Venkatesh Gopalakrisnan | January 04, 2016
Venkatesh (Venky) and his wife, Sarmishta (Shammi), are members of Second Reformed Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Ind. They are from Bangalore, ...
Eliah Massey & Brad Johnston | January 04, 2016
In Pakistan, “Christian” is a stamp on the passports. Christian children born to Christians in Pakistan are legally segregated at birth into the ...
Staff | January 04, 2016
Crown & Covenant hasn’t produced a psalm recording for children since 2007, and that was a video to teach sign language. The last children’s ...
Jordan Cravens | November 02, 2015
The fruit tempting sits The Serpent deceptive comes And the bite fatal.
Diane Gaskins | November 02, 2015
< p>Judge’s comments: Careful treatment of the biblical concept of father. Meadows of Mercy, Rest of my mind, alleys of anguish are all I can ...
Eleni Blackwood | November 02, 2015
< p>Judge’s comments: Accomplished treatment of a difficult verse form. Everyone has a father, But I’m sure the relationship is different for ...
Audrey McMahan | November 02, 2015
Judge’s Comments: Great characters, fun details, clever story! Some spots cram in too many plot points due to word count limits. Generally, though, ...
Susannah Gorden | November 02, 2015
Judge’s comments: Well written, poignant, well paced. The details are nice, lovely. As a vignette, this works beautifully, although the story lover ...
Andrew Schep | November 02, 2015
Judge’s comments: Fine treatment of the biblical account. In the prosperity of words, you ask for certainty; all I’ve got is what I heard from ...
Kathryn Stegall | November 02, 2015
< p>Judge’s comments: I commend you on this difficult treatment of the OT verse. Time spent at that or this remains a hollow cry ...
Henry Patterson | November 02, 2015
Judge’s comments: Short, pithy, clever. It keeps close to its lovely metaphor throughout…until the end when the metaphor is suddenly dropped in ...
Andrew Schep | November 02, 2015
< p>Judge’s comments: Best free verse entry; particularly strong concluding envoy. My computer glows with the claim of a science teacher: that ...
Mark Sampson | November 02, 2015
When you live in an older house, there tend to be a lot of things that go wrong. When that house is a large mansion built in the late 1800s, this is ...
Hao Lu | November 02, 2015
I was born and raised in China, and I was trained, as most Chinese children of the time, to be an atheist. This training successfully kept me from any ...
Virginia McBurney | November 02, 2015
It was dark under the bed, and quiet, except for little sneezes. They had trouble breathing in the growing crowd. More and more dust bunnies were ...
Rebecca King | November 02, 2015
Late summer and fall brought an abundance of opportunities for fun and fellowship for the RP Home residents, family, employees, and friends. Though ...
staff | September 11, 2015
With the release of Rosaria Butterfield’s new book, Openness Unhindered, in July, the number of orders going out the front door sometimes exceeds ...
Phil Pockras | September 11, 2015
Tracing my family’s history for the last century and more, I was struck how Providence worked through seemingly chance things to bring a Christian ...
Trustees of Synod | September 11, 2015
Many Scriptures show the principles of giving. One that stands out is, “Each one must give as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under ...
Jerry Foltz | September 11, 2015
The Foltz home is a place of refuge. It’s a place where those who have nowhere else to turn can come to recover, be restored, and find repentance. ...
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 ...