandparenting, family influence, and her work as Events Director for Legacy Coalition.
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Morgan says a knife missed a major artery by “two millimeters,” and the doctor told her she was “very lucky to be alive.”
Kim Zember traces Boldly Beloved to three themes she names directly: "identity, sexuality, and mission." Aubrey Norman frames the show with Hebrews 11, 1 Peter 3:6, and Sarah's call to trust "God's timing" instead of fear.
Jennifer Smith tells Aubrey Norman that sexual intimacy hurt throughout the first four years of her marriage to Aaron, producing insecurity, loneliness, and avoidance.
At five days old, Cassie's birth mother pinned a note to her shirt and left her on a stranger's doorstep.
This episode features an interview with Tanya Gioia on the Daughters of Sarah podcast, focusing on encouraging broken women through faith in Jesus and sharing personal stories of hope and healing.
This episode features an interview with Peggy, focusing on faith, healing, and encouragement for women through their relationship with Jesus, inspired by the biblical story of Sarah.