On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.

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#140 | Preparing Your 2024 Preaching Calendar Oct 24, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfullly, clearly, and better.

The new year is coming, now is the time to plan your preaching calendar for 2024. In this episode, H.B. gives practical advice for planning your preaching.

Pray.
Mark special days.
Plan not to preach.
Review past sermons.
Charge new terrorities.
Plan sermon series.
Consult godly counselors.

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#139 | The Public Reading of Scripture Oct 17, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

In this episode, H.B. talks about the place and priority of the public reading of scripture in corporate worship.

How can you make the reading of God's word more meaningful?

Read scripture accurately.
Read scripture regularly.
Read scripture conscutively.
Read scriptural pastorally.
Read scripture clearly.
Read scripture reverently.
Read scripture confidently.

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#138 | Free Advice to Young Ministers Oct 09, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

In this episode, H.B. gives free advice to young ministers who aspire to pastoral ministry.

Go to school.
Make sure your wife is on board.
Respect your pastor.
Preach as oftne as possible.
Be willing to serve anywhere.
Prioritize personal devotions.
Nurture ministerial friendships.
Read.
Live the life.

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#137 | Simple Preaching Oct 02, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preacher faithfully, clearly, and better.

In this episode, H.B. talks simple preaching. The nature of scripture is clear (2 Timothy 3:16). The purpose of preaching is to be understood. Jesus himself modeled simple preaching. Throughout history, strong preachers have been characterized by simple preaching.

How can I practice simple preaching?

Bible Exposition
A Single Text
Proper Interpretation
A Clear Structure
A Bid Idea
A Gospel Focus
The Target Audience
Plain Language
Conversational Style
Believing Prayer
Godly Humility

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#136 | A Process for Text-Driven Preaching Sep 18, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

In this episode, H.B. Charles Jr. discusses a ten-step process for text-driven preaching - a practical way of going from text to sermon in preparation and preaching.

Choose the text strategically.
Study the text diligently.
Approach the text prayerfully.
Read the text devotionally.
Interpret the text accurately.
Apply the text pastorally.
Craft the text homiletically.
Present the text clearly.
Declare the text passionately.
Preach the text faithfully.

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#135 | 50 Practical Preaching Tips Jul 26, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

In this episode, I want to offer you fifty practical tips to help you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. These pointers are not in any order of importance. They cover a range of subjects related to personal devotion, sermon prepartion, and pulpit ministry. And, of course, this list is not exhaustive. But I hope you fine some of these words of advice helpful as you prepare and preach.

Plan your preaching.
Start preparing as early as possible.
Prepare when you are at your best.
Gather tools for sermon preparation.
Consult the best commentaries.
Read and reread the text.
Observe before you interpret.
Learn to learn quicker.
Give time for hte message to marinate.
Keep a good record of your study notes.
Preach the truth and tone of the text.
Write complete sermon manuscripts.
Write for the ear not the eye.
Strive for clarity.
Practice variety.
Don't assume anything.
Get good rest before you preach.
Saturate sermon preparation in prayer.
Make sure your title does not overpromise.
Preach the sermon, don't read it.
Be intentional about sermon length.
Show it to them in the text.
Present the gospel in every sermon.
Keep your introduction brief.
Only conclude the sermon once.
Make smooth transitions.
Don't be the hero of yoru illustrations.
Be careful of indecent exposure.
Use scripture for illustrations.
Ask probing questions.
Do not plagiarize.
Use quotations sparingly.
Make eye contact.
Preach for a verdict.
Be yourself.
Guard your heart in the pulpit.
Get honest feedback.
Preach to an audience of one.
Detemermine authorial intent.
Prioritize your quiet time.
Develop a sermon propositoin.
Think topics, not texts. Think series, not sermons.
Be specific.
Preach apologetically
Find a homiletical hero.
Read books on preaching.
Preach with sincere passion.
Your sermon points should be necessary and natural.
Put application in your sermon points.
Live what you preach.

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#134 | What Is Preaching All About? Jul 04, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

What is preaching all about? There are nine answers to this important question in 2 Timothy 4:1-5.

Preach the word.
Be ready in season and out season.
Reprove.
Rebuke.
Exhort.
Always be sober-minded.
Endure suffering.
Do the work of an evangelist.
Fulfill your ministry.

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#133 | Preaching Hurt Jun 20, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

It has been said that you should preach to broken hearts, as there is one in every pew. But what do you do when the broken heart is in the pulpit?

There are times when the preach goes to the pulpit with great joy. He cannot wait to stand to preach. He can barely stand as he preaches. He feels he will float away as the Holy Spirit holds him up in the pulpit.

Those good times in pulpit ministry won't last forever. There will be times when the preacher must drag himself to the pulpit with a troubled mind, a weary spirit, and a broken heart. If you remain in ministry long enought, you will have to preach your way through personal, family, and even church hurts.

How do you preach when you are hurting?

Be honest with yourself.
Pray without ceasing.
Talk to someone you trust.
Preach consecutive messages.
Preach the gospel to yourself.
Don't use the pulpit to vent.
Take a break from preaching.

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#132 | My Complicated Relationship With Sermon Manuscripts May 29, 2023

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Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

In this episode, I want to talk to you about my complicated relationship with sermon manuscripts. At this point, I am a conflicted manuscript preacher. I write a full sermon manuscript each week. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have taken the manuscript to the pulpit. On one hand, I feel like preaching from a sermon manuscript is helping my preaching. At the same time, there are ways In which I feel the manuscript hinders my preaching.

What is my current view of preaching from sermon manuscripts?