Caring for Aging Parents
14. May 2020
Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Ex. 20:12). Caring for your father or ...
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Quilting as Unto the Lord
18. March 2020
The Messiah’s Quilter Bees, the quilting ministry of Messiah’s Church in Clay, N.Y., sprang to life in an unusual, circuitous way. I had been ...
Better New Year’s Resolutions
29. January 2020
Here we are in the beginning of 2020. It’s the time when a lot of people, bloated and sedentary, are thinking of New Year’s resolutions. Some of ...
Thinking Outside the Church Building
02. December 2019
Coffee on the Corner is an outreach ministry the Orlando, Fla., RPC began in January. It was the outworking of a heart for the lost in response to ...
Deeper Discipleship at the Dining Room Table
25. September 2019
It is hard to dress up milk and meat in one dish,” wrote the Scottish commissioners of the Westminster Assembly to their home churches in Scotland. ...
The Shepherd’s Pantry
26. July 2019
In 2005, the White Lake, N.Y., RPC saw a need in the community for a food pantry. A small committee got together and the dream started to become a ...
Evenings of Fun, Fellowship, and Skill
23. May 2019
I have always loved crafts. So when my family initially arrived in Gibsonia, Pa., I organized an informal night where people could come and share a ...
Beyond My Martha Stewart Moments
20. March 2019
The house has been vacuumed and dusted. Lovely china, folded cloth napkins, and a centerpiece of fresh flowers adorn the table. The kitchen overflows ...
Looking Back at Raising Quadruplets
21. January 2019
It is hard to believe that 18 years have gone by since my children were born. The trials, grief, and frustrations of trying to conceive children were ...
Even More Coffee and Croissants
14. November 2018
Crumble Coffee & Bakery is in the university town of Bloomington, Ind. Crumble’s original location, opened in 2013, is on the southeast side of ...
Peace Amid the Meadowlarks
12. September 2018
When I tell people that we’ve moved to a 35-acre farm on the dusty Colorado prairie, I’m often met with carefully hidden surprise and the unspoken ...
Capturing Blessings
27. July 2018
It is amazing how God works things out in His providence. We never planned on living as long as we have in Beaver Falls, and we never planned on ...
Sisters in a Shared Journey
14. May 2018
Three adult sisters…living together. We realize we are an oddity. It doesn’t help that all of our first names start with the same letter. For ...
Collecting Communion Bread Recipes
09. March 2018
Why collect communion bread recipes? When I first became responsible for providing communion bread for my congregation, I took the obvious and easy ...
The Reflections of Covenant Children
17. January 2018
During a conversation around the table at a large family gathering, one of your covenant children begins to make noises, subtle at first, then ...
Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Psalm 103
15. November 2017
I first heard the letters GBS put together in the emergency room of Aultman hospital on Jan. 26. While a neurologist looked for a reflex hammer, my ...
Vintage Charm in a Land of Cowboys
29. September 2017
Vintage Cowboy Cottage (VCC) is a bed & breakfast (Airbnb style) we started in 2016. Stephanie has always wanted to have a B&B, and, because ...
The Invisible Choir
07. August 2017
On Thursday nights, a small group from the Oswego Reformed Presbyterian Church gathers in elder Kevin Plummer’s home with their psalters and ...
Parenting Young Kids
08. March 2017
What are some of the unique blessings and challenges of parenting young kids? Young children are both cute and funny. They mispronounce words and ...
Not Your Typical College Ministry
25. January 2017
Purdue University is home to some 40,000 students from around the world. Of those students no more than 40 at a time are Reformed Presbyterian ...