Books
The Majestic Son: a commentary on Hebrews, Sydney, AIO, 1992.
Speaking God’s Words: A Practical Theology of Preaching, IVP, Leicester, 1996.
[American Edition of Speaking God’s Words, Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press, 1998.]
Revised edition of The Majestic Son, Sydney, Aquila Press, 2004.
[Speaking God’s Words, republished, Vancouver, Regent College Publishing, 2004.]
Hearing God’s Words: Biblical Spirituality, NSBT, Leicester, Apollos/Downers Grove IVP, 2004.
Written for Us: Receiving God’s Words in the Bible, Nottingham, IVP, 2008.
Peter Adam and Gina Denholm, eds., Proclaiming Christ: Ridley College Melbourne 1910-2010, Adelaide, OpenBook, 2010.
The Message of Malachi, The Bible Speaks Today, Nottingham, IVP, 2013.
Á l’écoute de la Parole de Dieu, tr. Christophe Paya, Charols, France, Excelsis, 2014, [French translation of Hearing God’s Words].
Walking in God’s Words: Ezra and Nehemiah, RBT, South Sydney, Aquila, 2014.
Malakį’nįn Mesaji, tr, Yeşim Mısırcı, Haberci, Istanbul, 2016. [Turkish translation of The Message of Malachi].
The Message of Malachi, [Chinese translation], Campus Evangelical Fellowship Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016.
Esther: For such a time as this, RTBT, South Sydney, Aquila, 2018.
The Majestic Son: a commentary on Hebrews, Second Edition, Aquila Press, Sydney South, 2021.
Prayerfulness: Cultivating a Bible-enriched prayer life. Matthias Media, Sydney, 2025.
Booklets
Living the Trinity, Nottingham, Grove Books, 1982.
Guidance, Nottingham, Grove Books, 1989.
Roots of Contemporary Evangelical Spirituality, Nottingham, Grove Books, 1989.
The Church ‘Halfly Reformed’ -The Puritan Dilemma, London, St. Antholin’s Lectureship, 1998.
Peter Adam, Alison Taylor and Richard Treloar, Making Connections: Theological Leadership in the Australian Church, Sydney, Anglican General Synod, 2001.
Word and Spirit: the Puritan-Quaker Debate, London, St. Antholin’s Lectureship, 2001.
To bring men to heaven by preaching: John Donne’s Evangelistic Sermons, London, St Antholin’s Lectureship, 2006.
Gospel trials in 1662: To Stay or To Go, London, Latimer Trust, 2012.
The ‘Very Pure word of God’: The Book of Common Prayer as a Model of Biblical Liturgy, London, Latimer Trust, 2012.
Lee Gatiss and Peter Adam, Reformed foundations, Reforming future: A Vision for 21st Century Anglicans, Watford, Church Society, 2013.
Biblical Insights on Church Music, South Brisbane, Mathew Hale Public Library, 2014.
Thomas Cranmer: Using the Bible to Evangelise the Nation, London, Latimer Trust, 2020.
Chapters in books
‘Jesus,’ in, David Atkinson and David Field, eds., The New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, Leicester, IVP, 1995, pp. 507-10.
‘The Preacher and the Sufficient Word,’ in Christopher Green and David Jackman, eds., When God’s Voice is Heard: Essays on preaching presented to Dick Lucas, Leicester, IVP, 1995, pp. 27-42.
‘Preaching and Pastoral Ministry,’ in Melvin Tinker, ed., The Anglican Evangelical Crisis, Fearn, Christian Focus Publications, 1995, pp. 124-43.
‘The History of Theological Education in the Diocese of Melbourne,’ in Brian Porter, ed., Melbourne Anglicans, Collingwood, JBCE, 1997, pp. 159-78.
‘The Trinity in Human Community,’ in Tim Bradshaw and Nigel Atkinson, eds., Grace and Truth, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1998, pp. 52-65.
‘Preaching and Biblical Theology,’ in TD Alexander, Brian Rosner, eds., The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Leicester, IVP, 2000, pp. 104-12.
‘Communion, virtue or vice?’ in Peter Bolt, Mark Thompson, and Robert Tong, eds., The faith once for all delivered, Sydney, ACR, 2005, pp. 71-76.
‘Theology in the life of the church,’ in B.N. Kaye, ed., Wonderfully and confessedly strange: Australian essays in Anglican ecclesiology, Hindmarsh, ATF Press, 2006, pp. 81-102.
‘Morris, Leon Lamb,’ in Donald K McKim, ed., Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, 2nd Edition, Downers Grove /Nottingham, IVP, 2007, pp. 751-55.
‘Liturgical Preaching,’ in K. Weller, ed., Please no more boring sermons, Brisbane, Simeon Society, 2007, pp. 67-78.
