If Christ Sets You Free
10. January 2024
I was raised in a small town where there was a lot of camaraderie. Parents watched out for each other’s children, and stay-at-home moms chatted over ...
Archive | January, 2024
Around the Church January 2024
10. January 2024
Orlando, Fla., RPC Nathan Eshelman, pastor During the Sunday school recess from summer classes, the church leadership decided to introduce a series ...
A Different March for Life
10. January 2024
Christians in the US join a March for Life each January. As Christians and citizens of Canada, we are responsible to remind our own government of the ...
RP Author Offers Next Book in Boys’ Series
10. January 2024
Bob Hemphill has good memories of growing up in Beaver Falls, Pa., in the 1950s and 1960s. Those memories will come back for Geneva alumni if they ...
Gene and Ruth Spear
10. January 2024
Gene Wilfred Spear was born on Aug. 14, 1927, to Maurice B. and Edna Carls Spear. He was born at home on their dairy farm in Berryton, Kan., near ...
The God of the Story, and the God of Your Story
10. January 2024
The story proper of the book of Ruth begins in verse 6, with Naomi in a desperate situation, overwhelmed with grief and loneliness and financially ...
From Ohio to the Pacific
10. January 2024
For the first several decades that RP settlements existed in America, there were very few ministers; so the work of the church was performed almost ...
More Alone than Ever
10. January 2024
For nearly a decade, the hit TV show Cheers opened with a theme song celebrating the sense of security that comes from having a place “where ...
Much Given, Much Required
10. January 2024
Good things come with great responsibility. Jesus said, “To whom much is given, much is required” (Luke 12:48). When a young person gets her first ...
Nahum
10. January 2024
In seventh grade, my history class was asked to name all the presidents of the United States. We got all but one, Millard Fillmore. Not only could we ...
Devotion Through Transition
10. January 2024
The path of the Christian life is not as clear as many of us would hope. Today, the world is constantly pulling us in every direction and pressuring ...
The New Roman Roads
10. January 2024
We used to have to wait months to hear back from the board,” one former Reformed Presbyterian missionary shared with me as she reflected on what was ...
Systematic Theology and Politics
10. January 2024
Reformed Presbyterians maintain a tradition of strong theological distinctives. Those distinctives include psalm singing and the mediatorial kingship ...
Growing Ministers to Plant Churches
10. January 2024
Introduction In a passage that greatly informs the missionary prayers of the church, we read, “After these things the Lord appointed seventy others ...
Becoming Barnabas
10. January 2024
The Woman Belinda, you’ve been such a fierce encourager to our family,” said Heidi as we interviewed Belinda Fyfe on a Thursday evening. Someone ...
Truffles in the Hoosier Heartland?
10. January 2024
When my wife, Debi, and I began attending a Reformed Presbyterian church 27 years ago, we noticed the culture there was, among other things, one where ...
Congregation of the Month: Higashisuma RPC
10. January 2024
Location: Kobe, Japan Presbytery: Japan Organization: 1960 Membership: 59 communicant; 22 baptized Pastor: Sumito Sakai Website: ...
The In-Your-Face Abortion Rhetoric
10. January 2024
Once it was common to see the bumper sticker, “Abortion is not health care.” But over time, pro-abortion forces have turned the tables on ...