Monday, January 30, 2012

Real Marriage Course begins Friday!

 We are super excited about the upcoming marriage course we're hosting at Seniors on the Bow @ Spray Lakes Sawmills Rec. Centre beginning this Friday night.  We have 16 people signed up with room for one more couple (or two singles), so if you're in the area and are interested in doing a great marriage course, please drop us a line.  This course is sponsored by Hill Country Church, the cost to you is nothing!  Show up, pick up your books, and start your marriage anew (or build a solid foundation for your upcoming marriage).  Here's a clip from session #2.  Enjoy.

You can reach us by phone at 403-932-0519, or email us at hillcountryreformed@gmail.com.  We are also excited by our relaunch of our website.  It will be highly interactive and easily navigated.  We'll let you know when we launch it!



Sunday, January 29, 2012

What are you trying to hide? (John 4:16-26)


One of God's attributes is that of omniscience.  While we like to give a nod of our heads to this attribute, most of us don't live life according to a proper understanding of this attribute.  What do I mean?  If you've been to a church longer than 5 minutes, you'll notice something that is quite bothersome.  Our churches tend to be full of people that "have it all together."  As one of my new friends has pointed out, one of the most frustrating things about church is that time and again he feels like he's the only one in the place that is a mess!  I can feel his pain as I often have experienced the same thing.  I once even cried aloud in a public place during a men's group meeting "Am I the ONLY ONE who's screwed up here?!"  I wasn't trying to be a drama queen, I was just sick and tired of the shiny-plastic faces and the shallowness of the whole thing.  Everything felt so superficial.  I didn't want that, I wanted real, warts and all!  What we can see from the woman at the well in John's gospel in chapter 4, real is the very thing Jesus wants from us.

Jesus asks the woman to go and fetch her husband, knowing full well she wasn't married.  What was her response?  "I have no husband." (John 4:17).  Interesting.  I guess we can say it's only natural that a person in her position wouldn't exactly open up to a stranger (especially a Jew) about her life story, but she certainly didn't disclose the whole truth here, did she?  She was hiding the fact that she is shacking up with a guy that's not her husband and this isn't her first boyfriend.  She was trying to hide her shame from Jesus, but being God incarnate, she couldn't hide anything.
Isn't this precisely what we often do?  We walk a certain way, we talk a certain way, but our reality can be quite different from what we want to show others.  Maybe it's due to the fact we haven't addressed our issues yet, or even more telling, we don't know how!  So the solution is to cover them up and pretend that our world is all good.  We don't like to think of ourselves as sinners, so we deny our issues, or downplay their importance.  

The problem with this of course is that God can see everything.  We cannot hide anything from Him, and anyone who tries to deny or cover up sin is unable to come to God.  The first step in coming to Christ is having the acute understanding of our issues and that we need His help.  This is called repentance.  If we don't repent, if we can't admit to ourselves and to others of our shortcomings, then we are also unable to come to Him.

So the question is "What are you trying to hide?"  God can see everything, just like He showed the woman at the well.  He strips away your self-righteousness and lays bare your life (Heb. 4:13).  You can do this now unto the path of salvation, or you can do so after death, unto eternal damnation.  One way or another, the day is coming where you will give an account.  Best to do so now.


Thursday, January 26, 2012

You Gotta Write Down the Lies (Mark Driscoll - Real Marriage)




This is a clip of the end of session #2 of Real Marriage.  We start our course here in Cochrane starting Feb. 3rd, and we have enough room for one or two more couples.  If anyone is interested in joining us for the study, the cost is free and we'd be more than happy to have you.  Enjoy.




Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mark Driscoll responds to the critics of Real Marriage


Below is a copy of Mark Driscoll's response to the criticism that he and his wife have faced since the release of their new book and marital study called Real Marriage.  We at Hill Country Church are holding a marriage course using this material, and thusfar I haven't read anything that I have found offside.  Then again, I haven't read chapter 10 yet.  Here's the article.

