Understanding Justification David J. Reese | March 01, 2005 Theme Articles Approaching the Subject Theology, or the study of doctrine, has fallen on hard times in the church today. Some question the necessity of it. Others ...
Undaunted in Phoenix Linda Reyburn | March 01, 2005 Agency Features / Home Missions The first-ever Phoenix RP mission team, with 8 members and 1 other attendee, accomplished an amazing amount of work in 16 days (Dec. 29–Jan. 12). ...
The Reformation’s Midlife Crisis David J. Reese | March 01, 2005 Theme Articles Our Reformed forefathers said that the doctrine of justification is “the main hinge on which religion turns” (Calvin, Institutes, 3.2.1). Yet ...
Encouraging Trends in 2004 Giving to Denomination Steve McMahan | March 01, 2005 Agency Features / Finance / Synod After peaking at an all-time high of $355 thousand in 2000, contributions to the Reformed Presbyterian Mission and Ministry fund (RPM&M) declined ...
What’s Wrong with a Little Gambling? Bruce C. Stewart | February 01, 2005 Christian Living In my view, state lotteries have paved the way for great increases in legalized gambling. They have promoted the notion of beating the odds, they have ...
The Witness Gets a Web Site Drew and Lynne Gordon | February 01, 2005 Agency Features / Publications Quick. You’re online chatting with a friend about what your church thinks about justification by faith. What does the RP Testimony say? What does ...
Wilder than God Interview by Drew Gordon | January 01, 2005 Interviews Rut Etheridge has traveled a long road from his birthplace in Massachusetts, to his teen years in Indiana, to college in Ohio, where he met his wife, ...
Taking Back New England Betty Burger | January 01, 2005 Agency Features / Home Missions On an average Lord’s Day morning at a traditional New England grange hall in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, a small but faithful band of four ...
Should You Focus on Your Child’s Heart? William Edgar | December 10, 2004 Theme Articles Four years ago in a sermon, I made a few critical comments about Ted Tripp’s book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart. Since then, I’ve gotten ongoing ...
Reviews December 10, 2004 Reviews Theology Standing Forth: The Collected Writings of Roger Nicole, by Roger Nicole, published by Fearn, Ross-shire, Mentor, 2002. Hardback, 492 pp., ...
God-Centered Parenting Wade and Barb Mann | December 10, 2004 Theme Articles We eagerly anticipate the birth of our new little one, and when the day finally arrives we feel like it is Christmas. What a wonderful package we have ...
Reviews July 25, 2002 Reviews In almost conversational style, the author has characterized and explained for today’s readers one of the most difficult OT books. Her ...
No Night There: The Experience of Heaven Gordon J. Keddie | July 01, 2002 Series What will heaven be like? We have seen already seen something of what we called “the geography of glory”—what heaven will look like (Rev. ...
No More Sea: The Geography of Glory Gordon J. Keddie | June 03, 2002 What is heaven like? In cartoons and TV ads, it is usually a very old and ethereal place. If it has any land, it looks a bit like the North Pole—all ...
A Soldier’s Calling Stan Copeland | June 03, 2002 Theme Articles You’re one sick puppy. How did you become a Covenanter pastor?” The tired old stewardess opened the decrepit airliner’s cabin door. ...
Ministering to Cush Vince Ward | June 03, 2002 Agency Features / Global Missions “Cush will submit to God” (Ps. 68:31). The ancient people of Cush (Kush), at times called Ethiopia, once stretched out their hands in worship ...
Our Huguenot Heritage R. Andrew Myers | May 20, 2002 As a young man, I spent several years studying French in high school. By God’s grace, soon after my conversion to Christ at a college in North ...
We Have a Building from God Gordon J. Keddie | May 20, 2002 One of the most searching challenges in the Bible is undoubtedly Solomon’s charge to young people in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. He ...
How God Uses Tribulation in Our Lives William D. Black | May 13, 2002 Theme Articles It has been said that the worst thing about going to the doctor is that you have to take off your clothes. In this situation we tolerate something we ...
What Is the Goal of Instruction? Dennis J. Prutow | May 13, 2002 Agency Features / Seminary Introduction The Apostle Paul writes the fledgling minister, Timothy. He has several concerns as this young minister labors in Ephesus. He’s ...
The Kingdom of Heaven in the Middle Kingdom March 2024 News / Missions News It can be hard to grasp the subject of persecution here in the West. We live at ease and in wealth like the world has never known. Only in the last ...
A Heart for Students, Missions, and the Globe Agency Features / College Dr. Jonathan Watt is a Bible and linguistics professor at Geneva College, and he is very passionate about missions. Born in Sydney, Australia, Watt ...
How Can We Sing the Lord’s Songs in Babylon? Theme Articles Can you picture the scene? A group of Jewish exiles have gathered for their daily catch-up by the banks of the Euphrates River at the end of another ...
Answering the One Big Question Gentle Reformation Why does a good God permit evil in His world? This is the one question that has occupied mankind since the garden of Eden. Many poets, playwrights, ...