An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge” (Prov. 18:15). From the Editor: The college search is an ...
Vincent Dalke | July/August 2022 Issue
Location: Phoenix, Ariz. Presbytery: Pacific Coast Organization: 1960 Membership: 37 communicant; 14 baptized Pastor: Christopher W. ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2022 Issue
In Feb. 2020 I booked flights for Europe with expectancy. I had been given the privilege of addressing the Irish RP Church synod and the Scottish RP ...
Nathaniel Pockras | June 08, 2022
Imagine that your husband dies and leaves an unmarried brother, or your wife dies and leaves an unmarried sister. If your spouse’s sibling is a ...
Nathaniel Pockras | May/June 2022 Issue
Few now remember the name of Rev. John Black. That’s hardly surprising, since he was born more than 250 years ago. As one of the most important ...
Joel Wood | May/June 2022 Issue
Have you ever found yourself being misunderstood? Perhaps you were trying to help, only to ruin everything. Maybe romantic feelings you found ...
Barry York | May/June 2022 Issue
Many of the psalms are deemed “royal psalms.” Whether they are psalms that declare God is king (such as Psalms 93–99) or ones that feature ...
Gloria Van Vlack | May/June 2022 Issue
Last summer, when I was 15, I went to a mock government camp for homeschoolers called iGov-ern run by HSLDA. At the camp, we participated in a ...
Lydia Stowe | May/June 2022 Issue
Have you read an entire book of the Bible in one sitting? (Third John doesn’t count.) When was the last time? If you’re like me, before I started ...
Taylor Ramsey | May/June 2022 Issue
Location: Beaver Falls, Pa. Presbytery: Alleghenies Organization: 1886–1889 Membership: 46 communicant; 10 baptized Pastor: Micah ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2022 Issue
Whether the narrative is George Orwell’s 1984 or Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the proverb reads the same: Lying is hard work. Think about the vast ...
Nathaniel Pockras | April 01, 2022
During the final years of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, our South China Presbytery was comprised of several ministers: some American and ...
Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2022 Issue
For the past few decades, Indiana has been one of the RPCNA’s strongest regions, but nearly all the Indiana congregations have been founded in ...
Nathan Eshelman | March/April 2022 Issue
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Surely you have heard the old saying. That may be true when ...
Kyle Sims | March/April 2022 Issue
In my freshman year at Erskine College, a group of us students discussed the use of words. The specific discussion revolved around certain words like ...
Anastasia Brown | March/April 2022 Issue
The Presbytery of the Alleghenies (POA) hosted their annual fall retreat Dec. 3–5 in Franklin, Pa. Coming near the end of both a calendar year and ...
Laura Cerbus | March/April 2022 Issue
I find it fascinating that, of all the commands God could have given first to Adam and Eve, He commanded them to rule over the earth. In the ...
Terri Hutcheson | March/April 2022 Issue
Location: Morning Sun, Iowa Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1846 Membership: 74 communicant; 24 baptized Pastor: Bryan Schneider Website: ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2022 Issue
Reformed Presbyterians live longer. They live better. The RPCNA pension board knows this. They learned long ago that they could not calculate pension ...
Nathaniel Pockras | February 02, 2022
The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) first sent foreign missionaries to Syria before the American Civil War, and mission work in ...
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 ...