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Mar 2025
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Take Up Your Cross

LIGONIER MINISTRIES
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What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? Today, R.C. Sproul does not shrink back from describing what we must be willing to endure if we are to follow Christ faithfully in this world.

Read the transcript: https://ligonier.org/podcasts/ultimately-with-rc-sproul/take-up-your-cross/

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