Suffering, Sovereignty and Parenting

Today as I pushed Elisabeth about town in her stoller, I listened to Steve Saint on Sovereignty, Suffering and the Work of Missions, part of the Desiring God national conference: Suffering and the Sovereignty of God.

As I listened, I wept. Steve Saint's father, Nate Saint, was martyred in Ecuador when Steve was only 5 years old. Steve lost his own daughter to an untimely death. Through it all, he magnifies the sovereignty of God in the way that it sustained him in and through those events. I highly recommend this as a lesson in true parenting - and missions.