Dennis J. Prutow | July/August 2018 Issue
The Book of Psalms is quoted 79 times in the New Testament. There are also 333 allusions to the Psalms (Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies, ...
Kit Swartz | July/August 2018 Issue
Who has not felt that no one cares about him or her? We feel like numbers in a file, cogs on a gear, or meat in a grinder; something to be used and ...
Kenneth G. Smith | July/August 2018 Issue
Principles tend to lose their meaning and significance out of context. So, let’s get into context. Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior of the world, ...
Michelle LaMay, Harry Metzger, and Jen O’Neill | July/August 2018 Issue
When people think of the African jungle, images of wild animals, exotic birds, and snakes often come to mind, as well as thoughts of darkness, fear, ...
Bryan and Olivia Schneider | July/August 2018 Issue
It is amazing how God works things out in His providence. We never planned on living as long as we have in Beaver Falls, and we never planned on ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2018 Issue
I was a bit envious of the people I knew with cell phones. The phones and the fees were frightfully expensive nearly 30 years ago, so the people I ...
The U.S. Civil War began in spring 1861. That fall, a new congregation of the RPCNA was organized in upstate New York. Walton RPC began with 19 ...
Drew Gordon | June 29, 2018
The 187th Synod of the RPCNA has adjourned, having completed a full docket of reports and two lengthy discipline cases. Pastor Joseph Friedly of ...
Drew Gordon | June 29, 2018
In a day when Synod heard from delegates of other denominations as well as representatives from several countries, it was fitting that the morning’s ...
Drew Gordon | June 28, 2018
After the singing of Psalm 13B, Pastor Jared Olivetti of Immanuel (West Lafayette, Ind.) RPC delivered the devotional message on Psalm 18:46-50 on ...
Drew Gordon | June 27, 2018
The 187th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America convened June 26 with a time of worship, beginning with the singing of Psalm 103B ...
Drew Gordon | June 18, 2018
If you want to see the breadth of work that a synod of a small but active denomination can be involved in, this might be the synod to follow. The ...
Ben Larson | May/June 2018 Issue
In Genesis 32, Jacob was returning home after years in another land, fearful of what lay ahead because of the discord he had sown long before. As ...
Samuel Ward | May/June 2018 Issue
As time progressed it seemed that there were always visiting missionaries coming and going from the Cush4Christ team. In fall 2012 we had Luke with ...
Eliana Roberts | May/June 2018 Issue
I was born in China in the late 1980s. My parents were secondary school teachers, and I spent my early years in their school. I grew up in a vacuum ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2018 Issue
I had not been working at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) for very long when President Jerry O’Neill announced a road trip to ...
Dennis Prutow | May/June 2018 Issue
Jesus prays, “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17). He is praying for His future apostles. Truth is that which is ...
Kit Swartz | May/June 2018 Issue
The Lord (vv. 1, 3, 8) is addressed as the One who by nature is able to help and, in covenant, is willing to help. The need is urgent (hasten, when) ...
Russell, Ont., RPC began as a church plant of the Ottawa, Ont., RPC. In 1997, four families from the Ottawa RPC put out a call to Pastor Matt ...
Jeff Kingswood | May/June 2018 Issue
On most weekdays during the school year, a group of older teens makes the Christian education wing of Grace Presbyterian Church in Woodstock, Ont., a ...
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 ...