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. Preaching in a New Key is an introductory course on expository preaching for new preachers. 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! 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.

What you'll get:

• There are six sessions: 

  Session 1. Composing: the nuts and bolts of preparing a sermon

  Session 2. Deeper Context: 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. 

  Session 4. Deeper Interpretation: 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. 

  Session 5. Creativity & Heart: we explore the importance of creativity, and we show how preaching is heart to heart communication. 

  Session 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.