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You worked hard on that sermon. Did they actually hear it?
Clear Preaching is the podcast for preachers who are serious about closing the gap between what they meant to say and what their congregation actually heard. Hosted by Dr. Jonathan McClintock — preacher, pastor, sixteen-year homiletics instructor, and developer of the four-domain Clear Preaching Framework — each episode delivers practical, framework-driven teaching on the discipline of preaching with clarity.
Through solo teaching episodes, conversations with preachers and scholars, and real sermon analysis, Clear Preaching helps you develop clarity at every stage of the preaching process — from the moment you open the text in your study to the moment you close your Bible in the pulpit.
Whether you are stepping into the pulpit for the first time or have been preaching for decades — if you believe the message you carry is worth delivering as clearly as possible, this podcast is for you.
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32 episodes
since March 21, 2026
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Most pastors are already using AI somewhere in their sermon prep. In a December 2025 Barna survey, only 13 percent of American Protestant pastors said they use no AI at all. The question in front of every preacher now is where the line belongs.In this episode, Jonathan McClintock w…
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“If you keep going after you get to that peak, there is nowhere to go.”
In Episode 31, Jonathan sits down with Paul Pamer, senior pastor of the Apostolic Church in Barberton, Ohio and Men’s Ministries Director for the United Pentecostal Church International, for a conversation abou…
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Here is a test that takes about thirty seconds and will tell you the truth about your last sermon.
Take your movements and swap their order. Put movement three first. Put movement one last. Then ask yourself honestly... did anything break?
Because if you can shuffle them and the se…
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Three points and a poem. Point one, point two, point three. We have all done it, and most of us were taught to do it that way.
In Episode 29, Jonathan makes the case that one small word has quietly done damage to a lot of our preaching, and offers a replacement that changes how the…
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Most of us tell Bible stories the way we give driving directions. He went here, he said this, then this happened, and then Jesus did that. The congregation follows along, nods, and moves on, and the moment that should have stopped them cold goes by at forty-five miles an hour.
In E…
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Here is a question that sounds simple until you sit with it for a minute.
What do we preach?
Most of us have a quick answer. We preach the word. And of course we do. But here is the follow-up question that might not be so comfortable: how much of the word do we preach?
In Episode 2…
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"I learned to preach like I learned to swim. I fell in the creek and you gotta swim."
In Episode 26, Jonathan sits down with Jerry Jones — author, professor, and one of the most respected voices in Apostolic preaching — for a conversation about how preaching is actually l…
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Where does a sermon actually come from?
In this conversation, Jonathan sits down with Rev Jerry Jones, whose messages have shaped a generation — and asks the question most of us never get to ask: what was the genesis of that message?
Two sermons anchor the conversation. And in both…
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There will come a season in your ministry when you are not sure.
The work is hard. The fruit is thin. And somewhere in the middle of a Tuesday you are going to catch yourself asking the question out loud: Did I actually hear God on this?
When that season comes — and it will come — …
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"We can only go as high as our character is deep."
In this episode, Jonathan sits down with Darin Sargent — author, coach, and a friend of nearly thirty years — for a conversation that goes past sermon mechanics and into the thing most preachers actually struggle with.
An…
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