Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities
Ebook
An Expository Preaching Guidebook for Post-Christian Communities
Preaching must connect with its hearers. As the perception of the pastor has changed in recent years, and as congregations battle with increasing doubt, preaching appealing solely to rationality doesn't resonate in the same way as it once did. Post-Christian generations find themselves looking less for a charismatic authority figure and more for healthy leaders who are relationally connected to their neighborhood.
Scholar and pastor Mark Glanville provides a fresh look into the art of crafting sermons for post-Christian contexts. In Preaching in a New Key, he teaches the craft of Christ-centered expository preaching from the ground up. Writing for both new and experienced pastors, Glanville recognizes that it is time for us to reset our compasses.
Bringing together elements that are too often apart, Preaching in a New Key teaches expository preaching integrated with creativity, cultural discernment, pastoral health, justice, missiology, and more. Filled with helpful resources for seminary students and pastors alike, this book includes:
- Helpful visual aids to help prepare for writing a sermon
- Guides for how to structure a sermon
- Examples that show how to implement preaching practices
Preaching in a New Key offers a practical and refreshing vision for crafting sermons that are sustainable for the pastor and resonant with communities.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: Preach the Word
Part I: Deeper
1. Deeper Self: A Preacher’s Emotional Health
2. Deeper Church: Preaching to Nourish Our Shared Life
3. Deeper Context: Doubt in Post-Christendom
Part II: Craft
4. Composing
5. Artisan Skills
6. Playing with Heart
7. Preaching Sketchpad
Part III: Tradition
8. Learning the Tradition
9. Trusting the Tradition
10. Exegeting the Tradition
Part IV: Beauty
11. Creativity
12. Posture
13. Church
14. Justice and Violence
Conclusion
Appendix A: Preaching on a Theme
Appendix B: Preaching on a Short Text
Appendix C: Monday-Through-Saturday Vocations
Sidebar Notes
General Index
Scripture Index
"In a sea of 'how to' manuals, Preaching in a New Key offers a fresh approach to thinking about the importance of communication and the art of preaching. Through the lens of jazz as form, Mark Glanville gives pastors and teachers new ways to approach the sermon as a distinctly rhetorical act. This is a must-have tool in the toolbox of sermon delivery."
"In this creative and courageous rethinking of expository preaching, Glanville moves toward a style of preaching that is aimed at the flourishing of all things. Designed to make faith plausible to a new generation of listeners whose values are disconnected from the church, this book seeks to create communities of witness that are attuned to shifting cultures. This preaching is holistic and integrated, seeking to nurture the health of the preacher and the body of Christ. Concerned with beauty and justice, Glanville's approach to expository preaching will nourish our shared life."
"Mark Glanville offers an amazing mix of theory and practice for the art of preaching Christ in a post-Christian world. A great manual for how to craft preaching that is authentic, artful, contextual, and grounded in Scripture. A fresh approach to ministry of the Word in the twenty-first century."
"A brilliant and needed paradigm shift. There have been unintended consequences from some expository preaching that, in its desire to lift high Scripture, ended up neglecting the soul of the individual, the church body, and the community to which it is called. This book is a welcome corrective that doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Rather, it receives Scripture deeply into the soul of the preacher embedded in community and then creatively, communally, and specifically empowers the preacher to bear witness to the Living Word."
- Title: Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities
- Author: Mark R. Glanville
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781514011003, 9781514010990, 1514010992, 151401100X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781514011003
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-06-13T03:35:14Z
Mark R. Glanville (PhD, Bristol University) is associate professor of pastoral theology at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Old Testament scholar. He is the author of Improvising Church, Refuge Reimagined, Adopting the Stranger as Kindred in Deuteronomy, and Freed to Be God's Family.