Dare to Break the Silence, and Hope
E. Todd Buchner | January/February 2020 Issue
It has been described as the dark night of the soul—a relentless emotional pain and agony, a crushing weight of destruction and gloom. Depression ...
Features Category RSS Feed
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Gordon Keddie | January/February 2020 Issue
Christian Living
Imprisoned in Rome and anticipating his death in the near future, the Apostle Paul offers his parting counsel to his younger colleague in 2 Timothy 4. ...
A Vision for Noplace
Russ Pulliam | January/February 2020 Issue
In the 1950s and early 1960s Indianapolis was known as “naptown” or “India-no-place.” However, both the city and the Reformed Presbyterian ...
The Weight of an Answered Prayer
Heather H. | January/February 2020 Issue
Agency Features /
Global Missions
A year ago, I wrote an article pleading with you to pray to the Lord of the harvest for new members to be added to the South Sudan mission team. I ...
The Tragedy of Lost Truth
Rut Etheridge III | November/December 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Publications
The Bible Could Mean So Much More to You As a culture, we no longer believe that we can know truth—big truth, meaning-of-life kind of truth, the ...
In the Midst of Fear
Susan Tanner | November/December 2019 Issue
Interviews
The Brunson family has been part of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) for generations. Andrew Brunson grew up in Mexico, the child of ...
Do Not Despise the Day of Small Beginnings
Martin Blocki | November/December 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Disabilities Ministry
With joy and thankful hearts, the RP Woman’s Association’s (RPWA) Disabilities Ministry would like to report on the Quinter, Kan., RPC’s ...
Returning to Calm Waters
Kyle Borg | November/December 2019 Issue
Testimonies
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 ...
An Eye to the Future
Mark Sampson | November/December 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Seminary
“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.” ...
Supporting Undershepherds and Sheep
Mary Brown | November/December 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Finance
I recently heard someone say that a congregation will not grow spiritually beyond the spiritual growth of its leaders. It would follow that the ...
Book Reviews
Reviews
The last half of the 19th Century saw the church experience significant changes as it dealt with the aftermath of the Second Great Awakening, ...
This Is Not a Love Story
Keith and Melissa Evans | September/October 2019 Issue
Testimonies
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 ...
Going Fishing
Theme Articles
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 ...
Covenanters in America
William J. Edgar | September/October 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Publications
The following is an excerpt from William J. Edgar’s book History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (1871–1920). Says the ...
The First Reformed Presbyterian was Swiss?
Byron G. Curtis | September/October 2019 Issue
Theme Articles
“What are you working on lately, Byron?” asked my friend. “Zwingli.” “What?” “Huldrych Zwingli.” “Huldrych who?” “Huldrych ...
Home Is Where the Hospitality Is
Chris Mathews and Dan Dieter | September/October 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Geneva College
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 ...
Like an App, Only Better
Drew Gordon | September/October 2019 Issue
Agency Features /
Publications
Psalm singing is experiencing a resurgence in the broader church. With that renewed popularity, new psalters or psalter-hymnals have cropped up. The ...
Anecdotes from a Retired Pastor, Part 2
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 ...
Anecdotes from a Retired Pastor, Part 1
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 ...
When the Gospel Breaks Through
Fikre and Ritva Menbere | July/August 2019 Issue
Testimonies
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 ...