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 ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2020 Issue
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit, three people gradually realize they are stuck in a room with each other for eternity. No communication ...
Unexpected Blessings As Pastor Adam Kuehner of Southfield RPC said, “Rather astonishingly, the Lord’s countenance has shined more radiantly upon ...
Sue Pikarsky | March/April 2020 Issue
The Messiah’s Quilter Bees, the quilting ministry of Messiah’s Church in Clay, N.Y., sprang to life in an unusual, circuitous way. I had been ...
Malcolm Ball | March/April 2020 Issue
How did the mission to France begin? France was recognized as the principal overseas mission field of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland at ...
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 ...