On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr‪.‬ H.B. Charles, Jr.

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.  For more resources or information, visit hhcharlesjr.com

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.  For more information and resources, visit hbhcharlesjr.com

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.  For more information or resources, visit hbcharlesjr.com

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.  For more information and resources, visit hbcharlesjr.com 

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? 
Biblical Accuracy Message Clarity  Balanced Preaching Sermon Length  Pulpit Liberty  Sermon Archives  Ministerial Development  Book Recommendations: 
Preaching by Timothy J. Keller  From Embers to a Flame by Harry L. Reeder  For more resources and information, visit hbcharlesjr.com

This is The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. 
In this episode, H.B. talks about the ministry of application. A biblical sermon should consist of explanation, illustration, and application. 
We are prone to skip over application, or do it wrong. It is critical that preachers take application seriously and work to do it effectively. 
How can I practice the ministry of application effectively? 
Apply the text. Pray for wisdom.  Know your audience.  Make pastoral applications.  Ask probinh questions. Craft your application.  Illustrate for application.  Address different categories.  Apply throughout the sermon.  Trust the Holy Spirit.  BOOK RECOMMENDATION: "Preaching that Changes Lives" by Mike Fabarez
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