Irene Huizing | January 01, 2008
It was a January day when our daughter Heather shared with us that she had been asked to consider applying for the Cush4Christ mission in Sudan. ...
Margaret E. Hemphill | December 08, 2007
What possesses an administrator of a long-term-care facility to put staff and residents through a full-scale disaster drill that includes an ...
Edmund P. Clowney | December 08, 2007
Two Auca Indians sang a haunting chant of worship to God before a great missionary congress in Berlin. One of the singers had driven his spear into ...
Drew Gordon | December 08, 2007
When I was a child, I thought like a child. Sadly, I can’t remember wondering what Jesus sang when He was on earth. The Bible version I used said ...
Russ Pulliam | December 08, 2007
Sanctification may be the one area of systematic theology that needs revisitation in each generation. Other topics pretty well get settled in certain ...
December 08, 2007
Twenty-four students currently at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) are either in the RPCNA or are in the process of entering the ...
December 08, 2007
Fresno RPC Location: Fresno, Calif. Presbytery: Pacific Coast Organized: 1920 Membership: 80 communicant; 26 baptized Pastor: Tim McCracken Web ...
William H. Chellis; William Edgar | December 05, 2007
Christ is Lord The Apostle John wrote to a church suffering persecution. He comforted those in distress with the simple but fundamental principle: ...
C. J. Williams | December 01, 2007
Psalm 59 Psalm Category: Individual Lament Central Thought: This psalm reminds us that we need to look through our worries and fix our eyes on ...
Dennis J. Prutow | December 01, 2007
One of the arguments in favor of using musical instruments in worship points to the commands in the Psalms. Psalm 33:2 is an example. “Give thanks ...
November 08, 2007
Psalm 58 Psalm Category: Communal Lament Central Thought: The psalmist David seeks the justice of a perfect and all-powerful God, a holy justice ...
Esther Howe and Maureen Halliday | November 01, 2007
Church planting is a stretching process. It means taking big leaps of faith, like moving to a new place and meeting new people. It also means taking ...
Steve McMahan | November 01, 2007
Noting that giving to the Reformed Presbyterian Mission and Ministry Fund (RPM&M) has essentially plateaued around $300,000 since the late 1980s, ...
November 01, 2007
Location: Wilkinsburg, Pa. Presbytery: Alleghenies Organized: 1973 Membership: 112 communicant; 16 baptized Pastor: Bruce Hemphill Website: ...
Heidi Filbert | November 01, 2007
Since Semester in Scotland began in 2003, 18 students from the U.S. and N. Ireland have participated or are currently participating in the program. We ...
November 01, 2007
Short-term mission trips are nothing new. But transplanting one’s family to a different part of the globe for a period of several years is becoming ...
Dennis J. Prutow | November 01, 2007
Continuing last month’s discussion of culturally conditioned celebrations, we turn to Judges 11:34. “When Jephtha came to his house at Mizpah, ...
Drew Gordon | November 01, 2007
I don’t have to see them. I don’t have to know their names. I don’t have to know anything about them. But I know that when I get to work with ...
William H. Chellis, William Edgar | November 01, 2007
The Eternal City’s Fall In a.d. 410, the city of Rome was sacked and plundered by Alaric the Goth. The fall of Rome, the “Eternal City,” ...
November 01, 2007
Stillwater RPC Member Receives Award Stillwater, Okla., RPC member Jeffrey Spitler was honored recently as one of eight Oklahoma State University ...
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 ...