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Psalms of the New Covenant

Dennis J. Prutow | February 01, 2005

Learn & Live 

We have been connecting dots, so to speak, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the last column, we discussed David as a type of ...


Our King Suffered for Our Sins

Virginia McBurney | February 01, 2005

Kids Page 

In Genesis, God cursed the Earth with something His Son, Jesus, later wore on the cross. What is it? Crossword Puzzle J E B B ...


Newscan

February 01, 2005

News /  World News 

Senators Reintroduce Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act On Jan. 26, pro-life lawmakers in the Senate reintroduced the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, a ...


Merger in Beaver Falls

Heidi Filbert | February 01, 2005

News /  Congregational News 

On Oct. 28, 1892, 58 members of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pa., took their certificates of membership and organized the ...


How Much Should We Focus on a Child’s Heart?

Tedd Tripp and Bill Edgar | February 01, 2005

Letters to the Editor 

The December issue of the RP Witness included a review article by RP Pastor Bill Edgar that complimented Tedd Tripp’s popular book on parenting, ...


Comment

February 01, 2005

Letters to the Editor 

Agreeing with the Reviewer In regard to the parenting methods espoused by Tedd Tripp in his book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart, (see review, ...


Being 1

Rebekah Troup | February 01, 2005

Youth Witness 

In John 17:20-21, Jesus prays that His disciples would be one. We are called not only to be unified with people in our individual churches but with ...


Around the Church

February 01, 2005

News /  Congregational News 

Geneva (Beaver Falls, Pa.) RPC Bruce Backensto and Keith Black, pastors Following unanimous votes at simultaneous congregational meetings on Dec. ...


Longing for Home

January 02, 2005

Psalm of the Month 

Psalm Category: Psalm of Lament Central Thought: Psalm 26 reminds us that it is only through the mercy and redeeming love of God that we make it ...


In Memoriam: Preston Carson

Ray Morton | January 01, 2005

News /  Congregational News /  Denominational News 

Preston Adams Carson, 78, of Pinckneyville, Ill., was born on June 4, 1926, in Oakdale, Ill. He died Monday, Sept. 20, 2004, at Pinckneyville ...


Darkness and Light

Virginia McBurney | January 01, 2005

Kids Page 

Read Psalm 139:7-12. Answer the questions. Then, unscramble the letters below. —What people groups are mentioned? —What does it say about God? ...


Wilder than God

Interview by Drew Gordon | January 01, 2005

Interviews 

Rut Etheridge has traveled a long road from his birthplace in Massachusetts, to his teen years in Indiana, to college in Ohio, where he met his wife, ...


Viewpoint

Drew Gordon | January 01, 2005

Viewpoint 

The thing that changes fastest in our world might just be the rapidity of change itself. In such a world, publications are not infrequently born and ...


Taking Back New England

Betty Burger | January 01, 2005

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

On an average Lord’s Day morning at a traditional New England grange hall in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, a small but faithful band of four ...


RP Youth—Of Long Ago

Bekah Troup and Avery Mann | January 01, 2005

Youth Witness 

Whether it’s the weekly youth meeting, a service project, party, or presbytery youth retreat, we’re familiar with the way RP youth groups are ...



Newscan

January 01, 2005

News /  World News 

Pro-Family Conservative Lands White House Post President Bush has tapped Claude Allen, currently deputy secretary of the Department of Health and ...


How About a Game of Croquinole?

Bruce C. Stewart | January 01, 2005

RP Living 

All work and no play make Jack a dull Christian.” I remember my dad saying that on numerous occasions. Not that he neglected work. He was ...


David and Jesus

Dennis J. Prutow | January 01, 2005

Learn & Live 

Long after King David passed from the scene, God promised, “Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will ...


Compassion in Calamity

Jamie Dean (editor of EP News) | January 01, 2005

News /  Missions News /  World News 

On Sunday morning, Dec. 26, a small group of Christians gathered for worship in a church on the Kanchipuram shore of Southern India. Sometime around ...