Post-Christian Communities Need a Different Approach.
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Preaching in a New Key charts a pathway for expository preaching in today’s culture. This is an introductory course on expository preaching for new preachers. And for seasoned preachers it’s an opportunity to recalibrate, as you seek to connect with contemporary listeners. If you have a preaching team, you can engage the course together!
INTRODUCING...
PREACHING IN A NEW KEY: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities
A Creative Challenge, and Opportunity!
People’s experience of faith today is often complex. Instead of listening for answers from scripture, many people bring questions about scripture. This makes expository preaching a creative challenge.
That’s where this course comes in. We cover practical strategies for moving from the text to the sermon. We also talk about beauty and creativity, the inner life of the preacher, preaching the violent texts, preaching to form the church as the beloved community, and more. This course goes hand in hand with Mark’s book, Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities.
SESSION #1
Composing:Â the nuts and bolts of preparing a sermon
SESSION #2
Deeper Context:Â understanding how people experience faith today, and learning to preach responsively
SESSION #3
Deeper Church: scripture isn’t so much addressing us as individuals, but shaping us as the beloved community.
SESSIONÂ #4
Deeper Interpretation:Â we examine biblical interpretation, which is our foundation for preaching. We shift some of the deep structures, and we offer a pathway for preaching the violent texts.Â
SESSIONÂ #5
Creativity & Heart:Â we explore the importance of creativity, and we show how preaching is heart to heart communication.Â
SESSIONÂ #6
Deeper Self: the inner life of a preacher—our spiritual, social, emotional, physical, sexual world—deeply shapes our preaching. We explore ways to preach from a place of holistic health.
I'M MARK.
Dr Mark Glanville works as the Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is an Old Testament scholar, and has written five books, including Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, and Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities. Mark’s vocational goal is to research, teach, write, speak, and play music to nourish Christian leaders to creatively reimagine what the church can be and do in post-Christian societies, with the Bible in our hands. Mark is also a professional jazz pianist, active on the Vancouver jazz scene. Mark’s podcast is Blue Note Theology—“The only podcast in the world hosted from the grand piano!” His personal website is: https://www.markglanville.org
"Preaching in a New Key is truly stunning! The layout, design, lyrical and practical prose is wonderful. I will be using it for my Introduction to Preaching Class. Glanville's work is light for all who seek a more excellent way."
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Otis Moss III
"Mark Glanville offers an amazing mix of theory and practice for the art of preaching Christ in a post-Christian world."