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What Does the Bible Say about Retirement?

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | January/February 2025 Issue

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Maybe you’ve sat with a financial advisor, watched a retirement-oriented webinar, or been to a workplace benefits presentation and almost ...

Staying Clean at Work

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | November/December 2024 Issue

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The technical and timely details of this question are beyond this author’s ability to address. “Widely used technology” eludes this relic, who ...

How Can I Be a Fruitful Grandparent?

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | September/October 2024 Issue

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My wife and I recently became grandparents. A grandson was born in May and then another in June. While neither lives close to us, these births have ...

What Is the Interchurch Committee?

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | July/August 2024 Issue

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In John 15:5, Jesus told His disciples, “I am the vine; you are the branches.” The church of Jesus Christ is a unified community, ...

Honor Means More Than Obedience

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | May/June 2024 Issue

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If you grew up in a Christian home, you likely memorized Ephesians 6:1, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” The Apostle ...

Help for My Prayer Life

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | March/April 2024 Issue

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This is a great question, and I can relate. As a little boy, I enjoyed prayer times in worship. Everyone went quiet and still. I would close my eyes ...

More Alone than Ever

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | January/February 2024 Issue

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For nearly a decade, the hit TV show Cheers opened with a theme song celebrating the sense of security that comes from having a place “where ...

What Does a Moderator Do?

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | November/December 2023 Issue

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At some point in your life, you will likely be asked to run a meeting. This may be for your Girl Scout or Trail Life troop, your student government ...

How Can I Have More Joy in My Life?

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | September/October 2023 Issue

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Some of us grew up singing “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart.” But, according to Galatians 5, we should sing that we have the ...

Do I Need to Know the Church’s Constitution?

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | July/August 2023 Issue

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You likely know the Reformed Presbyterian Church has a particular understanding of the public worship of God. You might also know the church has a ...

Pulpit Shuffle

Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | May/June 2023 Issue

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This is a timely question! The challenges and costs of shuffling pastors from one pulpit to another reappear most often when our denomination ...

Can You Be Your Pastor’s Friend?

Pete Smith | March/April 2023 Issue

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If you were truly in need, to whom would you turn? How many friends could you rely on to help you in a time of distress, not counting family? Take a ...

God’s Gift to the Church

Noah Bailey | January/February 2023 Issue

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The short answer is that God gives a pastor to a congregation. I remember when young men, eager to become pastors, were asked in a presbytery exam, ...