Love is a hotly contested topic in our culture. From definition debates to Scripture taken out of context to gender ideology, confusion reigns ...
Anonymous Author | March/April 2024 Issue
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 ...
Shunda Gray | March/April 2024 Issue
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 ...
David Whitla | March/April 2024 Issue
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 ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2024 Issue
My mother-in-law, Nancy Hutmire, was known for her humor. People who met her just once or who knew her well frequently reminded us. Typically it was ...
Sandra Barton | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
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 ...
David Weir | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Christopher Wright | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Heather H. | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Richard C. Gamble | January/February 2024 Issue
Reformed Presbyterians maintain a tradition of strong theological distinctives. Those distinctives include psalm singing and the mediatorial kingship ...
Drew Poplin | January/February 2024 Issue
Introduction In a passage that greatly informs the missionary prayers of the church, we read, “After these things the Lord appointed seventy others ...
Heidi Bechtold and Tori Sturm | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Thomas Wolf | November/December 2023 Issue
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 ...
C.J. Williams | November/December 2023 Issue
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 ...
Sabbath keeping has become unpopular. For some, the fourth commandment can conjure up images of boredom or sitting in church all day. Rhode Island ...
David Weir | November/December 2023 Issue
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 ...
Tom Seaman | November/December 2023 Issue
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 ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2023 Issue
Churches located near military bases know the challenges of serving military families. Long separations from family, multiple moves, unpredictable ...
In October, Rosaria Butterfield discussed her new book with the Witness editor. Dr. Butterfield is the author of Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely ...
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 ...