Teaching With All Your Heart: Bringing Curriculum & Class to Life

by David E. Fessenden

Finally, the ultimate resource for everyone who is teaching or who is thinking about teaching Sunday school! Teaching with All Your Heart offers expert insight from the beginning to end on preparation, teaching styles, and how to most effectively use your Sunday school curriculum as it was intended. In upbeat and practical ways, this book helps teachers use the standardized lesson plan as a flexible guideline rather than a strict checklist. Through a series of simple organizational and memorization techniques, Teaching with All Your Heart shows teachers how to add spontaneity and excitement to the lesson and leave a lasting impression on students.

127 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

David E. Fessenden is the editorial coordinator for CLC Publications, the owner and publisher of Honeycomb House Publishing, a literary agent for WordWise Media, and a publishing coach and consultant for the Christian book market. He has over 25 years experience in editorial management with Christian publishing houses. Dave has a B.A. in journalism, an M.A. in religion, and over 30 years of experience in writing and editing. In previous positions Dave served on the communications staff of a Bible institute and was a regional editor of the largest Protestant weekly newspaper in the country.

Dave has published seven books, produced study guides for two titles by A.W. Tozer (published in the back of the books), written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, and edited numerous books. His columns from 10-year stint on the staff of a Christian writers newsletter were the basis for his books, Writing the Christian Nonfiction Book: Concept to Contract, and The Christian Writer's Guide to Book Proposals, published by SonFire Media.

Dave's first novel, The Case of the Exploding Speakeasy, tells the story of the son of Dr. Watson and the smarter brother of Sherlock Holmes investigating the death of a speakeasy owner and his car-playing buddies in 1920s Philadelphia.

Dave has served as an instructor for the Christian Writers Guild, and is a frequent speaker at writers’ conferences. He also conducts Sunday school teaching workshops based on his book, Teaching with All Your Heart.

Dave and his wife, Jacque, live in the southcentral PA area and have two adult sons.