Zach’s story in a nutshell I was blessed to be raised in a covenant home in Lisbon, N.Y. I was a mischievous child—goes along with my red hair! ...
Author, blogger, and editor Christina Fox draws heavily from themes in Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods and applies them specifically to the arena of ...
John D. Edgar | July/August 2019 Issue
There are various ways to start a new church, but usually the leadership for it comes from a church planter. Church planting courses are typically ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | July/August 2019 Issue
In light of the many prayer requests and needs of individuals, family, congregation, presbytery, denomination, civil authority, community, ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
With anticipation and apprehension, I stepped onto a Greyhound bound for Harrisburg, Pa. Entrenched in work and social spheres that surrounded me with ...
Andrew Kerr | July/August 2019 Issue
I was briefly spooked by a website predicting my death. I typed in details of country, height, weight, and birth, then clicked. In a few seconds my ...
Kim Phillips | July/August 2019 Issue
In 2005, the White Lake, N.Y., RPC saw a need in the community for a food pantry. A small committee got together and the dream started to become a ...
The number of our olive shoots (62 covenant children under age 21—see Psalm 128:3) at Trinity RPC in Burtonsville, Md., is quickly growing closer to ...
Zuri Cassell | July/August 2019 Issue
The not-so-secret secret in America is that we are all in debt. From the white pillars of D.C. to cul-de-sac communities, studies show that the ...
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 148 is the ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
This is not your father and mother’s RPCNA. A visitor to this year’s Synod meeting in Pennsylvania would first have noticed that the RPCNA was ...
Drew Gordon | June 14, 2019
In the final joint session of these concurrent synods, Pastor Shawn Anderson (Sycamore [Kokomo, Ind.] RPC) preached on John 17:1-5 and the manner of ...
Drew Gordon | June 12, 2019
The RPCNA Synod began its day with a joint worship service with the ARP Synod. Pastor Gabriel Fluhrer (First ARP, Columbia, S.C.) spoke on the text, ...
Drew Gordon | June 11, 2019
At 8:40 a.m. retiring moderator (and recently retired pastor) Bruce Martin dropped the gavel on the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of ...
Drew Gordon | June 10, 2019
On the eve of the concurrent synods of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, ...
Adam Kuehner and Craig Scott | May/June 2019 Issue
There is a common saying in Reformed circles that goes something like this: “We are called to faithfulness, not fruitfulness.” There is some truth ...
Jacob Rhoda | May/June 2019 Issue
During my sophomore year at Wheaton College, I led a small group Bible study in my dorm through Wheaton’s “Discipleship Small Groups” ministry. ...
Michelle Kim and Clara Mauser | May/June 2019 Issue
Two teens were interviewed about reading The Gospel Comes with a House Key together. What made you choose to read this book? MICHELLE: I had heard a ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2019 Issue
When looking for a pastor, one does not just stop by a favorite big box or do-it-yourself store. One could spend countless, fruitless hours wandering ...
Martin Blocki | May/June 2019 Issue
In 1993 the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America asked the Reformed Presbyterian Woman’s Association (RPWA) to oversee a ...
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 ...