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Sep 2025
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The Effects of Preaching

LIGONIER MINISTRIES
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What effects should the preaching of God's Word have on us? Today, Sinclair Ferguson shares words of wisdom from Jonathan Edwards on the influence that faithful preaching should have on the way Christians think and feel.

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