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 ...
Matthew Everhard | November/December 2023 Issue
I have some bad news, and some good news. Which do you want to hear first? This is the way that I softly break the fall whenever I have to tell a ...
Nathaniel Pockras | November/December 2023 Issue
The RPCNA has no congregations in the northern Great Plains or northern Great Lakes regions. But did you know that there were once churches in ...
Evelyn Kruis | November/December 2023 Issue
Early Years: The Pain of Alcoholism In 1941, when Willa Copland was four, she remembers playing at the end of the road at the cattle farm her father ...
Natalie Thoman | November/December 2023 Issue
Inspiration My earliest memory of wanting to become an artist came when posing for the Pulitzer Prize winning artist, Aileen Ortlip Shea. At age ...
Frank Smith | November/December 2023 Issue
Location: Atlanta, Ga. Presbytery: Great Lakes-Gulf Organization: 2019 Membership: 12 communicant; 2 baptized Pastor: Frank J. Smith Website: ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2023 Issue
When you are on a business trip, harried by transfers from planes to trains to automobiles, you try to get the best sleep you can in a strange bed in ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | September/October 2023 Issue
Some of us grew up singing “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart.” But, according to Galatians 5, we should sing that we have the ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2023 Issue
The small Sparta congregation is one of two current RPCNA churches in Illinois. Like many of our small-town churches, it has a long history: more than ...
There is never a dull moment around Elaine. She tells stories, she laughs at herself, and she asks you questions that go beyond, “How was your ...
My life is full of play. I work as a professional cellist in Pittsburgh, Pa., and my job is to play all day. But the day quickly shifts from playing ...
Three things stand out about this year’s RPCNA Synod, and they are all the same thing. Synod has a few purposes, but a basic one is serving as ...
Location: San Diego, Calif. Presbytery: Pacific Coast Organization: Mar. 30, 1954 Membership: 37 communicant; 18 baptized Pastor: Vacant Website: ...