Papers
This is a list of papers given at past conferences.
2010
CONNECTING PREACHING WITH WORSHIP
2009
PROMOTING COMMUNITY THROUGH PREACHING
- Greg Scharf– “Were the Apostles Expository Preachers?”
- Abe Kuruvilla– “Application as Improvisation”
- Andrew Thompson–“ Community Oracles”
- Dave McClellan– “The Unfinished Sermon”
- Glenn Watson– “The Preacher as Cultural Architect”
- Jere L. Phillips– “Preaching to Heal Conflicted Congregational Communities”
- Ho Kwon– “George Whitefield's Advice for Creating Community”
- J. Kent Edwards– “Deep Preaching”
- James Feathersone– “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Five Forms of Expositional Preaching”
- Jeff Magruder– “The Hidden Promise of Expository Preaching for Pentecostal Theology and Spirituality”
- K. Joseph Park– “An Expository Preaching Model for the Church of Small Groups”
- Kent Walkemeyer– “Recognizing and Overcoming Obstacles to Collaborative Preaching”
- Michael Quicke– “Exploring the Architecture of Community Formation”
- Mark Overstreet– “The End of the Gutenburg Galaxy”
2008
THE THEOLOGY OF PREACHING
- Blayne A. Banting - “And Speaking of God…” A Theology for Biblical Preaching
- Kristopher K. Barnett - Persuasive Dialogue in the Preaching of Paul
- Kenneth E. Bickel - Preaching for Spiritual Formation: Using the Sermon to Move Individuals Toward a Deeper Relationship with the Lord
- Scott M. Gibson - All I Want is a Practical Theology of Preaching
- Michael S. Jeffress - The Role of Multimedia Tools in Preaching according to Recent Homiletics Texts: Toward a Healthy Theology of the Convergence of Multimedia Tools and Preaching
- Brian Jones - The Legitimacy, Place, and Function of Theology in Biblical Preaching
- Abraham Kuruvilla - Preaching as Translation via Theology
- Ken Langley - When Christ Replaces God at the Center of Preaching
- James Paton - Walking Backwards Into The Future
- Randal Emery Pelton - Preaching as an Act of Soul-Watching: Why Worship Services Should Include “Listening to a Preacher’s Sermon.”
- Benjamin B. Phillips - Fiat Lux: The Doctrine of Creation as the ‘Origin’ for a High Theology of Preaching
- David A. Ridder - The Application of Missionary Elentics to Preaching to Postmoderns
- Greg R. Scharf - Should Preaching Be Re-imagined If Its Global Mandate Has Been Fulfilled?
- Ervin R. Stutzman - Raising the flag for Jesus
- Stephen J. H. Tu - East Meets West: A Zen Buddhist Pedagogy for Teaching Preaching
2007
PREACHING TO A SECULARIZED WEST
- Kenneth E. Bickel - Preaching the Pslams to the Contemporary Community
- Joel R. Breidenbaugh - Back to the Future: Preaching in a Postmodern World
- Francis-Clare Fischer - Remember the Elocutionists!The Rantings of a Seminary Speech Teacher
- Francis-Clare Fischer - Remember the Elocutionists! (HANDOUT)
- Arica A. Heald and Jeffrey D. Arthurs - Public Address in the Bible and the Secularized West: Genre-Sensitive and Culture-Sensitive Sermons from Biblical Speeches
- Paul J. Hussey - Speaking in Pictures: Language for a Postmodern Audience
- Charles Kuthe - Preaching Beyond the Pulpit: A Proposal for 21st Century Preaching
- Ken Langley - Rehabilitating and Reclaiming the Herald Image for Preachers in the Secularized West
- Dave McClellan - Mapping a Sermon: An Alternative Model of Homiletic Preparation
- R. Larry Overstreet - Emotional Subjectivity in Teaching/Preaching the Psalms
- Calvin F. Pearson - Tapeinic Argumentation
- Kenneth W. Smith - Preaching that Reaches Beyond Secular Myths and Idols
- Ervin R. Stutzman - Preaching in the Missional Church
- Kent Walkemeyer and Tara Healy - Evaluating Collaborative Approaches to Preparing and Delivering Sermons
- Glenn Watson - Proclaiming the Gospel as Metanarrative to Postmodern Hearers
2006
Toward Excellence in Equipping Preachers: A Future Focus and a Backward Glance
- Kenton C. Anderson - Preaching as Dialogue: Moving Beyond the 'Speaching' of the Word
- Jerry N. Barlow and Bradley M. Rushing - Humor in Preaching: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pulpit. . . .
