Foreword: Filled to starving / Jonathan Fisk -- Is there a text in this sermon? : a Lutheran survey of contemporary preaching methods / John Bombard -- Certainty in the sermon : patterns of preaching from Peter and Pentecost / Mark W. Birkholz -- The Israel of God in the sermon : connecting Old Testament texts to New Testament people / Paul M.C. Elliott -- Nicholas of Cusa and the Reformation of preaching / Richard J. Serina Jr. -- Systematic theology and preaching in the thought of John Gerhard / Roy Axel Coats -- Assuring the faithful : on faith and doubt in Lutheran preaching / Jacob Corzine -- The difference of differentiating address : the "we," "I," and "You," of preaching, and the gospel as the gospel / Jonathan Mumme -- Preaching as foolishness / Steven Paulson -- Paraenesis in preaching : some systematic-theological considerations for a homiletical problem / Hans-Jörg Voigt -- Liturgical preaching : the pitfalls and the promise / John T. Pless -- The real presence and liturgical preaching / John W. Kleinig -- The preacher's tongue and the hearer's ear : compelled by the Spirit / David Petersen -- Gloomy revelations or comforting doctrines? / Esko Murto -- Learning to lament : preaching to suffering in the lament Psalms / Jeremiah Johnson -- The preacher as physician for the sick in spirit / Jakob Appell -- Present preaching / Daniel J. Schmidt -- The path from the text to the sermon : a German preacher takes stock of methods from America / Gottfried Martens.