Columns from the authors at Gentle Reformation published exclusively in the Witness.
Jeff Stivason | November/December 2024 Issue
Introduction The book of Malachi unfolds during Israel’s postexilic era. The people have returned from Medo-Persian domination, and Nehemiah has ...
Andrew Kerr | September/October 2024 Issue
Introductory Remarks The prophet Zechariah, grandson of Iddo, born of priestly stock, had a name—“Yah remembers”—that reminds saints in ...
Tim McCracken | July/August 2024 Issue
When you think of the prophet Haggai, does it come to mind that he was called on to bring God’s Word to people who had experienced one of the ...
Stephen Steele | May/June 2024 Issue
Have you ever had a day circled on your calendar? One you’ve been counting down the days to in great anticipation? For the Israelites in ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Bryan Schneider | May/June 2023 Issue
The minor prophets are some of the richest books of the Old Testament. They are chock-full of prophesies, conviction, and vivid illustrations, and ...
Nathan Eshelman | March/April 2023 Issue
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 ...
Kyle Borg | January/February 2023 Issue
The Apostle Peter gave a pattern for the way we should think about the ministry of the Old Testament prophets. He wrote that their prophecies about ...
Mark Loughridge | November/December 2022 Issue
Many of us have our favorite pieces of music pulled together into a playlist on Spotify or on our phones. If we’re heading off on a journey, or we ...
Andrew Kerr | September/October 2022 Issue
The psalter was not given to focus, finally, on former glory days of a posthumous, Israelite prince. Certainly, much is lost if we gloss over the ...
Keith Evans | July/August 2022 Issue
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace” (Ps. 83:17). These are strong words indeed! Yet we find such ...
Barry York | May/June 2022 Issue
Many of the psalms are deemed “royal psalms.” Whether they are psalms that declare God is king (such as Psalms 93–99) or ones that feature ...
Kyle Sims | March/April 2022 Issue
In my freshman year at Erskine College, a group of us students discussed the use of words. The specific discussion revolved around certain words like ...
Joel Hart | January/February 2022 Issue
“Made with real fruit.” “Bursting with fruity flavor.” “Fruit in every bite.” Advertising slogans repeatedly reveal this simple truth: ...
Andrew Kerr | November/December 2021 Issue
In November 1621, at Plymouth, Mass., new pilgrims joined with native Wampanoag Indians to celebrate the harvest. Today, the Thanksgiving feast is ...
Warren Peel | September/October 2021 Issue
A decade ago, Carl Trueman wrote a provocative piece in the journal Themelios entitled, “What do Miserable Christians Sing?” He argued eloquently ...
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 ...