VITAL SERMON OF THE WEEK

How to Listen to Sermons

For the stylistic and energetic David Asscherick, of Kingscliff Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, it’s back to the basics in his “Church 101” series. Here, he says listening to sermons is not the exercise in passivity that we might think it is. All you have to do is stay awake, right? Wrong. There are skills to learn to extract the “full nectar” of sermons. Asscherick proceeds to tell us how. Ultimately, you ask yourself, “What is the word of the Lord to me today?"