[‘Preaching and pastoral ministry’ republished as ‘Whatever happened to preaching?’, in K. Weller, ed., Please no more boring sermons, Brisbane, Simeon Society, 2007, pp. 13-28.]
‘”Preaching of a Lively Kind”: Calvin’s engaged expository preaching,’ in Mark D. Thompson, ed., Engaging with Calvin: Aspects of the Reformer’s legacy for today, Nottingham, Apollos, 2009, pp. 13-41.
[‘A Church “Halfly Reformed”: the Puritan Dilemma,’ republished in Lee Gatiss, ed., Pilgrims, Warriors, and Servants, London, Latimer Trust, 2010, pp. 185-216.]
‘The founding of Ridley College,’ in Adam and Denholm, Proclaiming Christ, pp. 13-30.
‘Ridley: the future,’ in Adam and Denholm, Proclaiming Christ, pp. 177-90.
[‘”To bring men to heaven by preaching”: John Donne’s Evangelistic Sermons,’ republished in Lee Gatiss, ed., Preachers, Pastors and Ambassadors: Puritan Wisdom for Today’s Church, St Antholin’s Lectures, Volume 2, 2001-2010, London, The Latimer Trust, 2012, pp. 261-92.]
[‘Word and Spirit: the Puritan-Quaker Debate,’ republished in Gatiss, Preachers, pp. 49-96.]
‘A University Student Address,’ in Keith Weller and Adrian Lane, eds., Better be a Good Sermon: Preaching for Special Occasions and Contexts, Brunswick East, Acorn, 2012, pp. 243-48.
‘Eighteen steps to prepare a sermon,’ in Weller and Lane, Good Sermon, pp. 285-98.
‘For the Anglican Diocese of Sydney Synod,’ in Weller and Lane, Good Sermon, pp. 271-76.
[‘Australia – Whose Land?’ republished in Bearings: Getting our bearings again in the light of the gospel, Helen Beazley and Dave Andrews, eds., West End, Frank Communications, 2012, pp. 179-202.]
‘The Pastor as Preacher,’ in Melvin Tinker, ed., The Renewed Pastor: writings in honour of Philip Hacking, Fearn, Christian Focus, 2012, pp. 67-82.
‘Calvin’s school of Christ for preachers,’ in Michael Parsons, ed., Aspects of Reforming: Theology and Practice in Sixteenth Century Europe, Milton Keynes, Paternoster, 2013, pp. 118-37.
‘The Atoning Saviour,’ in Michael R. Stead, ed., Christ died for our sins: Essays on the Atonement, Canberra, Barton, 2013, pp. 15-34.
‘Christ, eternal priest and sacrifice for sin,’ in Stead, ed., Christ died, pp. 121-41.
With John Dunnill, ‘A dialogue about penal substitutionary atonement,’ in Stead, ed., Christ died, pp. 142-71.
Consulting Editor for Lee Gatiss, ed., NIV Proclamation Bible: Correctly handing the word of truth, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2013.
‘From text to doctrine: the Bible and theology,’ in Gatiss, ed., Proclamation Bible, pp. xlvii-lii.
‘Ezra-Nehemiah,’ in Gatiss, Proclamation Bible, pp. 498-99.
‘Malachi,’ in Gatiss, Proclamation Bible, pp. 1038-39.
[‘Calvin’s preaching and homiletic: nine engagements,’ republished in Michael Parsons, ed., Reformation Faith: Exegesis and Theology in the Protestant Reformation, Milton Keynes, Paternoster, 2014, pp. 138-157.]
‘What is God’s word for these people?’ and, ‘If I perish, I perish,’ in Rhett Dodson, ed., Unashamed workmen: How Expositors Prepare and Preach, Fearn, Mentor, 2014, pp. 17-34 and 35-44.
‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer’, in Roland Ashby, ed., Heroes of the Faith, Mulgrave, Garratt, 2015, pp. 79-83.
‘Imagining our Anglican future’, in Lee Gatiss, ed, Positively Anglican! Building on the foundations and transforming the church, London, Church Society/Lost Coin Books, 2016, pp. 101-119.
‘Whitefield and Wesley on Sin and Atonement’, in Ian Maddock, ed, Wesley and Whitefield? Wesley versus Whitefield? Eugene, Pickwick, 2018, 124-143.
‘Galatians 3: “Hear the Scriptures! Receive the promise! Believe in Christ!”’, in DA Carson and J Robinson Sr, eds, Christ has set us free: Preaching and Teaching Galatians, Wheaton, Crossway, 2019, 65-86.
