#202 | The Lonely Preacher
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
4.9 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Most of a pastor’s work is spent among the people—counseling, planning, and leading. But the most critical part of pastoral ministry is the work done in solitude.Get a new website, unlimited custom graphics, & full-service podcast production services at https://IncreaseCreative.Co/HBSubscribe to the Cutting It Straight magazine at https://CISmag.orgConnect with H.B. and access more resources at https://HBCharlesJr.comThe On Preaching Podcast is dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better.Hosted by H.B. Charles, Jr., Pastor-Teacher of Shiloh.Church in Jacksonville, Florida Produced by Luke Clayton and the team at IncreaseCreative.CoSHARE YOUR QUESTIONS, AND IT MAY BE FEATURED IN A FUTURE EPISODE.Drop a comment or go to https://ncrs.cc/opqa to ask your questions.
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| 0:00.0 | So, friends, this podcast started some years ago as a personal hobby. |
| 0:06.1 | It has become a little more than that. |
| 0:09.4 | Over the years of this podcast, I have basically done all of the work of the podcast by myself, show notes, recording, editing. |
| 0:19.6 | But I'm grateful that I have a new partnership with Luke Clayton |
| 0:23.9 | and the team at IncreaseCreative.co. They are helping me to produce each new episode of this |
| 0:31.9 | podcast. So this will, I hope, help us to publish on a more regular basis on Mondays |
| 0:39.6 | and will up the game on the quality of this podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Luke and his team does great, great work. |
| 0:46.3 | I'd love to commend them to you. |
| 0:47.8 | You could look them up again at increasedcreative.com |
| 0:50.9 | or find more information on the show notes of this episode. Check them out. |
| 0:58.0 | This is the On Preaching Podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. The podcast dedicated to helping |
| 1:04.4 | you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 1:12.5 | Good day, friends. |
| 1:17.3 | Thanks for listening to this episode of the Armed Preaching Podcast. |
| 1:25.4 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about something pretty interesting. |
| 1:31.3 | I want to talk to you about the aloneness of the preacher. |
| 1:41.1 | The aloneness of the preacher. I was recently in a conversation with a pastor, Pastor Michael Staten, who is the pastor of First Baptist Mustang in Oklahoma. |
| 1:47.8 | And he made a comment that the work of the pastor is among and alone. |
| 1:59.4 | Among and alone. Among and alone. |
| 2:02.3 | And that statement has stuck with me. |
| 2:06.4 | There is a real sense in which the work of the ministry is among the people. |
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