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Why Talk About Solas in the 21st Century?

January 01, 2006

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Sola Fide: The Erosion of the Chief Article Justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone. This is the article by which ...


By Faith Alone!

Verne Rosenberger | January 01, 2006

Theme Articles /  Series 

What happened in the life of Martin Luther, nearly 500 years ago, was a personal discovery of the meaning of faith that had been lost in the Medieval ...


Why Talk About Solas in the 21st Century?

December 08, 2005

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About nine years ago, an organization called the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (www.alliancenet.org) held its first major meeting of evangelical ...


Reviews

December 08, 2005

Reviews 

The Reformation _______________________ Calvin: A Biography, by Bernard Cottret, translated by M. Wallace McDonald, Eerdmans, 2000. Reviewed by RPTS ...


Meet Synod’s Board of Trustees

Steve McMahan | December 08, 2005

Agency Features /  Finance /  Synod 

The mere mention of finances often causes eyes to glaze over at Synod, and we suspect that financial articles are quickly skimmed or skipped by all ...


Hearing the Sound of Truth

Tom Reid | December 08, 2005

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Whatever God wants to communicate to mankind must be communicated through our five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, or sound. In medieval Roman ...


Christ in the Center

Ken Orr | December 08, 2005

Theme Articles /  Series 

We put our heads down and plow through the day. Big responsibilities, little chores, and many interruptions keep us busy. Before we know it, a week ...


A True Reformation Within Me

Don Pastor | December 08, 2005

Testimonies 

I was raised in a home with five other siblings (three boys in one bed) by unbelieving parents, and I do not recall ever hearing a biblical ...


A Letter from Japan

Patricia Boyle | December 08, 2005

Agency Features /  Global Missions 

I hope you will indulge your Women’s Missionary Fellowship (WMF) editor as I recount my experiences as the newest RPCNA missionary. I am not aware ...


The RP Home As I See It

Nadziega McMillan | November 06, 2005

Agency Features /  RP Home 

In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon describes old age: Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, ...


Robert Hemphill

November 06, 2005

Agency Features /  RP Home 

Stepping into Bob Hemphill’s room at the RP Home is like stepping into an art gallery. All four walls are filled top to bottom with artwork. But ...


Remembering Neil Postman

Arthur W. Hunt III | November 06, 2005

Agency Features /  Geneva College 

“He was basically a secular Jew, and I am basically a conservative Christian, but he taught me more than almost any Christian I can think of (C. S. ...


From Last Resort To Top Priority

November 06, 2005

Theme Articles 

When I was growing up I planned to go anywhere but Geneva,” Ken Smith says candidly from the Geneva College president’s office where he has come ...


A Student’s View

November 06, 2005

Theme Articles 

Scott Metzger Junior, North Hills RPC Pittsburgh, Pa. Geneva has affected my spiritual growth by making me realize how central the Bible and our ...


Persevering in Post-Christian France

Christy Pulliam | October 03, 2005

Agency Features /  Global Missions 

I had the privilege of serving on three mission teams to France in the summers of 2000, 2002, and 2004. Working with the Ball and McFarland families, ...


Is This a Season of Planting For Your Church?

Dr. Richard C. Gamble | October 03, 2005

Theme Articles 

When a congregation begins to think about, pray for, and plan ahead concerning a church plant, a host of factors are involved. Whatever the ...


Helping After the Hurricane

October 03, 2005

Theme Articles 

With no RP congregation in Louisiana, who did people in the RP church call to see how they could help the victims of Hurricane Katrina? Judy ...


A Good Foundation

Grant Van Leuven | October 03, 2005

Agency Features /  Seminary 

It was one of the steps that confirmed for me that I should follow a pastoral call,” said 22-year-old Sam DeSocio of his experience as a high school ...


A Child’s View of Planting a Church

Joey Bagulia | October 03, 2005

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

Living Hope RPC started in the Stringers’ living room. When we read the Bible and prayed and sang the psalms, I had to sit on the floor because the ...


“What Can We Do to Help?”

Andrew Spencer | October 03, 2005

Theme Articles 

I don’t think I realized how massive Hurricane Katrina was until the evacuees started pouring in. What force could extend destruction to so many ...