You try to write a book on marriage and sex with your wife and next thing you know there are a lot of ants crashing your picnic.
My wife, Grace, and I recently published "Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together," which quickly became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller.
In it, we’re brutally honest about our past struggles, share the lessons we learned along the way and talk frankly about sex. Criticism has ensued.
If you wish to find that criticism, just do a Google search. You’ll find plenty. My intent here is not to name names and pick a fight with my critics, but to provide context on why there is criticism.
We knew before we wrote the book that we’d catch a lot of flak, especially on the chapters dealing with sex. We also knew the criticism would come from every direction, as some people would think we went too far and others would think we didn’t go far enough.
But we wrote it anyway. Why? Simply put, we want to help marriages — and single people aspiring to marry — and we wanted to do so in a way that is practical, biblical and applicable to the reality of today’s culture.
If the book accomplishes that, we’ll take the criticism in exchange for helping people. We don’t think our book is perfect and we tell folks upfront (literally in the preface) to take what is helpful and leave the rest.
The book identifies three ways people tend to view sex: as gross, as a god and as a gift.
Sex as gross
Some people are very uncomfortable talking about sex, even with their spouses.
Many Christians, because of upbringing and past church experiences, view sex as gross and something that should not be talked about in public.
Unfortunately, this view is pervasive in the church. Many couples have honest questions about sex and various sexual acts but struggle to find a pastor willing to teach on these topics.
With nowhere else to turn, these couples find wrong and damaging answers in magazines, television, movies, porn and more.
The practical result is that couples divorce their sex from their spirituality, talking to their pastors about “spiritual” issues and ordering their love life around advice from “secular” sources.
Next time you’re in line at the grocery store, read the headlines on the women’s magazines that are shouting at little kids standing in line with their parents. Our culture has made the wrong answers about sex far easier to find than the church has made the right answers to find.
Those who view sex as gross criticize our book because we speak too openly and frankly about sex for their taste. The accusation is that the private counsel that pastors give to people in the church isn’t suitable to give in a public context.
But many critics tend to want to debate nuances of theology rather than engage head-on the practical realities that many people are facing.
I’ve written systematic theology books with hundreds of footnotes. "Real Marriage" is not that kind of book. It’s a practical book rooted in the Bible.
We call everything a sin that the Bible does and we give directives for married couples to use wisdom and conscience in discussing what they do and do not want to do sexually on matters to which the Bible doesn’t speak.
Because we believe the Bible is God’s perfect and sufficient word, we don’t want to add to it what we want or the archconservative Christian culture wants.
Conversely, we don’t want to remove anything from it just because some people find it uncomfortable.
People in our churches are dealing with the issues discussed in "Real Marriage," and to pretend these aren’t real issues and to avoid talking about them is akin to closing your eyes and declaring that you don’t see the need we are serving. If ministry leaders don’t address these issues in some way, we’re religious cowards who do a disservice to our church.
Before we get to the trickiest sexual questions, based upon what many people are already doing, our book deals with marriage in the context of friendship, men’s and women’s roles and responsibilities and how to deal with sin so that marriage gets better rather than bitter.
When we do get around to evaluating sex acts, we ask three simple questions, based upon 1 Corinthians 6:12 in the Bible: 1. Is it lawful? 2. Is it helpful? 3. Is it enslaving?
Each of these questions leaves room for couples to be grownups and to determine what works for them sexually by allowing them to examine their hearts and the scriptures – and to act according to their consciences on whether they wish to participate in sexual activities that the Bible neither forbids nor condones.
While it may be fun for bloggers and critics to discuss these things, our hope was that couples would instead be the ones having these conversations to build their marriages in ways that don’t pressure, abuse or use one another.
Sex as a god
There are some who think about almost nothing else but sex, treating it as a kind of god. This can happen in the form of addiction to sex or porn, severe promiscuity, adultery or participating in various sexual acts that the Bible speaks against, making personal preference and desire more important than what God says about sex.
This view of sex is pervasive, as many go to extraordinary lengths to fulfill their sexual desires, even when it’s not good for them physically, spiritually, mentally or emotionally.
Even worse, this view causes some to do unspeakable acts against others in the form of rape, assault, marital sexual assault, pedophilia, sex trafficking and more – making literal human sacrifices to their god of sex.
Those who view sex as a god criticize our book because it doesn’t go far enough for them. Because we teach that the Bible does call some sex acts sin, such as pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, adultery and more, we are criticized for being judgmental, prudish, antiquated and fundamentalist.
We understand that not everyone will believe what we believe, but as Christians who view the Bible as our highest authority in life, we don’t write the mail, we simply deliver it.
In the end, for conservatives we’re too liberal, and for liberals we’re too conservative. We can’t win.
Thankfully, we’re not concerned with winning. We’re concerned with helping others build healthy, happy and holy, God-glorifying marriages.
Sex as a gift
What Grace and I have found in nearly 20 years of marriage and more than 15 years of ministry is that both the church and culture often get sex wrong.
So we went back to the scriptures to see what they have to say.
The Bible gives us a different way to think of sex. Instead of seeing it as gross or slavishly worshiping it as a god, the Bible teaches that sex is a powerful and exhilarating gift that God gives to married couples.
It is also a deeply spiritual act, bringing together a husband and a wife to be one flesh (Genesis 2:24), binding them together on a spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and neurological level.
As a deeply spiritual act, it’s important for people to understand what the Bible teaches (and doesn’t teach) about sex, to be able to speak openly and honestly with their ministry leaders regarding sex, and to find solid, biblical teaching on sex.
God has a plan for sex: that it is to be enjoyed between one man and one woman in the context of marriage. This means that there are certain types of sex acts that abuse and misuse the good gift of sex that God gave, and that we are to honor God with our bodies by living our sexual lives in a way that glorifies him and honors the scriptures.
In our book, we blow up some common misconceptions about sex (like that the Bible prohibits stripteases or oral sex). We help people understand that it’s God’s intent that we steward and enjoy the gift of sex, like every gift he gives, in such a way that is glorious to him, good for our marriages and a lot of fun.
It is our prayer that you and your spouse would move past any misconceptions of how you’ve seen sex and understand it to be a gift from God. A gift to be stewarded. A gift to be guarded. A gift to be enjoyed. And a gift to be shared together for God’s glory and your good as friends.
We still have a couple of spots open for our marriage study beginning on Feb. 3rd.  We're holding our course at Seniors on the Bow @ Spray Lakes Sawmills Rec. Centre in Cochrane.  The course runs 11 weeks from 7-9pm.  If you're interested in coming, drop me an email.  Cost is covered by Hill Country Church.