‘”Each in Our Own Language’”: The Translation of the Bible into Australia Indigenous Languages’, in PA Barker, and BS Billings, eds, Making the Word of God Fully Known: Essays on Church, Culture, and Mission in Honor of Archbishop Philip Freier, Eugene, Wipf&Stock, 2020, 133-58.
‘Expository Preaching in Historical Context: A Rich and Inspiring Resource’, in Chase R. Kuhn and Paul Grimmond, Theology is for Preaching: Biblical Foundations, Method, & Practice, Bellingham, Lexham Press, 2021, 155-178.
‘Where shall wisdom be found?’, in J Firth and PA Barker, eds, Honoring the Wise: Wisdom in Scripture, Ministry, and Life: Celebrating Lindsay Wilson’s Thirty Years at Ridley, Eugene, Wipf and Stock, 2022, 219-232.
‘Shaking the nations’, in Lee Gatiss, ed, A Month with the Messiah: Reflections on Handel’s Masterpiece, Watford, Church Society, 2024, 26-31.
‘Gospel trials in 1662: To Stay or To Go‘, reprinted in Lee Gatiss, ed, Pioneers, Contenders and Reformers: Exploring Puritan History, Theology, and Practice, St Antholin Lectures, 2011-2020, The Latimer Trust, London, 2026, 83-139.
Articles in Journals
‘The Child in the Church?’ Churchman, 91.4, 1977, pp. 318-28.
‘Arguments for expository preaching,’ Essentials, December 1999, pp. 5-7.
‘Avoiding boredom in preaching,’ Essentials, March 2000, pp. 5-8.
‘Honouring Jesus Christ,’ Churchman, 119/1, 2005, pp. 35-50.
[‘Honouring Jesus Christ,’ republished in St Mark’s Review, 198, 2005.1, pp. 11-18.]
[‘Preaching and Pastoral Ministry,’ republished on the website Biblical Theology Briefings, 2006.]
[‘Preaching and Pastoral Ministry’, republished in the Rutherford House Journal, 2006.]
‘Arguing for expository preaching,’ Rutherford Journal of Church and Ministry, 13.1, 2006, pp. 4-7.
‘Incarnational Theology for a Missionary Church,’ St Mark’s Review, 200, 2006, pp. 14-21.
‘God’s powerful words: Five Principles of Biblical Spirituality in Isaiah 55,’ SBJT, Vol. 10. No 4, 2007, pp. 28-37.
‘Finding the central ministry purpose of a book of the Bible, Part One,’ Essentials, Autumn, 2008.
‘Finding the central ministry purpose of a book of the Bible, Part Two – 2 Corinthians,’ Essentials, Winter, 2008
‘Power and Authority,’ St Mark’s Review, Sexual Abuse and the Church, 205 [2], 2008, pp. 51-68.
[‘Preaching of a Lively Kind’, republished in Proceedings of the Uniting Church Historical Society Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, 16.2, December 2009, pp. 59-96.]
‘Australia – Whose Land’, John Saunders Lecture, BriefCACE, 47, 2009, pp.1-8.
‘Christ and Creation,’ St. Mark’s Review, 212, 2010, pp. 101-16.
‘Education and Formation for Ministry in Theological Education Today,’ published on ACT website, 2010.
‘Calvin’s Preaching and Homiletic: Nine Engagements, Part 1,’ Churchman, Vol. 124, No. 3, Autumn, 2010, pp. 201-16.
‘Calvin’s Preaching and Homiletic: Nine Engagements, Part 2,’ Churchman, Vol. 124, No. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 331-42.
‘Communion, covenant, conflict, and cooperation,’ St Mark’s Review, 220, May 2012 [2], pp. 65-77.
‘May God’s Voice be Heard and Christ be Known: The Bible in Theological Education,’ Churchman, 126/3, 2012, pp. 199-214.
‘A Biblical Theology of Wisdom: the only wise God,’ Vox Reformata, 79, 2014, pp. 4-27.
‘Hearing and Heeding Australia’s Aborigines’ cry for justice,’ CASE, No 40, 2014, pp. 25-29.
‘Malachi as a model for preachers’, SBJT 20.3, 2016, pp. 27-48.
‘Sermon preached at the ordination of Richard Condie as Bishop of Tasmania’, Essentials, Winter Edition, 2016, pp. 10-13.
‘People From Every Language: Australia’s Indigenous Peoples and God’s Gospel Plan,’ in Vox Reformata, 83, 2018, 5-24.
‘Preaching in Australia Today’, in Essentials, Winter 2023, 5-6.
Theses
What kind of Christianity is 1 Peter? MTh Thesis, University of London, 1976.
The practice of the Imitation of Christ with special reference to the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, PhD Thesis, University of Durham, 1981.