When God Says No
05. March 2024
Expectation In August 2016, we had just found out that we were expecting our first child. Thoughts of the future were flooding our minds, with waves ...
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If Christ Sets You Free
10. January 2024
I was raised in a small town where there was a lot of camaraderie. Parents watched out for each other’s children, and stay-at-home moms chatted over ...
Gene and Ruth Spear
10. January 2024
Gene Wilfred Spear was born on Aug. 14, 1927, to Maurice B. and Edna Carls Spear. He was born at home on their dairy farm in Berryton, Kan., near ...
Against My Inclination
22. November 2023
At age 11, I said in my heart that there is no God. Having been born in Communist East Germany on Oct. 7, 1976, I was taught from early childhood that ...
A Place to Call Home
18. September 2023
I want to testify to how the Lord has dealt graciously with me by pointing out two significant truths of this life. The Reality of Death My earliest ...
Freed from a Lifelong Burden
26. July 2023
One day while working at Geneva College (1997–2000), I stopped in the bookstore and bought What Is So Amazing about Grace? by Philip Yancey. Reading ...
A Long Life to God’s Glory
22. May 2023
Betty: Jean, I heard you are 91 years old and have been a Reformed Presbyterian all those years. Tell us a bit about your childhood. Jean: I was born ...
Finding My Purpose
13. March 2023
I blinked in the light as the sun shone on the floor. The sunshine streamed through the windows in our congregation’s newly purchased building while ...
Reckoning with the Real Image of God
16. January 2023
These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the ...
A Journey of God’s Covenantal Faithfulness
11. November 2022
Bethany Growing up in a covenant family is easy to take for granted. You might not feel like you have much of a testimony because you don’t even ...
Passing on the Faith
12. September 2022
Last year, Bloomington, Ind., RPC celebrated 200 years as an organized church—worshiping, proclaiming, and serving Christ in southern Indiana. To ...
A Life of Little Decisions
18. July 2022
I spent the first 20 years of my life in Niger, French West Africa, the daughter of Baptist missionaries. We sailed on the SS United States in ...
God Had Other Plans
09. May 2022
May 29, 1972, was the day I gave up my life. I am here to tell you how and why that happened. My mother was English and married my father during ...
A Great Heritage
01. March 2022
Do I start my story with God’s promise to Abraham? Or Peter’s sermon to the Gentiles? Or I could start when my ancestors first became believers ...
Nagging Questions
11. January 2022
I was born in England but grew up in Southern California. My parents were devout Hindus who took us to the temple every week. A formative moment in my ...
Identity
10. November 2021
It seems we live in an age where identity is very important. As a child, I would have identified as scared of my abusive father. Growing into my ...
Falling Dominos
08. September 2021
In Romans 1:17, the Christian is encouraged to know that in the gospel “is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.” Matthew Henry ...
Following a Call
19. July 2021
Having been raised in a covenant home, the Spirit’s work in my life has been evident as long as I can remember. At a young age, the Lord instilled ...
An Ordinary Path
14. May 2021
I was sitting on a hard bench with two other missionaries. One of them spoke the local language; and, as the congregation prayed together, he ...
Not a Good Testimony?
05. March 2021
Bowie, Maryland I threw myself onto my bed and burst into tears. My dad had just announced that we would be moving to Papua New Guinea (PNG), a ...