From a prince to a pauper (John 4:1-15)

 It's quite the contrast of people that Jesus shares the gospel with from chapter 3 to chapter 4.  In chapter 3 Jesus has a quiet conversation with Nicodemus, a leader of the Pharisees, possibly a leader in the Sanhedrin.  Jesus points to Nicodemus' lack of salvation through his 'righteous' good works.  Nicodemus would equal a modern-day Bishop or some other high-ranking church official by today's standards.  Moral, upright, clean, educated, yet not saved.  In chapter 4 Jesus has a private conversation with the woman at the well.  Not only is she a woman (religious leaders don't talk to women), but she is a Samaritan (Jews don't talk to Samaritans).  Not only is she a Samaritan woman, she's an 'immoral' woman who has had 5 husbands and is not shacked up with a 6th.  Women weren't educated back then, so she is the antithesis to Nicodemus, yet both were in the same sorry state, namely, unsaved.

Jesus shared the gospel message with Nicodemus, and the woman at the well.  From what we know, both ended up being saved, one from the true line of Israel, the other from an mixed race society.  Jesus didn't play favourites.  He preached the good news to both rich and poor, to both woman and man, to the religious right and the immoral.

The question I have asked my congregation to ponder is "What criteria do you have for those whom you decide to share the gospel with?"

I know we'd like to think we're above such questions.  I know that we'd like to think that we'd be open to sharing with all just like Jesus, but do we practice what we know is right?

Jesus came to save all kinds of people, not just the Israelites.  Both Jew and Gentile are saved through faith in Christ, and not by our works or bloodlines.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Death and Life Are in the Power of the Tongue (Mark Driscoll Real Marriage)



Our materials came today for our upcoming study.  This has raised the excitement level a little more, so I thought it appropriate to find another clip of week one.  This is about how our tongues can hurt or help.  Anyone married for longer than 5 minutes can understand this concept.  Enjoy.




Friday, January 20, 2012

Why Did Pastor Mark and Grace Write Real Marriage?

