The last half of the 19th Century saw the church experience significant changes as it dealt with the aftermath of the Second Great Awakening, ...
Cayleigh Morton | September/October 2019 Issue
When I first heard about Theological Foundations Backpacking Trip (TFB) I knew immediately that it was something I wanted to do. Anything that ...
Barry York | September/October 2019 Issue
Over the next several issues of the Witness, the Gentle Reformation writers will address, one by one, the qualities of heavenly wisdom given in James ...
Keith and Melissa Evans | September/October 2019 Issue
Our story begins in the toddler room at church, where we first met. We were not serving in the nursery together; we ourselves were the toddlers! We ...
Fishing requires intentionality. You must leave the house, take the right equipment, go to the water, find the right spot, cast the line or net, and ...
Clair Miller joined the 100-year-old club on Mar. 22 while spending the winter in Florida and celebrated again on May 4 after returning home. Katie ...
William J. Edgar | September/October 2019 Issue
The following is an excerpt from William J. Edgar’s book History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (1871–1920). Says the ...
Byron G. Curtis | September/October 2019 Issue
“What are you working on lately, Byron?” asked my friend. “Zwingli.” “What?” “Huldrych Zwingli.” “Huldrych who?” “Huldrych ...
Chris Mathews and Dan Dieter | September/October 2019 Issue
When the RPCNA Synod met in June at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., it was an opportunity to demonstrate one of the college’s core ...
Nathan Eshelman | September/October 2019 Issue
It is hard to dress up milk and meat in one dish,” wrote the Scottish commissioners of the Westminster Assembly to their home churches in Scotland. ...
The Minneola, Kan., Reformed Presbyterian Church was originally organized as an Associate Presbyterian Church on March 20, 1906, by a group of ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2019 Issue
Psalm singing is experiencing a resurgence in the broader church. With that renewed popularity, new psalters or psalter-hymnals have cropped up. The ...
I am writing in response to the review of Rachel Jankovic’s You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal with It in the July/Aug. issue. I have not read ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2019 Issue
The RPCNA has been changing in some encouraging ways—perhaps most notably through congregations in new areas of the country and the world. Last ...
Kit Swartz | September/October 2019 Issue
Each of the five books of the Psalter closes with a doxology in simple praise to God (41:13; 72:18–19; 89:52; 106:48; 150:1-6). Psalm 149 is the ...
Aunt Edith Mary Keddie could have sprung from a novel by Charles Dickens. She was the classic unmarried aunt who looked after her widower father till ...
Gordon J. Keddie | July/August 2019 Issue
When we were small boys, my brother John one day asked our Mother, Norah Scott Keddie (1919-86) what she did in the War. Our Father, David G.A. Keddie ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
When retiring moderator (and recently retired pastor) Bruce Martin dropped the gavel on the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North ...
Fikre and Ritva Menbere | July/August 2019 Issue
This is a season of our lives when the wonder of the gospel has broken into our hearts afresh. The Lord opened an opportunity for us to join a group ...
We were blessed to welcome Rev. Rodney King as our guest minister on Jan. 1 while our pastor was ministering at a college retreat in Indianapolis. ...
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 ...