C.J. Williams | September/October 2021 Issue
The crux of our weekly experience of corporate worship is undoubtedly the sermon. The Word of God, and especially the preaching of it, is the powerful ...
Lydia Stowe | September/October 2021 Issue
Hospitality is a means of grace, a way to extend warm generosity to fellow believers, a privilege and duty of all believers—and a terrifying concept ...
Alicia Hemphill and Esther Howe | September/October 2021 Issue
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of articles about pastors and families. October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and it’s a great time ...
Cheryl Hemphill | September/October 2021 Issue
It is difficult to condense such a broad topic. I will focus on the practical, with this caution and reminder. In Revelation 2, the Ephesian ...
Maria McDeavitt | September/October 2021 Issue
Location: Bryan, Texas Presbytery: Midwest Organization: Sept. 5, 2018 Membership: 32 communicant; 22 baptized Pastor: Steve Rockhill Website: ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2021 Issue
On Aug. 13, one teenage girl’s album surpassed another teenage girl’s album atop Ireland’s pop music charts. While that won’t register a blip ...
Nathaniel Pockras | August 02, 2021
Let’s look back a century at the 1921 meeting of Synod. Delegates met at the Pittsburgh, Pa., church building, located downtown on Eighth Street ...
Joshua Smith | July/August 2021 Issue
Having been raised in a covenant home, the Spirit’s work in my life has been evident as long as I can remember. At a young age, the Lord instilled ...
Alida Kingswood, 89, mother of Pastor Matthew Kings-wood (Russell, Ont., RPC) as well as Pastor Jeff Kingswood (Grace [Woodstock, Ont.] ARP Church), ...
Portraits of Christ is a wonderfully helpful collection of meditations, nourishing the soul and enriching the mind. For many years, Keddie and Whitla ...
Bob Hemphill | July/August 2021 Issue
I’ll give you my whole set of army men, and I’ll throw in my electric football game too.” That was my best friend, Piggy, speaking. He was ...
Jeff Stivason | July/August 2021 Issue
Not long ago I met a man who belonged to a civic club. The association had a certain rhythm. They had monthly meetings, quarterly spaghetti dinners, ...
Nathaniel Pockras | July/August 2021 Issue
More than 20 Reformed Presbyterian ministers crossed the Atlantic after serving as RP ministers in Ireland. Some were sent as missionaries to ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | July/August 2021 Issue
The jest sometimes circulates synod meetings: Everything has been said, but not everyone has said it. A presbytery sometimes gets so far into the ...
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Nathan Eshelman | July/August 2021 Issue
Twenty years ago, when I began reading theology, I was excited and eager. I had so many questions and couldn’t wait to discover the answers. But ...
James Faris | July/August 2021 Issue
The historical psalms stir our souls by helping us remember God’s actions for His people in the past, reviving our hope, and shaping the contours of ...
Philomena Hanna | July/August 2021 Issue
I live in South Sudan, Africa. I have two brothers, Lucas and Xavier, and two sisters, Rowan and Evangeline. My family and the Smith family, Lydia ...
Heather H. | July/August 2021 Issue
I was fascinated by mission work very early in my life. Through high school and college, my fascination grew into a passion, and I knew God had set me ...
Brad Johnston and Drew Gordon | July/August 2021 Issue
Delegates traveled to the 2021 Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America knowing there was more work than they could do. Fifteen ...
RPW How is the Reformed Presbyterian Church different from the National Presbyterian Church of Chile? Pastor Sánchez In Chile, the Presbyterian ...
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 ...