The number of our olive shoots (62 covenant children under age 21—see Psalm 128:3) at Trinity RPC in Burtonsville, Md., is quickly growing closer to ...
Zuri Cassell | July/August 2019 Issue
The not-so-secret secret in America is that we are all in debt. From the white pillars of D.C. to cul-de-sac communities, studies show that the ...
Each of the five books of the Psalter closes with a doxology in simple praise to God (41:13; 72:18–19; 89:52; 106:48; 150:1–6). Psalm 148 is the ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2019 Issue
This is not your father and mother’s RPCNA. A visitor to this year’s Synod meeting in Pennsylvania would first have noticed that the RPCNA was ...
Michelle Kim and Clara Mauser | May/June 2019 Issue
Two teens were interviewed about reading The Gospel Comes with a House Key together. What made you choose to read this book? MICHELLE: I had heard a ...
Tabatha Stivason | May/June 2019 Issue
I have always loved crafts. So when my family initially arrived in Gibsonia, Pa., I organized an informal night where people could come and share a ...
In 1986, Christ Presbyterian Church (CPC) was planted in Olathe, Kan., as a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America. Soon it moved to South ...
Kit Swartz | May/June 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 147 is the ...
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 ...
Location: Colorado Springs, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1981 Membership: 101 communicant; 56 baptized Pastor: Ed Blackwood Website: ...
This article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of God Breathed: Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself. I will never ...
In the early years of the Witness, it was published weekly, and correspondents reported many small events in their congregations. Here are some news ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...