#160 | 4 Sentences That Will Improve Your Preaching
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 23 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 of the podcast, H.B. discusses four sentences that will improve your preaching. That may seem to be a big promise. But carefully crafting these sentences will truly help you to get the text right and get the truth across.
What are the four sentences that will improve your preaching?
- The Text Summary
- The Main Idea
- The Probing Question
- The Transitional Sentence
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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. |
| 0:27.9 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about four sentences that will improve your preaching. Now, I'm not big on fancy titles. |
| 0:43.3 | I don't think titles should overshare, and I don't think I'm being guilty of that in this particular title. |
| 0:51.3 | I really do believe that if you work hard at crafting these four sentences |
| 0:57.8 | that we will discuss, if you work hard at shaping, crafting these four sentences, it will improve |
| 1:07.6 | your sermon preparation. And as a result, it will also improve your sermon preparation, and as a result, it'll also improve your sermon delivery. |
| 1:16.7 | Why do these four sentences matter? For two reasons that I would give. You have two goals |
| 1:25.8 | in preaching. You want to, number one, get the text right, and number two, get the truth across. |
| 1:36.3 | Most preaching fails in one of those two practical goals for pulpit ministry. There is preaching that does not get the text |
| 1:47.4 | right. Either the text is ignored as a preacher reads that text and then goes on to talk about |
| 1:59.0 | everything in the world except the text that he calls. |
| 2:04.0 | But not only are there preachers who ignore the text, there are preachers who, worse, abuse the |
| 2:11.0 | text. They twisted, manipulated. They corrupt the message of the text in order to say what they had already |
| 2:23.6 | intended to say. And then there are those who expose the text. This is why I am a student and an |
| 2:33.1 | advocate of expository preaching. I truly believe |
| 2:36.1 | that this is the most faithful manner to handle the word of God. To do your work, your word work |
| 2:45.2 | to properly understand the God intended meaning of the text, the authorial intent of the text, and then to craft the message |
| 2:56.3 | around the content and the intent of the text. And so on one hand, you want to get the text |
| 3:04.7 | right. But on the other hand, you want to get the truth across. It really doesn't matter, |
| 3:12.4 | friends, if you've done all of this labor in your exegetical studies and then you get into the |
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