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Abby Archer | May/June 2021 Issue
1820, John and Thomas Moore completed the lengthy journey from South Carolina to Bloomington, Ind. These Christians left the southern state where ...
Nathaniel Pockras | April 01, 2021
We’re familiar with the Reformed Presbyterian Witness today, but what do we know about previous RPCNA magazines? Several short-lived periodicals in ...
First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham began when the current pastor, Kent Butterfield, queried the Southern Church Extension Committee of the ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2021 Issue
If you’re around long enough, people assume you’ve always been there, like the woodwork. That’s true for me and the Reformed Presbyterian ...
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Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2021 Issue
Editor’s note: Whether you are new to the Reformed Presbyterian Church or a lifetime member, we hope this new column engages you with its brief look ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | March/April 2021 Issue
During the benediction, should we look at the pastor or should we bow our heads and close our eyes? Good question! It is a scene we know: public ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2021 Issue
The English Puritan Thomas Doolittle once complained that too many in the church listen to sermons like riddles—with little understanding and a lot ...
Anna Eshelman | March/April 2021 Issue
For over a decade, many Pacific Coast Presbytery youth have looked forward to the annual, end-of-year PacPres Youth Conference. It’s always a time ...
A concerning issue with the article “The Christian and the COVID Vaccine” (Jan./Feb. 2021) is the polarizing nature of it, especially in a time of ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2021 Issue
On Apr. 23, 1994, I woke up before the sun. It was Saturday morning, which meant it was the one day of the week I got to tag along with my dad on his ...
When the first Covenanter forefathers of the Lisbon RP Church came up the St. Lawrence River from Ireland in 1819, folklore says they were bound for ...
Joel E. Wood | January/February 2021 Issue
“The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2021 Issue
Author Margaret Atwood said, “A word plus a word plus a word is power.” Seldom has that been demonstrated more prominently than with last year’s ...
Nathan Eshelman | January/February 2021 Issue
When I was a student of theology, on the way to a presbytery meeting, my pastor and I were stopped by airport security because his baggage was ...
Keith Evans | January/February 2021 Issue
As I send off students from the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the one nugget I leave with them from a counseling perspective is, ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | November/December 2020 Issue
Over the years I have heard several stories from credible people about haunted buildings and other supernatural behavior. Recently a non-Christian ...
Shawn Anderson and Nathan Eshelman | November/December 2020 Issue
Parents often tell their children to listen: Listen to what I am saying. Are you hearing what I am saying to you? Are you listening? The Westminster ...
Andrew Kerr | November/December 2020 Issue
During the pandemic, I have grown some red hot chilies. Much to my surprise, and to the consternation of my wife, every seed germinated. The plants ...
The first three Covenanter families from eastern Iowa arrived in 1854, picking out homesteads and settling several miles south of what is now Clarinda ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2020 Issue
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). So important is peacemaking that it is highlighted by Christ as one ...
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 ...