Take Care How You Listen: Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word

by John Piper

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).

Genres: Christian Living, Christian, Nonfiction, Theology, Christianity, Christian Non Fiction

59 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.), and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem.

John is the author of more than 50 books and more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren.

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Reviews

[Martins Martinsons · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maza un praktiska grāmatiņa, kas skaidro, ne tikai to, kāpēc ir tik svarīgi pareizi klausīties Dieva Vārda mācīšanā, bet sniedz daudzus labus padomus, kā mēs šim procesam varam pieiet apzinātāk.

Nebūsim kā bērni, kas dzer pienu. Tā vietā nobriedīsim, lai varam ēst cietu barību.

[Maria Adjini · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was too good. It opened my eyes to a lot of things that I thought I knew & a lot of questions on my heart. I know that the contents are going to change my life forever. 😭💓

[M a r m a v i · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.7

[Mark A Powell · Rating 5 out of 5]

On any given Sunday there are far more people listening to sermons than preaching them, yet it seems that most of the material about preaching is geared toward preachers. This collection of five unedited sermons spanning decades of ministry from Piper (who addresses preachers elsewhere) focuses on the art of hearing God’s Word. Filled with pastoral wisdom and advice (don’t stay up too late on Saturday!) this is a much needed look at an oft-ignored area.

[Bob Gooch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent little book about preparing yourself for listening to sermons, or any other biblical teaching.

The book contains five manuscripts of sermons on the subject given between 1984 and 1998.

This free ebook is available here:
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[Anete Ābola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Būtiski vārdi katram, kurš svētdien grasās doties uz baznīcu.

An important aspect of Saturday evening/Sunday morning for every christian. We should all be taught how to prepare for Sunday morning to glorify God with our listening to the sermon and how to biblically receive the Word.

[Julian]

An encouragement to be careful how we listen drawn from the sermons of John Piper

[Marguerite Harrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thankful for this book! Great short book to read and to learn from!