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 ...
Ben Larson | May/June 2018 Issue
In Genesis 32, Jacob was returning home after years in another land, fearful of what lay ahead because of the discord he had sown long before. As ...
Dennis Prutow | May/June 2018 Issue
Jesus prays, “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17). He is praying for His future apostles. Truth is that which is ...
Kit Swartz | May/June 2018 Issue
The Lord (vv. 1, 3, 8) is addressed as the One who by nature is able to help and, in covenant, is willing to help. The need is urgent (hasten, when) ...
Russell, Ont., RPC began as a church plant of the Ottawa, Ont., RPC. In 1997, four families from the Ottawa RPC put out a call to Pastor Matt ...
Three adult sisters…living together. We realize we are an oddity. It doesn’t help that all of our first names start with the same letter. For ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2018 Issue
After we finished excerpts of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, our high school English teacher asked us to write brief essays on our definition of ...
Though we began as a Bible study involving three families in the Kokomo area in 1983, the Lord patiently and intentionally built His church one stone ...
Dennis Prutow | March/April 2018 Issue
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me” ...
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 ...