Here is a clip of Real Marriage session #1.  We are looking forward to the start of our marriage course on Feb. 3rd.  Enjoy.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

What's holding you back? (John 3:22-36)




In the last service at Hill Country, we took a close look at John 3:22-36.  One of the overriding themes in this section of scripture is how selfish ambition and jealousy can blind us from what we are called to carry out in our walk with God.  I ask a couple questions at the end of each sermon for our people to contemplate and pray over, and this week one of those questions was "In what areas have we allowed jealousy (or any other unhealthy feeling) to hamper our growth in Christ?"
What I've discovered in my brief time as a pastor is that everyone struggles with this.  We are still sinful people that fight against sinful flesh, and one of the hardest things to overcome is feelings of anger, jealousy, resentment and hurt.  We tend to want to hold on to grudges, to slights real or perceived.  We tend to want justice for others and grace for ourselves.  This is a very difficult thing to deal with.
From a personal perspective, I was struggling with these same issues and what it took for me to get straightened out was the loving and kind but firm words of a fellow brother that I was in the wrong with my lack of forgiveness and for taking my focus off of what I was supposed to be doing, allowing these feelings to get in the way of me being a proper shepherd.  This was a difficult thing to hear, but I needed it desperately.  This is why church discipline is of vital importance.  Where would I be today without that brother's correction?  Bitterness continues to fester and effect every aspect of our lives, and without the heart of forgiveness, we cannot move forward.
John the Baptist's disciples were jealous of the success of Jesus' ministry, even though John himself continuously pointed out that his ministry was all about Jesus!  John rejoiced in the fact his ministry was decreasing and His was increasing, but his disciples were blind by selfish ambition.  John corrected them, then faded into the background gladly.  Are we willing to allow our ministry to run it's course and then fade into the background?  Are we the focus of our ministry or is He the focus?  We strive to make all things about Him, and carefully get rid of anything that takes that focus off of Him and puts it elsewhere.  If our goal is to make a big deal about Jesus, then our lives will reflect that reality.  It's when we allow ourselves to get puffed up and conceited that we become the hypocrites that Jesus loathed.

So the question is "What's holding you back?"  What do you have to repent for today?  What ill feelings are you harboring that is affecting your walk with Him?

We start chapter 4 this week.  Our new facility is beautiful and we're very blessed to be able to worship in such a place.  Our service starts at 10:30 with the message, coffee is served at 10.  Won't you come join us?

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

5 Evangelical Myths of Half Truths (RC Sproul Jr.)


RC Sproul Jr. has influenced much of my walk with Christ.  He is family-integrated, a church-planter, and a theologian.  The following is from his blog found here.

The Kingdom Notes
by RC Sproul Jr. 

Five Evangelical Myths or Half Truths
It can happen even in careful systematic theology. How much more so in popular parlance? We take what the Bible actually teaches, rephrase it so we can understand it, and end up believing our own phrasing, rather than the actual biblical truth.  It’s not malicious, but it is dangerous. What follows are five common thoughts, common expressions, within the evangelical church that just aren’t so.
“All sins are equal in the sight of God.” Well, no. It is true enough that every sin is worthy of God’s eternal wrath. It is true enough that if we have broken part of the law we have broken the law (James actually says this.) It is true enough that unjust anger is a violation of the commandment against murder (Jesus actually says this.) None of this, however, means all sins are equal in the sight of God. To say that because all sins deserve eternal wrath means they are all equal is like saying that all numbers over 100 are equal. The truth is that Jesus said of the Pharisees that while they rightly tithed their mint and their cumin, they neglected the weightier matters of the law (Matthew 23:23). No sin is weightless, but some weigh more than others.
“Hell is the absence of God.” Well, no. If God is omnipresent, and He is, is there anywhere He can not be? David understood this, and thus affirmed, “If I make my bed in Sheol, Thou art there” (Psalm 139:8). Hell isn’t the absence of God, but the presence of His wrath.  God is there, but His grace, His kindness, His peace are not. God is the great horror of hell.
“Jesus saves us from our sins.” Well, no. It is absolutely true that Jesus saves us. When we face trouble, He is the one we should be crying out to for deliverance. But the great problem with our sins isn’t our sins, but the wrath of God. The trouble I need to be delivered from is the wrath of God. Hell is not my sins, but the wrath of God. We don’t need to be saved from our sins. We need to be saved from the wrath due for our sins.
“God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.” Well, not if your name is Esau. Okay, there certainly is a kind of universal love that God has for all mankind. And certainly all those who repent and believe will be blessed. And certainly God calls all men everywhere to repent. But it is also true that God has prepared vessels for destruction (Romans 9:22). Being prepared for destruction likely wouldn’t be considered “wonderful” by anyone. We don’t know God’s hidden plans, and thus should preach the gospel to all the world. But we shouldn’t, in so preaching, promise what He hasn’t promised.
“Money is the root of all evil.” Well, no. Actually this one is wrong on two counts. First, the text (I Timothy 6:10) tells us that it is the love of money, not money, and that it is all sorts of evil, not all evil. If money were the root of all evil, all we would need to do to bring paradise on earth would be to have no more money. If money were the root of all evil, the problem would be out there, rather than in our hearts. Sin is not an it problem, but an us problem.
The devil isn’t lazy. He will take the breaks we give him. Myths and half-truths are perfect opportunities for us to miss who we are, who God is, and how He reconciles His own to Himself.  Perhaps were we more faithful to His Word, we might just be more faithful.

