Teaching to Change Lives: Seven Proven Ways to Make Your Teaching Come Alive

This is a book you will want to read and re read.Timeless principles brought to life.It stretches ones imagination and builds one up to be a better teacher.

Wao! What a book! I'm glad I got it! It's a must read for everyone who functions as a teacher or leader in any setting!

I've already made a comment about this book - I ordered five copies from different sources.

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I personally really like this book. It’s easy to understand and also super practical. It points out many blind spots people often have during teaching. I really think this book is not only for the teachers but for everyone who wants to make an impact on others in biblical way. Highly recommended this book to everyone.

The book was in very good condition.

Dr. Hendricks has written an incredibly accessible and applicable book on teaching. This contribution to a wide-array of books on the topic is one of the most versatile I’ve encountered. The book has direct application for preaching from behind the pulpit, Sunday school settings, small group settings, youth, children, adult, and classroom audiences. If you are looking for a distinctly practical book with the latest method or approach, this is not it. This is not, at it’s core, a how-to for sermon writing, message structure, curriculum composition, or any other step-by-step guide (there is however, a useful application section to close out the book. Here Dr. Hendricks does a practical teaching of the principles found within the book). Rather than this sort of step-by-step approach, Dr. Hendricks gives a series of principles for what constitutes good teaching. This proves to be the more helpful approach, as the reader is then able to create their own, contextualized step-by-step approach based on these principles. This will prove to build a better teacher long-term, and create a better learning environment for students. This seems to be Dr. Hendrick’s overwhelming goal in the book. It could be summarized in stating that good teaching comes from a teacher who is a earnest disciple with a profound love for their students. Dr. Hendricks goes to great lengths to talk about the depth and character of the teacher themselves. This is clearly of utmost importance to “Prof.” He is concerned first with building great teachers as he is building great lessons. The quality of the teaching can only meet the quality of the teacher. This is not to speak to being a particularly gifted communicator, though Dr. Hendricks does not diminish that. But more importantly it has to do with the character and compassion within the teacher themselves. This is Dr. Hendrick’s first Law of Teaching, and really a current that runs throughout. For the reader looking to be convicted and encouraged to look within themselves and seek to grow and conform more into the Image of Christ, this book will no doubt stimulate you to labor well to be a person worthy of the calling to teach. Dr. Hendricks quickly dissolves any excuse that “I’m just not a good teacher” or any over confidence that “I’m just a great teacher” by pointing the reader to Christ and the Truth of His Word. He writes that people’s “screaming need is to see men and women who know the living Word of God, who are constant students of that Book, and who allow it to grip them so they grow to hate what God hates and love what God loves (36).” Most readers would nod in affirmation with that statement and not see it as particularly cutting-edge … but it is revolutionary, and should be the constant refrain and motivation for all teacher’s of Truth. Hendricks’ laws could also be summarized by possessing a genuine love for students. Dr. Hendricks, through compelling and at times humorous stories, as well as helpful application points, stresses the importance of the teacher/student relationship. If the teacher loves the students, he/she will seek to know how their students learn (The Law of Education), to see them not just know more, but to change how they actually live, think, and feel (The Law of Activity), to learn how to connect with them on a thinking, feeling, and doing level (The Law of Communication), to be genuine and authentic with them in order to develop deep trust (The Law of the Heart), and to capture their imagination and wonderment to learn (The Law of Encouragement). These steps cannot be faked or easily manufactured, it takes work on the part of the teacher to learn, study, and connect with students. Dr. Hendricks again convicts and encourages readers to ask honestly: “Do you love your students?” Again, not a cutting edge approach, but an approach that when practiced, will lead to heartfelt and captivating teaching. This formula does not simply produce polished sermons or lesson plans. It produces change. Change in the heart of the teacher and the learner. I would encourage readers to take a deep breath before reading this book. This is not filled with silver bullets. It is filled with the wisdom of a long and faithful teaching career. The type of soul-level wisdom that does not microwave teachers, but rather molds them. I would put it in the hands of a new or aspiring teacher and tell them to revisit these principles with great regularity throughout their career. It is a winsome reminder of the foundational and first things – those things that we are all too prone to drift from. If there is a knock on this book, it is that perhaps it is too dictated by the framework of the acrostic T-E-A-C-H-E-R that make up the names of the 7 laws. It is helpful for the memory of the laws and provides an effective framework. There may, however, be times that the reader thinks to themselves, “I feel that this point fit just as well under Law X three chapters earlier.” However, this in no way disrupts the flow or power of the writing. In fact, it is likely good to be reminded of the cohesiveness of the overall message of the book. Pick it up, be challenged, be encouraged, and be reminded of both the weight and privilege of the task to steward the Truth of God’s Word to others. As Dr. Hendricks writes, there is no greater thrill or fulfillment in realizing that God is using you as a vehicle for His truth to transform others. Add this book to your library and reference it often!

Amazing book

Same on time and was the correct book. Brand new.