About Me

Timothy R. Sensing

ACU Box 29416
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, TX 79699

Graduate School of Theology

Faculty Homepage

sensingt@acu.edu

 

Educational Background:

  • Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 1998.  Minor: rhetoric.  Dissertation: Pedagogies of Preaching.
  • Th.M., Homiletics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1994.  Minor: New Testament. Thesis: Preaching Paraenesis.
  • D.Min., Homiletics, Harding Graduate School of Religion, Memphis, TN, 1992. Thesis: Testing the Validity of Buttrick’s Homiletic: Preaching from Matthew 13.
  • M.Th. [M.Div.], Harding Graduate School of Religion, Memphis, TN, 1984.
  • B.S., Environmental Occupational Safety and Health, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1980.
  • Twenty-three semester hours, Bible, Harding University, Searcy, AR, 1979-1980.
  • Six semester hours of Hebrew, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, 1986.


Experience:

  • Professor of Practical Theology, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University (2010– present).
  • Associate Dean, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University (2013–2022).
  • Associate Professor of Ministry and Homiletics, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University (2005 – 2009).
  • Assistant Professor of Ministry and Homiletics, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University (August 1998-2004).
  • Director of Academic Services for the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University (2009-2013).
  • Director of the Supervised Practice of Ministry for the Graduate School of Theology (1998-2009).
  • Full-time preaching minister at various locations in Tennessee, New Jersey, Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina (January 1982 – July 1998).



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