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Noah Bailey | November/December 2022 Issue
A blue banner hangs prominently in many RP churches. Church plants sometimes wonder how to get one. Visitors sometimes wonder why a strict ...
Noah Bailey | November/December 2022 Issue
A blue banner hangs prominently in many RP churches. Church plants sometimes wonder how to get one. Visitors sometimes wonder why a strict ...
Nathan Eshelman | November/December 2022 Issue
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His ...
Mark Loughridge | November/December 2022 Issue
Many of us have our favorite pieces of music pulled together into a playlist on Spotify or on our phones. If we’re heading off on a journey, or we ...
Alice Odom | November/December 2022 Issue
David wrote many of the Psalms when he was a young man. In them, he shows the struggles of his life and the great depth of his relationship with the ...
Maggie Allyn | November/December 2022 Issue
Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” —C. S. Lewis, “Three ...
Caleb McCracken | November/December 2022 Issue
Location: Beaver Falls, Pa. Presbytery: Allegheny Organization: Oct. 2020 Membership: 119 communicant; 40 baptized Pastor: George ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2022 Issue
When you have an Elisha with you, it’s easier to forget Elijah. Perhaps that’s an odd thought to cross one’s mind when reading the Minutes of ...
Nathaniel Pockras | October 05, 2022
This is the first half of a two-part series on RP church buildings, both current and former. Organized in 1816, Cincinnati was one of Ohio’s first ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2022 Issue
Note: This article distinguishes pastor and minister. Minister is any teaching elder, while pastor is a teaching elder currently installed in a ...
Noah Bailey | September/October 2022 Issue
This is a good question. It reminded me of the missionary visits to my childhood church, which were always an exciting time. We enjoyed a special ...
Kyle Borg | September/October 2022 Issue
A glass window stands before us. We can look at the window itself, studying and admiring it for what it is. Or, we can look through the glass to what ...
Andrew Kerr | September/October 2022 Issue
The psalter was not given to focus, finally, on former glory days of a posthumous, Israelite prince. Certainly, much is lost if we gloss over the ...
Emily Mann | September/October 2022 Issue
Struggles are inevitable in this earthly life. The current day is no exception. Many churches lack pastors, do not own a church building, and worry ...
Micah Ramsey | September/October 2022 Issue
It’s dark. It’s Jan. 1 and it’s so cold. My thighs are burning. Forty-nine percent of me is screaming, Stop! And 51 percent of me sets its jaw ...
Glen Chin | September/October 2022 Issue
Location: Ridgefield Park, N.J. Presbytery: Atlantic Organization: December 26, 1797 Membership: 17 communicant; 3 baptized Pastor: Andrew ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2022 Issue
I see some of my neighbors on social media more than I see them in person. That’s not entirely an incriminating statement, as we’ve all been more ...
Nathaniel Pockras | August 01, 2022
What do you know about the history of the Associate Presbyterian Church? How were APs relevant to RPs? This month, we take a brief look at the history ...
Noah Bailey | July/August 2022 Issue
A report to Synod that few elders want to miss is the one that talks about our giving to Reformed Presbyterian Missions and Ministries (RPM&M). ...
Nathaniel Pockras | July/August 2022 Issue
This month, let’s take a brief look at Reformed Presbyterian’s global presence. Long-established RP congregations exist in six countries: ...
Keith Evans | July/August 2022 Issue
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace” (Ps. 83:17). These are strong words indeed! Yet we find such ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...