- Jeffrey E. Carroll and Randal E. Pelton - Cross-Eyed Application: Equipping Preachers to Urge Faith-Based, Text-driven Obedience
- Brandon Cash - Toward a Lifetime of Fruitful Preaching: Equipping Preachers to Regularly Engage the Biblical Languages
- J. Kent Edwards - Stories are for adults: Equipping preachers to communicate Biblical narratives to.
- Brian Jones - The Future of Application? An evaluation of William J. Webb's proposal in Slaves, Women & Homosexuals
- Dale Keller - 'Comiletics': Beyond the Monologic Model
- Charles Kuthe - The Devaluation of Preaching and the Death of the Church: Towards Excellence in Preaching as a Model for Church Growth.
- Dave McClellan - Why We Need Dead Pagans In Our Homiletic Classrooms
- Calvin Pearson - The Forgotten Pedagogy of Imitation: How Imitation in Ancient Rhetorical Pedagogy Informs Modern Homiletics
- Michael J. Quicke - The Neglected Trinity : a Challenge for Preachers.
- Sam Serio - Preaching to a Promiscuous Generation and their Victims
- Ervin R. Stutzman - Toward Excellence in Equipping Preachers: Four Foci for Classroom Instruction
- Daniel J. Waite - Toward a Holistic Preaching Model for Postmodern America: Integrating the Philosophy and Methodology of Haddon Robinson, David Buttrick, and Rick Warren
- Daniel J. Waite - VOTE Model for Previous Paper
- Tom Ward - Revolutionary Preaching from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Glenn Watson - The Sermon in Three Acts: The Rhetoric of Cinema and the Art of Narrative Exposition
- Joseph M. Webb - A New Frontier for the Pulpit: Long-Term Memory and the Future of Contemporary Preaching
2005
SHOW ME THE TRUTH: ILLUSTRATION, METAPHOR AND EXAMPLE IN PREACHING
- Jeffrey Arthurs - Genre Sensitive Preaching of Parables
- Michael Duduit - Seeing the Truth: The Use of Visual Illustration in Preaching
- Dave McClellan - Recovering a Sense of Orality in Homiletics
- Mark M. Overstreet - Now I Am Found: The Recovery of the "Lost" Yale Lectures and the Legacy of Engaging Exposition
- Calvin Pearson - Metaphor: The Most Common and Complex of the Homiletician's Tools
- Philip B. Petersen - Garden, Park, Glen, and Meadow: The Effect of Metaphor on Proclamation Today
- Tim Ralston - Postmodern Preaching: Reliable Maps for Renewing Roads
- Shawn D. Radford - The Sermon as Illustration: Confirming Biblical Texts in Concrete Expressions
- Chuck Sackett - The Elusive Illustration: Letting the Text Win!
- Steven W. Smith - The Non-Verbal Illustration: Mcluhan, Postman, and the Emerging Preacher
- Ervin R. Stutzman - Five Professorial Practices that Enhance Effectiveness in the Preaching Classroom
- Austin B. Tucker - Guiding Preachers in Development of Narrative Skills for Sermon Illustrations
- Timothy S. Warren - Presence is Persuasive
2004
PREACHING AND THEOLOGY
- Jeffrey D. Arthurs - Short Sentences Long Remembered: Preaching Genre-Sensitive Sermons from Proverbs
- Blayne A. Banting - A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Revisiting a Metaphor for Biblical Preaching
- Kristopher Barnett - By Authority of the King: Proclaiming God's Word in an Anti-Authority World
- Kenneth E. Bickel - Using the Sermonic Opportunity to Create an Experience for Worshippers - A Biblical and Theoretical Defense with Methodological Suggestions
- Jam� Bolds- Preaching a Theology of Work and Worship (If you cannot see the Hebrew words in this paper, click HERE to download the Hebrew font for Mac or PC from BibleWorks)
- Zachary Eswine - Spiritual Warfare and Preaching: Toward a Theology of "Noise" for Evangelical Homiletics
- Greg W. Heisler - Clark Kent or Superman? A Case For A Spirit-Driven Methodology of Expository Preaching
- Brian Jones - Theology: A Master Key for Unlocking Application in Biblical Preaching
- Korey L. Kincaid - John Calvin's Theology and Style of Preaching in Light of Contemporary Views
- Charles B. Kuthe - The Prodigal Preacher: The Misuse of Typology with Regard to Authorial Intent
- R. Larry Overstreet - A Pauline Theology of Preaching: Part 1 (If you cannot see the Greek words in this paper, click HERE to download the Greek font for Mac or PC from BibleWorks)
- David Platt - A Comparative Analysis of Theological Issues Affecting Preaching in a Pre-Christian and a Post-Christian Culture
- Greg R. Scharf - Was Bullinger Right?
