The preaching of God's Word happens tens of thousands of times each week across the world. As these sermons are given, when the preacher is faithful to the text of the Scripture, it is as if God is speaking to the people of that given congregation. The question is, are people listening? Listening to preaching is more than showing up, sitting still, or even nodding one's head. It is taking that which is preached and applying it to life. Helping Johnny Listen is a book designed to help the average person who sits in the average church on the average Sunday take full advantage of the sermons they hear so that they are able to live what they hear. ""With all of the books written today for the preacher, Thad Bergmeier has provided a thoughtful and practical guide to all of us who listen to sermons. Finally, help has come to each of us who truly desire to be faithful hearers as our pastors are faithful preachers. Read this book because you desire to maximize the preached Word of God in your own Spiritual Walk."" --Richard Goertzen, Senior Pastor Grace Bible Church ""Thad Bergmeier uses pastoral insight, fatherly wisdom, and biblical depth to help contemporary Christians stop going through the motions of attending church and start rediscovering how to experience church. With simple yet powerful lessons on listening, focusing, and internalizing, Pastor Bergmeier re-energizes personal worship and individual spiritual growth."" --Dennis E. Hensley Taylor University ""Helping Johnny Listen is a book that is long overdue, an excellent addition to the literature on preaching, and covers a topic seldom dealt with in this detail. From a biblical, theological, and application-perspective Thad pastors the reader into how to prepare their heart and mind for the event of preaching. The practical guidance on how to listen to a sermon in order to gain the transformational impact of biblical truth is the best I have read."" --Jim Jeffery President, Baptist Bible College and Seminary Thadeus L Bergmeier holds degrees from Moody Bible Institute, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and is just finishing his Doctorate of Ministries from Baptist Bible Seminary. He has been in full-time pastoral ministry since 1999, serving in churches near Chicago, Cleveland, and currently in central Kansas.