On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.

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? 

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

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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? 

1. Biblical Accuracy
2. Message Clarity 
3. Balanced Preaching
4. Sermon Length 
5. Pulpit Liberty 
6. Sermon Archives 
7. Ministerial Development 

Book Recommendations: 

• Preaching by Timothy J. Keller 
• From Embers to a Flame by Harry L. Reeder 

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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? 

1. Apply the text.
2. Pray for wisdom. 
3. Know your audience. 
4. Make pastoral applications. 
5. Ask probinh questions.
6. Craft your application. 
7. Illustrate for application. 
8. Address different categories. 
9. Apply throughout the sermon. 
10. Trust the Holy Spirit. 

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: "Preaching that Changes Lives" by Mike Fabarez

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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-Teacher. We have served together for seven years now. He is a young preacher for whom I have high regard and great expectations. 

During this conversation, Royland interviews me on preaching. This is part one of a two part conversation. We tacke five questions in this episode, five in the next. 

Roy pitches the following questions that I try to catch... 

1. What is preaching?
2. What do you think about the current state of preaching? 
3. What is yoru favorite area of church history? 
4. What bad sermons have you preached? 
5. Who are your five favorite preachers? 

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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 have stages. We no longer have ethics. We not have platforms. But pulpit ethics still matter. 

What are the basics of pulpit ethics? 

1. Physical Posture
2. Appropriate Attire
3. Reverent Spech 
4. Nonverbal Communication 
5. Personal Distraction 
6. Worship Participation 
7. Spiritual Sensitivity 

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: "Expositional Preaching" by David Helm 

"Expository preaching is empowered preachign that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of the biblical text. In that way, it brings out of the text what the Holy Spirit put there... and does not put into the text what the preacher things might be there." - David Helm 

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In this episode, H.B. reminds preachers that the priority of preaching must not ber assumed nor neglected, as preaching is under attack. If you lose your why, you lose your way. Remember why preaching the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ matters. 

Why does preaching matter? 

1. The Bible commands preaching.
2. Preaching honors divine authority. 
3. God saves through preaching. 
4. Preaching sanctifies God's people. 
5. Preaching cultivates biblical thinking. 
6. Preaching anchors corporate worship. 
7. Preachign models Bible study. 
8. Preaching epitomizes spiritual leadership. 
9. Preaching fues true revival. 
10. Preaching exalts Jesus Christ. 

BOOK RECOMMENTATION: Called to Preach by Steven J. Lawson 

"Preachers must give great attention to the structure of a passage because the Spirit has inspired not only its content but also its contours. The shape of a passage reveals the point of a passage, and the point of the passage must control the point of our message." - Jeff Wiesner 

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Preaching is preaching. It should not need adjectives, modifiers, or descriptors. Either it is preaching or it is not. However, if there is a term that should describe preaching, it is faithful. What is faithful preaching? In this episode of the podcast, H.B. Charles Jr. will discuss ten characteristics of faithful preaching. For more information, go to hbcharlesjr.com. Or you can find H.B. on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram @hbcharlesjr.

In this episode Pastor H.B. Charles shares a few tips to develop your preaching.  For more information or to follow Pastor Charles, visit his website: WWW.HBCHARLESJR.COM