On Preaching with 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. 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 struggle to understand the text, craft the message, or...

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, information, or resources, visit hbcharlesjr.com.   

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 outline benefits both the preacher and the heare...

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 show us that the Lord uses people with different...

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 context?  What is the grammatical structure? ...

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 preaching.  In conversation with other preachers. ...

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 interpretation of the text.  What vital statistics should yo...

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  Invitation  For information or resources, v...

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 illustrations.  Transparent illustrations. Discreet illust...

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 original languages.  To be more selective in the comme...

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 spiritual truth.  Preach lived truth.  For more...

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 work of biblical preaching involve?  Book Introdu...

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, confession, thanksgiving, & supplication) serves a...

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.com

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 information, visit hbcharlesjr.com

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 sermon organized clearly?  Where will this message...

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 truth from the traditions of the Roman Catholic Chu...

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 godl...

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 pastorall...

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 friendshi...

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 practic...

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....

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 li...

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 m...

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....