#207 | Effective Sermon Illustrations
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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A good sermon has explanation, application, and illustration. If you want to preach faithfully, you must work hard at illustration. Here are 9 essential places to look to improve your sermon preparation and ensure clear communication.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. |
| 0:19.2 | 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.co, |
| 0:50.9 | or find more information on the show notes of this episode. Check them out. |
| 0:57.9 | 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. |
| 1:15.5 | Good day, friends, and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 1:23.1 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about where to find sermon illustrations. |
| 1:26.4 | This is a question I often get. |
| 1:57.0 | Where can I find good sermon illustration material? We'll talk a little bit about that. First, let me recommend the resource to you. I want to recommend the latest book by Jared E. Alcantara, and it is entitled The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson, how America's most powerful black preacher became a forgotten man. |
| 2:07.6 | J.H. Jackson was, without a out, one of the most well-known, most powerful and influential black Baptist pastors of the previous century. He served a historic church in Chicago, Illinois, and led the National Baptist Convention for some 29 years, including those critical years of the civil rights movement. |
| 2:30.9 | And yet decades later, he is all but forgotten. |
| 2:37.5 | But Jared Alcantara has written a thorough work on his life and ministry and really juxtaposes his ministry to the work of Martin King and Gardner Taylor, who would go on to begin and lead the Progressive National Baptist Convention that put more emphasis on civil rights. |
| 3:02.5 | I think this is one of the most important books I've ever read on the story of the Black Baptist Church, the Black |
| 3:09.3 | Church over the last, and its story over the last 100 to 150 years. I think this says a lot about |
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