Sermons Put You to Sleep? How To Love Lengthy Preaching

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one. You are God's, little G. You are gods because you came from God.
0:13.3	When I read in the Bible where he says, I am, I just smile and say yes, I am too. Why do people
0:18.4	have such a fit about God calling his man little gods?
0:22.6	God came from heaven, became a man, made man into little gods.
0:27.6	We have the potential and the capacity through a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ to know
0:32.6	God, but that does not mean we are God.
0:35.6	The Bible is very clear. There is only one God, and he will not we are God. The Bible is very clear.
0:37.8	There is only one God.
0:40.0	And he will not share his glory with another.
0:43.4	It's time for Rretched Radio with Todd Freel.
0:46.8	There's a fine line between a long sermon and a hostage situation.
0:53.2	But what you're about to see or hear is the pendulum swinging in the wrong direction.
1:00.5	Yeah, sometimes some preachers go too long, not looking in the mirror or anything,
1:08.8	but historically, sermons used to be lengthy and meaty.
1:16.2	Recently, and I'm talking about really since the introduction of the Seeker Sensitive Movement,
1:21.4	sermons have grown increasingly short, less didactic, very little theology, and more entertainment, and
1:31.1	filled with life hacks.
1:34.3	Recently, I'm not going to say the preacher's name who's been pastoring a megachurch in Texas
1:41.3	for decades, but let's just say he's not as young as he used to be.
1:48.6	Posted an Instagram video, encouraging pastors to land the plane after 20 minutes.
1:57.1	20 minutes, you'd think he was Lutheran or something.
2:00.1	Here's the preacher in his car.
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