#180 | The Prayer-Saturated Sermon
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
4.9 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, H.B. discusses seven marks of a prayer-saturated sermon.
- Pray for wisdom as you plan the sermon.
- Pray for illumination as you study the text.
- Pray for obedience as you learn the truth.
- Pray for clarity as you craft the sermon.
- Pray for consecration as you prepare to preach.
- Pray for power as you preach the message.
- Pray for fruit after the sermon is preached.
For contact, information, and resources, visit hbcharlesjr.com.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:32.8 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about the prayer-saturated sermon. |
| 0:41.1 | Before we dig into our subject for this episode, however, let me take a moment to again introduce you to the Cutting a Straight magazine. This is a new magazine for preachers, pastor, teachers, Bible study leaders that talk about the life, leadership, and labor of biblical preaching and teaching. |
| 0:59.5 | In a real sense, the purpose of this magazine is the purpose of this podcast to help you to preach |
| 1:07.8 | faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 1:15.4 | I will be contributing sections to the magazine. |
| 1:21.6 | It is a quarterly magazine that will be available both physically and digitally. |
| 1:33.0 | And along with my contributions, there will be articles by a wide range of faithful men of God that will talk about how to view ministry from a biblical worldview, talking about practical matters |
| 1:41.7 | of sermon development and word work in your text and a toolbox with various |
| 1:49.4 | helpful material that will aid you in your own sermon development process if I may say |
| 1:58.3 | so I'm really excited about this new magazine. |
| 2:01.8 | The first issue is already out, and we are putting the finishing touches on the second issue of the CIS magazine. |
| 2:11.7 | And I hope you'll subscribe to Cutting a Straight magazine. |
| 2:15.7 | You can do so at cut straight.org. Or if you're not |
| 2:20.6 | an active pastor, you just happen to be listening to the podcast. How about getting one for |
| 2:28.5 | your pastor? It would be a great, great encouragement to them as well. So again, you can sign up or subscribe to the Cutting a Straight magazine at cut straight.org. |
| 2:43.0 | And may I also just ask you to pray for this endeavor as we take on this new project to serve the next generation of preachers and to raise up an army of faithful Bible expositors in this generation. |
| 3:01.4 | Let's get down to business. When I was a boy, my dad's dear friend a man who adopted me after my father's death would regularly say |
| 3:16.6 | that preaching and praying go together preaching and praying go together if there's going to be preaching in the |
| 3:27.2 | pulpit there should be praying in the pews I should also note that from |
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