Join author Sally Lloyd-Jones as we celebrate the advent season, and learn how to wait in expectation and excitement. She also reads a few stories from The Jesus Storybook Bible to get us in the spirit of the Christmas season.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Jesus, Our True Friend

The Jesus Storybook Bible

The Story of God's Great Love collection

Seasonal Products

Free Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Reading Plan & Bonus Printables

The Jesus Storybook Bible: A Christmas Collection

The Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Activity Book

Song of the Stars: A Christmas Story

Little One, We Knew You'd Come

My Little Library of God's Great Love

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Sally's website

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*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*

In this special bonus episode, illustrator of The Jesus Storybook Bible and Jesus, Our True Friend Jago Silver shares his journey to becoming an artist, and the impact of his work on generations of children.

Quotes

"I just think it's a beautiful thing when the words and the pictures can work together. It's a lovely partnership that I've had with Jago all these years." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"In this new book [Jesus, Our True Friend] both my writing and Jago's art has changed quite a bit, but you can still see traces of what we were, what we were doing when our first book, Jesus Storybook Bible [released]. It has developed, and that's what Jago is so great at." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"I've always enjoyed the idea that illustrations—good illustrations, if you look at the picture on its own, they should kind of make you wonder what's going on and what's going to happen next." - Jago Silver

"When I'm doing my illustrations, I try to remember what it was like as a child to look at the pictures." - Jago Silver

"I do find it quite kind of overwhelming, when you sort of step back and think that there's a whole generation—multiple generations, I guess—of children who've grown up with [The Jesus Storybook Bible] as their version of all of these stories. It's quite a strange feeling, really, as an illustrator to realize that somebody's whole idea of what Jonah and the giant fish looks like is based on a picture that I drew fifteen years ago." - Jago Silver

Guest's Links
Website

Jago's Twitter

Jago's Facebook

Jago's Instagram

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Jesus, Our True Friend

The Jesus Storybook Bible

The Story of God's Great Love collection

Connect with Sally Lloyd-Jones
The Story of God's Great Love Instagram

The Story of God's Great Love Facebook

The Story of God's Great Love YouTube

Sally's website

Sally's Facebook

Sally's Instagram

*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*

In this special bonus episode of The Jesus Storybook Bible Podcast, author Sally Lloyd-Jones gives listeners an inside look at her writing process and her hopes for "Jesus, Our True Friend." Sally shares how she aims to paint a portrait of Jesus through these seven stories to show that it's not about being good enough, it's about the rescuer who's come to love us. Plus, join Sally for a special reading of one of the new stories!

Quotes

"Children look to us for everything, but when it comes to their devotional life, I think we sometimes forget to give them hope." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"What I wanted to do with these stories was paint a portrait of Jesus to show them just how much love He has for each person He's meeting. It's not about them being good enough, it's about the rescuer who's come to love us." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"If I'm doing my job right, if I am making sure I've distilled the stories and I've gotten myself out of the way and shown the beauty of the gospel, then it's the power of the gospel that's taking these stories all over the world." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"Your job isn't to give children all the answers, it's to raise the right questions." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Jesus, Our True Friend

The Jesus Storybook Bible

The Story of God's Great Love collection

Robert Frost

Connect with Sally Lloyd-Jones
The Story of God's Great Love Instagram

The Story of God's Great Love Facebook

The Story of God's Great Love YouTube

Sally's website

Sally's Facebook

Sally's Instagram

*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*