Amanda Slikker | March 06, 2015
Nine years ago I was playing rugby as a freshman at the U.S. Naval Academy. I leaned over a girl I had just tackled and she stood suddenly, driving at ...
November 05, 2014
Years ago, my father wanted me to give my testimony at his church during a food giveaway. I had no idea what he was talking about—until my ...
September 17, 2014
This is the testimony of Tomoko Sakai, a member of Higashisuma RPC in Kobe, Japan, as related by Kumiko Kudo, a member of Kitasuzurandai Mission ...
September 17, 2014
We kept milk out in the snow because we didn’t have a refrigerator, heated our trailer by keeping the oven door open all night, went to the ...
August 01, 2014
One privilege of living 86 years is experiencing the hand of God directing my life and decisions in a variety of ways. There is not enough space here ...
June 02, 2014
Bill and I met at a youth group roller skating party. His girlfriend introduced us but we got better acquainted about four years later during a ...
March 01, 2014
Telling of God’s grace in my life is as much about the present as it is about the past. However, I will start with a summary of my background. My ...
December 01, 2013
Steps toward Christ Although I visited the Catholic church with my dad a handful of times as a child, my two siblings and I belonged to a small ...
October 01, 2013
I was raised Episcopalian. Although the gospel was imbedded in the liturgy of my church, it was not clearly preached. As a child, I thought that the ...
July 01, 2013
Tuesday, October 3 Chaplain,” the psychiatrist said. She summoned me with her hands. “Here is someone I want you to meet.” A patient was ...
July 01, 2013
A Covenant Child from a Catholic Church My siblings and I were raised Catholic, although Dad had been raised Lutheran. As he tells me, a college ...
May 01, 2013
A Good Heritage I was blessed by being born and raised in a covenant home that actually spanned three homes. I was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, on Nov. ...
March 01, 2013
Combining Truth and Experience —Daniel N. Dupuis I became a member of the Ottawa RPC in the summer of 2010, roughly five years into my walk with ...
March 01, 2013
Who Am I? I am currently a seminary student under care of the St. Lawrence Presbytery, and I expect, Lord willing, to graduate in May 2013. I was ...
January 31, 2013
Growing up in the Methodist church, I heard and believed the gospel, yet I chose to live my life as if I didn’t. After college, I moved to Kansas ...
November 01, 2012
They aren’t really having a mid-life crisis. But Travis and Gina Sheets want to put their vocational skills to work on the African mission field in ...
Kenneth G. Smith | November 01, 2012
Airplanes and boats—those were my “things”! In junior high I enjoyed the shop class the most. It was during WWII, and model planes were needed ...
September 26, 2012
By God’s grace I am a 32-year-old homeschooling mom of three, with high hopes to have a quiver full of children. It is amazing how far I have come ...
July 30, 2012
The Big Umbrella Ruth Spear There was a big black umbrella way back in the closet under the stairway. I was told it was used in China when my parents ...
June 01, 2012
My purpose in writing this is to emphasize two tremendous realities that Beverly and I experienced because of our son’ s death: the reality of death ...
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 ...