Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, I want to talk to you about my sermon preparation hacks. Every preacher should have an intentional sermon preparation process. This process should include standard elements, which include reading deeply, recording carefully, and reflecting prayerfully. But these standard elements should be personalized. As you prepare to preach, do what works best for you!   What are the sermon preparation hacks I use to get ready to preach the word?   I prepare a study file with all of the...

  Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.  In this episode, I want to talk to you about preaching under pressure. In every life, some rain must fall. So it is with every ministry. For that matter, there will be times when the rains fall, the winds blow, and the floods rise. The pastor-teacher is foolish to think that you can make it through ministry preaching under blue skies of congregational peace. There will inevitably be times when you will have to preach under pressure. How do you faithfully preach...

                Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, I want to talk to you about five neglected tools for sermon preparation. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. - 2 Timothy 2:15 Every workman needs tools to accomplish his work, including preachers. Especially preachers. Books are a preacher's tools. Effective preaching requires specialized tools. But no preacher should neglect the most...

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better.  In this episode, I want to offer several answers to the question of how long your sermons should be. Congregations' views on sermon length have changed. Should yours? There was a time when, if I was asked how long my congregation's worship services lasted, I answered, "Until they are over." If asked how long I preached, I answered, "Until I'm finished." Those were bad answers twenty years ago. They are even worse answers now. Time is your members' most important commodity. It is...

Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better.  It's good to be back! In this episode of the podcast, I want to you to offer you several tips for effective preaching as an associate minister. The pastor-teacher of a local church is entrusted with a crucial stewardship. He will answer to the Lord about his charge to preach the word in season and out of season (2 Timothy 4:1-2). The associate minister also has a great responsibility. You may not be the main weekly preacher. But you should make the...

Welcome to episode #54 of The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you to preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, I want to talk to you about being an effective guest preacher.     Question What do you think are the keys to being an effective guest preacher?  Recommended Resources On Preaching by H.B. Charles Jr. On Pastoring by H.B. Charles Jr.   The Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference will take place September 19-21, 2017, at the Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, Florida. This conference is designed to train, model, and promote biblical teaching and preaching. There are also tracks for student ministry, women’s ministry, Christian...

[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"] [et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Welcome to THE ON PREACHING PODCAST, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, I talk to Pastor Herb Reavis Jr. about preaching and preachers. For the past twenty-six years, Herb Reavis has served as Pastor of the North Jacksonville Baptist Church, in the same city where I live and minister. Reavis was born and raised in the panhandle of Texas. He is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute, Milligan College, and the Southern Baptist School for Biblical Studies. He and his wife Lisa have...