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 ...
Keith Evans | September/October 2023 Issue
Roughly 750 years before Christ walked the earth, God’s people faced the looming threat of the world’s superpower, Assyria. The capital city, ...
Featuring Seth Tyson, Audrey Husted, Asa Stemler, Lydia Tweed, Westin Harper, Kaylin Kingston, and Daniel Thoman | September/October 2023 Issue
As the semester drew to a close, several students of Rev. Rut Etheridge’s Bible class were interviewed on the advice they would give to high school ...
Tori Sturm | September/October 2023 Issue
Kathy Duke and her husband, John, are long-standing members of Westminster, Colo., RPC. I’ve known Kathy my whole life, and I’ve experienced her ...
David and Sarah Mikucki | September/October 2023 Issue
We often tell people that we started Relight—our free web app for studying the Bible and Reformed theology—simply so that we could use it. ...
Greg W. Burgreen | September/October 2023 Issue
Location: Hoover, Alabama Presbytery: Alleghenies Organization: 2018 Membership: 8 communicant; 0 baptized Pastor: Vacant Website: ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2023 Issue
It’s a question every believer has considered if they’ve lived long enough to ponder the next generation: How can we know that the faith will be ...
Nathaniel Pockras | July/August 2023 Issue
This year is the 225th anniversary of the refounding of the Reformed Presbytery in America. Arguably that event more than any other marks the founding ...
Noah Bailey and Pete Smith | July/August 2023 Issue
You likely know the Reformed Presbyterian Church has a particular understanding of the public worship of God. You might also know the church has a ...
Shawn Anderson | July/August 2023 Issue
The doctrine of providence is a central thread weaving through the fabric of the Scriptures. This belief asserts that God ceaselessly sustains and ...
C. Lee Hutchings | July/August 2023 Issue
Every family knows to some extent the pain and reality of conflict. However, the children of the patriarch Isaac and Rebekah not only started a family ...
Theodora Brown | July/August 2023 Issue
Prayer is one of the most special privileges we have as Christians. Because of Christ’s sacrifice, we are allowed to talk to the Creator of the ...
Evelyn Kruis | July/August 2023 Issue
Ken Smith is a man who knows Jesus personally and deeply; and, if you ever get an opportunity to hear him pray, you will know this truth for yourself. ...
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 ...