Where Men Defended
05. January 2015
RPC of Wyoming Valley Location: Forty Fort, Pa. Organized: Joined RPCNA in 2011 Members: 7 communicant; 12 baptized Pastor: Raymond Dymond Web: ...
Archive | January, 2015
What’s Our Problem
05. January 2015
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. ...
The Soul of the Plowboy
05. January 2015
In the glow of summer’s setting sun, I can sit on my front step and could, if not for the slight incline in the street, see the full length of the ...
Strengthening Rural Congregations
05. January 2015
There has always been a sort of rivalry or prejudice between city dwellers and country dwellers. Aesop’s fable of “The Town Mouse and the Country ...
Son of a Country Preacher
05. January 2015
I was raised a country boy. I lived in the manse next to a 100-year-old, mountain-stone church building. Those properties were bordered by two small ...
Small Gifts Matter
05. January 2015
The plot of the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life centers on the desire of George Bailey to never have been born. Through a mistake by his uncle, ...
Look Up!
05. January 2015
Psalm 121 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: The Lord is my keeper Key words: keep, shade A Song of Ascents. Psalm 121 is second in ...
Lessons in Rural Life
05. January 2015
You’re taking us where?” This was my reaction when Sterling RP Church became a potential call for my husband. “Sterling, America,” as it calls ...
RP Witness Dectective Club: How do we know that we are going to go to heaven?
05. January 2015
Dear Detective in Training, Great work! We are very impressed with the work you have done on the past four cases! Last month you used your tool, the ...
Implanting the Covenanter’s Witness in the American DNA
05. January 2015
We have Abraham Lincoln to thank that each American knows that “all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” But, in ...
How Can We Know the Way
05. January 2015
I grew up in both Roman Catholic and mainline Presbyterian churches, because my parents divorced when I was very young. I attended both churches in my ...
Great Healing in Sudan
05. January 2015
One day while walking to the market, Agau, a member of the Parot Church Health Group in South Sudan, came upon a woman crying outside her hut. Agau ...
Book Reviews
05. January 2015
Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, by Steven Garber, InterVarsity, 2014. Reviewed by Russ Pulliam. Mild-mannered and gentle ...
Around the Church
05. January 2015
Congregations Gather to Celebrate Second Indianapolis RPC’s 50th On Oct. 16, 1964, the Illinois Presbytery gathered in Indianapolis, Ind., in ...