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May 2025
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Looking to Our Loving Father

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The devil's deceptions can be so enduring that many Christians doubt whether God truly is their kind and generous Father in heaven. Today, Sinclair Ferguson explains the advice of John Owen to "eye the Father as love."

Read the transcript: https://ligonier.org/podcasts/things-unseen-with-sinclair-ferguson/looking-to-our-loving-father/

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