Heather H. | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Richard C. Gamble | January/February 2024 Issue
Reformed Presbyterians maintain a tradition of strong theological distinctives. Those distinctives include psalm singing and the mediatorial kingship ...
Drew Poplin | January/February 2024 Issue
Introduction In a passage that greatly informs the missionary prayers of the church, we read, “After these things the Lord appointed seventy others ...
Heidi Bechtold and Tori Sturm | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Wes Burton | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Sumito Sakai | January/February 2024 Issue
Location: Kobe, Japan Presbytery: Japan Organization: 1960 Membership: 59 communicant; 22 baptized Pastor: Sumito Sakai Website: ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Drew Gordon | November 27, 2023
The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) met Nov. 14–16 in Providence, R.I. This 48th annual meeting was hosted by the ...
Thomas Wolf | November/December 2023 Issue
At age 11, I said in my heart that there is no God. Having been born in Communist East Germany on Oct. 7, 1976, I was taught from early childhood that ...
C.J. Williams | November/December 2023 Issue
Our God is a God who hears us, and He has created us in His image to hear Him (Ps. 65:2; 85:8). In the life of faith, much depends on hearing. Saving ...
Sabbath keeping has become unpopular. For some, the fourth commandment can conjure up images of boredom or sitting in church all day. Rhode Island ...
David Weir | November/December 2023 Issue
The Scripture reveals that getting old was not supposed to happen. Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, all of us are getting old (Gen. 2:17, 3:19). Adam ...
Tom Seaman | November/December 2023 Issue
When we think about the duty of giving, we may be tempted to think first of ourselves: what good givers we are, how we fail, or how we desire to ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | November/December 2023 Issue
At some point in your life, you will likely be asked to run a meeting. This may be for your Girl Scout or Trail Life troop, your student government ...
Kyle Borg | November/December 2023 Issue
As a boy, I remember reading Frank Peretti’s novel This Present Darkness. My youthful imagination was inundated by this work of fiction that ...
Matthew Everhard | November/December 2023 Issue
I have some bad news, and some good news. Which do you want to hear first? This is the way that I softly break the fall whenever I have to tell a ...
Nathaniel Pockras | November/December 2023 Issue
The RPCNA has no congregations in the northern Great Plains or northern Great Lakes regions. But did you know that there were once churches in ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2023 Issue
Churches located near military bases know the challenges of serving military families. Long separations from family, multiple moves, unpredictable ...
Evelyn Kruis | November/December 2023 Issue
Early Years: The Pain of Alcoholism In 1941, when Willa Copland was four, she remembers playing at the end of the road at the cattle farm her father ...
In October, Rosaria Butterfield discussed her new book with the Witness editor. Dr. Butterfield is the author of Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely ...
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 ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...
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 ...