Bill and Rose Weir | May/June 2020 Issue
Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Ex. 20:12). Caring for your father or ...
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Cor. 5:17). It’s easy enough to take a ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2020 Issue
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit, three people gradually realize they are stuck in a room with each other for eternity. No communication ...
Sue Pikarsky | March/April 2020 Issue
The Messiah’s Quilter Bees, the quilting ministry of Messiah’s Church in Clay, N.Y., sprang to life in an unusual, circuitous way. I had been ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2020 Issue
When I was a child, I looked forward to voting as a privilege and as another sign that I was qualified as an adult. It seemed like it would be an easy ...
Joe Comanda, Bill Edgar, Julia Mann, and Mandy Werts | March/April 2020 Issue
If you come to Broomall on the Lord’s Day, you’ll find a lot going on. We start at 9:45 a.m. with Sabbath school, followed by morning worship at ...
Nathan Eshelman | March/April 2020 Issue
Some treasures are best left untouched. There is something eerily beautiful about images of the Titanic buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean. From ...
Henry Mauser | March/April 2020 Issue
In the past decade, the idea of democratic socialism has become increasingly common in American politics and among the American public. According to a ...
James Faris | March/April 2020 Issue
My grandfather Paul Faris (1916–2010) was ordained a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in 1944. He and young peers were troubled by the rancorous tone of ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | March/April 2020 Issue
I live in a big city with a lot of panhandlers on street corners. They always have signs saying they’re hungry. Since I suspect that if I give them ...
Paul and Tara Welander | January/February 2020 Issue
Westminster, Colo., RPC has a long history that testifies to God’s faithful provision and care through times of joy as well as times of ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2020 Issue
Reformed Presbyterians know that God can transform any city, town, or nation He chooses. In past years we’ve featured stories about how concerted, ...
Philip Pockras | January/February 2020 Issue
Here we are in the beginning of 2020. It’s the time when a lot of people, bloated and sedentary, are thinking of New Year’s resolutions. Some of ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | January/February 2020 Issue
My husband and I don’t come from Christian backgrounds. When we have tried to have family worship, we find it time consuming and complicated. Plus, ...
Dr. Nathan Eshelman | January/February 2020 Issue
The wisdom from above is peaceable. John Calvin said that this was to teach the church that wisdom is “not contentious.” Wisdom from above ...
Kara Schisler | January/February 2020 Issue
As Reformed Presbyterians, singing the psalms in corporate worship is one of our distinguishing characteristics. Many of us feel blessed to have such ...
Dianne Schaefer | November/December 2019 Issue
Coffee on the Corner is an outreach ministry the Orlando, Fla., RPC began in January. It was the outworking of a heart for the lost in response to ...
“Get to California! Los Angeles will heal all of your ailments! It’s doctor’s orders.” Several Covenanters were hearing this medical ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2019 Issue
Our society is changing much faster than it used to. Middle-aged and older adults can’t just reference their own youth and move things up a notch ...
Kyle Borg | November/December 2019 Issue
Foolishness seems to be the order of the day. When you read the latest headlines, follow social media trends, or listen to the current political ...
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 ...