Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Today, we'll continue listening to Paul preach through selected Psalms, and in this sermon, Paul opens up Psalm 27 to preach about the gospel and suffering.

Here's Paul with a message titled, Beauty and Ugly.

Well, it was the kind of call no parent ever wants to get.

I was six hours outside of Philadelphia where I live, and I got

the call early in the morning from my wife, Luella. Luella is a very calm person. She's very

seldom ruffled. She's like this. I'm a very passionate guy.

I'm up and down all over the place.

But I could tell by her shaky voice

that something very serious had happened.

She told me that our daughter had been

an accident that I need to get home

as fast as I could.

Nicole had been walking down the street after work in Philadelphia.

A drunk and unlicensed driver lost control of her SUV, carined up on the sidewalk and

crushed Nicole against a wall.

She had massive injuries.

Eleven breaks of her pelvis alone.

Significant internal bleeding, the doctor said if it happened in the suburbs,

she would have made it to the hospital.

It seemed like forever to get to that hospital.

And I'll never, never, ever, ever forget entering that room, seeing the shattered body of my daughter, sustained by machines.

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