{"id":145,"date":"2014-10-25T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:36:29","slug":"lael-arrington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=145","title":{"rendered":"Lael Arrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #808080; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;\">Lael Arrington<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"278\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/directory\/members\/arrington-lael.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laelarrington.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.laelarrington.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bible.org\/blog\/4058\">http:\/\/blogs.bible.org\/blog\/4058<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><b>Contact Lael:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"mailto:laela@laelarrington.com?subject=Contact%20from%20AWSA\">laela@laelarrington.com<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><b>BIO:<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">With a unique combination of substance and humor, Lael challenges her audience to live for God\u2019s Kingdom in today\u2019s culture. Her most recent book, <i>Godsight: Renewing the Eyes of Our Hearts<\/i>, is both a personal memoir and a Biblical study of how God redeems our imagination and grows our vision to see what a treasure he is. She probes how we can respond to God from a heart of delight rather than duty so we can live with great purpose and joy in his Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"smalltext style3\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">As weekly radio co-host of <i>The Things That Matter Most<\/i> (Houston\/Dallas) Lael interviews guests as diverse as atheist Sam Harris, head of the Human Genome Project, Dr. Francis Collins , and best-selling author John Eldredge about what we believe, why we believe it and where real life can be found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"smalltext style3\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Lael holds a master&#8217;s degree in the history of ideas and has taught about culture and apologetics at secular and Christian schools and colleges. Living with rheumatoid arthritis and as a pastor\u2019s wife has given her a passion to move not just minds, but hearts with a desire to seek God\u2019s Truth, both as precepts and principles and as a person who is honored and delighted by our affection for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"smalltext style3\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Lael\u2019s first book, <i>Worldproofing Your Kids<\/i>, helps parents understand a Christian worldview and pass it on their kids. It has been featured in Focus on the Family and World magazines. Her second book, <i>Pilgrim\u2019s Progress Today<\/i> is a page-burning retelling of Bunyan\u2019s classic, tracking a contemporary pilgrim\u2019s journey through our postmodern cultural landscape. Lael has appeared on Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey, HomeLife, Janet Parshall&#8217;s America and many other national radio and TV programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"smalltext style3\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Lael and her husband, Jack, make their home among the azaleas and dogwoods of the northwest Houston area and are delighted when their grown son, Zach, pops in for a visit. She enjoys working with her church&#8217;s worship planning team and watching and discussing movies with fellow \u201cFlick Chics\u201d over dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lael Arrington http:\/\/www.laelarrington.com http:\/\/blogs.bible.org\/blog\/4058 Contact Lael:\u00a0 laela@laelarrington.com BIO: With a unique combination of substance and humor, Lael challenges her audience to live for God\u2019s Kingdom in today\u2019s culture. Her most recent book, Godsight: Renewing the Eyes of Our Hearts, is both a personal memoir and a Biblical study of how God redeems our imagination and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}