Preaching in a New Key

Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities

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Pub Date Mar 11 2025 | Archive Date Apr 10 2025

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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.

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...


Advance Praise

"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

"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...


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