#204 | Formal and Ongoing Preparation
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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A passionate preacher without a commitment to prepare is just a desire to perform. The call to preach comes with a call to prepare, and there are three ways a preacher must prepare himself.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. |
| 1:15.6 | And thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 1:26.0 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about three ways the preacher must prepare himself. |
| 1:30.7 | Three ways the preacher must prepare himself. Three ways the preacher must prepare himself. |
| 1:35.9 | Before we get there, however, let me recommend a resource to you. |
| 1:51.4 | There is an updated and revised version published by Crossway of John Piper's classic book Desiring God, Meditations on of a Christian Heateness. It's beautifully done. My previous version of this book was a softback book, but this is a beautiful edition, |
| 2:05.4 | and it has been updated and revised. And I think this is, when I say it's a classic book, |
| 2:13.5 | I mean by that it is a book that every preacher should read. I have almost a full row on my shelf |
| 2:22.0 | here of books by John Piper, but this is where you start reading John Piper. This is the foundational |
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