#150 | My New Year Preaching Resolutions
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 27 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. 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 commentaries I read.
- To work harder at sermon application.
- To spend more time in the Old Testament.
- To preach less than I have in the past few years.
A Bonus: To spend time getting to know Bible software better.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. |
| 0:13.1 | The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:28.7 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about my New Year preaching resolutions. |
| 0:37.0 | See what I did there? Many people start the new year with resolutions. |
| 0:44.2 | These are their goals and plans and aims for the new year for themselves or their families or their |
| 0:52.9 | careers. You can be the judge of whether or not this is |
| 0:57.8 | valuable or effective, but the beginning of a new year is a natural time of reflection, and that |
| 1:09.1 | reflection should include our preaching. |
| 1:12.8 | Have you thought about ways that you specifically want to be growing, developing, and improving |
| 1:20.5 | in your proclamation of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ? |
| 1:25.6 | I have. |
| 1:27.2 | And I want to share with you my New Year preaching resolutions. |
| 1:32.7 | I have about seven of them I'll share with you. They are in no particular order. And the list is not |
| 1:41.5 | exhaustive. I'm sure that over the course of the year, there are going to be other |
| 1:47.4 | things not listed here, God willing, if God spares me, that I'll need to factor into my |
| 1:54.5 | pulpit ministry, my preaching work annually at some point, usually when I have read the major book on preaching |
| 2:05.4 | that I try to read each year I go through what I call my annual preaching crisis and some area |
| 2:11.5 | of my preaching against the way on me that I need to be improving on I expect all things being |
| 2:17.3 | equal that'll probably happen again this year but as I start the year that I need to be improving on. I expect all things being equal, |
| 2:17.7 | that'll probably happen again this year. |
| 2:20.1 | But as I start the year, |
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