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Good Stress, Bad Stress

Dennis J. Prutow | January 29, 2001

Do you consider your life stressful? Welcome to the club. We thrive on stress and anxiety. We are bored without it. When doctors tell us to avoid ...


Those Origins Controversies

William W. Gould | January 02, 2001

When one hears or reads in the mass media about a creation-evolution controversy (as in the Kansas government school standards controversy), the ...


A Quadruple Blessing

Dawn Claerbaut | January 02, 2001

Testimonies 

It is how we all picture our life to be. We grow up, perhaps attend college, fall in love, get married, and start a career and family. But sometimes ...


Memories for a Lifetime

Anna Roberts | January 02, 2001

Agency Features /  RP International Conference /  Youth Witness 

I had been waiting for four years for the next International Conference. I had had such a good time in junior high that I was dying to come back ...


A New Year’s Crisis

Diana Vice | January 02, 2001

Testimonies 

The nagging headache that had lasted for weeks finally became unendurable. The last thing 44-year-old Rick Vice remembered before passing out was ...


The New Rhetoric

Russell Pulliam | October 01, 2000

Trash and filth are out, and family values are in. That’s a possible conclusion from a quick glance at the tickets chosen by both political parties ...



Encouraged and Empowered

Scott and Deahna Calgaro | October 01, 2000

Deahna I was raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and was the fourth and last child of my birth parents. After a rocky and unhealthy marriage of 14 years, my ...


The Opposite of Animal House

Jenn Weir | October 01, 2000

Have you ever marveled at the uniqueness and the intensity of the relationships among the 12 disciples that Jesus chose? Imagine dwelling in community ...


Worry in Relationships

Dennis J. Prutow | October 01, 2000

Writing to Corinth from Ephesus in 55 AD., Paul makes a curious statement. “In view of the present distress,” says Paul, “it is good for a man ...


Lending to the Lord

October 01, 2000

From Central Indiana, 15 Reformed Presbyterian student volunteers headed to southern Florida this past summer to help an international ministry, ECHO, ...


A Change of Plans

Louise Copelamd | October 01, 2000

Daily fever. Lumbar punctures. Pain. Hospital tests. Fatigue. Disappointment. All of these were present in my life this summer. The diagnosis of the ...


Head Coverings – An Argument Against

Jerry F. O’Neill | October 01, 2000

Introduction Growing up in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the 1950s, I could not have guessed that there would be interest in my lifetime in the ...


Head Coverings – An Argument In Favor

C.J. Williams | October 01, 2000

This article advocating the use of head coverings in worship by women, and the following article taking the opposite position, wee inspired by a ...


Agreeably Disagreeing

Drew Gordon | October 01, 2000

Conflict is conflict. In an imperfect world we will never remove the tension of people disagreeing. Nor should we gloss over the tension, for often ...


Loan Programs of the RPCNA

Steve McMahan | September 22, 2000

Managing the investments of the denomination is one of a variety of responsibilities of the Trustees of Synod. Some of the funds invested are made ...


Want to Be a Fireman When You Grow Up?

John Vincze | September 22, 2000

Ever think about being a fireman when you grew tip? How about an engineer? nurse? teacher? Occupational choices are endless today. When I was growing ...


Worried About What to Say?

Dennis J. Prutow | September 22, 2000

How many times each week do you feel tense about what to say in a difficult situation? Jesus charges us, “Do not worry about how or what you are to ...


Making Christ’s Authority a Reality

September 22, 2000

When Calvin went to Geneva, he was looking for rest and relaxation. Calvin had had to flee Paris because of an outbreak of persecution in France ...


Last Word on the Conference

Drew Gordon | September 22, 2000

Agency Features /  RP International Conference 

When people ask me what this summer’s RP International Conference was like, I answer in a word: nurturing. My family and I returned home with that ...