Ava Concannon | July/August 2020 Issue
For over 35 years, ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization) has ventured where poverty and hunger run rampant as a light for Christ and a ...
Bill Weir | July/August 2020 Issue
The RP Home bids farewell to Lorrie Meneely with much thanksgiving for her 33 years of faithful service. Lorrie has given much of her adult life to ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2020 Issue
We psalm singers frequently remember that “the nations’ families all will come, to worship and before Him fall” (Psalm 22E, The Book of Psalms ...
Gordon J. Keddie and David G. Whitla | July/August 2020 Issue
“National calamity!” What images do these words bring to your mind? For the prophet Isaiah, it meant an incompetent national government and ...
On the Road with Saint Augustine issues two warnings to the would-be reader, one on the back cover and one on the front. On the back cover, author ...
Lily Larson | July/August 2020 Issue
A handful of teenagers piles out of a white van pulled up next to a gas station pump. The group of boys and girls all start complaining about the ...
Pastor Bryan Schneider and his wife, Olivia, worked endless hours to serve the community by hosting a marriage conference in September. The sanctuary ...
Brian and Dorian Coombs | May/June 2020 Issue
I was about six. I had just finished watching a TV program and began to cry because it made me ponder the concept of death. I was afraid I would no ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2020 Issue
We studied with great intensity, listening to lectures, viewing videos, and even watching live demonstrations. But there was the inevitable time in ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | May/June 2020 Issue
I’m one of the deacons at my church. When I read Acts 6, I feel like we should be doing everything we can to help the poor around us, but some of ...
To find out how Reformed Presbyterian congregations have been worshiping and ministering during the pandemic, the RP Witness sent a survey to about 20 ...
Nathan Eshelman | May/June 2020 Issue
The Form of the Larger Catechism Catechisms were not new during the Reformation. They were a method of Christian teaching dating back to the time of ...
Mark Loughridge | May/June 2020 Issue
We live in an increasingly polarized world. Everything is binary. Nuance is suspect. Taking time to understand another is tantamount to compromise. ...
Amelia Jones | May/June 2020 Issue
I do not know what situation you read this in. Normally I could assume that you are a typical young person in the early summer, glad that school is ...
Lars Fracheboud | May/June 2020 Issue
When Mandy and I left France in late 2019 with our one-year-old son Caleb, our dog, and five suitcases, we could never have imagined what lay ahead. ...
Cara D. Todhunter | May/June 2020 Issue
For the past 35 years the Genevans choir has performed for the residents, family, and staff at the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh, Pa. On ...
James Faris, Richard Holdeman, Michael LeFebvre, Jared Olivetti, Denny Prutow, and Stephen Shipp | May/June 2020 Issue
The 2020 election primaries are underway, and, on Nov. 3, millions of Americans will go to the polls to vote. There is a lot at stake in this year’s ...
Bill and Rose Weir | May/June 2020 Issue
Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Ex. 20:12). Caring for your father or ...
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Cor. 5:17). It’s easy enough to take a ...
Four young people from the congregation—Jayna Bailey, Tava Goerner, Bashia Korten, and Joel Schaefer—declared their personal faith in the Lord ...
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 ...