The Reformed Presbyterian Witness

Fine Art Selections

May/June 2022 Issue

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The Journey: A Personal Essay

Leah Mulder | May/June 2022 Issue

I. The end of June scorched the earth and sweat dripped off me as I stood over the stove, pulling up pieces of fried chicken out of their golden ...

Hopkinton Psalm Singers 1945

Jacquelin Spear | May/June 2022 Issue

Aunt Alice carries the tune, marks time with her fingers on top of the pew. “When Zion’s exiles God brought back…” I follow, singing ...

2022 Creative Arts Contest Winners

May/June 2022 Issue

The RP Witness staff thanks each of our entrants, who entrusted us with over 100 written, composed, performed, or crafted works of art; our judges, ...

God Had Other Plans

Ward Britt | May/June 2022 Issue

Testimonies

May 29, 1972, was the day I gave up my life. I am here to tell you how and why that happened. My mother was English and married my father during ...

Hebron RPC

Steven McMahan | May/June 2022 Issue

News / Congregational News

Hebron (Clay Center, Kan.) RPC celebrated its 150th anniversary on Oct. 23, with over 85 people joining in person and by livestream. Former pastors J. ...

Pastoral Implications of Christ’s Rule

Robert McCollum | May 09, 2022

Series

The sovereign rule of God over the universe is generally accepted among Christians. However, the advocates of open theism—theologians who teach that ...

The Preacher and Counseling

Keith Evans | May/June 2022 Issue

Series

Shepherding as Counseling When I was a high school senior, I told my pastor I wanted to be a pastor of counseling. Without missing a beat, he said to ...

God Provides

Patricia Boyle | May/June 2022 Issue

Agency Features / RP Home

This year, the Reformed Presbyterian Home celebrates its 125th anniversary. We celebrate God’s abundant goodness and grace in all those years. In ...

A Traveling Preacher

Nathaniel Pockras | May/June 2022 Issue

RP History

Few now remember the name of Rev. John Black. That’s hardly surprising, since he was born more than 250 years ago. As one of the most important ...

First RPC of Cambridge

Katelyn Greenewald | May/June 2022 Issue

News / Congregational News

Congregants, friends, and former congregants gathered at First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Cambridge (FRPCC) on Aug. 21–22 to celebrate the ...

Acknowledging God’s Sovereignty

Joel Wood | May/June 2022 Issue

Jerusalem Chamber

Have you ever found yourself being misunderstood? Perhaps you were trying to help, only to ruin everything. Maybe romantic feelings you found ...

The Psalm Most Royal

Barry York | May/June 2022 Issue

Gentle Reformation

Many of the psalms are deemed “royal psalms.” Whether they are psalms that declare God is king (such as Psalms 93–99) or ones that feature ...

Ambassadors for Christ

Gloria Van Vlack | May/June 2022 Issue

Youth Witness

Last summer, when I was 15, I went to a mock government camp for homeschoolers called iGov-ern run by HSLDA. At the camp, we participated in a ...

Times Like This

Mark Sampson | May/June 2022 Issue

Agency Features / Seminary

As the shells rip overhead, exploding somewhere behind the Marine, he presses himself deeper into the mud, wishing he were another three feet deeper. ...