Drew Gordon | May/June 2019 Issue
Routine. That’s what it was. Neither drudgery nor joy; this was part of my work and I was following through. That was the spirit in which I drove to ...
Warren Peel | May/June 2019 Issue
Our 15-year-old daughter, Rebekah, is preparing for a hiking expedition in a few weeks as she works toward a particular award. She and her team will ...
Sharon McKissick | March/April 2019 Issue
The house has been vacuumed and dusted. Lovely china, folded cloth napkins, and a centerpiece of fresh flowers adorn the table. The kitchen overflows ...
Second Reformed Presbyterian Church (2RP) in Indianapolis was named “Second” at its inception to pay homage to the first RPCNA congregation in ...
Kit Swartz | March/April 2019 Issue
Each of the five books of the Psalter closes with a doxology in pure praise to God (41:13; 72:18–19; 89:52; 106:48; 150:1–6). Psalm 146 begins a ...
Nathan Eshelman | March/April 2019 Issue
In my previous article entitled “Discipling the Unbaptized, Unchurched, and Unfamiliar,” I explained that discipleship in the 21st Century needs ...
Calvin Stevenson | March/April 2019 Issue
My loving parents were Christians before I was born, and they faithfully brought me up on God’s ways. I don’t remember a day when I didn’t know ...
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Drew Gordon | March/April 2019 Issue
Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown and the long-running Peanuts cartoons, said, “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with ...
Caleb Leong | January/February 2019 Issue
Don’t get me wrong, when the summer before my senior year of high school began, I was super excited for school to be out, for summer weather, and ...
Dawn Claerbaut | January/February 2019 Issue
It is hard to believe that 18 years have gone by since my children were born. The trials, grief, and frustrations of trying to conceive children were ...
Kit Swartz | January/February 2019 Issue
Psalm 145 is the only psalm that has the Hebrew title of the whole book for its own title—Praise. It is the last psalm of those explicitly connected ...
Anastasia Brown | January/February 2019 Issue
From as early as 1800, Rev. John Black was ministering to Reformed Presbyterian communities west of the Alleghenies. Soon, prayer societies were ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2019 Issue
The modern worship music movement has been driving the church down a dangerous and sinister path. I think it’s because of the move away from ...
Nathan Eshelman | January/February 2019 Issue
An atheist, a Buddhist, and a Jehovah’s Witness walk into a church. What’s the punchline? There isn’t one. It’s no joke. What do we do with a ...
Laura Noell | November/December 2018 Issue
Crumble Coffee & Bakery is in the university town of Bloomington, Ind. Crumble’s original location, opened in 2013, is on the southeast side of ...
James Faris | November/December 2018 Issue
How should the pastor practice discipleship? What should congregations expect from their pastors? Jesus is the chief Shepherd, and, in the Great ...
Dennis J. Prutow | November/December 2018 Issue
Psalm 100 begins with the call, “Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.” Our versions translate Lord in all caps to indicate the underlying ...
Kit Swartz | November/December 2018 Issue
Past praise provides present prayer” is the logic of this psalm. David is very intentionally using the praise of Psalm 18 (see 2 Sam. 22) as the ...
In 1989 God had a big plan for one New York town, but no one knew it. Aaron Goerner graduated high school and went to college. He had grown up in a ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2018 Issue
The Tree of Life synagogue is 17 blocks from my office—a quiet, beautiful stroll on tree-lined streets past parks and upper middle-class homes. It ...
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 ...