Sarah Shipp | September/October 2022 Issue
Last year, Bloomington, Ind., RPC celebrated 200 years as an organized church—worshiping, proclaiming, and serving Christ in southern Indiana. To ...
Orlando, Fla., RPC Nathan Eshelman, pastor The annual Night on the Town Dinner was held May 19 at Servando’s Restaurant in honor of our graduates: ...
Richard Gamble | September/October 2022 Issue
The great Princeton theologian B. B. Warfield once said, “The systematic theologian is pre-eminently a preacher of the gospel.” The preacher’s ...
William J. Edgar | September/October 2022 Issue
“Q. 124. What was the extent of the Covenanter Church in her glory? Under the General Assembly [in Scotland] there were 14 synods, 68 ...
Willem De Ruijter | September/October 2022 Issue
I distinctly remember when I first heard about Geneva College. In 2008, a mentor vouched for the transformative power of Geneva’s higher education ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2022 Issue
Note: This article distinguishes pastor and minister. Minister is any teaching elder, while pastor is a teaching elder currently installed in a ...
Noah Bailey | September/October 2022 Issue
This is a good question. It reminded me of the missionary visits to my childhood church, which were always an exciting time. We enjoyed a special ...
Kyle Borg | September/October 2022 Issue
A glass window stands before us. We can look at the window itself, studying and admiring it for what it is. Or, we can look through the glass to what ...
Andrew Kerr | September/October 2022 Issue
The psalter was not given to focus, finally, on former glory days of a posthumous, Israelite prince. Certainly, much is lost if we gloss over the ...
Emily Mann | September/October 2022 Issue
Struggles are inevitable in this earthly life. The current day is no exception. Many churches lack pastors, do not own a church building, and worry ...
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Paul and Megan Hemphill | September/October 2022 Issue
“Go west, young man” was a common phrase to be heard during America’s westward expansion in the 19th Century. As a family in the Pacific ...
Stephen Mulder | September/October 2022 Issue
The lyrics to the Oklahoma State Anthem are from the words of the hit Broadway musical Oklahoma! by Oscar Hammerstein II. For those who aren’t ...
Barry York, Sam Spear, Rut Etheridge, and Kent Butterfield | September/October 2022 Issue
The Witness surveyed several teaching and ruling elders on how they and their congregations handled some of the big societal challenges of the past ...
Richard Gamble | September/October 2022 Issue
Contemporary political discourse has devolved into nothing short of shouting matches. He who has the loudest voice wins. There is little honest ...
Micah Ramsey | September/October 2022 Issue
It’s dark. It’s Jan. 1 and it’s so cold. My thighs are burning. Forty-nine percent of me is screaming, Stop! And 51 percent of me sets its jaw ...
Glen Chin | September/October 2022 Issue
Location: Ridgefield Park, N.J. Presbytery: Atlantic Organization: December 26, 1797 Membership: 17 communicant; 3 baptized Pastor: Andrew ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2022 Issue
I see some of my neighbors on social media more than I see them in person. That’s not entirely an incriminating statement, as we’ve all been more ...
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 ...