Drew Gordon | May/June 2024 Issue
The Amtrak train from Pittsburgh ends in the middle of Manhattan (the one in New York). Then you rise one level from your train into the center of a ...
Anna Watson | March/April 2024 Issue
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness” (Jas. ...
Evelyn Kruis | March/April 2024 Issue
“You need to come right away; something is wrong with Nancy,” a young Ed Blackwood heard over the phone, less than a month before his wedding ...
Sarah Sheldon | March/April 2024 Issue
“Attention! At a close interval, dress right, dress! Ready two…Hand, Salute!” “On my honor, I will do my best to serve God and my ...
Hsing Tang | March/April 2024 Issue
Location: Irvine, Calif. Presbytery: Pacific Coast Organization: Oct. 17, 2016 Membership: 11 communicant; 0 baptized Pastor: Hsing Tang Website: ...
Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2024 Issue
Reformed Presbyterian churches exist in several countries worldwide: but why? Why do we exist in some countries, and not in others? We can divide ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | March/April 2024 Issue
This is a great question, and I can relate. As a little boy, I enjoyed prayer times in worship. Everyone went quiet and still. I would close my eyes ...
Shawn Anderson | March/April 2024 Issue
In the annals of human history, two events exhibit the lowest point for humanity: the atrocities of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the fall of ...
C. J. Williams | March/April 2024 Issue
Why does a good God permit evil in His world? This is the one question that has occupied mankind since the garden of Eden. Many poets, playwrights, ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2024 Issue
My mother-in-law, Nancy Hutmire, was known for her humor. People who met her just once or who knew her well frequently reminded us. Typically it was ...
Nathaniel Pockras | January/February 2024 Issue
For the first several decades that RP settlements existed in America, there were very few ministers; so the work of the church was performed almost ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | January/February 2024 Issue
For nearly a decade, the hit TV show Cheers opened with a theme song celebrating the sense of security that comes from having a place “where ...
Nathan Eshelman | January/February 2024 Issue
Good things come with great responsibility. Jesus said, “To whom much is given, much is required” (Luke 12:48). When a young person gets her first ...
Kyle Sims | January/February 2024 Issue
In seventh grade, my history class was asked to name all the presidents of the United States. We got all but one, Millard Fillmore. Not only could we ...
Alice Odom | January/February 2024 Issue
The path of the Christian life is not as clear as many of us would hope. Today, the world is constantly pulling us in every direction and pressuring ...
Wes Burton | January/February 2024 Issue
When my wife, Debi, and I began attending a Reformed Presbyterian church 27 years ago, we noticed the culture there was, among other things, one where ...
Sumito Sakai | January/February 2024 Issue
Location: Kobe, Japan Presbytery: Japan Organization: 1960 Membership: 59 communicant; 22 baptized Pastor: Sumito Sakai Website: ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2024 Issue
Once it was common to see the bumper sticker, “Abortion is not health care.” But over time, pro-abortion forces have turned the tables on ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | November/December 2023 Issue
At some point in your life, you will likely be asked to run a meeting. This may be for your Girl Scout or Trail Life troop, your student government ...
Kyle Borg | November/December 2023 Issue
As a boy, I remember reading Frank Peretti’s novel This Present Darkness. My youthful imagination was inundated by this work of fiction that ...
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 ...