Take Care How You Listen: Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word
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 little or no moral fruit in our lives as a result. As Jesus makes clear, ultimately it is how we hear that reveals who we are (John 8:43, 47, 10:4, 27).
Take Care How You Listen is an ebook on listening well. It is comprised of five unedited sermon manuscripts from the preaching ministry of Pastor John. We pray this resource will serve your personal reflection as you heed Jesus’ command to “take care how you listen” (Luke 8:18).
Top Highlights
“‘If it is not softening and saving and healing and bearing fruit, it is probably hardening and blinding and dulling.’” (source)
“Meditate on the Word of God. Read portions of your Bible with a view to stirring up hunger for God.” (source)
“the parables are part of Jesus’ concealing and hardening ministry as well as part of his revealing and saving ministry.” (source)
“Purify your mind by turning away from worldly entertainment.” (source)
“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.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Take Care How You Listen: Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word
- Author: Piper, John
- Publisher: Desiring God
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 2012082200002
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