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*

In a special bonus episode, author Sally Lloyd-Jones and voice actor Sir David Suchet offer a behind-the-scenes look at their collaboration on "Jesus, Our True Friend." They delve into their individual approaches to portraying biblical figures, emphasizing the importance of simplifying stories for children without oversimplifying them. The episode also highlights their shared anticipation of hearing Jesus' laugh and their conviction that everything they know about God points to love.

Quotes

"Sometimes I think in all that we give children, we forget to give them hope, and we are in danger of putting all the emphasis on them and what they're supposed to be doing. And that just leaves you in despair because that's the moral code and we can't live up to it. I just wanted them to have [Jesus, Our True Friend] that would tell them, 'You have a true friend and He's with you and He loves you.'" - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"As a little girl, I had this wrong idea about God. I thought he was hard and cruel and angry and about the rules. And it's so wrong, isn't it? [Jesus, Our True Friend] shows God's heart that we know comes through His son, Jesus." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"Being simple isn't simplistic. In my writing, I have to distill down, but I must never dumb down. I must always get to the heart of the truth." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"We're told in the Bible that we see God through Jesus. My goal was to show how kind God the Father is and God the Son. And it's all coming from joy, that's how the world began." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

"It's all love. God is love." - Sir David Suchet

"In the West, we try to be rational and understand everything, and unless something equals something else, we're not content. But with faith, with spirituality, one has to learn to be content living with mystery." - Sir David Suchet

"You have to be known to feel the love, don't you? If He knows you completely and He loves you completely, then there's huge comfort." - Sally Lloyd-Jones

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Jesus, Our True Friend

The Jesus Storybook Bible

The Story of God's Great Love collection

David Suchet

Hercule Poirot

Madeleine L'Engle

Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey

C.S. Lewis

Meister Eckhart

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*