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Synod 2010

July 01, 2010

Agency Features /  Synod 

The 179th meeting of the RPCNA Synod was an exuberant, sober, and Christ-exalting gathering of teaching and ruling elders from the far-flung expanse ...


What I Learned from My Father

June 01, 2010

Testimonies 

I had the extraordinary privilege of knowing my father for over 78 years. Not many fathers live to be 106. Waldo McBurney was born Oct. 3, 1902, near ...


The Sabbath (3)

Dennis J. Prutow | June 01, 2010

Series /  Learn & Live 

Why do we set aside the first day of the week rather than the seventh day? Exodus 20:9-10 is quite clear. “Six days you shall labor and do all your ...


Book Reviews, June 2010

June 01, 2010

Reviews 

Faithful God: An Exposition of the Book of Ruth, by Sinclair B. Ferguson, Bryntirion Press, 2005. Paperback, 157 pp., $10.50. Reviewed by David ...


Gone Fishing, Intentionally

Kenneth G. Smith | June 01, 2010

Theme Articles 

Recently when in Australia, Graeme Hart took me out on the bay there in Geelong in his and his father’s boat. As I looked into the glove ...


Cut From the Team

June 01, 2010

Reviews 

As a pastor in the RPCNA, Bob Hemphill has served in Shawnee, Kan., Selma, Ala., Westminster, Colo., and is now church planting in Laramie, Wyo. He ...


What is Peacemaker Ministries?

May 01, 2010

Theme Articles 

Ken Sande, a ruling elder in the PCA, is the author of The Peacemaker (Baker). He founded Peacemaker Ministries in 1982 under the auspices of the ...


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 ...