Theresa Bloom | September/October 2024 Issue
The conference had ended, but we were stuck in our room for at least another night, unable to think how we might get home. My husband, Nick, was on ...
Jim Braum | July/August 2024 Issue
It was a clear and unseasonably warm late January afternoon in 2015. I had decided it would be a good day to ride my horse, Megan. She was a ...
Joey Liu | May/June 2024 Issue
I was born into a single-parent family in Shanghai, China. My mom took care of me when I was growing up, and my family had a hard time. Some people ...
Shunda Gray | March/April 2024 Issue
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 ...
Sandra Barton | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
David Weir | January/February 2024 Issue
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 ...
Thomas Wolf | November/December 2023 Issue
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 ...
Ed Schisler | September/October 2023 Issue
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 ...
Patricia Boyle | July/August 2023 Issue
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 ...
Jean Smith and Betty Burger | May/June 2023 Issue
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 ...
Elizabeth Noell | March/April 2023 Issue
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 ...
Antonio Troutman | January/February 2023 Issue
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 ...
Nathanael and Bethany Cook | November/December 2022 Issue
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 ...
Sarah Shipp | September/October 2022 Issue
Last year, Bloomington, Ind., RPC celebrated 200 years as an organized church—worshiping, proclaiming, and serving Christ in southern Indiana. To ...
Rebecca Ahlgrim | July/August 2022 Issue
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 ...
Ward Britt | May/June 2022 Issue
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 ...
Tori Mann | March/April 2022 Issue
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 ...
Romesh Prakashpalan | January/February 2022 Issue
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 ...
Colin Doyle | November/December 2021 Issue
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 ...
Drew Poplin | September/October 2021 Issue
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 ...
There is never a dull moment around Elaine. She tells stories, she laughs at herself, and she asks you questions that go beyond, “How was your ...
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 ...
Three things stand out about this year’s RPCNA Synod, and they are all the same thing. Synod has a few purposes, but a basic one is serving as ...
Location: San Diego, Calif. Presbytery: Pacific Coast Organization: Mar. 30, 1954 Membership: 37 communicant; 18 baptized Pastor: Vacant Website: ...