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” ...
John M. Mitchell | March/April 2018 Issue
Why collect communion bread recipes? When I first became responsible for providing communion bread for my congregation, I took the obvious and easy ...
Kit Swartz | March/April 2018 Issue
This psalm is beautifully arranged with the problem described (vv. 1–5), the ground of appeal confessed (vv. 6–7), the petition answering the ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2018 Issue
The river current swiftly moved us downstream without much commotion. A quiet anxiety hung in the air. We were all mindful that soon this winding ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2018 Issue
Bill Edgar’s article focusing on teaching life-giving truths to our children reminded me how much I’ve learned from the book of Proverbs, even as ...
A rectangle of light shot into the room as my mother rushed in. We children had gone to bed. In a hurried whisper Mom told me something had happened ...
On Nov. 29, 1974, a service of dedication was conducted as the Kansas City and Olathe, Kan., RP congregations merged to form the Reformed Presbyterian ...
Kit Swartz | January/February 2018 Issue
Psalm 139 is often and rightly referenced when declaring that human life unequivocally begins at conception. But it is critical that we understand the ...
Brian and Heather Panichelle | January/February 2018 Issue
During a conversation around the table at a large family gathering, one of your covenant children begins to make noises, subtle at first, then ...
Dennis J. Prutow | January/February 2018 Issue
John gives the purpose of his Gospel here: “Many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this ...
Andrew Quigley | January/February 2018 Issue
Andrew Melville was born in 1545 in Montrose, Scotland. He was the youngest of nine sons. Orphaned in childhood, he was raised by his eldest brother, ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2018 Issue
You had one job!” became a catchphrase after the 2001 movie Ocean’s Eleven. It has come to epitomize both the humor and costliness of taking our ...
Dennis J. Prutow | November/December 2017 Issue
Mark 8:22–26 presents a two-stage miracle occurring almost in the center of this 16-chapter book. They came to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind ...
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 ...