Mark Loughridge | November/December 2022 Issue
Many of us have our favorite pieces of music pulled together into a playlist on Spotify or on our phones. If we’re heading off on a journey, or we ...
Alice Odom | November/December 2022 Issue
David wrote many of the Psalms when he was a young man. In them, he shows the struggles of his life and the great depth of his relationship with the ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2022 Issue
March 2020 began a long season of unusual happenings around the world. With the shutdown of much of the world’s economy, we all experienced ...
Vida Grace Brown I was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and raised to know the Lord from a very young age, attending North Hills (Pittsburgh, Pa.) RPC as ...
Graham Smith | November/December 2022 Issue
As those disciples were standing on that mountaintop, do you think that they had to be cajoled into going?” David Platt asked this rhetorical ...
Maggie Allyn | November/December 2022 Issue
Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” —C. S. Lewis, “Three ...
Caleb McCracken | November/December 2022 Issue
Location: Beaver Falls, Pa. Presbytery: Allegheny Organization: Oct. 2020 Membership: 119 communicant; 40 baptized Pastor: George ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2022 Issue
When you have an Elisha with you, it’s easier to forget Elijah. Perhaps that’s an odd thought to cross one’s mind when reading the Minutes of ...
Nathaniel Pockras | October 05, 2022
This is the first half of a two-part series on RP church buildings, both current and former. Organized in 1816, Cincinnati was one of Ohio’s first ...
Sarah Shipp | September/October 2022 Issue
Last year, Bloomington, Ind., RPC celebrated 200 years as an organized church—worshiping, proclaiming, and serving Christ in southern Indiana. To ...
Orlando, Fla., RPC Nathan Eshelman, pastor The annual Night on the Town Dinner was held May 19 at Servando’s Restaurant in honor of our graduates: ...
Richard Gamble | September/October 2022 Issue
The great Princeton theologian B. B. Warfield once said, “The systematic theologian is pre-eminently a preacher of the gospel.” The preacher’s ...
William J. Edgar | September/October 2022 Issue
“Q. 124. What was the extent of the Covenanter Church in her glory? Under the General Assembly [in Scotland] there were 14 synods, 68 ...
Willem De Ruijter | September/October 2022 Issue
I distinctly remember when I first heard about Geneva College. In 2008, a mentor vouched for the transformative power of Geneva’s higher education ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2022 Issue
Note: This article distinguishes pastor and minister. Minister is any teaching elder, while pastor is a teaching elder currently installed in a ...
Noah Bailey | September/October 2022 Issue
This is a good question. It reminded me of the missionary visits to my childhood church, which were always an exciting time. We enjoyed a special ...
Kyle Borg | September/October 2022 Issue
A glass window stands before us. We can look at the window itself, studying and admiring it for what it is. Or, we can look through the glass to what ...
Andrew Kerr | September/October 2022 Issue
The psalter was not given to focus, finally, on former glory days of a posthumous, Israelite prince. Certainly, much is lost if we gloss over the ...
Emily Mann | September/October 2022 Issue
Struggles are inevitable in this earthly life. The current day is no exception. Many churches lack pastors, do not own a church building, and worry ...
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Paul and Megan Hemphill | September/October 2022 Issue
“Go west, young man” was a common phrase to be heard during America’s westward expansion in the 19th Century. As a family in the Pacific ...
Location: Colorado Springs, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1981 Membership: 101 communicant; 56 baptized Pastor: Ed Blackwood Website: ...
This article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of God Breathed: Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself. I will never ...
In the early years of the Witness, it was published weekly, and correspondents reported many small events in their congregations. Here are some news ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...