We are almost set to launch our new and upgraded website.  It will still be at the same address, but way more bells and whistles.  Our church is encouraged in this new year as more and more people are asking very good questions and are searching for something more than the status quo.  We at Hill Country live by the Word of God, and the motto of "semper reformanda", Latin for "always reforming".  We strive to offer the best biblical teaching we can, to come along side fellow followers of Christ, and to preach the Word to the lost so that they might have salvation in Him.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Wretched: Christianity vs. Every Other Religion

One of these days I'll be writing something all on my own.  But after spending 2 hours going over Hooke's law with my Physics 20 student, I'm really tired and feeling rather...unintelligent.  Here you go, another Wretched segment.  Enjoy.


Join us this Sunday at Seniors on the Bow in Spray Lakes Sawmills Family Recreation Centre as we finish chapter 3 of John's gospel.  We serve coffee at 10, service at 10:30.  Hope to see you then.


Thursday, January 12, 2012

Wretched: A Modern Tragedy (Human Trafficking)

While I don't necessarily think that this should be preached on from the pulpit, especially in graphic detail, we do need to educate ourselves about the tragedy of human trafficking and just how prevalent it really is.  Of course the only answer to this is the gospel.  Have a look.  This is the trailer to the documentary that is forthcoming.


Go share the gospel today.


Monday, January 9, 2012

Wretched: Schori vs. Lawson

After preaching through John 3:14-21 this past Sunday, this clip hits surprisingly close to what we learned from the text.  Have a listen.


Orthodoxy has been attacked from many sides, including the Catholics and now other liturgical churches such as the Episcopalians (U.S. Anglicans).  There have been many meetings in the Lutheran tradition and United church of Canada and many others that are turning away from the 'narrow way' and openly declaring that the way to salvation is indeed 'wide'.  How tragic.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Calling All Catholics! (Part II)



My first post on calling all Catholics was a brief post asking Catholics about the doctrine of salvation according to the Catholic faith as they understood it.  The reason behind this was because a couple of long time Catholics indeed informed me that Catholics believe a 'plurality' of different ways to salvation, and that Christianity is only one of them.  I couldn't believe this, and frankly I have too much to do to go and find out.  That being said, others did find it for me, and to my utter shock, horror and dismay, they were right.

Articles 839-848 found here explain the doctrine of salvation according to the 1994 Catechism of the Roman church.  These articles are not only grossly unbiblical, but in essence deny every aspect of salvation according to the orthodox practices of the traditional Christian faith, but they also go against everything previous Catholic council's stood for.  This has affirmed the teaching that the RC church puts the word of the councils and tradition ahead of Scripture.  For a great overview of the major differences have a look here.



To elaborate on all the problems with the articles listed above would be to write vastly more than I want to in this medium, and most-likely vastly more than anyone reading this pathetic blog would want to read.  If you would like an in-depth look at what exactly the problems are, please message me and I'll be more than happy write the countless problems with these articles.  If you read them for yourselves, and have any kind of logic behind your thinking, you will quickly discover the contradictions and meaninglessness of the text.  If you are biblically literate, you will find countless contradictions between these and the Bible.

Can you tell I'm disappointed?

To all Catholics reading this (which most likely don't make up much of the audience), if what you believe is the articles given by the 1994 Catechism, then save time and money, and take my advice.

