Around the time the Sun-Maid raisin company opened its Fresno, Calif., facility 100 years ago, some local folks hoped to form a Reformed Presbyterian ...
Kit Swartz | September/October 2018 Issue
Paul assures us that the Lord will always provide a way of escape out of temptation (1 Cor. 10:13). We have this because Christ accomplished it for us ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
Identity confusion has not only damaged individuals but also the church,” said Prof. David Murray as he commended Dr. Barry York’s new book on the ...
Dennis J. Prutow | September/October 2018 Issue
Philippians 2:12–13 is good news for every believer, “My beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in ...
Barry York | September/October 2018 Issue
Whenever the topic of discipleship is brought up in the church, one truth is essential to the discussion: You cannot talk about discipleship without ...
Emily Hamer | September/October 2018 Issue
When I tell people that we’ve moved to a 35-acre farm on the dusty Colorado prairie, I’m often met with carefully hidden surprise and the unspoken ...
Barry York | September/October 2018 Issue
The Lord not only renamed Simon Bar-Jonah “Peter” in Matthew 16:13-23, He also gave him something. What Jesus gave him helps distinguish the true ...
Chris Mathews | September/October 2018 Issue
Geneva College has always been a familiar place to me, despite the fact that I grew up almost 1,000 miles away and never visited the college until I ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
Making a Christian film always seems to involve compromise—compromising on quality due to a small budget, compromising on theology to cater to a ...
Tim and Lynette Bloedow | September/October 2018 Issue
Tim was raised in a churchgoing family in Eastern Ontario. His father was a professor of classics at the University of Ottawa, and his mother remained ...
While Pastor McCracken was traveling for various commitments, including Synod, several men ministered to us: Pastor Lucas Hanna, of the First (Beaver ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
How did you come to faith in Christ? Dr. York: I grew up in North Carolina and attended Baptist churches off and on, but Christianity wasn’t really ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...