Anonymous Author | March/April 2024 Issue
I was served a witness subpoena today. I know what you’re probably thinking—what an unsettling way to start an article for the RP Witness! It is ...
Anonymous Author | March/April 2024 Issue
It can be hard to grasp the subject of persecution here in the West. We live at ease and in wealth like the world has never known. Only in the last ...
Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2024 Issue
Reformed Presbyterian churches exist in several countries worldwide: but why? Why do we exist in some countries, and not in others? We can divide ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | March/April 2024 Issue
This is a great question, and I can relate. As a little boy, I enjoyed prayer times in worship. Everyone went quiet and still. I would close my eyes ...
Shawn Anderson | March/April 2024 Issue
In the annals of human history, two events exhibit the lowest point for humanity: the atrocities of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the fall of ...
C. J. Williams | March/April 2024 Issue
Why does a good God permit evil in His world? This is the one question that has occupied mankind since the garden of Eden. Many poets, playwrights, ...
Shunda Gray | March/April 2024 Issue
Expectation In August 2016, we had just found out that we were expecting our first child. Thoughts of the future were flooding our minds, with waves ...
David Whitla | March/April 2024 Issue
The Prophet Ezekiel had a tough ministry. He had been ministering to the exiles from Judah in the land of Babylon for seven long years, and, as God ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2024 Issue
My mother-in-law, Nancy Hutmire, was known for her humor. People who met her just once or who knew her well frequently reminded us. Typically it was ...
Sandra Barton | January/February 2024 Issue
I was raised in a small town where there was a lot of camaraderie. Parents watched out for each other’s children, and stay-at-home moms chatted over ...
Orlando, Fla., RPC Nathan Eshelman, pastor During the Sunday school recess from summer classes, the church leadership decided to introduce a series ...
Zakari Ward and Natalie Dohms | January/February 2024 Issue
Christians in the US join a March for Life each January. As Christians and citizens of Canada, we are responsible to remind our own government of the ...
Bob Hemphill has good memories of growing up in Beaver Falls, Pa., in the 1950s and 1960s. Those memories will come back for Geneva alumni if they ...
David Weir | January/February 2024 Issue
Gene Wilfred Spear was born on Aug. 14, 1927, to Maurice B. and Edna Carls Spear. He was born at home on their dairy farm in Berryton, Kan., near ...
Christopher Wright | January/February 2024 Issue
The story proper of the book of Ruth begins in verse 6, with Naomi in a desperate situation, overwhelmed with grief and loneliness and financially ...
Nathaniel Pockras | January/February 2024 Issue
For the first several decades that RP settlements existed in America, there were very few ministers; so the work of the church was performed almost ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | January/February 2024 Issue
For nearly a decade, the hit TV show Cheers opened with a theme song celebrating the sense of security that comes from having a place “where ...
Nathan Eshelman | January/February 2024 Issue
Good things come with great responsibility. Jesus said, “To whom much is given, much is required” (Luke 12:48). When a young person gets her first ...
Kyle Sims | January/February 2024 Issue
In seventh grade, my history class was asked to name all the presidents of the United States. We got all but one, Millard Fillmore. Not only could we ...
Alice Odom | January/February 2024 Issue
The path of the Christian life is not as clear as many of us would hope. Today, the world is constantly pulling us in every direction and pressuring ...
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 ...