Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. There are three common traps that

believers tend to fall into when in a season of suffering. In today's episode, we're going to listen to a session from Paul's conference when suffering enters your door.

In it, Paul wants to help us avoid these traps the next time we experience suffering.

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Here's Paul with three traps of suffering.

Well, I think that we are about to look at something incredibly important,

and I want to just lead us in prayer.

Lord, we are so thankful that as we open our hearts to what is a difficult thing to consider,

that we can come to you,

you who have firsthand experience of suffering,

that this conversation isn't alien to you.

And that your suffering was for our benefit, so that in our suffering we would have everything that we need.

Open our hearts to you and your word this evening we would be so bold as to pray that this would not just be

an evening of information about suffering but would actually lead for us into heart and life

transformation thank you in Jesus name amen I'll never forget this day it would be impossible Thank you. In Jesus' name, amen.

I'll never forget this day.

It would be impossible for me to forget.

I got the call that no parent ever wants to get.

I was in Virginia.

We live in Philadelphia, and Luella, my dear wife called and said, get home as fast as you can, Nicole has been in a terrible accident, our daughter.

It seemed like days that it took me to get home.

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