Lael Arrington - Christian Speaker - Women's Ministry Topics

Shirley Smith
Union Church of Guatemala
Central America

"Lael has a wonderful way of reaching women right where they are. Her message and story serve as every woman’s guide to rising above the challenges of harsh realities and celebrating life!"
Wendy Ashford
New Community Church
Fresno, CA

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Messages that Move Hearts and Minds for Christ

Here you’ll find Lael’s inspirational topics. For more educational worldview topics select the worldview tab.

Women's Minstry

Lael invites women to an intimate encounter with God and casts a Technicolor vision of his Kingdom reality. Drawing from her studies in Bible and worldview, she strengthens women’s confidence in the truth of their beliefs and encourages them to prevail against the cultural pressures that squeeze us into the world’s mold. The following topics can be adapted to fit the needs of your group. ( denotes a standalone keynote) Messages may be illustrated with computer slides, music and video clips.

Godsight: "A Holiday at the Sea"
Godsight: Renewing the Eyes of our Heart
Fairy Tales and Contentment
Christmas Keynotes

From Godsight:
"A Holiday
at the Sea"

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea – C.S. Lewis

Got sight? If we could just see God…we would want him more than anything we can imagine. How does God show us who he really is? How does he redeem our imaginations and ignite our passion for him and his Kingdom? How can we find what we need in our daily reality without resorting to performance, entertainment or escape? This series moves us beyond the small stories of our lives to enjoying God and Life in his larger story. Godsight!

The Holiday at the Sea
We all long for Life. Not just life after death, but a kingdom kind of Life right now full of meaning and purpose, joy and laughter Speaking from my own journey, especially my struggle with physical limitations and longing for a life beyond my reach, we explore how God will not let us settle for Tap-Dancing, “Cosmic Blonde” dreams. In times when our imagination is seduced by a scenery plastered with the world’s images of beauty and success, God holds out higher dreams of “the holiday at the sea”.

Loving God from Duty or Delight?
Spinning off a scene from the movie First Knight, we probe what is most important in our walk with God: Is a nice Christian life enough? Is obedience enough? What role do our affections play? How do we move beyond duty and resignation to live from a passion for God? This message takes us deeply into what it means to “return to the love we had at first”.

Killing us Softly
How do we miss the holiday at the sea and fall into living so small? We will detail how to recognize if something we love and enjoy is becoming a creeping addiction. We’ll look at four snapshots that show the progression of courtship with an idol (anything we love more than God) and see how God’s offers what truly satisfies and gives freedom from destructive desires.

I Can Only Imagine
What will it be like to be finally home at our journey’s end? Can you even imagine it with the eyes of faith? God gives us tantalizing glimpses of what living face to face with him will be like. This message casts a Technicolor vision of the joy that is worth every step of this journey that ends in a City where God puts everything right and shares his home and his throne with us.

Godsight: Renewing the Eyes of our Heart

This summary message from Lael’s book shows how God moves us beyond the small stories of our lives and focuses our imaginations on enjoying him.

Fairy Tales and Contentment

What do you wish for?
   · A beauty that never fades?
   · A prince who’s less of a frog?
   · A happily ever after life?

In the land of soaring expectations, how do we reconcile our fairy-tale dreams with the reality of a fallen world? This series explores the Bible’s secrets of contentment.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, DO I LOOK OK?
Size twos, plastic surgery, extreme makeovers--is it OK to want to be noticed and chosen? How do we live confidently in the beauty God has given us? Speaking as a former beauty queen who struggles with rheumatoid arthritis (and her unsolicited AARP card), Lael shares how God unveils our true beauty and how his advice for captivating a man’s heart offers freedom from the bondage of worldly beauty.

Confessions of an Enchanted Frog
The “evil enchantment of worldliness” seduces us into thinking, If I just had a nice house, a new car, pretty clothes, fun weekends, resort vacations, then I could be satisfied. Like frogs swimming in the kettle of American affluence we can be half-cooked before we know it. This message offers a biblical heart check, not a guilt trip, and tender assurance of God's loving provision of our needs.

Tap Dancing with Wonder Woman
How do we feel the pressure to perform? In our marriages? As moms? On the job? Are we exhausted from competing with the other Wonder Women at work and tap-dancing with Martha Stewart when company comes? If we find our identity in performance, like that other famous Martha in the kitchen, we will tap dance till we drop and criticize ourselves and others for not dancing well enough. But Mary offers a beautiful alternative. We’ll explore what it means to “choose the richer part” and consider specific ways to take off our dancing shoes and get out of the kitchen of performance. (Strong gospel message)

Happily Ever After
It is so hard to love well. (Norman Rockwell never met my family.) A clip from Shrek, the anti-hero of the anti-fairytale, offers today’s cynical response to fairytale dreams—“Like that’s gonna happen.” Do we lower the bar? Expect less from life? From God? This message offers the hope of higher dreams where all our longings will be fulfilled.

Christmas Keynotes

Tap Dancing Through the Holidays
An adaptation of Tap Dancing with Wonder Woman with specific applications for enjoying more worship and less performance during the holidays.

A Christmas Rose
Picture a setting of rose petals, evergreens and candles and a message taken from Galatians 4: “In the fullness of time God sent forth his son, born of a woman.…” We’ll peek behind the curtain of the story of an intimate invasion of a fallen world to see how God was choreographing the flow of kingdoms and Empires to culminate in the deeply personal and wondrous act of delivering a child. What a picture of how God accomplishes his purposes in history by working intimately in our lives, and how the most private delights and sorrows of our hearts are a significant part of God's larger story.
The message segues into a ballet set to the music from Savior: The Story of God’s Passion for His People. A ballerina dances to “The Rose of Sharon,” a song that describes the incarnation—the rose planted in the garden that grew and flourished until, in an act of sacrifice, "each petal died." The ballet is choreographed with a PowerPoint presentation that features pictures of gardens and roses interspersed with great oil paintings of the nativity. At key moments the ballerina interacts with the screens. This presentation is best suited for a stage large enough for dance and screens or a blank wall for Power Point projections.