#142 | Question to Ask Before You Preach
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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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, 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 present the gospel?
- Have I prayed for divine help?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. |
| 0:12.3 | The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:27.3 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about questions to ask before you preach. |
| 0:38.1 | Questions to ask before you preach. |
| 0:40.8 | My wife is a cook. |
| 0:42.2 | I am not. |
| 0:49.7 | I eat, but I do not cook. |
| 0:51.4 | My wife cooks. |
| 0:56.0 | Neither one of us cooked when we got married 25 years ago, but when we began having children, |
| 1:00.0 | Crystal determined that she did not want her children raised on fast food. |
| 1:07.0 | And so she learned how to cook she taught herself how to cook and there are times to this day |
| 1:17.0 | where as she's cooking up something she uses me as her assistant and she'll tell me hey go check on this and tell me if it's ready i repeat i do not know |
| 1:33.7 | how to cook so i don't know but she gives me signs uh if if it's bubbling, if it's boiling. |
| 1:45.0 | She gives me these signs to look for. |
| 1:48.6 | And when I tell her what I see, she'll either say, |
| 1:55.2 | would you take that out for me then? |
| 1:57.3 | Would you turn it off? |
| 1:59.0 | Or she'll say, let it cook a little while longer she's a cook |
| 2:04.7 | and she knows what to look for to know when the meal is ready and in a sense as you prepare |
| 2:12.9 | the meal for the people that god has called you to serve weekend and week out, a part of that sermon |
| 2:20.1 | preparation process is knowing what to look for to know whether or not that meal, that sermon, |
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