
Wretched Radio with Todd Friel
Sermons Put You to Sleep? How To Love Lengthy Preaching
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54 min·October 2, 2025
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Segment 1
• Sermons used to be long and weighty—now they’re shallow.
• Why do we tolerate hours of football but squirm after 20 minutes of preaching?
• Lloyd-Jones and Packer: urgent, doctrinal preaching isn’t optional—it’s essential.
Segment 2
• Why do you go to church—and what do you expect?
• Many show up with little thought, fueling shorter and shallower sermons.
• Preparation matters: pray, take notes, engage your Bible, fight distractions.
Segment 3
• Doctrinal truth without application leaves us wanting.
• Head and heart can’t be separated—truth must move affections.
• Don’t fall into ditches: emotionalism on one side, cold intellectualism on the other.
Segment 4
• Taliban shuts down internet, silencing women and education.
• Christianity uniquely dignifies women—seen even in witnesses to the resurrection.
• True flourishing for women and children is found only in Christ.
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