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Archive | March, 2020

Quilting as Unto the Lord

18. March 2020

The Messiah’s Quilter Bees, the quilting ministry of Messiah’s Church in Clay, N.Y., sprang to life in an unusual, circuitous way. I had been ...

Our Calling to France

18. March 2020

How did the mission to France begin? France was recognized as the principal overseas mission field of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland at ...

Vote or Don’t Vote, and Why I Care

18. March 2020

When I was a child, I looked forward to voting as a privilege and as another sign that I was qualified as an adult. It seemed like it would be an easy ...

Broomall RPC

18. March 2020

If you come to Broomall on the Lord’s Day, you’ll find a lot going on. We start at 9:45 a.m. with Sabbath school, followed by morning worship at ...

Christ-Centered Voting

18. March 2020

At the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, held at Geneva College, on June 11–14, 2019, this voting guide was put ...

An Advancing Kingdom Adventure

18. March 2020

A Distant Memory Long ago, during my student days, there was a brief conversation I had almost forgotten. I went to a traditional boarding school in ...

A Crown of Righteousness

18. March 2020

As I sat holding his hand while he waited for a procedure in the hospital, George (Skip) Scipione spoke about living and finishing well. Knowing that ...

Giving to Charity from an IRA

18. March 2020

Reader warning: if you are below the age of 70 ½, or do not have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), you may file this article under the ...

Getting to the Meat of God’s Word

18. March 2020

Some treasures are best left untouched. There is something eerily beautiful about images of the Titanic buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean. From ...

A Strategic Advantage

18. March 2020

“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps” (Prov. 16:9). Do you have a plan for the next few years? Geneva College ...

Flaws of Socialism

18. March 2020

In the past decade, the idea of democratic socialism has become increasingly common in American politics and among the American public. According to a ...

Book Reviews

18. March 2020

In the first chapter of his debut book, Rut Etheridge III begins with an intriguing interaction between ideas from cultural icons such as Bob Dylan ...

Wisdom That Is Gentle

18. March 2020

My grandfather Paul Faris (1916–2010) was ordained a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in 1944. He and young peers were troubled by the rancorous tone of ...

How Should I Help the Homeless?

18. March 2020

I live in a big city with a lot of panhandlers on street corners. They always have signs saying they’re hungry. Since I suspect that if I give them ...

Around the Church March 2020

18. March 2020

John Mitchell and George Jackson (Broomall, Pa., RPC) participated in a cruise along the coast of Norway the last two weeks of June. Erica and Adam ...

RPCNA Synod Paper on Pandemic Flu

12. March 2020

From 2008 Minutes of Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America Jon Adams presented the report of the committee to address issues ...