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Take Care How You Listen: Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word is unavailable, but you can change that!

Skillful listening is a non-negotiable skill for everyone who enters a church building on Sunday or plays a sermon through headphones during the week. Scripture calls us not only to consider carefully what sermons we listen to, but also how we listen to those sermons. It is very easy to slip into what Scripture calls “dullness of hearing,” to hear the weekly sermons without faith, and to see...

Meditate on the Word of God. Read portions of your Bible with a view to stirring up hunger for God. How many of you have heard of the word “appetizer”? Most everybody. But how about the word “appetize”? No? Because it’s not in the dictionary. Well I hereby create the word! An appetizer is that which appetizes. To appetize is to awaken appetite. And that is what an appetizer is for. So if the sermon is the meal, the appetizer is the portion of the Word that you meditate on Saturday night and Sunday
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