A Heart for Students, Missions, and the Globe
05. March 2024
Dr. Jonathan Watt is a Bible and linguistics professor at Geneva College, and he is very passionate about missions. Born in Sydney, Australia, Watt ...
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A Vacation Like No Other
05. March 2024
Bermuda. Watkins Glen. Acadia. Stonehenge. Laguna Beach. Fujiyama. Grandma’s house. There are many wonderful and important places to go and things ...
How Can We Sing the Lord’s Songs in Babylon?
05. March 2024
Can you picture the scene? A group of Jewish exiles have gathered for their daily catch-up by the banks of the Euphrates River at the end of another ...
True Love vs. Counterfeits
05. March 2024
Love is a hotly contested topic in our culture. From definition debates to Scripture taken out of context to gender ideology, confusion reigns ...
Trauma on the Mission Field
05. March 2024
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 ...
When God Says No
05. March 2024
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 ...
Preaching Is Not a Performing Art
05. March 2024
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 ...
If Christ Sets You Free
10. January 2024
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 ...
RP Author Offers Next Book in Boys’ Series
10. January 2024
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 ...
Gene and Ruth Spear
10. January 2024
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 ...
The God of the Story, and the God of Your Story
10. January 2024
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 ...
The New Roman Roads
10. January 2024
We used to have to wait months to hear back from the board,” one former Reformed Presbyterian missionary shared with me as she reflected on what was ...
Systematic Theology and Politics
10. January 2024
Reformed Presbyterians maintain a tradition of strong theological distinctives. Those distinctives include psalm singing and the mediatorial kingship ...
Growing Ministers to Plant Churches
10. January 2024
Introduction In a passage that greatly informs the missionary prayers of the church, we read, “After these things the Lord appointed seventy others ...
Becoming Barnabas
10. January 2024
The Woman Belinda, you’ve been such a fierce encourager to our family,” said Heidi as we interviewed Belinda Fyfe on a Thursday evening. Someone ...
Against My Inclination
22. November 2023
At age 11, I said in my heart that there is no God. Having been born in Communist East Germany on Oct. 7, 1976, I was taught from early childhood that ...
Hear, O Israel!
22. November 2023
Our God is a God who hears us, and He has created us in His image to hear Him (Ps. 65:2; 85:8). In the life of faith, much depends on hearing. Saving ...
Review of 2023 Books
22. November 2023
Sabbath keeping has become unpopular. For some, the fourth commandment can conjure up images of boredom or sitting in church all day. Rhode Island ...
A Household Established by a Household of Faith
22. November 2023
The Scripture reveals that getting old was not supposed to happen. Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, all of us are getting old (Gen. 2:17, 3:19). Adam ...
The Joy of Giving
22. November 2023
When we think about the duty of giving, we may be tempted to think first of ourselves: what good givers we are, how we fail, or how we desire to ...