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Bridles and Bibles, Weiser, ID (2026)

06/06/2026

Monthly meeting tonight at 5:30!

06/02/2026

If I’m being completely transparent, imposter syndrome is something I wrestle with often.

As someone who didn’t grow up in the horse industry, it’s probably one of my biggest insecurities.

I catch myself saying things like:

“I’ve just gotten lucky with the horses I’ve worked with.”

“The only reason people know who I am is because I’m a loud, opinionated girl who posts her thoughts online.”

“There are horsemen I’ve worked with who deserve far more recognition than I do because they’ve spent more years doing this and have far more experience.”

The truth is, there are many times I look at the path God has put me on and don’t fully understand it. If I were the one writing the story, I probably wouldn’t have chosen myself for many of the opportunities He’s placed in front of me.

But that’s exactly where faith comes in.

Because when I allow those thoughts to take root, I find myself doing what imposter syndrome always does—I stop moving forward. I stand idle. I second-guess myself. I talk myself out of opportunities. I convince myself someone else is more qualified, more knowledgeable, more deserving, or better equipped.

Yet nowhere in Scripture do we see God choosing people because they were the most qualified.

Moses doubted his ability to speak (Exodus 4:10).

Gideon believed he came from the weakest family and was the least qualified (Judges 6:15).

Jeremiah thought he was too young (Jeremiah 1:6).

Peter was an ordinary fisherman.

Paul had a past he couldn’t erase.

Again and again, God chose imperfect people who felt inadequate.

Why?

Because God has never needed our qualifications to accomplish His purpose.

“God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” — 1 Corinthians 1:27

One of the most freeing things I’ve come to realize is that God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called.

When God places a horse, an opportunity, a ministry, a business, or a responsibility in front of us, our job isn’t to decide whether we’re worthy of it. Our job is simply to be obedient.

Imposter syndrome says, “Who am I to do this?”

Faith says, “Who is God that called me?”

That’s a very different question.

Because the focus shifts from our ability to His.

I’ve realized that every time I let imposter syndrome keep me standing still, I’m essentially telling God that my opinion of myself matters more than His opinion of me.

And that’s a hard truth to swallow.

Just like in horsemanship, confidence isn’t developed by standing in the pasture wondering if you’re ready. Confidence is developed by saddling up, stepping on, and trusting the process.

Faith works the same way.

We don’t gain confidence by waiting until we feel qualified. We gain confidence by walking forward in obedience and watching God equip us along the way.

So if you’re struggling with imposter syndrome, maybe the question isn’t whether you’re qualified.

Maybe the question is whether you’re willing to trust the One who called you there in the first place.

“Being confident doesn’t mean believing in yourself. It means believing that God is faithful despite your weaknesses.”

And that is something I’m still learning every day.

By Sara Jean Wedel

05/31/2026

🌄 SPRING CREEK, NV — WE’RE COMING YOUR WAY! 🌄

Bridles and Bibles is excited to be hosting a riding clinic July 11th–12th at 3 Bar Lazy C Arena in Spring Creek, Nevada!

Join us as we explore the connection between horsemanship and our relationship with Jesus through practical riding sessions, encouragement, and real-life horsemanship parables that point us back to faith, trust, and communication with Christ. 🤍🐴

📍 3 Bar Lazy C Arena
9653 Lamoille Hwy.
Spring Creek, NV 89815

✨ Spectators are FREE!
✨ Rider packets are available for $30 to reserve your riding spot.
✨ Rider packets include the Bridles and Bibles book, stickers, pamphlets, coupons, and more!

📅 Schedule:
• Saturday – Adult Day (Ages 13+)
• Sunday – Kids Day (Ages 5–13)

Our youth clinic focuses on building confidence, horsemanship skills, teamwork, and faith in a fun and encouraging environment. Kids will participate in riding activities, hands-on learning, and a barn-building project.

🐎 Riders must bring their own horse to ride.
📌 Parents must remain on the property during the clinic.

We cannot wait to fellowship with you all and see what God does through this weekend!

05/30/2026

🌟 Bridles and Bibles Monthly Meeting 🌟

Join us June 6th at One Mane Ranch in Caldwell for our monthly meeting! We would love to have you come fellowship, learn, and grow with us. Whether you’re new or have been with us for awhile, everyone is welcome. 🤍

📍 Location: One Mane Ranch – Caldwell
🕠 Meeting Starts: 5:30 PM
🐴 Warm-Up Arena Open: 4:30 PM

Come ready for a great evening of horsemanship, encouragement, and community. We can’t wait to see you there! As always this is a completely free event, join us bring your horse or just come and watch for fellowship faith and horsemanship!

05/10/2026

We have registration open for our kids camp again this year!
July 24th and 25th at Rocky Ridge Equine LLC!
🌿 Kids Summer Camp – Bridles and Bibles 🌿

This summer, kids get to enjoy Christ-centered activities while learning how to rope and ride!

