RPs in Minnesota
22. November 2023
The RPCNA has no congregations in the northern Great Plains or northern Great Lakes regions. But did you know that there were once churches in ...
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Willa Copland
22. November 2023
Early Years: The Pain of Alcoholism In 1941, when Willa Copland was four, she remembers playing at the end of the road at the cattle farm her father ...
Working in the Secular Field of Art as a Christian
22. November 2023
Inspiration My earliest memory of wanting to become an artist came when posing for the Pulitzer Prize winning artist, Aileen Ortlip Shea. At age ...
Congregation of the Month: Atlanta RPC
22. November 2023
Location: Atlanta, Ga. Presbytery: Great Lakes-Gulf Organization: 2019 Membership: 12 communicant; 2 baptized Pastor: Frank J. Smith Website: ...
This Is Your Wake-Up Call
22. November 2023
When you are on a business trip, harried by transfers from planes to trains to automobiles, you try to get the best sleep you can in a strange bed in ...
How Can I Have More Joy in My Life?
18. September 2023
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 ...
Old and New
18. September 2023
The small Sparta congregation is one of two current RPCNA churches in Illinois. Like many of our small-town churches, it has a long history: more than ...
Jonah
18. September 2023
Roughly 750 years before Christ walked the earth, God’s people faced the looming threat of the world’s superpower, Assyria. The capital city, ...
We Are Beings, Not Doings
18. September 2023
As the semester drew to a close, several students of Rev. Rut Etheridge’s Bible class were interviewed on the advice they would give to high school ...
Grace Grown in the Winter
18. September 2023
Kathy Duke and her husband, John, are long-standing members of Westminster, Colo., RPC. I’ve known Kathy my whole life, and I’ve experienced her ...
Shedding New Light
18. September 2023
We often tell people that we started Relight—our free web app for studying the Bible and Reformed theology—simply so that we could use it. ...
Congregation of the Month: Birmingham RPC
18. September 2023
Location: Hoover, Alabama Presbytery: Alleghenies Organization: 2018 Membership: 8 communicant; 0 baptized Pastor: Vacant Website: ...
Happy Big Birthday, RPCNA
18. September 2023
It’s a question every believer has considered if they’ve lived long enough to ponder the next generation: How can we know that the faith will be ...
Our 225th Birthday
26. July 2023
This year is the 225th anniversary of the refounding of the Reformed Presbytery in America. Arguably that event more than any other marks the founding ...
Do I Need to Know the Church’s Constitution?
26. July 2023
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 ...
The Unseen Hand of God’s Providence
26. July 2023
The doctrine of providence is a central thread weaving through the fabric of the Scriptures. This belief asserts that God ceaselessly sustains and ...
Obadiah
26. July 2023
Every family knows to some extent the pain and reality of conflict. However, the children of the patriarch Isaac and Rebekah not only started a family ...
Praying at All Times
26. July 2023
Prayer is one of the most special privileges we have as Christians. Because of Christ’s sacrifice, we are allowed to talk to the Creator of the ...
Floy Smith
26. July 2023
Ken Smith is a man who knows Jesus personally and deeply; and, if you ever get an opportunity to hear him pray, you will know this truth for yourself. ...
Congregation of the Month: Christ RPC
26. July 2023
Location: East Providence, R.I. Presbytery: Atlantic Organization: 2000 Membership: 49 communicant; 21 baptized Pastor: Daniel Howe Website: ...