Anecdotes from a Retired Pastor, Part 2
Aunt Edith Mary Keddie could have sprung from a novel by Charles Dickens. She was the classic unmarried aunt who looked after her widower father till ...
Aunt Edith Mary Keddie could have sprung from a novel by Charles Dickens. She was the classic unmarried aunt who looked after her widower father till ...
Gordon J. Keddie | July/August 2019 Issue
When we were small boys, my brother John one day asked our Mother, Norah Scott Keddie (1919-86) what she did in the War. Our Father, David G.A. Keddie ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
When retiring moderator (and recently retired pastor) Bruce Martin dropped the gavel on the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North ...
Fikre and Ritva Menbere | July/August 2019 Issue
This is a season of our lives when the wonder of the gospel has broken into our hearts afresh. The Lord opened an opportunity for us to join a group ...
We were blessed to welcome Rev. Rodney King as our guest minister on Jan. 1 while our pastor was ministering at a college retreat in Indianapolis. ...
Zach’s story in a nutshell I was blessed to be raised in a covenant home in Lisbon, N.Y. I was a mischievous child—goes along with my red hair! ...
Author, blogger, and editor Christina Fox draws heavily from themes in Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods and applies them specifically to the arena of ...
John D. Edgar | July/August 2019 Issue
There are various ways to start a new church, but usually the leadership for it comes from a church planter. Church planting courses are typically ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | July/August 2019 Issue
In light of the many prayer requests and needs of individuals, family, congregation, presbytery, denomination, civil authority, community, ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
With anticipation and apprehension, I stepped onto a Greyhound bound for Harrisburg, Pa. Entrenched in work and social spheres that surrounded me with ...
Andrew Kerr | July/August 2019 Issue
I was briefly spooked by a website predicting my death. I typed in details of country, height, weight, and birth, then clicked. In a few seconds my ...
Kim Phillips | July/August 2019 Issue
In 2005, the White Lake, N.Y., RPC saw a need in the community for a food pantry. A small committee got together and the dream started to become a ...
The number of our olive shoots (62 covenant children under age 21—see Psalm 128:3) at Trinity RPC in Burtonsville, Md., is quickly growing closer to ...
Zuri Cassell | July/August 2019 Issue
The not-so-secret secret in America is that we are all in debt. From the white pillars of D.C. to cul-de-sac communities, studies show that the ...
Each of the five books of the Psalter closes with a doxology in simple praise to God (41:13; 72:18–19; 89:52; 106:48; 150:1–6). Psalm 148 is the ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
This is not your father and mother’s RPCNA. A visitor to this year’s Synod meeting in Pennsylvania would first have noticed that the RPCNA was ...
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 ...