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 ...
Joshua Smith | July/August 2021 Issue
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 ...
Bridget Carroll | May/June 2021 Issue
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 ...
Krista K. | March/April 2021 Issue
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 ...
Philip and Hélène Choinière-Shields | January/February 2021 Issue
This story begins and ends with a vision. The shortest psalm in the Bible, Psalm 117, reads: “Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! ...
Bonnie Weir | November/December 2020 Issue
“That children yet unborn might know, and their descendants lead, to trust in God, recall God’s works, and His commandments heed.” All four of ...
Bill Kilgore | September/October 2020 Issue
I was on a call from my home office with a couple of my Lockheed Martin colleagues on Sept. 16, 2019, when our house phone rang (yes, we still have a ...
Bob Pinkerton | July/August 2020 Issue
I was born into a Reformed Presbyterian family consisting of my father, mother, two older brothers, and an older sister. Although all but my brother ...
Brian and Dorian Coombs | May/June 2020 Issue
I was about six. I had just finished watching a TV program and began to cry because it made me ponder the concept of death. I was afraid I would no ...
Peter Chan | March/April 2020 Issue
A Distant Memory Long ago, during my student days, there was a brief conversation I had almost forgotten. I went to a traditional boarding school in ...
Sylvester Konteh | January/February 2020 Issue
Christian and Muslim Background I am a Sierra Leonean by nationality and was raised in that country. My father had a Christian background, and my ...
Kyle Borg | November/December 2019 Issue
I was sitting in the house I shared with my girlfriend when I opened my Bible and read the words found in the ninth chapter of Romans: “So then it ...
Keith and Melissa Evans | September/October 2019 Issue
Our story begins in the toddler room at church, where we first met. We were not serving in the nursery together; we ourselves were the toddlers! We ...
Fikre and Ritva Menbere | July/August 2019 Issue
This is a season of our lives when the wonder of the gospel has broken into our hearts afresh. The Lord opened an opportunity for us to join a group ...
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Lori McCracken | May/June 2019 Issue
I’m not known for decisiveness, hence my moniker (aptly and lovingly assigned): Our Lady of the Options. Upon receiving a request for a written ...
Linda Au Parker | March/April 2019 Issue
It came as a shock to the system—being raised in an unchurched family with only vague memories of a few vacation Bible school classes, then finding ...
Derek Moore | January/February 2019 Issue
I thought I would be able to come up with a reasonably coherent essay to explain my life and faith in Christ, but I was wrong. My search through my ...
I was born in Ottawa to a Christian home and baptized at the Ottawa RPC. Within a few short years, I moved to Mississauga with my parents and two ...
Tim and Lynette Bloedow | September/October 2018 Issue
Tim was raised in a churchgoing family in Eastern Ontario. His father was a professor of classics at the University of Ottawa, and his mother remained ...
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 ...