This is The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. A faithful, biblical sermon has three basic elements: explanation, illustration, and application. As preachers, we are prone to skip over application or to do it wrong. It is critical that preachers take application seriously and work to do it effectively. How can I practice the ministry of application effectively? Appy the text. Pray for wisdom. Know your audience. Make pastoral applications. Ask probing questions. Craft your application. Illustrate for application. Address different categories. Apply throughout the sermon. Trust the Holy Spirit. BOOK RECOMMENDATION:...

But thanks be to God who, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Corinthians 15:57 A strange scene erupted at Badger Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. Over 60,000 University of Wisconsin fans watched their beloved football team get beat by Michigan State. The more their team lost, the more the crowd cheered. As it turns out, seventy miles away, the Milwaukee Brewers were beating the St. Louis Cardinals in game three of the World Series. The Badger fans celebrated a great victory they did not see despite the terrible loss right in front of them.  Here is...

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preacher faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, we are doing something a little different. Royland Kirkwood joins me on the podcast for the first time. Roy is one of the elders and pastoral staff members at Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, where is serve as Pastor-Teacher. We have served together for seven years now. He is a young preacher for whom I have high hopes and great expectations. During this conversation, Royland turns the tables and interviews me on preaching. This episode is part one of a two...

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preaching faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, we'll talk about pulpit ethics. Pulpit ethics are pulpit manners which include dos and don'ts for those who stand in corporate worship of God's people to preach the holy word of God. Whatever happened to pulpit ethics? We not longer have pulpits. We now have stages. We no longer have ethics. We now have platforms. We desperately need a recovery of pulpit ethics. What are the basics of pulpit ethics? Physical Posture Appropriate Attire Reverent Speech Nonverbal Communication Personal Distraction...

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, H.B. discusses why preaching matters. This may seem to be an obvious discussion, especially in a podcast dedicated to the subject of preaching. But the priority of preaching should not be assumed or neglected. You will face times when preaching is "out of season" (2 Timothy 4:2), and the centrality of the preached word will be attacked. If you lose your why, you lose your way. Why does preaching matter? the Bible commands preaching. Preaching honors divine authority. God saves...