Looking Back on the Best of Service
28. October 2009
If you ask Bob Hemphill when he graduated from Geneva College, he’ll just smile. “I did not graduate,” he says firmly. “Everybody thinks I ...
Archive | October, 2009
Life in the Orphanage: Memories of Mother
28. October 2009
Memory Verse “A day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the ...
A Reformed Witness in Southwest Iowa
28. October 2009
Location: Clarinda, Iowa Presbytery: Midwest Organized: 1855 Membership: 23 communicant; 7 baptized Pastor: Jack Baumgardner The Clarinda ...
A Good King is Hard to Find
28. October 2009
It took slightly more than half a year for the jubilation regarding the election of President Barrack Obama to fade away. The entire nation, even many ...
The G-20 Summit from Ground Level
18. October 2009
I didn’t have an exclusive press pass to watch the leaders of the free world unite for the G-20 Summit on Sept. 24-25. But since it seemed unlikely ...
Revitalized Pastor, Revitalized Church
18. October 2009
The following story is fictional. Any similarities in the accounts or descriptions to any person, living or dead, might not be purely coincidental. P ...
Messiah the Prophet
18. October 2009
Psalm Category: Historical psalm Central Thought: God has been a faithful Shepherd of His people throughout history. Those who cannot remember the ...
Making a Change
18. October 2009
In the life of a congregation, transitioning to a new book of worship song is a significant event. For a Reformed Presbyterian congregation that has ...
Love and the Law
18. October 2009
We were stopped at a traffic light in Colorado Springs, Colo. The bumper sticker on the car in front of us asked a simple question. “What would ...