Support Your Local Shepherd
14. May 2021
If a pastor or church leader makes the national news, it’s usually not good news. But most pastors are not like those we read about in the national ...
Archive | May, 2021
An Ordinary Path
14. May 2021
I was sitting on a hard bench with two other missionaries. One of them spoke the local language; and, as the congregation prayed together, he ...
Around the Church May 2021
14. May 2021
Our congregation was blessed when pastor-elect Nathan Eshelman joined us on Sunday, Feb. 28, for worship along with his family. They moved from ...
A Breath of Fresh Air
14. May 2021
While most events have been canceled recently, the youth of the Presbytery of the Alleghenies (POA) enjoyed their first retreat in over a year. Much ...
Giving Thanks at Mealtime Means More
14. May 2021
The pandemic has affected many facets of our residents’ lives at the RP Home—including their mealtime. For the past year, the residents have had ...
The Church’s Quest for Unity
14. May 2021
In this series of articles on the unity of the Church, we have considered passages from Scripture that demonstrate the visible beauty and the ...
Two Relatively Unknown Leaders
14. May 2021
For most of the 20th Century, Reformed Presbyterian missionaries served in Cyprus, founding what today is the Greek Evangelical Church. American ...
How Do Calvinists Evangelize?
14. May 2021
It is common to hear the question, “Why do Calvinists evangelize?” But here, we consider how, which is also a good question. How do we speak the ...
Theme and Subthemes
14. May 2021
What’s the book about?” That’s an exciting question for those who love to read. The narrative unfolds and ensues as words become sentences and ...
The Psalms in Jesus’ Heart
14. May 2021
As a pastor, I have witnessed many parents sending their children off to college or into marriage by giving them special, parting words. These words, ...
From Terrified to Transformed
14. May 2021
Over the past four years, I have changed. I started out as shy, nervous, afraid to talk to anyone new, and terrified of leading. Now, while I can ...
Shepherd School
14. May 2021
His loud voice boomed across the airport’s departure lounge as he argued in very, shall I say, colorful language on the phone. As he approached the ...
Preach It!
14. May 2021
Editor’s note: We are pleased to offer this new regular feature, written by different faculty members of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological ...
Blessed with Children
14. May 2021
On a warm June day nearly 20 years ago, my husband, Sam, and I stood before our family and friends promising to love and cherish each other until ...
Bloomington RPC
14. May 2021
1820, John and Thomas Moore completed the lengthy journey from South Carolina to Bloomington, Ind. These Christians left the southern state where ...
Pastors on the Brink
12. May 2021
“Did you think the pastorate was going to be this hard?” My husband and I were lunching at the RP International Conference with another pastor ...
The Mysterious Stranger
10. May 2021
Here is an excerpt from the newly released book in the Windmill Pete series by Rev. Bob Hemphill. This fiction series is “designed for adventurers ...