In 1989 God had a big plan for one New York town, but no one knew it. Aaron Goerner graduated high school and went to college. He had grown up in a ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2018 Issue
The Tree of Life synagogue is 17 blocks from my office—a quiet, beautiful stroll on tree-lined streets past parks and upper middle-class homes. It ...
Around the time the Sun-Maid raisin company opened its Fresno, Calif., facility 100 years ago, some local folks hoped to form a Reformed Presbyterian ...
Kit Swartz | September/October 2018 Issue
Paul assures us that the Lord will always provide a way of escape out of temptation (1 Cor. 10:13). We have this because Christ accomplished it for us ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
Identity confusion has not only damaged individuals but also the church,” said Prof. David Murray as he commended Dr. Barry York’s new book on the ...
Dennis J. Prutow | September/October 2018 Issue
Philippians 2:12–13 is good news for every believer, “My beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in ...
Barry York | September/October 2018 Issue
Whenever the topic of discipleship is brought up in the church, one truth is essential to the discussion: You cannot talk about discipleship without ...
Emily Hamer | September/October 2018 Issue
When I tell people that we’ve moved to a 35-acre farm on the dusty Colorado prairie, I’m often met with carefully hidden surprise and the unspoken ...
Barry York | September/October 2018 Issue
The Lord not only renamed Simon Bar-Jonah “Peter” in Matthew 16:13-23, He also gave him something. What Jesus gave him helps distinguish the true ...
Chris Mathews | September/October 2018 Issue
Geneva College has always been a familiar place to me, despite the fact that I grew up almost 1,000 miles away and never visited the college until I ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
Making a Christian film always seems to involve compromise—compromising on quality due to a small budget, compromising on theology to cater to a ...
Tim and Lynette Bloedow | September/October 2018 Issue
Tim was raised in a churchgoing family in Eastern Ontario. His father was a professor of classics at the University of Ottawa, and his mother remained ...
While Pastor McCracken was traveling for various commitments, including Synod, several men ministered to us: Pastor Lucas Hanna, of the First (Beaver ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
How did you come to faith in Christ? Dr. York: I grew up in North Carolina and attended Baptist churches off and on, but Christianity wasn’t really ...
July 27, 2018
This year the White Lake Kids & Teen Camp is July 28 through August 3. Lucas Hanna, pastor of First (Beaver Falls, Pa.) RPC, will be speaking on ...
Jonathan and Dianne Schaefer | July/August 2018 Issue
I was raised in a Christian home. My father, John, was a physics professor at Geneva College. Mom (Lois) stayed at home with the children. My family ...
Kyle Borg | July/August 2018 Issue
Every now and again, in my part of rural Kansas, word will get around that some cows have escaped their field and are walking about on well-traveled ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2018 Issue
If you wanted to see the breadth of work that a synod of a small but active denomination can be involved in, this was the synod to follow. The 187th ...
Tim McCracken | July/August 2018 Issue
Some providential interactions in the last couple of weeks brought home again important things about the privilege of ministry in the California State ...
Patricia Boyle | July/August 2018 Issue
Japan as a country has been stubbornly resistant to the preaching of the gospel. Despite the discouraging response, the Reformed Presbyterian Church, ...
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 ...