Pros and Cons of an Efficient Synod
26. July 2023
It’s dangerous to daydream at Synod. If you miss a sentence here or there, you can lose track of the flow of discussion or even be thinking of the ...
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Synods of the Past
22. June 2023
For many years, the RPCNA Synod has met at conference centers such as hotels or universities. Until the early 20th Century, this was not the ...
Someone Who Actually Understands
22. May 2023
My husband and I have ventured into a project to collect stories of older women in the church—stories of saints who lead ordinary lives of suffering ...
Pulpit Shuffle
22. May 2023
This is a timely question! The challenges and costs of shuffling pastors from one pulpit to another reappear most often when our denomination ...
Humanity
22. May 2023
Different After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female.…” Answer 17 of the Westminster Larger Catechism positions ...
Amos
22. May 2023
The minor prophets are some of the richest books of the Old Testament. They are chock-full of prophesies, conviction, and vivid illustrations, and ...
Frontier Ministry
22. May 2023
Have you ever heard of Rev. John Cuthbertson? He served in all three regions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church that existed in his time—Scotland, ...
Planting Seeds in the Basement
22. May 2023
What Is This All About? Manchester (New Kensington, Pa.) RPC in Upper Burrell Township, just northeast of Pittsburgh, conducts a flea market on the ...
Congregation of the Month: Salt and Light RPC
22. May 2023
Location: Longmont, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 2003 Membership: 33 communicant; 19 baptized Pastor: H. P. McCracken Website: ...
The Opposite of Connected
22. May 2023
Just after the caveman days of the cell phone, when few people owned them and they resembled small bricks, I was given a new kind of phone to beta ...
Longest RP Pastorates
13. March 2023
How long has your pastor served your church? Some RP ministers have served short periods at several churches, while others have stayed at a single ...
Can You Be Your Pastor’s Friend?
13. March 2023
If you were truly in need, to whom would you turn? How many friends could you rely on to help you in a time of distress, not counting family? Take a ...
Their God and Ours
13. March 2023
Imagine if you meandered to a church website and clicked the tab for beliefs, few churches, if any, would have a doctrinal statement on angels. It’s ...
Joel
13. March 2023
What were the dates that Augustine preached; would you know them? How about Bernard’s dates or John Chrysostom’s? When did Calvin preach in France ...
Reforming Ourselves at a Winter Youth Retreat
13. March 2023
The Midwest Presbytery featured a youth retreat at Shawnee, Kan., RP Church in December with a showing of about 80 youth. Pastor Steve Rockhill spoke ...
Is There Purpose in Sport?
13. March 2023
Recently I commented to my boys something like this: We could think of an infinite number of ways to take a ball of any shape and size and think of a ...
Congregation of the Month: Providence RPC
13. March 2023
Location: Carnegie, Pa. Presbytery: Allegheny Organization: 2000 Membership: 95 communicant; 45 baptized Pastor: Steve Bradley Website: ...
Those Precious, Irreplaceable Walls
13. March 2023
For those who came to worship in Jerusalem, even the walls were special. The temple building was beloved. What made the place special was the presence ...
Little White Churches
16. January 2023
Note: This is the second half of a two-part series on RP church buildings. See the October installment on RPWitness.org. Did you know that several ...
God’s Gift to the Church
16. January 2023
The short answer is that God gives a pastor to a congregation. I remember when young men, eager to become pastors, were asked in a presbytery exam, ...