Kyle Borg | December 02, 2016
Religion and Politics In America Frank J. Smith (ed.) | ABC-CLIO, 2016, 968 pp. (2 vol.), $189 This is a mammoth accomplishment from Frank Smith, ...
Drew Gordon | December 02, 2016
The world has been obsessed with the U.S. presidency this year, and it has been a spectacle. But in the spirit of “all politics is local,” ...
Joel Hart | November 30, 2016
As I sat near the front of the Calvin College auditorium, Dave Long came to the podium to preach on Jeremiah 1. It was an evening worship service at ...
Mark Sampson | November 30, 2016
So much had changed since the copyist initiated his delicate and masterful work. If this scroll could tell the tale of its passing through time and ...
Dennis J. Prutow | November 30, 2016
Moses is dead, and Joshua is the new leader of God’s people (Deut. 31:23; 34:5; Josh. 1:1-9). He leads the people across the Jordan as on dry ...
Noah Bailey | November 30, 2016
“Oh, I’m a Reformed Presbyterian.” We stood stunned inside the Renfrow-Miller Museum in Billings, Okla. This town had lost its Reformed ...
Kit Swartz | November 30, 2016
Psalm 132 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents, Royal Psalms Central Thought: David’s throne is established on the Lord’s throne Keywords: ...
Russ Pulliam | November 30, 2016
Gina Sheets was a high-level agricultural official in the Indiana state government. Husband Travis Sheets was a farmer in Clinton County and a member ...
Andrew Quigley | November 30, 2016
On a recent trip to the U.S., I had the opportunity to visit a friend. He’s someone I’ve only known a few years, but every time I’m in his ...
Dean Filson | November 30, 2016
Sowing Seeds We first met Omar* and his wife and their two young children last November. Zach and Beth Smith had encouraged us to invite this young ...
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November 23, 2016
Location: Stillwater, Okla. Presbytery: Midwest Organiztion: July 1991 Membership: 46 communicant; 24 baptized Pastor: Bruce Parnell Website: ...
Drew Gordon | November 23, 2016
The Witness editor sat down with Calvin Troup just days after his inauguration as Geneva’s 20th president to discuss his long history with Geneva ...
Michael Kearney | November 23, 2016
Recently Geneva College experienced a temporary power outage that left students in their apartments on a hot summer evening without electricity. If ...
Christen Adels | September 16, 2016
When I was a child, my family took in foster children. I was exposed to the harsh realities of broken families when we took in a four-year-old boy ...
September 16, 2016
Ice Water, Frisbees, and Fourth-of-July Seeds Bruce Martin, pastor The Ridgefield Park, N.J., RPC began making plans for the local Independence Day ...
John M. Mitchell | September 16, 2016
For over 30 years, the RPCNA has benefited from the Cecil J. S. MacLaughlin Trust Fund. The income for 2015 from Mrs. MacLaughlin’s trust fund to ...
Michael Kearney | September 16, 2016
“Wait—you’re not RP?” At Geneva College I confront this question on a regular basis. Students and even professors are baffled to learn that I ...
Dennis J. Prutow | September 14, 2016
The key text of Deuteronomy is clear. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and ...
Kit Swartz | September 14, 2016
Psalm 131 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: Humbling oneself and hoping in the Lord keywords: proud, composed, and hope Psalms 130 ...
Warren Peel | September 14, 2016
Picture two occasions: first, a sunny Lord’s Day morning as people file into church; second, a blood-drenched battlefield in a warzone. It’s hard ...
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 ...