RP Congregations Around the World
01. July 2013
In the spirit of the recent Synod, which received encouraging reports of home and global missions, as well as reports of many opportunities to ...
Archive | July, 2013
The Dust Bowl and the Fish Bowl
01. July 2013
The devastating dust storms of the Dust Bowl era of U.S. history were caused, in large part, by the mechanized plowing of vast ranges of prairie grass ...
Testimony of a Mid-Term Missionary
01. July 2013
I know this story is a little odd. God transformed me from a teenager in western New York hoping to run a horse farm to a 25-year-old completely sold ...
Synod 2013
01. July 2013
The gavel dropped on the 182nd Synod of the RPCNA the evening of June 24. About 150 delegates gathered from across North America and even around the ...
Spanish Reformed Outreach
01. July 2013
History of the Spanish Church It is said that a Spanish king once boasted that the Lutheran (Protestant) heresy would not be found in the Castellian ...
Praise the Practical Man!
01. July 2013
Psalm 112 Psalm Category: Public Praise to God Central Thought: Man, made in the image of God, does wonderful works worthy of praise! Key Word: ...
Oddballs Welcome
01. July 2013
Tusca Area RPC Location: Beaver, Pa. Membership: 37 communicant, 16 baptized Organized: 1965 Pastor: Dr. Jonathan Watt Tusca Area RP Church is an ...
Moral Failure and the Church (Part 11)
01. July 2013
The faithful exercise of discipline is generally held to be the third of the three “marks” of a true church of Jesus Christ. The first is the ...
Improving Congregational Singing
01. July 2013
According to Psalm 47, we are to sing the praise of the Lord “with skillfulness.” I will leave the musical instruction side of that commandment, ...
Does God Have Arms? Can He Feel Sorry?
01. July 2013
Metaphors are implied comparisons. For example, Jesus says, “I am the door” (John 10:9). Jesus is not saying He is an actual door with well-oiled ...
Diary of a Mental Hospital Chaplain
01. July 2013
Tuesday, October 3 Chaplain,” the psychiatrist said. She summoned me with her hands. “Here is someone I want you to meet.” A patient was ...
Long Spiritual Journies For Two Pastor-Brothers
01. July 2013
A Covenant Child from a Catholic Church My siblings and I were raised Catholic, although Dad had been raised Lutheran. As he tells me, a college ...
Baptism
01. July 2013
Memorize Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matt. ...
In Memoriam: Donald H. Mullinnix
01. July 2013
Donald H. Mullinnix, 82, a member of the Rose Point (New Castle, Pa.) RPC passed into glory Nov. 3 at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., after a long ...
Brief Notes July/ August 2013
01. July 2013
Births Blevins, Ezekiel Marshall, May 28, 8 lbs. 9 oz. and 21 inches long, to Roger and Trisha Blevins. (College Hill [Beaver Falls, Pa.] ...