Mark Sampson with Lori Murray and Alexa Howald | January/February 2025 Issue
We don’t have to look far to see the chaos in our society. This is particularly evident within the educational system. Public schools are seeing ...
Mark Alvin Gray | November/December 2024 Issue
“You have cancer.” In October 2021, I heard those dreaded words. I was diagnosed with stage three colorectal cancer, and soon radiation, ...
Elise Feagley | July/August 2024 Issue
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 ...
Sarah Sheldon | March/April 2024 Issue
“Attention! At a close interval, dress right, dress! Ready two…Hand, Salute!” “On my honor, I will do my best to serve God and my ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Ed Panichelle | May/June 2023 Issue
What Is This All About? Manchester (New Kensington, Pa.) RPC in Upper Burrell Township, just northeast of Pittsburgh, conducts a flea market on the ...
Kara Hartman | March/April 2023 Issue
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 ...
Heidi Goerner and Betty Burger | January/February 2023 Issue
Heidi Goerner After our worship service, everyone is hungry for food as well as the spiritual opportunities to grow in Christ. Discussing the sermon, ...
Maggie Allyn | November/December 2022 Issue
Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” —C. S. Lewis, “Three ...
Micah Ramsey | September/October 2022 Issue
It’s dark. It’s Jan. 1 and it’s so cold. My thighs are burning. Forty-nine percent of me is screaming, Stop! And 51 percent of me sets its jaw ...
Lydia Stowe | May/June 2022 Issue
Have you read an entire book of the Bible in one sitting? (Third John doesn’t count.) When was the last time? If you’re like me, before I started ...
Laura Cerbus | March/April 2022 Issue
I find it fascinating that, of all the commands God could have given first to Adam and Eve, He commanded them to rule over the earth. In the ...
Harry Metzger | November/December 2021 Issue
Because it was well after midnight, the world’s busiest airport was basically deserted. The lack of the hustle and bustle at Chicago’s O’Hare ...
Cheryl Hemphill | September/October 2021 Issue
It is difficult to condense such a broad topic. I will focus on the practical, with this caution and reminder. In Revelation 2, the Ephesian ...
Lauren Scavo-Fulk | July/August 2021 Issue
The term “Christian art” for me, and I expect for many others, raises memories of walking into the Christian bookstore and seeing canvas prints of ...
Denise Morrow | May/June 2021 Issue
On a warm June day nearly 20 years ago, my husband, Sam, and I stood before our family and friends promising to love and cherish each other until ...
Kyle Borg | March/April 2021 Issue
On Apr. 23, 1994, I woke up before the sun. It was Saturday morning, which meant it was the one day of the week I got to tag along with my dad on his ...
Joel E. Wood | January/February 2021 Issue
“The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without ...
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 ...