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 ...
Around the time the Sun-Maid raisin company opened its Fresno, Calif., facility 100 years ago, some local folks hoped to form a Reformed Presbyterian ...
Kit Swartz | September/October 2018 Issue
Paul assures us that the Lord will always provide a way of escape out of temptation (1 Cor. 10:13). We have this because Christ accomplished it for us ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2018 Issue
Identity confusion has not only damaged individuals but also the church,” said Prof. David Murray as he commended Dr. Barry York’s new book on the ...
Dennis J. Prutow | September/October 2018 Issue
Philippians 2:12–13 is good news for every believer, “My beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in ...
Barry York | September/October 2018 Issue
Whenever the topic of discipleship is brought up in the church, one truth is essential to the discussion: You cannot talk about discipleship without ...
Emily Hamer | September/October 2018 Issue
When I tell people that we’ve moved to a 35-acre farm on the dusty Colorado prairie, I’m often met with carefully hidden surprise and the unspoken ...
Dennis J. Prutow | July/August 2018 Issue
The Book of Psalms is quoted 79 times in the New Testament. There are also 333 allusions to the Psalms (Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies, ...
Kit Swartz | July/August 2018 Issue
Who has not felt that no one cares about him or her? We feel like numbers in a file, cogs on a gear, or meat in a grinder; something to be used and ...
Kenneth G. Smith | July/August 2018 Issue
Principles tend to lose their meaning and significance out of context. So, let’s get into context. Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior of the world, ...
Bryan and Olivia Schneider | July/August 2018 Issue
It is amazing how God works things out in His providence. We never planned on living as long as we have in Beaver Falls, and we never planned on ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2018 Issue
I was a bit envious of the people I knew with cell phones. The phones and the fees were frightfully expensive nearly 30 years ago, so the people I ...
The U.S. Civil War began in spring 1861. That fall, a new congregation of the RPCNA was organized in upstate New York. Walton RPC began with 19 ...
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 ...