Jonathan and Dianne Schaefer | July/August 2018 Issue
I was raised in a Christian home. My father, John, was a physics professor at Geneva College. Mom (Lois) stayed at home with the children. My family ...
Kyle Borg | July/August 2018 Issue
Every now and again, in my part of rural Kansas, word will get around that some cows have escaped their field and are walking about on well-traveled ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2018 Issue
If you wanted to see the breadth of work that a synod of a small but active denomination can be involved in, this was the synod to follow. The 187th ...
Tim McCracken | July/August 2018 Issue
Some providential interactions in the last couple of weeks brought home again important things about the privilege of ministry in the California State ...
Patricia Boyle | July/August 2018 Issue
Japan as a country has been stubbornly resistant to the preaching of the gospel. Despite the discouraging response, the Reformed Presbyterian Church, ...
Samuel Ward | May/June 2018 Issue
As time progressed it seemed that there were always visiting missionaries coming and going from the Cush4Christ team. In fall 2012 we had Luke with ...
Eliana Roberts | May/June 2018 Issue
I was born in China in the late 1980s. My parents were secondary school teachers, and I spent my early years in their school. I grew up in a vacuum ...
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 ...
Location: Colorado Springs, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1981 Membership: 101 communicant; 56 baptized Pastor: Ed Blackwood Website: ...
This article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of God Breathed: Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself. I will never ...
In the early years of the Witness, it was published weekly, and correspondents reported many small events in their congregations. Here are some news ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...