HomileticalSensings

Writings

Here are my published journal articles, book chapters, and essays. Where I can share them, each entry links to a PDF or to the journal online.

Journal Articles

  • “The Professional Doctorate: A Call to Rigor.” Journal of Christian Ministry 13 (2024). [Read online]
  • “Being There Even When You Are Not: ‘Presence’ in Distance Preaching.” Religions 14 (2023): 347. [Read online]
  • “What in the World Is Research?” Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry 8.1 (2022). [Read online]
  • “When Research Is Not Research.” Journal of Christian Ministry 11 (2022). [Read online]
  • “Preaching Ephesians: The Fourfold Fountain of God.” Restoration Quarterly 62 (2020): 81–97. [PDF]
  • “How Lonely Stands the Preacher.” Restoration Quarterly 59 (2017): 234–46. [PDF]
  • “Aristotle’s Poetics: Comparative Offerings to Homiletical Theory and Practice.” Homiletic 42.1 (2017). [PDF] [Journal]
  • “The Eucharist in an Unarticulated World.” Interações: Cultura e Comunidade 10.18 (2015): 140–61. [Read online]
  • “Preaching to Colossians.” Restoration Quarterly 52 (2010): 207–22. [PDF]
  • “Emerson’s Critique of Preaching.” Restoration Quarterly 50 (2008): 157–67. [PDF]
  • “Wearing Trifocals: Reappropriating the Ancient Pulpit for the Twenty-first Century Pew.” Restoration Quarterly 48 (2006): 43–54. [PDF]
  • “To Lecture, or Not to Lecture.” Journal for Case Teaching 15–16 (2004–2005): 57–68. [Read online]
  • “Wholly Bible.” Leaven 12 (2004): 35–40. [PDF]
  • “After the Craddock Revolution: A Bibliographic Essay.” Leaven 11 (2003): 211–19. [PDF]
  • “The Role of the Academic Dean.” Restoration Quarterly 45 (2003): 5–9. [PDF]
  • “Baconian Influences on Preaching.” Stone-Campbell Journal 4 (2001): 163–85. [PDF]
  • “African American Preaching.” Journal of the American Academy of Ministry 7 (2001): 38–53. [PDF] [Read online]
  • “A Call to Prophetic Preaching.” Restoration Quarterly 41 (1999): 139–54. [PDF]
  • “From Exegesis to Sermon in Romans 12:9–21.” Restoration Quarterly 40 (1998): 171–87. [PDF]
  • “A Strategy for Preaching Paraenesis.” Restoration Quarterly 38 (1996): 207–18. [PDF]
  • “Toward a Definition of Paraenesis.” Restoration Quarterly 38 (1996): 145–58. [PDF]
  • “Strange Encounters of the Lectionary Kind.” Restoration Quarterly 37 (1995): 227–46. [PDF]
  • “An Assessment of Buttrick’s Homiletic.” Restoration Quarterly 35 (1993): 175–89. [PDF]
  • “Imitating the Genre of Parable in Today’s Pulpit.” Restoration Quarterly 33 (1991): 193–208. [PDF]

Book Chapters and Reference Articles

  • “Being There Even When You Are Not: Presence in Distance Preaching.” Pages 125–43 in The Digital Pulpit: Preaching in the Revolutionary Era of Online Technology and Social Media. Edited by Sunggu A. Yang. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2024.
  • “Incarnation: God’s Practice of Contextual Theology.” Pages 53–74 in One Truth, Many Cultures: Crossing Cultures and Barriers with Biblical Education; A Festschrift in Honor of Mac Lynn. Edited by David Srygley, C. Philip Slate, and David Baxter. Nashville: Nations University, 2024. [Manuscript]
  • “Orientation to Preaching in the Churches of Christ 1968–2018.” In The Living Pulpit: Sermons That Illustrate Preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement 1968–2018. Edited by Mary Alice Mulligan et al. St. Louis: Chalice, 2018.
  • “Finding Practical Theology’s Location.” In The Effective Practice of Ministry: Essays in Memory of Charles Siburt. Edited by Tim Sensing. Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 2013. [PDF]
  • “Matthew 1:1–17,” “Matthew 1:18–25,” and “Matthew 2:1–12: A Homiletical Perspective.” Pages 2–19 in Feasting on the Gospels: Matthew, vol. 1. Edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2013.
  • “Case Teaching for Field Education.” In Welcome to Theological Field Education. Edited by Matthew Floding. Herndon, VA: Alban, 2011. [PDF]
  • “Psalm 36:5–11,” “Psalm 71:1–14,” and “Psalm 70: A Pastoral Perspective.” In Feasting on the Word: Year A, vol. 2. Edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010.
  • “Zechariah.” Pages 767–72 in The Transforming Word: One Volume Commentary on the Bible. Edited by Mark W. Hamilton. Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 2008.
  • “Herald of Truth” and “Lamar, James Sanford.” In The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement. Edited by Douglas A. Foster et al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. [Herald of Truth PDF] [Lamar PDF]
  • “Reimagining the Future: Past Tense Words in a Present Tense World.” In Preaching Eighth Century Prophets. Edited by David Fleer and Dave Bland. Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 2004.

Dissertation and Theses

  • Pedagogies of Preaching. PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1998. [PDF]
  • Preaching Paraenesis. ThM thesis, The Divinity School, Duke University, 1994. [PDF]
  • The Testing of the Validity of Buttrick’s Homiletic: Preaching from Matthew 13. DMin thesis, Harding Graduate School of Religion, 1992. Appendix B is not included in this digital copy. [PDF]

Essays and Papers

Other Archives

More of my work is archived at Restoration Quarterly on ACU Digital Commons (search for both Tim Sensing and Timothy Sensing), ACU Digital Commons, and Pepperdine Digital Commons. My full record is in my curriculum vitae.