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On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.

#135 | 50 Practical Preaching Tips

On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.

H.B. Charles, Jr.

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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. 

  1. Plan your preaching.
  2. Start preparing as early as possible. 
  3. Prepare when you are at your best. 
  4. Gather tools for sermon preparation. 
  5. Consult the best commentaries. 
  6. Read and reread the text. 
  7. Observe before you interpret. 
  8. Learn to learn quicker. 
  9. Give time for hte message to marinate. 
  10. Keep a good record of your study notes. 
  11. Preach the truth and tone of the text. 
  12. Write complete sermon manuscripts. 
  13. Write for the ear not the eye. 
  14. Strive for clarity. 
  15. Practice variety. 
  16. Don't assume anything. 
  17. Get good rest before you preach. 
  18. Saturate sermon preparation in prayer. 
  19. Make sure your title does not overpromise. 
  20. Preach the sermon, don't read it. 
  21. Be intentional about sermon length. 
  22. Show it to them in the text. 
  23. Present the gospel in every sermon. 
  24. Keep your introduction brief. 
  25. Only conclude the sermon once. 
  26. Make smooth transitions. 
  27. Don't be the hero of yoru illustrations. 
  28. Be careful of indecent exposure. 
  29. Use scripture for illustrations. 
  30. Ask probing questions. 
  31. Do not plagiarize. 
  32. Use quotations sparingly.
  33. Make eye contact. 
  34. Preach for a verdict. 
  35. Be yourself. 
  36. Guard your heart in the pulpit.
  37. Get honest feedback. 
  38. Preach to an audience of one. 
  39. Detemermine authorial intent. 
  40. Prioritize your quiet time. 
  41. Develop a sermon propositoin. 
  42. Think topics, not texts. Think series, not sermons. 
  43. Be specific. 
  44. Preach apologetically
  45. Find a homiletical hero. 
  46. Read books on preaching. 
  47. Preach with sincere passion. 
  48. Your sermon points should be necessary and natural. 
  49. Put application in your sermon points. 
  50. Live what you preach. 

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0:00.0

This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr.

0:13.0

The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

0:28.5

Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast.

0:34.4

In this episode, I'm going to give you 50 practical preaching tips.

0:36.8

Yep, you heard me right. 50 tips to help you preach faithfully, clearly,

0:41.9

and better. These tips are in no rank or order of importance. In fact, there really is no

0:52.5

structure to the list of advice here at all.

0:56.1

We'll jump from subject to subject.

0:58.6

Some will address your personal devotion.

1:02.6

Others will address the sermon preparation process and other pieces of advice will be about the preaching moment, the preaching act itself. And of course,

1:13.4

even though 50 pieces of advice may seem ambitious, this list is in no way exhaustive.

1:23.4

We'll still be just scratching the surface of things that we need to learn over a lifetime to preach well.

1:30.3

But I hope that somewhere in this list, you'll find something that will help you along the way as you preach and teach the word of God.

1:42.3

So let's plunge in.

1:44.9

50 preaching tips.

1:48.3

Number one, plan your preaching.

1:52.1

This is a simple piece of advice that will enable you to grow in your preaching.

2:00.5

You need to use the time you have to prepare to actually prepare,

2:04.6

not to find something to work on to prepare.

2:08.6

And so have a plan for planning your preaching.

2:12.6

It may be over course of several weeks, months,

2:16.6

or maybe a full outline of an entire year.

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