June 01, 2012
On Feb. 14, 1999, I started to go to the Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church—and not for research. Even though I felt like a freak in that church, ...
June 01, 2012
The Testimony of Bill Boyle My story is not only about how God confronted me with my sin and worked repentance in my life, but also how He worked in ...
April 13, 2012
When I think about how the Lord has worked in my life, one word comes to mind again and again: grace. I’m amazed at how He reached down, plucked me ...
Maggie Allyn | January 01, 2012
“Are we really bound for the promised land?” I asked When I am blessed to hear the testimony of how others came to Christ, many times ...
July 01, 2011
The Early Years Orlena was born Jan. 15, 1922, in Sparta, Ill., the daughter of Thomas Lynn and Marguer-ite McMurtry. When Thomas married Marguerite, ...
James D. Carson | May 01, 2011
My father became the pastor of the Seattle, Wash., RPC in 1936, when I was 7 years old. The Seattle congregation therefore was my home church. In ...
January 01, 2011
I love words! Once you begin a conversation with me, you might as well sit down. I love the way you can move words around and say the same things in ...
December 16, 2010
In God’s providence, I was born in a Christian home, the fifth child of my parents. My sister Gisela was the third child. My mother and father had ...
December 16, 2010
I was born in Germany, the third of six children, and grew up in Frielinghausen, a small village in the Rhineland. My father was of a very old ...
June 01, 2010
I had the extraordinary privilege of knowing my father for over 78 years. Not many fathers live to be 106. Waldo McBurney was born Oct. 3, 1902, near ...
November 28, 2009
Sitting in construction traffic, squinting into the June sunlight, I glanced at the time and sighed in relief. Maybe I would be home early. My mind ...
October 28, 2009
If you ask Bob Hemphill when he graduated from Geneva College, he’ll just smile. “I did not graduate,” he says firmly. “Everybody thinks I ...
May 08, 2008
As a child, I feared many things, one of which was Halloween. On a particularly dark Halloween night, when I was about 5 years old, I made a ...
Brandon Fisher | July 01, 2007
“How do you like Australia?” a new acquaintance asked in late August. “Yeah, it’s been good,” I replied with a bit of a grin. “We ...
Drew Gordon | June 06, 2007
Which pleases God more? To work one’s way up the ladder of success, eventually reaching leadership positions where one has great influence for ...
Grant Van Leuven | May 01, 2007
What is a 24-year-old Hoosier girl aspiring to a Ph.D. in cognitive science doing at a seminary in Pittsburgh? Call it providence. In September ...
Matthew Adamo | January 01, 2007
When I was a child, my family occasionally attended a Lutheran church near my house. We didn’t go often, so I didn’t hear the gospel or come to a ...
Wayne Copeland | August 08, 2006
If I were to pick a favorite verse from the Bible to describe the special relationship that I have with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, it would be, ...
Bill Van Sciver | May 01, 2006
“Yes, Grandpa, I have asked Jesus to be my Savior.” This was the answer my 12-year-old grandson gave following my inquiry about his ...
Sam Chheng | March 15, 2006
I was born in Cambodia in 1958. Now it is called the Kingdom of Cambodia. While growing up, I believed Buddha was God. The communists, Khmer Rouge, ...
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 ...