“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories,… — Sarah Arthur Christian community Copy Share Image
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected… — Sarah Arthur Faith Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we… — Sarah Arthur Next generation Copy Share Image
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we… — Sarah Arthur Broken hearted Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the… — Sarah Arthur Christian life Copy Share Image
“if there is no light by which we see, no Great Story that illumines our days—and no Storyteller—then we have no source… — Sarah Arthur Light Copy Share Image
“Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Nature Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell… — Sarah Arthur Poetry Copy Share Image
“If imagination, as we’ve said, is the “region of discovery,” story is the wardrobe door, sending our young people “further in” and… — Sarah Arthur Imagination Copy Share Image
“While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“In short, you can’t have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying… — Sarah Arthur Balanced life Copy Share Image
“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.” — Sarah Arthur Youth Ministry Copy Share Image
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than… — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“from a Wesleyan perspective, we can easily see how the imagination is one of the ways the Holy Spirit works preveniently in… — Sarah Arthur Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“Writes Webber: This conflict of style has continued in the twentieth-century debate about traditional versus contemporary worship. Traditional worship seems to be… — Sarah Arthur Pop culture Copy Share Image
“the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Like Gandalf, God knows the battle going on inside our hobbitlike selves, the wrestling match between the Baggins and the Took. The… — Sarah Arthur Adventure Copy Share Image
“Writes Native American storyteller Ray Buckley: A child relates storytelling . . . to human contact, and that contact becomes as much… — Sarah Arthur Children Copy Share Image
“Our songs and our stories do more than persuade others that an order exists: they build the house; they weave a world;… — Sarah Arthur Music Copy Share Image
“To use C. S. Lewis’s distinction, perhaps we could even say that for the evangelistic youth minister, it’s about truth; for the… — Sarah Arthur Truth Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“If their imaginations are starved, you feed them; if they are thirsty, you give them something to drink. Trust the Spirit to… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren’t always neatly… — Sarah Arthur Life Copy Share Image
“vital role of the imagination in spiritual formation is to help a young person make meaningful connections between the church, the world,… — Sarah Arthur Meaningful connections Copy Share Image
