Anecdotes from a Retired Pastor, Part 2
29. July 2019
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 ...
29. July 2019
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 ...
29. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
When retiring moderator (and recently retired pastor) Bruce Martin dropped the gavel on the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
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. ...
26. July 2019
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! ...
26. July 2019
Author, blogger, and editor Christina Fox draws heavily from themes in Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods and applies them specifically to the arena of ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
In light of the many prayer requests and needs of individuals, family, congregation, presbytery, denomination, civil authority, community, ...
26. July 2019
With anticipation and apprehension, I stepped onto a Greyhound bound for Harrisburg, Pa. Entrenched in work and social spheres that surrounded me with ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
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 ...
26. July 2019
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 ...