Joseph Friedly | March/April 2018 Issue
I don’t have a remarkable testimony. Mine is not a story that amazes. It is, however, a story of God’s grace. And God’s grace is always amazing! ...
Patrick Mangan | January/February 2018 Issue
When I first attended Second Reformed Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, I did so without an understanding of the theological background of the ...
Adrienne Haney | November/December 2017 Issue
I was born into a Christian home with two godly parents. They are still happily married. The Bible and church were a foundation to our household ...
Jonathan Haney | September/October 2017 Issue
I purchased a music CD the summer I was 15. My world was changed, and my life set on a direction that I never would have imagined. The CD was a ...
David McCune | July/August 2017 Issue
Editor’s note: Barb McCune’s testimony appeared in the May/June issue. I have now lived more than half of my life in the United States. My ...
Barb McCune | May/June 2017 Issue
For [death] is the end of every man, and the living takes it to heart. (Eccl. 7:2) “Mommy, am I going to die?” I asked as I lay in bed, ...
Maria Rockhill | March/April 2017 Issue
I crouched at the starting line, poised, every nerve taut. This was it. No turning back. The shimmering heat and starting gun rose slowly, silently ...
Derek Baars | January/February 2017 Issue
Everyone’s Abnormal “No one’s perfect, you know.” This is not a good excuse when you’re trying to get yourself off the hook for having done ...
Joel Hart | November 30, 2016
As I sat near the front of the Calvin College auditorium, Dave Long came to the podium to preach on Jeremiah 1. It was an evening worship service at ...
Christen Adels | September 16, 2016
When I was a child, my family took in foster children. I was exposed to the harsh realities of broken families when we took in a four-year-old boy ...
Bruce Martin | July 18, 2016
When asked where I grew up, my typical answer is “in America.” I was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and lived in Barnet, Vt., and Oakdale, Ill., before ...
Lynn Rice | May 13, 2016
I am a 54-year-old Christian who is recovering from a life of sin, alcohol, & drug abuse. The reason I am alive today is because God has a purpose ...
Brooke Demott | March 23, 2016
Sitting on the floor of a dimly lit basement in a rented house in Buffalo, N.Y., bleary-eyed and defeated, I watched the phone as it rang. My reflexes ...
Rebekah Mastris | January 04, 2016
Where is my home? In my journey with the Lord so far, the answer to this question has not been a simple one. I have had many homes: one comfortable ...
Hao Lu | November 02, 2015
I was born and raised in China, and I was trained, as most Chinese children of the time, to be an atheist. This training successfully kept me from any ...
Phil Pockras | September 11, 2015
Tracing my family’s history for the last century and more, I was struck how Providence worked through seemingly chance things to bring a Christian ...
Jerry Foltz | September 11, 2015
The Foltz home is a place of refuge. It’s a place where those who have nowhere else to turn can come to recover, be restored, and find repentance. ...
David Vance | July 15, 2015
My father lived for five years with a severe head injury after his accident. Even after he had trouble recognizing his own children, I could say to ...
Clement Shabani | May 06, 2015
I was born in Kamituga, South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in April 1965. I grew up in a family of 10 children; I was the ...
Karen Reyburn | March 06, 2015
As a photographer and a Christian, I see things differently. When I go for a walk, I take note of how the glowing sky combines colors. When someone ...
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 ...