- Austin B. Tucker - What Do You Mean "Truth Through Personality"? The Phillips Brooks Definition of Preaching in Historical Context
- Paul Scott Wilson - The Trouble/Grace School of Homiletics
2003
PREPARING THOSE WHO PREACH: TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
- Jerry Barlow - The Expository Eulogy: Teaching Pastoral Preaching for Funeral Sermons
- Sidney Greidanus - Teaching First-Year Preaching
- Brian Jones - Teaching Students the Applicational Power of the Big Idea
- Ken Langley - Striking All the Chords of the Text: Preparing Homiletics Students to Preach Genre-Sensitive Sermons
- Patrick Lowthian - Truth through Personality
- Larry Overstreet - The Priority of Persuasive Preaching - Part II: Implementation
- Chuck Sackett - Preparing Those Who Preach: To Ask The Right Questions
- Greg Scharf - Hitchhiking With Richard Hays: Toward Greater Faithfulness in Application
- Kenneth Smith - Preaching the Psalms with Respect for Their Inspired Design
- Geoffrey Stevenson - Conceptions of Learning in the Preacher's Progress
- Robert Stewart - The Day The Sun Stood Still: Joshua 10, Narrative Structuralism, and Worldview Analysis
- Don Sunukjian - Helping Students Reflect on How God Has Used Preaching in Their Own Lives
- John Tornfelt - Preaching and Learning Styles: How to Communicate So People Can Listen
- CJH Venter - Hebrews As An Expository Sermon
- June Yoder - Teaching Preachers to Listen
2002
- Ken Bickel - Understanding and Conquering the First Hurdle: Taking Responsibility for Listener Attentiveness - Part II
- Dale Durie - In Biblical Bounds: Using the Imagination within Biblical Limits
- Dale Keller - If the Medium is the Message, How is the Preacher the Sermon?
- Ken Langley - Pygmalion Preaching: Expect Listening, Get Listening
- Craig Brian Larson - Grafting in the Third Person Illustration
- Timothy S. Mallard -Considering the Call: Intentionally Developing a Culture of Vocations Within Contemporary Church Life
- Gerry Mathisen - When the Listener is a "Believing Seeker": The Reflections of a Recovering Homiletician
- Larry Overstreet - The Priority of Persuasive Preaching: Part I: Foundation
- Randal E. Pelton - What Contemporary Listeners Really Need to Hear: Redefining Relevance in Relation to Biblical Preaching
- Michael Quicke - Let Anyone With Ears to Hear, Listen
- Wayne E. Shaw - Preaching Jesus' Parables with Power
- Argile Smith - Rethinking the Value of Metaphors in Listener-Sensitive Homiletics
- John V. Tornfelt - Preaching the Psalms: Understanding Chiastic Structures for Greater Clarity
- CJH Venter - Expository Preaching: A Re-Evaluation for Today
- C. Richard Wells - Jesus Did Not Have a Website: A Fresh Look at Jesus the Preacher
2001
- Kenton C. Anderson - Slow Cooking Sermons: Taking Time for Better Preaching
- Jeffrey D. Arthurs and Ben Jackson - Preaching in the Electronic Age
- Jerry N. Barlow - Third Heaven or Sheol?: The Incorporation of Media in Homiletics Teaching and Preaching at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
- Todd Bates - Augustine on Preaching and Those Who Hear
- Kenneth E. Bickel - Understanding and Conquering the First Hurdle: Taking Responsibility for Listener Attentiveness - Part One
- Dennis M. Cahill - Can Expository Preaching be Relevant for Both Believers and Seekers
- J. Kent Edwards - Innovation and Communication
- David A. Enyart - Preaching Parables: "The Question, The Quest, and the Discovery"
- Zachary Eswine - Finding the Unction in a Digital Landscape: Preaching, the Holy Spirit, and Emerging Technology
- Al Fasol - From Cogito to Video to Sentio Ergo Sum: Have Cultural Transitions Impacted Preaching?
- Brian T. Hartley - Worship and Preaching in a Technological Society: A History of the Word through an "Ongian" Lens
- Brian Larson - Movements and Points - Distinctions
- Wayne McDill - Low-Tech Preaching in a High-Tech Age
- Michael Quicke - Technologizing of the Word - Flight, Fight or Befriend?
