Kyle Borg | November/December 2019 Issue
I was sitting in the house I shared with my girlfriend when I opened my Bible and read the words found in the ninth chapter of Romans: “So then it ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2019 Issue
“I do not like history. It is boring. Yet I just listened to three hours of lecture, and not once did I wonder when the class would end.” ...
Mary Brown | November/December 2019 Issue
I recently heard someone say that a congregation will not grow spiritually beyond the spiritual growth of its leaders. It would follow that the ...
The last half of the 19th Century saw the church experience significant changes as it dealt with the aftermath of the Second Great Awakening, ...
Keith and Melissa Evans | September/October 2019 Issue
Our story begins in the toddler room at church, where we first met. We were not serving in the nursery together; we ourselves were the toddlers! We ...
Fishing requires intentionality. You must leave the house, take the right equipment, go to the water, find the right spot, cast the line or net, and ...
William J. Edgar | September/October 2019 Issue
The following is an excerpt from William J. Edgar’s book History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (1871–1920). Says the ...
Byron G. Curtis | September/October 2019 Issue
“What are you working on lately, Byron?” asked my friend. “Zwingli.” “What?” “Huldrych Zwingli.” “Huldrych who?” “Huldrych ...
Chris Mathews and Dan Dieter | September/October 2019 Issue
When the RPCNA Synod met in June at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., it was an opportunity to demonstrate one of the college’s core ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2019 Issue
Psalm singing is experiencing a resurgence in the broader church. With that renewed popularity, new psalters or psalter-hymnals have cropped up. The ...
Aunt Edith Mary Keddie could have sprung from a novel by Charles Dickens. She was the classic unmarried aunt who looked after her widower father till ...
Gordon J. Keddie | July/August 2019 Issue
When we were small boys, my brother John one day asked our Mother, Norah Scott Keddie (1919-86) what she did in the War. Our Father, David G.A. Keddie ...
Fikre and Ritva Menbere | July/August 2019 Issue
This is a season of our lives when the wonder of the gospel has broken into our hearts afresh. The Lord opened an opportunity for us to join a group ...
Zach’s story in a nutshell I was blessed to be raised in a covenant home in Lisbon, N.Y. I was a mischievous child—goes along with my red hair! ...
Author, blogger, and editor Christina Fox draws heavily from themes in Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods and applies them specifically to the arena of ...
John D. Edgar | July/August 2019 Issue
There are various ways to start a new church, but usually the leadership for it comes from a church planter. Church planting courses are typically ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
With anticipation and apprehension, I stepped onto a Greyhound bound for Harrisburg, Pa. Entrenched in work and social spheres that surrounded me with ...
Drew Gordon | June 14, 2019
In the final joint session of these concurrent synods, Pastor Shawn Anderson (Sycamore [Kokomo, Ind.] RPC) preached on John 17:1-5 and the manner of ...
Drew Gordon | June 12, 2019
The RPCNA Synod began its day with a joint worship service with the ARP Synod. Pastor Gabriel Fluhrer (First ARP, Columbia, S.C.) spoke on the text, ...
Drew Gordon | June 11, 2019
At 8:40 a.m. retiring moderator (and recently retired pastor) Bruce Martin dropped the gavel on the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of ...
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 ...
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 ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...