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 ...
Cory Veldhuizen | November/December 2017 Issue
I first heard the letters GBS put together in the emergency room of Aultman hospital on Jan. 26. While a neurologist looked for a reflex hammer, my ...
Nathan Eshelman | November/December 2017 Issue
“The most perfect school of Christ…since the days of the apostles.”1 Many have heard these words concerning Reformation-era Geneva, penned ...
Joshua De Jong | November/December 2017 Issue
College or the early years of adulthood is a pivotal time for most people, particularly if they leave home. It is in college, and away from home, that ...
The Seattle Reformed Presbyterian Church was established in the 1890s by a commission of the then-Kansas Presbytery in a fairly new city with some ...
Kit Swartz | November/December 2017 Issue
Psalms 138–145 are the final section of psalms particularly connected to David, which together make up more than half of the book. These include the ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2017 Issue
There are a lot of invisible things in the visible church. When we think of a particular congregation, we might think about the impact of its key ...
Warren Peel | September/October 2017 Issue
The name of the second-generation Swiss Reformer Henry Bullinger (Zwingli’s successor in Zurich) is not nearly as well known today as that of ...
______________________________________________ While as a congregation we have our roots in Scottish Highlanders who came to Toronto many decades ...
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 ...