Desert Vineyards

We can love Jesus, we can know the Bible, and yet we can still fall for Satan's lies. That's the gripping story of Sarah Matzke, a small-town mom who grew up in the Church, followed Jesus, but found her life in shambles nonetheless - her marriage hanging in the balance after confessing the affair she'd had with her husband's best friend.

From a young age, Matzke fretted over her body's appearance, which eventually led to a battle with bulimia that started in her teenage years and bled into her 20s. The lies she believed in that season would ultimately lead to compromises elsewhere and potentially destroy her marriage.

In "Desert Vineyards," Matzke outlines the ludicrous lies that Satan whispered to her again and again, the lies she let her heart believe despite knowing Jesus, and how God's Word quells every single one. She highlights the truths she learned to embrace - the Truth that brought her out of her own wilderness and led to vineyards in the desert.

With radical candor, vivid details, copious amounts of Scripture, and engaging discussion questions following each chapter, "Desert Vineyards" offers hope and help to anyone who has struggled to reconcile what they know to be true with the lies that have led them to the worst parts of themselves. Hers is a story of grace, redemption, and God's faithfulness despite an eating disorder, an affair, a miscarriage, and infertility. A story of reconciliation and radical obedience.

It's a story of desert vineyards.