domus reformatus, semper reformandus secundum verbum Dei
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The household reformed, always reforming according to the Word of God. Reformation
doesn't trickle down from institutions — it rises up from homes.
Why We're Here
It Starts at Home
The American Church is in desperate need of reformation — and it begins not in the sanctuary, but in the living
room. The family is the first congregation God has called you to shepherd. This blog exists to equip,
strengthen, and embolden Christian families to push back against the slow drift.
Reform the families. Refuse to settle for anything less than biblical reformation in the churches. Influence
your communities more than they influence you.
"Start where you are, but expect the fruits of your labor to reach beyond your own reach in both proximity and
time."
— The Family Reformed
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A few good places to begin
Essay · Foundation
The Family Reformed: Basics
Think of Christianity like a cast-iron skillet — solid, nearly unbreakable, meant to
pass down through generations. But not impervious to rust. Let's get scrubbing.
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Essay · The Church
Sheep & Goats
Christ will separate the sheep from the goats — that's His business, not ours. So
why are we standing at the church door handing out sheep costumes?
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Essay · Motherhood
"But What Do You DO?"
The role of wife and mother has been so devalued that neither is apparently a job
that actually needs to be done. Check your heart on this one.
Read →
Coming Soon
A Book on Motherhood
Sarah is currently writing a book that takes the convictions behind this blog and applies them to the calling
of motherhood — the most worthy, most neglected, most God-ordained vocation in a Christian woman's life.
Start Here
New to The Family Reformed? Here's a curated path through the blog.
The Foundation
What is The Family Reformed?
If you're new here, start with these three pieces. They lay out the theological conviction, the cultural
diagnosis, and the personal testimony behind everything else on this blog.
Read First
The Family Reformed: Basics
The cast-iron skillet manifesto. What it means to reform a family, and why it
matters more than almost anything else you'll do.
Read →
Read Second
Watch Out!
The watchman passage from Ezekiel — and why it's the primary motivation for this
whole blog. What does it mean to see danger and not warn?
Read →
Read Third
A Change of Heart
The personal testimony behind the conviction. From a woman who never wanted
children to a mother of four — God is the God who changes hearts.
Read →
On the Church
Something's Gone Wrong
These pieces — some satirical, some serious — diagnose what's gone sideways in the modern American church.
Satire
Sheep & Goats
Why are we standing at the church door handing out sheep costumes? A sharp look at
how we've confused evangelism with accommodation.
Read →
Satire
Preacher or Peloton Instructor
Free weekly motivation from a nearly-certified life coach. The unreliable narrator
who doesn't know she's describing exactly what 2 Timothy warns against.
Read →
Poetry
The Cornerstone, Misplaced
A poem that unfolds stanza by stanza — the slow unraveling of a church that has
lost the one thing it needed most.
Read →
On Motherhood & Family
The Calling We've Forgotten
The vocation of wife and mother — what it is, why it matters, and what we've lost by outsourcing it.
Essay
"But What Do You DO?"
The question behind the question — what do you do for worth? A theological and
practical case for the vocation of motherhood.
Read →
Essay
When a Fish Is a Fish
How does a goldfish glorify God? By simply being a goldfish. A meditation on
design, purpose, and what it means to agree with God.
Read →
Essay
Parenting through the Old Testament
Draw a line between the age of your child and the page in the Bible. A delightful
and surprisingly practical guide.
Read →
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Always Reforming
domus reformatus, semper reformandus secundum verbum Dei
Many familiar with the Protestant Reformation know the phrase ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda
— "the church reformed, always reforming." Karl Barth sharpened it: the church reformed, always reforming
according to the Word of God. That second half matters enormously. And we've largely forgotten it.
The household reformed, always reforming according to the Word of God.
It Starts at Home
The American Church is in desperate need of reformation. For generations, the values of our culture have
crept into our sanctuaries and Sunday School classrooms like termites in the walls — quiet, slow, and
devastating. It can feel overwhelming for any one person to address.
But here's the thing: you don't have to fix the whole Church. You have a sphere of influence that is
immediate, significant, and God-ordained — your family. The family is the first congregation God has called
you to shepherd.
Hi — I'm Sarah
I'm a wife and mother who became convinced that reformation doesn't trickle down from institutions. It rises
up from households. This blog is my attempt to think out loud about what it looks like to build a family that
is genuinely, rigorously shaped by Scripture — not by the age we live in.
The Family Reformed exists to equip, strengthen, and embolden Christian families to push back against the
slow drift. That means asking hard questions: Is this truly biblical? Is this in step with God or with
man?
What We Believe
The Authority of Scripture
The backbone of reformation is the authority of Scripture. It is necessary to always be reforming, always
according to the Word of God — not tradition, not culture, not comfort.
The Sufficiency of Scripture
The Bible is often overlooked as a means for tackling modern-day problems. If there is nothing new under
the sun, the answers are in God's holy Word — we just need to look.
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Acts 1:8
The vision is bigger than any one family. Reform the families. Refuse to settle for anything less than
biblical reformation in the churches. Influence your communities more than they influence you. This is
discipleship — it starts where you are, but the fruit reaches farther than you'll ever see.
Work in Progress
A Book on Motherhood
A forthcoming book by Sarah, exploring what it truly means to answer God's highest calling — the one we've
nearly forgotten.
The Calling We Almost Forgot
For years, the role of wife and mother has been quietly devalued — not with hostility, but with something
subtler and perhaps more dangerous: the assumption that it can be outsourced. That the education of our
children, the formation of our homes, and the tending of our families are tasks better left to experts,
institutions, and programs.
"God has specifically chosen you to be the mother to your own children, the wife to your
own husband. This calling is the rule, not the exception."
This book is Sarah's attempt to reclaim something that was never meant to be lost. Drawing on Scripture,
history, and her own journey — from a woman who didn't want children to a mother of four who mourns the ones she
won't have — it is a personal and theological case for the vocation of motherhood.
It is not a how-to manual. It is not a guilt trip. It is an invitation — to reform the way we think about what
God has called us to, one household at a time.
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About the Author
Sarah is the voice behind The Family Reformed, a blog dedicated to equipping Christian families to pursue
genuine, Scripture-rooted reformation in their homes. She is a wife, mother of four, and a former church
preschool minister, writing from Deatsville, Alabama.
Her writing spans satire, theology, personal essay, and poetry — all in service of the same conviction: that
the household, reformed always according to the Word of God, is where true discipleship begins.
