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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...

The Christian life is first and foremost a life of contemplation—listening to Jesus, considering Jesus, fixing the eyes of the heart on Jesus. Everything else in the Christian life grows out of this. Without this the Christian life is simply unlivable. This is why the next phrase in verse 1 is a warning: “For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” The first reason for paying close attention to what we have heard in God’s word through his
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