Gospel Voices
Ebook
Overview
Why are we so fascinated with the person of Jesus of Nazareth? What made him so intriguing and attractive? Why then was he executed as a heretic and rebel? This brief book seeks to imagine what might have happened in those years when Jesus lived in Israel: how did his family react to him? How did his friends and enemies respond to his teachings and actions? How are we like them in our own encounter with the person of Jesus? The Jesus that emerges in these pages is deeply spiritual and political, human and humorous, both surprising and authentic. Prepare to be surprised.
Jacobs writes with the seasoned insight of a biblical scholar combined with the creative curiosity of a new believer. His stories bring the biblical characters to life in a new way, drawing the reader in as he explores the thoughts, motivations, and details that Scripture omits. An excellent devotional read, and an inspirational resource for preachers, teachers, and worship leaders.
——Paul Erickson, Bishop, Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Gospel Voices offers stories of faith, courage, betrayal, justice, and healing as envisioned by Jacobs from his reading of the New Testament. It is imaginative and inviting, relatable and challenging. Jacobs wants to bring Jesus into focus for his reader but widens the lens enough to include a variety of Jesus’ contemporaries, all seen here in action. Such reframing of the message of Jesus is bound to provoke meaningful conversations among the faithful.
——Irfan A. Omar, Associate Professor of Theology, Marquette University
- Title: Gospel Voices
- Author: Alexander M. Jacobs
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 216
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666717471, 9781666717464, 1666717460, 9781666717457, 1666717452, 1666717479
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666717471
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2026-02-22T02:12:32Z
Alexander M. Jacobs is a retired pastor of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America.