We’ll be spending time in the barn learning hands-on skills including:
🐴 Basic horse safety
🐴 Riding fundamentals
🐴 Beginner roping
🔨 Our barn building activity
…and most importantly, learning how to lead our horse like God leads us.

At the heart of it all, this camp is about building confidence, responsibility, and a deeper understanding of God through horsemanship.

✨ Horses and gear will be provided
👖 Must wear jeans and boots
📍 Ages 6–13
📅 July 24th & 25th
💲 $250 per kid

All proceeds go toward the non-profit Bridles and Bibles

Spots are limited—message us to register or with any questions!

link for sign up- https://forms.gle/g4U2s1mUmqbbfjsm8
for more info check out www.bridlesandbibles.com

05/02/2026

Guard our hearts.

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it"
Proverbs 4:23

In the Bible, God calls us to guard our hearts and control our thoughts. When people hear “guard your heart,” they often think it means protecting themselves from what others say or do—being careful who you let in. And while that’s true to a point, it goes deeper than that.

It’s not just about guarding our hearts from others… it’s about guarding them from ourselves.

Jeremiah 17:9 says,
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”

That’s not a warning about other people’s hearts, it’s a warning about our own. Left unchecked, our own thoughts and emotions can lead us in the wrong direction without us even realizing it.

That’s why we’re told to “take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). Because if we don’t take control of our thoughts, they will take control of us. And when that happens, they begin to shape our hearts.

Taking our thoughts captive is how we guard ourselves against our own hearts. It’s easy to let your thoughts spiral. What starts as something small can quickly turn into something big simply because we allowed it to grow unchecked.

And if you’ve spent any time around horses, you’ve seen this exact thing play out.

A horse rarely blows up out of nowhere. It starts as a thought:

a slight brace
a doubt
a moment of worry

If that thought isn’t redirected, it builds. That brace turns into tension, tension turns into movement, and movement turns into a reaction.

Same goes for us if we don’t take our thoughts captive:

frustration turns into anger
doubt turns into fear
fear turns into hesitation

And before long, what started small has taken over the entire situation.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 says,
“The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.”

What you allow your mind to dwell on determines the direction you go.

In horsemanship, we don’t wait for the wreck and then fix it—we address the thought before it becomes one. We shape the mind so the body doesn’t have to fall apart first.

Philippians 4:8 tells us how to do that:
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

Because here’s the truth:

If you don’t direct the mind, the body will follow wherever it wants.

And when we let our emotions dictate our thoughts and hearts, it doesn’t just affect our actions—it draws us away from God.

It creates distance.

Just like when a horse spooks and bolts. In that moment, the rider loses influence—not because they’re gone, but because the horse chose reaction over trust. There’s a disconnect. No guidance, no direction—just movement driven by fear.

That’s exactly what happens when we let our thoughts run without taking them captive.

“The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.” — Romans 8:6

Just as we train our horses to come to us when they get weary or unsure—to not brace, not build off fear, but to look for direction—we have to learn to do the same with God.

When things get scary, frustrating, sad, or overwhelming, our natural reaction is to tense up and let our minds run. But that’s when we’re called to do the opposite—to take those thoughts captive and give our hearts back to Him.

“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” — 1 Peter 5:7

A good horse doesn’t stay soft and steady because life is always calm. They stay that way because they’ve learned where to go with their worry. They’ve learned to trust instead of react.

That’s what we’re called to do.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” — Proverbs 3:5

Because just like that solid, dependable horse that doesn’t fall apart when everything around them is going wrong—
they aren’t relying on the situation… they’re relying on you.

And we’re no different.

We’re not called to trust the situation.
We’re called to trust the One holding the reins.

Author: Sara Jean Wedel

04/29/2026

UPDATE! Camp is now FULL! Be on the lookout for our Bridles and Bibles summer camp at the end of July!

🐎✨ SUMMER HORSE CAMP ✨🐎

Our 3-day horse camp is all about building confidence, learning real horsemanship, and having fun at the barn 🐴

📅 July 15-17
⏰ 9–1
📍 Middleton

Spots are limited and I’m only running ONE camp this year 👀

📩 Message me to grab a spot!

04/25/2026

Monthly Meetings start again May 2nd!
Once a month Bridles and Bibles puts on a free "mini Clinic" These are completely free, you are welcome to come and bring your horse. We talk about horse training tools we use and compare them to our relationship with Jesus. We also often have Guest speakers who come and give their view on Horsemanship and Jesus.

warm up starts at -4pm

Meeting stats at-5pm
We meet at One mane Ranch in Caldwell ID! This facility is donated to us by Husband and Wife Kelly and Barbra Jamison!

29710 Farmway Rd, Caldwell ID 83607

04/17/2026

Trusting Yourself (…or realizing it was never about that to begin with)

I’ve been working with my first untouched mustang since having my daughter, and let me tell you—motherhood will humble you in ways no c**t ever could.

