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Peacemaking in the RPCNA

May 01, 2010

Theme Articles 

I had not been at this “peacemaking” thing very long, but I was confident about intervening in church conflict—and was even a little cocky. ...


Foods for Thought

May 01, 2010

Christian Living 

Dr. Megan Morton, a professor of English at Geneva College, likes to give her students food for thought. Literally and figuratively. Nothing is off ...


Curse or Consecrate?

May 01, 2010

Christian Living 

Conflict can be seen in two ways that are fundamentally different. One way is to look at it as an inevitable negative experience that we should simply ...


Because of the Lord That Is Faithful

May 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Seminary 

Before the telephone. Before the electric telegraph. Even before the Pony Express. RPTS was equipping men to herald the news—the good news of Jesus ...


Planning for Revitalization

April 01, 2010

Theme Articles 

One of the times that revitalization took place in the history of God’s people was following the time of Israel’s captivity, when the temple and ...


Hiking Amidst Bible Sites

April 01, 2010

Theme Articles 

Pastoral renewal! Thirty years ago no one thought much about it. Sabbatical leaves were nearly unheard of. Now such personnel investments are ...


Give Your Pastor a Break—He Needs One

April 01, 2010

Theme Articles 

Dr. Julius Kim serves at Westminster Seminary in California as a professor in the department of practical theology and as the dean of students. He ...


Can’t That Happen Here?

April 01, 2010

Series 

Troubled, Pastor Jim Hastings again sat alone in his office on Monday morning. On his computer screen were three letters he had already composed. He ...


Planning for Revitalization

March 18, 2010

Theme Articles 

One of the times that revitalization took place in the history of God’s people was following the time of Israel’s captivity, when the temple and ...


Hiking Amidst Bible Sties

March 18, 2010

Theme Articles 

Pastoral renewal! Thirty years ago no one thought much about it. Sabbatical leaves were nearly unheard of. Now such personnel investments are ...


Give Your Pastor a Break—He Needs One

March 18, 2010

Theme Articles 

Dr. Julius Kim serves at Westminster Seminary in California as a professor in the department of practical theology and as the dean of students. He ...



Can’t That Happen Here?

March 18, 2010

Theme Articles 

roubled, Pastor Jim Hastings again sat alone in his office on Monday morning. On his computer screen were three letters he had already composed. He ...


Mission Churches

February 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

Ohio Mission Church Organized as a Congregation On Dec. 4, Covenant RPC was organized as a regular congregation by the Presbytery of the Alleghenies. ...


Church Planting in Enid, Oklahoma

February 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Home Missions /  News /  Missions News 

Where in the world is Enid, Oklahoma? And why would someone from just outside New York City want to come to the Bible Belt to preach the gospel? But ...


‘Treason Against Heaven, Sanctioned by Law’

February 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Seminary 

Rev. Alexander McLeod penned the following words in a chilling cry of exhortation to his church and the nation in his 1802 work, Negro Slavery ...


Two Centuries of Sola Scriptura

January 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Seminary 

My task here is to offer some ruminations from the viewpoint of a historian—neither a pastor nor a theologian—about why the Reformed Presbyterian ...



RPTS: A Seminary on the Move

January 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Seminary 

Not unlike other older seminaries, RPTS occupied various homes in several states in its early years. This was due to the fact that the seminary would ...