We've posted a video of our Wednesday night study.
During this weeks Grace Group Pastor Brent continued his teaching on the Adamic Covenant. 

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Christian mothers, your child may be far away from the sheltering home, voyaging on the stormy sea, or dwelling in some distant climate beyond your voice. But he  is still within the reach of the mightiest power a mother can wield – the power  of prayer! And although you cannot throw around him your maternal arms to shield  him from the evil of the world, you can invest him with your wrestling believing  petitions, and secure on his behalf the Arm which encircles the globe, and is  mighty to save. Oh that the Church of God may be filled with such praying  mothers!
                                    
                                                    Octavius Winslow

  "It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine.  I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.  By this truth I make a pilgrimage into the past, and as I go, I see father after father, confessor after confessor, martyr after martyr, standing up to shake hands with me...Taking these things to be the standard of my faith, I see the land of the ancients peopled with my brethren; I behold multitudes who confess the same as I do, and acknowledge that this is the religion of God's own Church."  C.H. Spurgeon 

"Last Lord's day marked 39 years since the Supreme  Court decision of Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973). Since then women all  over the US have had legal abortions at various stages in their pregnancy. To be  precise, the number of abortions in America is now climbing over 50 million. 50  million deaths. 50 million lives taken. 50 million killings of the unborn. I am  not sure there has been anything this atrocious in human history." - Matthew Barrett

 * Here's the website of an organization that is engaged in the fight against these atrocities - www.care-net.org

 * Here is a link to Dr. Pipers sermon last week on the Sanctity of life 
                They Poured Out Inocent Blood - Psalms 106:36-39

"Blessed is the man who is driven by trouble to his knees in prayer." 
                    Complete Works of E.M.Bounds  pg.104  Baker

From the book "All Things For Good"  Pg.27-28 
Thomas Watson,   Banner of Truth
The subject matter is how affliction works for good.

"As it is our preacher and tutor- "Hear ye the rod" (Mic. 6:9).  Luther said that he could never rightly understand some of the Psalms, till he was in affliction. 
Affliction teaches what sin is.  In the word preached, we hear what a dreadful 
thing sin is, that it is both defiling and damning, but we fear it no more than 
a painted lion;  therefore God lets loose affliction, and then we feel sin bitter in the fruit of it.  A sick-bed often teaches more than a sermon.  We can  best see the ugly visage of sin in the glass of affliction.  Affliction teaches  us to know ourselves.  God makes us know affliction, that we may better know  ourselves.  We see that corruption in our hearts in the time of affliction,  which we would not believe was there.  Water in the glass looks clear, but set  it on the fire, and the scum boils up.  In prosperity a man seems to be humble  and thankful, the water looks clear, but see this man a little on the fire of  affliction, and the scum boils up- much impatience and unbelief appear. "Oh",  says the Christian,
"I never thought I had such a bad heart, as now I see I  have; I never thought my corruptions had been so strong, and my graces so  weak."

Grace and Peace - Pastor Brent DeJong