Nathan Eshelman | November 02, 2015
The metaphor of priesthood is a metaphor for privilege, access, and witness on behalf of God. Whether we say the “priesthood of all believers” or ...
November 02, 2015
< p>The RP Witness staff thank all who participated in the 2015 Creative Arts Contest. We applaud each of our entrants, who entrusted us with ...
Drew Gordon | September 11, 2015
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of ...
staff | September 11, 2015
With the release of Rosaria Butterfield’s new book, Openness Unhindered, in July, the number of orders going out the front door sometimes exceeds ...
Phil Pockras | September 11, 2015
Tracing my family’s history for the last century and more, I was struck how Providence worked through seemingly chance things to bring a Christian ...
Trustees of Synod | September 11, 2015
Many Scriptures show the principles of giving. One that stands out is, “Each one must give as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under ...
Barry York | September 11, 2015
Of all the metaphors the Bible uses to describe the Church, perhaps the richest is that of the Church as the new, or spiritual, Israel. Sadly, ...
Jerry Foltz | September 11, 2015
The Foltz home is a place of refuge. It’s a place where those who have nowhere else to turn can come to recover, be restored, and find repentance. ...
September 11, 2015
Trinity RPC’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Trinity RPC will celebrate the Lord’s goodness on Sept. 26-27 at their new building, 4515 Sandy Spring ...
Kit Swartz | September 09, 2015
A Song of Ascents Psalm 125 is the sixth in the Songs of Ascents (120-134). The overall theme of the series is ascending to the temple in Jerusalem ...
Dennis J. Prutow | September 09, 2015
We all come into the world stained with sin. Just as every sip of properly brewed tea is equally infused with color and flavor, so every aspect of ...
Holly Vizino and Caleb McCracken | September 09, 2015
When a Doylestown, Ohio, native was looking for the college that would be her best fit, she was certain about two things. She knew that she wanted to ...
Reuben Bredenhof | September 09, 2015
As we grow up, receiving instruction at home and at school, we hear many stories that are enduringly imprinted on our minds. Even years later, an ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September 09, 2015
A response to Rut Etheridge’s article, “Standing Next to the Skyscraper” regarding the gift of the RPCNA college, Geneva. In August 2013, ...
Sam McCracken | September 09, 2015
Casper RP Mission Church Location: Casper, Wyo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization Date: mission church Membership: 6 communicant; 12 baptized (and ...
Katie Klaassen | September 09, 2015
This summer I was blessed with the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the Theological Foundations for Youth (TFY) program held at the Reformed ...
Barry York | July 15, 2015
Many readers have heard Augustine’s adage, “He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.” By these words he ...
Dennis J. Prutow | July 15, 2015
God promises, “I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give ...
Russ Pulliam | July 15, 2015
Tom and Rosemarie Mangan didn’t plan any war on poverty. They just love their 10 children, who otherwise might seem statistically destined for ...
Drew Gordon | July 15, 2015
Historic it is; impulsive it is not.” Rev. Jamie Hunt, moderator of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, used those words to describe the ...
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 ...