Sarah Jakes Roberts
speaker
845 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Sarah Jakes Roberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On any given Sunday, there's like 50,000 people streaming online.
And my father wasn't there.
My husband was out of town.
And now I'm sitting on stage at this traditional church where I was pregnant as a teenager.
Now I'm like this grown up who's like overcome with a wig cap on.
Yeah.
I take the wig off.
I throw it to my sister and I go back to preaching.
And I really was just prepared to be like the laughingstock of the Internet.
People got some jokes, but for the most part, women were like, I felt so much liberation when you did that.
It felt like you can just show up in any given moment with the truth of who you are and it'll be okay.
Like I felt confident.
I felt like, I don't know, it helped a lot of people.
Like I spent weeks studying for this message and me taking my wig off was like the most powerful moment of the whole sermon because it gave people permission to be authentic, whatever that authenticity looked like and to stand flat footed in it.
So yeah, I took it off.
always.
And it taught me a valuable lesson.
So on the back end, we had just recently relocated to Dallas.
My husband and I, we were living in Los Angeles.
And while we were in LA, my husband has this incredible community.
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