In spring 2015 I received an email from a young man who was planning to move to our area with his wife and daughter for graduate study. A few weeks ...
Three adult sisters…living together. We realize we are an oddity. It doesn’t help that all of our first names start with the same letter. For ...
Peter E. Robson | May/June 2018 Issue
Anyone that has ever gone scuba diving remembers the moment they drew their first breath of air underwater. Many who try scuba abandon their quest ...
I am very thankful, not only that God is sovereign, but that I know He is sovereign. Our triune God governs and upholds all things. Nothing, ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2018 Issue
After we finished excerpts of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, our high school English teacher asked us to write brief essays on our definition of ...
May 11, 2018
On Sept. 1, Dr. Richard Ganz will retire after 39 fruitful years as pastor of the Ottawa RPC. We are thankful to God for sustaining him and for ...
Caleb Nelson | March 30, 2018
Recently an online platform was created for Reformed/Presbyterian singles to meet: the NAPARC Singles Facebook group. Only adult, single NAPARC (North ...
Though we began as a Bible study involving three families in the Kokomo area in 1983, the Lord patiently and intentionally built His church one stone ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2018 Issue
One of my goals every year is to read a few biographies. That is because biographies captivate us. Many of us as adults have been introduced to ...
Dennis Prutow | March/April 2018 Issue
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me” ...
John M. Mitchell | March/April 2018 Issue
Why collect communion bread recipes? When I first became responsible for providing communion bread for my congregation, I took the obvious and easy ...
Kit Swartz | March/April 2018 Issue
This psalm is beautifully arranged with the problem described (vv. 1–5), the ground of appeal confessed (vv. 6–7), the petition answering the ...
Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2018 Issue
When 13 ministers and 3 ruling elders opened the Synod of 1821, the RPCNA was a good deal smaller than it is today. There were 42 congregations in 5 ...
Bill Edgar | March/April 2018 Issue
How will you protect your child from temptation? You won’t successfully isolate him or her, or hover close enough to always protect, but wisdom is a ...
The Orlando RPC was pleased to host the presbytery visitation committee on Nov. 4–5. Wade Mann, pastor of Elkhart, Ind., RPC, Kent Butterfield, ...
Joseph Friedly | March/April 2018 Issue
I don’t have a remarkable testimony. Mine is not a story that amazes. It is, however, a story of God’s grace. And God’s grace is always amazing! ...
Dr. Calvin L. Troup | March/April 2018 Issue
At a presbytery family conference last summer, my family enjoyed a meal with friends who are parents of school-age children. As the meal was wrapping ...
Mary Brown | March/April 2018 Issue
Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2018 Issue
The river current swiftly moved us downstream without much commotion. A quiet anxiety hung in the air. We were all mindful that soon this winding ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2018 Issue
Bill Edgar’s article focusing on teaching life-giving truths to our children reminded me how much I’ve learned from the book of Proverbs, even as ...
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 ...