1) Throw out your bible, it doesn't mean anything.  Quit reading it, it will only confuse you.
2) Quit going to church.  Your time there is a waste.  You can make up your own religion and still be saved.
3) Quit tithing to the church.  Your money can be better spent on your new religion, and still be saved.
4) Don't share the gospel!  People that never hear of Christ are better off!
5) Quit partaking of the bread and wine at church, it too is meaningless.

Does this sound harsh?  When you make the orthodox doctrines of salvation nothing more than a world-pleasing, politically-correct endeavor, then it will get my back up.  I will defend the doctrines of salvation according to the Bible.  It is a thing of utter hatred to not share the gospel.  According to these articles, Jews and Muslims (along with any other group searching for God) will be saved.  Therefore, evangelizing to them is pointless.  There is only one problem with that thinking; namely THE BIBLE!  These articles are not based on scripture, but on man's 'wisdom'.  To me, the only way someone can believe these articles to be true and accurate is to deny the very God they think they worship!  How can you say you know Christ and believe that you don't need to repent and believe in Him?  Let me make this as clear as I can...YOU CAN'T!  Scripture loses all meaning under this teaching.  The life and teachings of Christ and His disciples are meaningless under this teaching.  The Catholics teach that they have an unbroken line of Pope's since Peter, yet they don't ascribe to St. Peter's theology!

We are all sinners; world-wide.  All have sinned (Romans 3:23), all have gone astray (Isaiah 53:6), all require a Savior.  How does one become saved?  By the preaching of the Word (Romans 1:16).  No one seeks for God (Romans 3:11) which is why it is necessary to go to the ends of the earth to spread the Good News (Acts 1:8).  His sheep will hear His voice and come to Him (John 10:27).  Through repentance and faith you will be saved (Mark 1:15), and you will be known by your fruit (Matthew 7:16).  You can live your life via the wide gate and easy path that leads to destruction, or you can enter through the narrow gate and the hard path which few will find (Matthew 7:13-14).  You must repent of your sins and turn to Him or be lost (Luke 13:5).  That is the gospel message.  If you are Jewish, turn from your self-righteousness, your blood-lines will earn you nothing (Philippians 3).  Muslims, you have likewise broken the Law of Moses.  You will answer for breaking those laws (Romans 3:23).  Turn from your works righteousness and come to Christ, for in Him is righteousness and Him alone!  Catholics and other Christian groups; repent and put your trust in Him and Him alone!  Your religion will not save you, your attendance at church will not save you, your political correctness will not save you.  You are saved by faith through grace in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8)!  You cannot boast, for even your faith was a gift from God (Ephesians 2:9)!


If you have been offended by the tone of this blog, I ask your forgiveness, for it is not out of haughtiness or arrogance that I post so harshly, but out of a love for Christ and a love of the truth of the Gospel message.  I want people to be saved, I want people to not be led astray by false teaching.  I want all races and religions to come to Him, but on His terms, not on our own.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Jesus Has Two Enemies: Sin and Religion (Mark Driscoll)



I'm not sure if this clip will be a part of the Marriage Course or not, but it does relate to marriage anyways, so I've included it in the lead-up to the course.  Our marriages look much like the sins we find in the church.  We can either be too liberal in our marriages (not taking responsibility for what God has given us and how we are to care for them) or we are too conservative/religious (harshness, totalitarian, rule-making, guilt-motivation).  Enjoy.
Our marriage course will begin February 3rd at 7pm and will run for 12 weeks (minus Good Friday).  Mailouts will be forthcoming to Cochrane residents with more information, for those outside of Cochrane but would like more info, please call us at            403-932-0519      , or email us at hillcountryreformed@gmail.com.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Let a Woman Learn (Mark Driscoll; Real Marriage)

I find this topic one of the most difficult to not only bring up but to discuss with any kind of progress due to our nature and culture.  It doesn't help that there are those out there that believe that a woman doesn't need to go to seminary and that she should put on her apron and stay in the kitchen, but on the other side of that coin is the rampant feminism that has pushed aside completely the idea of male headship, much to the detriment of marriage and the church body as a whole.  Mark explains here a little bit of what we will find in the biblical text and how it relates to us today (and forever.)  Enjoy.


Our marriage course will begin February 3rd at 7pm and will run for 12 weeks (minus Good Friday).  Mailouts will be forthcoming to Cochrane residents with more information, for those outside of Cochrane but would like more info, please call us at 403-932-0519, or email us at hillcountryreformed@gmail.com.