A series examining each question in the Westminster Larger Catechism. See also: The Jerusalem Chamber Podcast
Shawn Anderson | November/December 2024 Issue
Sin is not merely breaking the rules; it is a personal assault on the very character and being of God. When we speak of sin, we aren’t discussing ...
Kyle Borg | September/October 2024 Issue
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 ...
Nathan Eshelman | July/August 2024 Issue
When a covenant child is baptized in the church, we celebrate. We celebrate the growth of the church; we make promises to pray for the child as he or ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Joel E. Wood | May/June 2023 Issue
Different After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female.…” Answer 17 of the Westminster Larger Catechism positions ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2023 Issue
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 ...
Kyle Borg | January/February 2023 Issue
Questions about the creation of the world have generated a lot of discussion from our scientifically theorizing and speculative society. At least on a ...
Nathan Eshelman | November/December 2022 Issue
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His ...
Kyle Borg | September/October 2022 Issue
A glass window stands before us. We can look at the window itself, studying and admiring it for what it is. Or, we can look through the glass to what ...
Joel Wood | May/June 2022 Issue
Have you ever found yourself being misunderstood? Perhaps you were trying to help, only to ruin everything. Maybe romantic feelings you found ...
Nathan Eshelman | March/April 2022 Issue
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Surely you have heard the old saying. That may be true when ...
Kyle Borg | January/February 2022 Issue
Directly in front of me is a window. Beyond that window is my backyard, which opens to cornfields as far as the eye can see. Daily as I sit at my ...
Kyle Borg | November/December 2021 Issue
On the night of his betrayal, Jesus shared some of the most personal moments of His ministry with His disciples. The scenes, as chronicled by the ...
Nathan Eshelman | September/October 2021 Issue
The ark of the covenant was brought into the temple of Dagon, and the false god fell prostrate in its presence (1 Sam. 5). Dagon, a chief god of the ...
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Nathan Eshelman | July/August 2021 Issue
Twenty years ago, when I began reading theology, I was excited and eager. I had so many questions and couldn’t wait to discover the answers. But ...
Nathan Eshelman | May/June 2021 Issue
What’s the book about?” That’s an exciting question for those who love to read. The narrative unfolds and ensues as words become sentences and ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2021 Issue
The English Puritan Thomas Doolittle once complained that too many in the church listen to sermons like riddles—with little understanding and a lot ...
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 ...