Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses biblical convictions for expository preaching. If you do not believe the Bible, you should not be in the pulpit! If you are to be a faithful preacher, you must know where you stand and why. What must y…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses ten ways to conclude a sermon. An effective sermon conclusion is brief, singular, and persuasive. What are the ten ways to conclude a sermon effectively? Summary Climax Application Challenge Solution V…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses the pitfalls of sermon preparation. Having no sermon plan. Busyness. Ministerial sloth. Not eliminating distractions. Starting too late. Neglecting the biblical text. Not allowing the text to speak to you…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses collecting study tools for biblical preaching. Build your library strategically. Start with the basics. Ask the help. Get the best works. Make friends with authors. Date before you marry. Buy individua…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. gives a brief tribute to the late John A. Reed Jr., who recently passed away. Dr. Reed was dear friends with H.B.'s father, and a father figure to H.B. after his Dad passed away. For more than six decades, John …

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. reflects on the first sermon he preached - forty years ago - August 26, 2024. The sermon was preached at a youth choir musical at the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, where H.B.'s dad - H.B. C…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses the words you should consider in your sermon text for further study. You should note these words in your observation of the text and study them in the interpretation phase of your word work. What words sh…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode of the podcast, H.B. interviews Derek W.H. Thomas, recently retired Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. The author of numerous books, Thomas is a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary an…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses a system of sermon preparation. Although the principles of sermon preparation are common, each preacher must develop, practice, and refine his own process for moving from text to sermon. What does a syste…

Welcome to The On Preaching podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode of the podcast, H.B. discusses the hard work of preaching. Effective preaching is text-driven, has a clear message, and involves hard work. Many congregations feel their pastors only work on Sunday, if then. That should …

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. talks about how to read the Bible effectively in the sermon preparation process. Read the Bible casually. Read the Bible continually. Read the Bible committedly. Read the Bible carefully. Read the Bible correctl…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses the objectives of the sermon. What is the difference between teaching and preaching? A sermon is characterized by proclamation, purpose, and persuasion. Regarding persuasion, you should consider three …

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. The three laws of real estate are location, location, location. Similarly, the three laws of proper Bible interpretation are context, context, context. A text without a context is a pretext. Context in biblical interpretation falls i…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. answers the question, What commentaries should I use? Biblical Commentaries Best Commentaries Helpful Commentaries Critical Commentaries Expository Commentaries Homiletical Commentaries Old Commentaries New Comm…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. The sermon preparation is a twofold process of getting the text right and getting the truth across. In terms of biblical exegesis (getting the text across), I commend to you the inductive Bible study process: Observation: What does t…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses theological disciplines for expository preaching. As a student and advocate of expository preaching, I believe that it is the most faithful way to handle God's word. The bottom line of this episode is tha…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. talks about how to find sermon illustrations. We preachers often look for illustrative material by subject (prayer, love, forgiveness, etc). But there is another way. You can also look for illustrations by focusing…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode of the podcast, H.B. discusses four sentences that will improve your preaching. That may seem to be a big promise. But carefully crafting these sentences will truly help you to get the text right and get the truth across…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses how to overcome sermon writer's block. Writer's block typically refers to authors, composers, or artists. But it can also happen to preachers, with the accompanying spiritual implications. You can struggl…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. interviews a new friend, Grant R. Castleberry, Pastor of the Capital Community Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grant is also the President and featured speaker/writer at Unashamed Truth. For contact, informat…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. gives several tips for stating the points, headings, or movements of the main body of your sermon. Effective sermons have clear structure. The structure of the sermon does not have to be explicit. But a good sermon…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses impactful sermons he has personally heard over the years. The sermons affirm the power of hearing the word of God preached. They remind us that the Holy Spirit is at work through our preaching. They also …

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the Podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses eleven questions you should ask to properly interpret your sermon text. What is the book about? What is the literary genre? What are the word meanings? What is the literal reading? What is the immediate c…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. talks about practical ways to learn to preach - or to preach better. How can I learn to preach better? By studying the Bible. Through prayer to God. By listening to good preaching. By preaching. By studying preachi…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses the importance of getting the vital statistics of a book of the Bible before you study individual texts in that book. Here's the principle: A proper introduction to the book leads to a proper interpretati…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses the elements of a sermon - a declaration of a biblical message. What elements should go into a sermon? Introduction Proposition Transition Explanation Argumentation Application Illustration Conclusion Inv…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. The three basic elements of a sermon are explanation, application, and illustration. In this episode, H.B. gives 25 tips for using sermon illustrations effectively. Purposeful illustrations. Strategic Illustrations. Personal illustratio…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. shares several new year preaching resolutions he is making to grow in his preaching in 2024. To be more prayerful in my sermon preparation. To finish my prepartion earlier in the week. To get sharper in the origina…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. issues a year-end challenge to preach the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Preach divine truth. Preach biblical truth. Preach gospel truth. Preach objective truth. Preach eternal truth. Preach spi…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. Good preaching is hard work. That hard work falls into three categories - the life you live, the text you select, and the message you craft. In this episode, H.B. focuses on the hard work of biblical interpretation. What does the word w…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses the priority of and the preparation for the pastoral prayer. The Pastoral prayer should be simple, direct, God-centered, scriptural, corporate, and spiritually focused. The A-C-T-S outline (adoration, con…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses seven ways to grow in your preaching in 2024: Read. Pray. Think. Write. Love. Rest. Live. For more information or resources, visite hbcharlesjr.comAv 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. interviews his friend, Victor Sholar, a graduate of The Master's Seminary and pastor of the historic Main Street Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. He has served Main Street since 2010. H.B. and Victor both con…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. gives seven reasons why preachers shoudl give thanks to God. Redeeming Love Ministerial Call Public Ministry Spiritual Growth Gospel Progress Ministerial Challenges Sustaining Grace For more episodes, resources, or…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this interview, H.B. interivews Toussaint C. Adams, lead pastor of the Watson Memorial Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. A graduate of The Masters' Seminary, Adams is a faithful pastor and preacher. In this discussion, talks ab…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. gives seven questions to ask before you preach: Why have I chosen this text to preach? Do I properly understand this text? What is the main idea of this sermon? How does the meaning of the text apply? Is this sermo…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preaching faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. interviews Mike Gendron, president of Proclaiming the Gospel, and author of "Preparing for Eternity" and "Contending for the Gospel." Mike has spend many years proclaming the biblical gospel and defending the tr…

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 te…

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 scri…

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 person…

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 char…

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…

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 prepart…

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 …

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 stan…

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 take…

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 applic…

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, we are doign something a little difference. Royland Kirkwood joins me on the podcast for hte first time. Roy is one of the elders and pastoral staff members at Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, where I serve as Pastor-Teac…

128 | On Pulpit Ethics Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. Whatever happened to pulpit ethics? Pulpit ethics are pulpit manners which include dos and don'ts for those who stand in corporate worship to preach God's word. Unfortunately, we no longer have pulpits. We now hav…