Preaching in a New Key - by Mark R Glanville (Paperback)

About the Book

As perceptions about pastors change and doubt increases, post-Christian generations find themselves looking less for a charismatic authority figure and more for healthy leaders. Scholar and pastor Mark Glanville provides a fresh look into the art of crafting sermons for both new and experienced pastors seeking to preach in sustainable and resonant ways.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Preaching in a New Key is truly stunning! The layout, design, and lyrical and practical prose are wonderful. I will be using it for my introduction to preaching class. Glanville's work is a light for all who seek a more excellent way."

--Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ and author of Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World

"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."

--Toni Kim, director of spiritual care for the National Association of Evangelicals

"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."

--Joy E. A. Qualls, author of God Forgive Us for Being Women: Rhetoric, Theology, and the Pentecostal Tradition

"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."

--Sarah Travis, Ewart Professor of the Practice of Ministry and Faith Formation at Knox College, University of Toronto

"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."

--Michael F. Bird, deputy principal at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia

About the Author

Dr. Mark Glanville works as the Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrews Hall, 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, which he hosts from the grand piano. His personal website is https: //www.markglanville.org.