David Lee Jacobsen

Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things

The ONLY way to find abundant life and happiness is to give your life away. If God designed us to experience true happiness and abundant life, why do so many Christians feel dissatisfied and purposeless? We try to make our lives better by chasing our own dreams, but that only makes the problem worse...

Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things

The ONLY way to find abundant life and happiness is to give your life away. If God designed us to experience true happiness and abundant life, why do so many Christians feel dissatisfied and purposeless? We try to make our lives better by chasing our own dreams, but that only makes the problem worse...

Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning in K-12 Classrooms (with MyEducationLab) (8th Edition)

Planning. Implementing. Assessing. The act of teaching is founded on these three principles. It is the process of doing these three things well that makes for good teaching. The goal of this book is to provide the tools that will enable preservice and inservice teachers to plan, implement, and ass...

Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning in K-12 Classrooms (8th Edition)

Planning. Implementing. Assessing. The act of teaching is founded on these three principles. It is the process of doing these three things well that makes for good teaching. The goal of this book is to provide the tools that will enable preservice and inservice teachers to plan, implement, and asses...

Doctors Are Gods: Corruption and Unethical Practices in the Medical Profession

An expose+a7 of the U.S. medical profession furnishes an in-depth study of the current health-care crisis, discussing its causes, the dark side of the medicine--unnecessary treatment, abuse, insurance fraud--and ways to resolve the problem. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Mark (Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries)

David Schnasa Jacobsen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series. Jacobsen takes a broad thematic approach to the first Gospel, while at the same time giving exegetical and homiletical insight...

Homiletical Theology: Preaching as Doing Theology (The Promise of Homiletical Theology)

Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation. But what if all sermon preparation is actually theology? This book pursues a thoroughgoing theological vision for the practice of preaching as a way of doing theology. The idea is not just that homiletics is the realm of theological...

Kairos Preaching: Speaking Gospel to the Situation

Sometimes lectionary preachers struggle when situations present themselves in parish life. A congregational member dies, two lives are joined in marriage, a contentious social justice issue demands attention, or a public event like 9/11 shakes us to the core. Although lectionary and worship allow us...

Clarity in Prayer: Telling the Small T Truth

Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach

Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning

Rookie Dad: Thoughts on First-Time Fatherhood

Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning

Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach

Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach

Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach