• Introductory preaching
• Preaching on social issues
• Preaching and the lectionary
• Preaching in the context of worship
• Worship: from traditional to emergent and missional
• Oral interpretation of scripture

Books:

• Just Preaching: Prophetic Voices for Economic Justice (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2003) Named one of the top ten books of the year by the Academy for Parish Clergy
• Preacher and Cross: Person and Message in Theology and Rhetoric
  (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999)

Articles (selected, not comprehensive):

• “Casting Our Mammon on the Baptismal Waters: Preaching Economic Justice in Lent,” Journal for Preachers, 27 (2004) 42-50.
• "Character," in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
• Essays on the Homiletical Perspective of various biblical texts in The Lectionary Commentary Series, Volume II, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor (Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming).
• “Ēthos,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
• “Social Justice,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
• “Lament: Faith’s Response to Loss,” in Restoration Quarterly, 32 (1990) 129-142.
• “Logos,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
• Numerous entries throughout all three volumes in The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday’s Texts, edited by Roger Van Harn (Eerdmans, 2001).
• “Preaching as Show and Tell: All I Ever Needed to Preach a Good Sermon I Learned in Kindergarten,” Restoration Quarterly, 40 (1998) 253-260.
• “Preaching the Cross: A Confessional Journey,” Journal for Preachers, 24 (2001) 15-28.
• “Reading, Preaching and Teaching the Psalms,” Leaven, 4 (1996) 37-39.
• “Reading the Text for Economic Justice: Mark 12:38-44 for Stewardship Season,” in Living Pulpit, 12 (2003) 6-7.
• “To Worship or Evangelize: Ecclesiology’s Phantom Fork in the Road,” Restoration Quarterly, 36 (1994) 65-80.

Book Reviews (selected, not comprehensive):

• Achtemeier, Elizabeth, Preaching from the Minor Prophets: Texts and Sermon Suggestions (Eerdmans, 1998) in Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 20 (1999) 354-356.
• Aden, Leroy and Robert Hughes, Preaching God’s Compassion: Comforting Those Who Suffer (Augsburg Fortress, 2002) in Interpretation, 58 (2004) 218-220.
• Allen, Ronald, Contemporary Biblical Interpretation for Preaching (Judson Press, 1984) in Koinonia, 3 (1991) 83-85.
• Campbell, Charles, The Word Before the Powers: an Ethic of Preaching (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2002) in Interpretation, 57 (2003) 314-317.
• Collier, Gary, The Forgotten Treasure: Reading the Bible Like Jesus (Howard Publishing Company, 1993) in Restoration Quarterly, 36 (1994) 189-190.
• Forde, Gerhard, Theology is for Proclamation (Augsburg Fortress, 1994) in Restoration Quarterly, 37 (1995) 122-124.
• Mays, James Luther, Psalms (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994) in Restoration Quarterly, 37 (1995) 189-190.

Chapters in Books (selected, not comprehensive):

• “At Cross Purposes: Gospel, Scripture, and Experience in Preaching,” in Preaching Autobiography: Connecting the World of the Preacher and the World of the Text (ACU Press, 2001): 47-74.

Sermons (selected, not comprehensive):

• “A Year of Lament,” Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 9 (1988) 159-162.
• “And So, We are Angry: A Sermon,” Testament: a Publication of the Princeton Theological Seminary Community, 3 (1991) 21-24.
• “Knowing and Being Known (Psalm 139),” in Howard Butt Jr., Renewing the Spirit, Healing the Soul (Laicom, 2000).
• “Looking at the Doorknob,” Image Magazine, 12 (1996) 7-9.
• “Maintain the Broken Wall: Ephesians 2:14-18,” Restoration Quarterly, 32 (1990) 121-125.
• “The Seeker,” in Wineskins

Newspaper Articles:

• “How Will You Finish the Story?” Salisbury Post, March 26, 2005.
• “Would an Act of God be so Sloppy?” Salisbury Post, October 12, 2005.

Online Publications:

“Glorious Spectacles,” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=833.

“N.T. Professor Slapped with Textual Harassment Suit,” www.TheDoorMagazine.com, 12/9/00.

“One Thing I Do,” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=180.

“The Power of Negative Thinking,” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/Print.asp?LibraryID=279.

“Too Faithful to Work?” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=337.

• The hermeneutics of the gospel in relation to scripture and context
• The relationship of rhetoric and theology in preaching the gospel
• Interdisciplinary matters pertaining to theology’s relationship to social science disciplines
• The nature of the preacher’s person in relation to preaching the gospel
• Social Justice issues in relation to preaching the gospel
• Emerging Church and Emerging Worship

New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, NJ
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX

• The Academy of Homiletics -Convener of the Pedagogy Work Group
• The Association of Practical Theology