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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...

Purify your mind by turning away from worldly entertainment. James 1:21 says, “Put aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.” How do you receive the implanted word? By putting aside all filthiness and wickedness. This is what makes the word “unreceivable.” It astonishes me how many Christians watch the same banal, empty, silly, trivial, titillating, suggestive, immodest TV shows that most unbelievers watch
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