Henry Patterson | November 02, 2015
Judge’s comments: Short, pithy, clever. It keeps close to its lovely metaphor throughout…until the end when the metaphor is suddenly dropped in ...
Andrew Schep | November 02, 2015
< p>Judge’s comments: Best free verse entry; particularly strong concluding envoy. My computer glows with the claim of a science teacher: that ...
Virginia McBurney | November 02, 2015
It was dark under the bed, and quiet, except for little sneezes. They had trouble breathing in the growing crowd. More and more dust bunnies were ...
Reuben Bredenhof | September 09, 2015
As we grow up, receiving instruction at home and at school, we hear many stories that are enduringly imprinted on our minds. Even years later, an ...
Gordon Keddie | March 06, 2015
It is very easy, at the best of times, to become “weary in well-doing” (Gal. 6:9). Physical tiredness alone can do this, but spiritual ...
Jeanette Li, transl. by Rose Huston | March 06, 2015
The second edition of Jeanette Li was recently published by Crown & Covenant Publications. What follows are excerpts from that book (with chapter ...
Kyle Borg | January 05, 2015
In the glow of summer’s setting sun, I can sit on my front step and could, if not for the slight incline in the street, see the full length of the ...
Wade Mann | January 05, 2015
There has always been a sort of rivalry or prejudice between city dwellers and country dwellers. Aesop’s fable of “The Town Mouse and the Country ...
Emily Wood | January 05, 2015
You’re taking us where?” This was my reaction when Sterling RP Church became a potential call for my husband. “Sterling, America,” as it calls ...
November 05, 2014
The following is the first section of a helpful Psalter Catechism written by Pastor Brad Johnston and under development by Crown & Covenant ...
November 05, 2014
One of the joys of doing ministry in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America is having the opportunity to introduce people to the wonder of ...
November 05, 2014
I was not raised in a covenant home or in the Reformed tradition of psalm singing or catechizing. I was raised in an American Baptist congregation, ...
Brad Johnston | November 05, 2014
Because God so loved His people in all ages and nations, He gave us 150 God-breathed Psalms. It is a gracious and delightful provision that our Savior ...
September 17, 2014
Author’s introduction: This book is about Jesus’ dominion, which extends far beyond the church to encompass all people, all governments, all ...
August 01, 2014
Worship The 183rd meeting of the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) convened at 6:30 p.m. June 23 on the campus of ...
March 01, 2014
Opinions abound about where to send your children to school, but hard data is in short supply. The release of the Cardus Education Survey in 2011 ...
March 01, 2014
“Bright as is the manifestation which God gives both of Himself and His immortal kingdom in the mirror of His works, so great is our stupidity, so ...
March 01, 2014
What surprised you most about the transition from teacher to administrator? They are two completely different jobs in the same environment. I thought ...
February 01, 2014
Sometimes the saying “familiarity breeds contempt” is true. Some Christian schoolteachers struggle to help their students grow in Christ because ...
December 01, 2013
Title: Young Entrepreneurs Serve Bloomington Author: Heidi Filbert Date: December 1, 2013 Laura Noell, a 2013 graduate of Geneva College and a ...
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 ...