Everyone talks about how life changes after kids… but no one tells you that you might go from confident horsewoman to internally panicking while doing something you’ve done a hundred times before.

The first time I went to step on a c**t after having my daughter, I put my foot in the stirrup and out of nowhere—boom. Shaking. Dizzy. Couldn’t breathe. Full blown panic over something that used to feel as normal as saddling up.

And after that?
I started avoiding it
Suddenly I could see every single thing that could go wrong. Funny how that works.

Fast forward to now with Remuda… and I’ve found myself right back in that same hole.

Here’s the kicker:
It’s not that I don’t trust her.
It’s that I don’t trust myself.

She’s ready. She’s proven it over and over again. She’s more than capable of going outside, gathering cattle, doing the job. My friends have told me, my husband has told me, even Remuda herself has told me she’s ready.

But me?
I’m over here like:
“Well… it’s a little windy today.”
“Maybe we should just do one more day in the round pen.”
“She might have a thought about that one thing…”

At some point, “preparation” turns into procrastination wearing a cowboy hat.

Yesterday really put that into perspective for me.

I took her out of the round pen in just a halter to work on the open and cross a bridge for the first time.

And wouldn’t you know it—it was one of those days.
Wind blowing.
Barn cats running around and trying to take me out at the ankles.
Horses running, bucking, kicking nearby.

Plenty of reasons for her to blow up. Plenty of excuses I could’ve used to say, “not today.”

But she didn’t.

She stayed with me.

And when she got unsure… she didn’t leave. She didn’t fall apart. She just stepped closer to me and relaxed.

She came to me when things felt uneasy.

And standing there, I realized…
I need to learn how to do the exact same thing with God.

Because if I’m honest, I trust God 100%.
I know that when things feel new, uncertain, or downright scary, all I have to do is draw closer to Him. I have to trust MYSELF with His plan.

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.” — Psalm 18:2

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” — James 4:8

Remuda had enough trust in me not to fall apart in the middle of chaos.
She relied on the foundation we built.

And it hit me—
God has done that same groundwork in me.

Every lesson.
Every season.
Every bit of growth.

He’s prepared me the same way I prepare these c**ts.

“Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.” — Philippians 1:6

And yet… I still find myself hesitating.

Staying in the “round pen” with my faith because it feels safe.

When the opportunity came up to start The Biblical Buckaroo podcast, I had already talked myself out of it ten different ways:
“She’s probably too busy.”
“What if she doesn’t actually like me?”

None of it made sense. All of it was fear.

But God doesn’t call us to stay where it’s comfortable.

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” — 2 Timothy 1:7

Here’s what I’m learning right now—both in my horsemanship and my walk with Christ:

It was never about trusting myself.

Because God has never called us to trust ourselves, but to trust in HIM

It’s about trusting what’s been built.
Trusting the preparation.
Trusting the foundation.

And more than anything—
trusting Him.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” — Proverbs 3:5

God has already done the groundwork.
He’s already built the relationship.
He’s already equipped you.

At some point, the only thing standing between you and what He’s calling you to do… is you.

So whether it’s your faith, your life, or even just stepping outside the round pen on a good horse

Maybe it’s time to quit circling…
and step out.

-Sara Jean Wedel
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04/14/2026

Man, I love spring. 🌿
I love walking outside and feeling like the world has come alive again.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve taken a bit of a step back from posting consistently on the Bridles and Bibles page. Not because I don’t love it or don’t want to share, but because I needed to take a breath—and spend more time with my daughter. And it has been so much fun.

I’ve never really been much of a public person. I’ve always liked to keep to myself, which is why Bridles and Bibles can feel like a challenge for me at times. I truly want to step out in God’s calling and what He has asked my husband and I to do… but there’s something important I feel like I need to share:

Bridles and Bibles is not my relationship with the Lord.

It’s important to walk in your calling—but it’s also important not to let that calling define your relationship with God. My relationship with Him is deeply personal and safe. And honestly, that’s sometimes why it can be hard to share.

Brady and I had a really good conversation with some mentors last night, and something they said stuck with me:
Bridles and Bibles is simply the medium we use to glorify and worship Him.

Horsemanship is the paint we use to create the picture that reflects our relationship with Him—no different than a singer using music to worship. But the worship itself… that’s not the whole relationship.

There are so many ways I worship Him every single day.

Today, He reminded me of that. My daughter and I planted flowers, played in the sprinkler, and made iced tea. And in those moments, I felt the Lord—sometimes even more than sitting in a church service.

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” — 1 Corinthians 10:31

Your life should be worship. Every single day.

Enjoy what God has called you to. Share it. Use it to point others to Him so they can experience His peace and grace too.

But don’t let it define your relationship with Him.

Spend time with Him daily—in everything you do 🤍

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