Mark Sampson | May/June 2018 Issue
I had not been working at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) for very long when President Jerry O’Neill announced a road trip to ...
Jeff Kingswood | May/June 2018 Issue
On most weekdays during the school year, a group of older teens makes the Christian education wing of Grace Presbyterian Church in Woodstock, Ont., a ...
In spring 2015 I received an email from a young man who was planning to move to our area with his wife and daughter for graduate study. A few weeks ...
Peter E. Robson | May/June 2018 Issue
Anyone that has ever gone scuba diving remembers the moment they drew their first breath of air underwater. Many who try scuba abandon their quest ...
I am very thankful, not only that God is sovereign, but that I know He is sovereign. Our triune God governs and upholds all things. Nothing, ...
Caleb Nelson | March 30, 2018
Recently an online platform was created for Reformed/Presbyterian singles to meet: the NAPARC Singles Facebook group. Only adult, single NAPARC (North ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2018 Issue
One of my goals every year is to read a few biographies. That is because biographies captivate us. Many of us as adults have been introduced to ...
Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2018 Issue
When 13 ministers and 3 ruling elders opened the Synod of 1821, the RPCNA was a good deal smaller than it is today. There were 42 congregations in 5 ...
Bill Edgar | March/April 2018 Issue
How will you protect your child from temptation? You won’t successfully isolate him or her, or hover close enough to always protect, but wisdom is a ...
Joseph Friedly | March/April 2018 Issue
I don’t have a remarkable testimony. Mine is not a story that amazes. It is, however, a story of God’s grace. And God’s grace is always amazing! ...
Dr. Calvin L. Troup | March/April 2018 Issue
At a presbytery family conference last summer, my family enjoyed a meal with friends who are parents of school-age children. As the meal was wrapping ...
Mary Brown | March/April 2018 Issue
Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity ...
Gordon J. Keddie | January/February 2018 Issue
In May, I sent the completed manuscript of my recent book, Prayers of the Bible, to our denominational publisher, Crown & Covenant Publications.1 ...
Greg Burgreen | January/February 2018 Issue
As soon as my daughter Lily and I stepped into the meeting room of the Atlanta Presbyterian Fellowship, we anticipated that this would be an ...
Patrick Mangan | January/February 2018 Issue
When I first attended Second Reformed Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, I did so without an understanding of the theological background of the ...
If God saved the chief of sinners (1 Tim. 1:15) and used him in mighty ways, can He not do the same with you? If the power of God is made perfect in ...
David Pulliam | November/December 2017 Issue
How do you disciple a generation that is very different from all previous generations? I am referring mainly to those who are 20-somethings, though ...
Kyle Borg | November/December 2017 Issue
Anyone who knows Ken G. Smith, retired pastor in the RPCNA, knows that the discipleship of men is not simply a book, but a ministry he has given his ...
Ken Smith | November/December 2017 Issue
When I have spoken about the matter of training with church leaders, I have often run into the question, Where do you get such men? The thought behind ...
Jerry O'Neill | November/December 2017 Issue
Recently my wife and I sat at our dining room table enjoying a dessert of “It’ll Kill Ya Pie,” discussing with a young urban pastor and his wife ...
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 ...