Mark Sampson | November/December 2024 Issue
In December 2023, the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) faced the sudden departure of the professor of biblical counseling in the ...
Barry York | July/August 2024 Issue
Perhaps you have seen a 100 Years in Rutherford Hall brochure, poster, or social media post with the image accompanying this article. The Reformed ...
Barry York | May/June 2024 Issue
The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS), the denominational seminary of the RPCNA, primarily exists to train men for pastoral ministry ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2023 Issue
Churches located near military bases know the challenges of serving military families. Long separations from family, multiple moves, unpredictable ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2023 Issue
The lectern stands on a small platform on the east end of the chapel at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS). Rev. Sam McCracken, a ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2022 Issue
March 2020 began a long season of unusual happenings around the world. With the shutdown of much of the world’s economy, we all experienced ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2022 Issue
As the shells rip overhead, exploding somewhere behind the Marine, he presses himself deeper into the mud, wishing he were another three feet deeper. ...
Barry York | November/December 2021 Issue
We live in an unprecedented time. Pulpits throughout the land are empty. (Currently, more than a dozen pulpits are open in the RPCNA.) Opportunities ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2021 Issue
His loud voice boomed across the airport’s departure lounge as he argued in very, shall I say, colorful language on the phone. As he approached the ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2020 Issue
Although he is now a man with a dual-major undergraduate degree, two graduate-level degrees, and a PhD, he had never wanted to go to college. Jeff ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2020 Issue
We studied with great intensity, listening to lectures, viewing videos, and even watching live demonstrations. But there was the inevitable time in ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2019 Issue
“I do not like history. It is boring. Yet I just listened to three hours of lecture, and not once did I wonder when the class would end.” ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2019 Issue
When looking for a pastor, one does not just stop by a favorite big box or do-it-yourself store. One could spend countless, fruitless hours wandering ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2018 Issue
Only a week or so into his new role as associate pastor at the Lafayette, Ind., RPC, Keith Evans got a shock. “Welcome to the ‘Just Beneath,’” ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2018 Issue
I had not been working at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) for very long when President Jerry O’Neill announced a road trip to ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2017 Issue
Homes come in many sizes and shapes. They protect us from the elements and are the places of great moments and memories of family life. Your home is ...
Mark Sampson | May/June 2017 Issue
For 207 years, the pastor/professors at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) have instructed generations of pastors and others who ...
Mark Sampson | November 30, 2016
So much had changed since the copyist initiated his delicate and masterful work. If this scroll could tell the tale of its passing through time and ...
Mark Sampson | May 13, 2016
Everything is bigger in Texas. At least, that is how the saying goes. Not surprisingly, there are some Reformed Presbyterians in Texas with some big ...
Mark Sampson | November 02, 2015
When you live in an older house, there tend to be a lot of things that go wrong. When that house is a large mansion built in the late 1800s, this is ...
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 ...