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What Does a Goal of Unity Mean?

December 01, 2011

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Reformed and presbyterian council wrestles with some big questions While NAPARC isn’t a household word, that group of 12 Reformed and ...


Walking in All Seasons

November 01, 2011

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Karen Reyburn doesn’t just blog about her life; she blogs as she changes her life My life tends towards the sedentary. I work from home, I live in ...


Jesus’ Dedication and Leadership

November 01, 2011

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The 13th Student Learning discipleship from Jesus’ example to the Twelve (part 3) Many years ago my wife and I were invited to see a film called ...


The 13th Student

September 09, 2011

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Fellowship Leads To Discipleship Why was I so late in learning about Christian discipleship? I’ve mused over that question many times, for I was ...


Why RPs Should Pursue Social Justice

Rut Etheridge III | August 11, 2011

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Imagine a surgeon—let’s call him Dr. Shirk—looking on as a team of other surgeons operates on a terminal patient. Deeply distressed at what he ...


The Man Who Loves Politicians

July 01, 2011

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I love politicians.” Matt Barnes isn’t joking when he says it. The unofficial pastor for the Indiana General Assembly and state government may be ...


Singing Psalms Only

June 01, 2011

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Psalmody. Singing the Psalms in worship without using musical instruments is one of the “distinctive principles” of the Reformed Presbyterian ...



A Call to Canada (Part 2)

May 01, 2011

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Our adversary attacked the Ottawa congregation at the critical and vulnerable time when we were attempting to establish another congregation. In May ...


A Call to Canada (Part 1)

March 01, 2011

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As the St. Lawrence River flows to the sea, at certain points it divides two vast nations, Canada and the USA. But Christ’s Church has its own ...


The Proposed ARP Psalter

February 01, 2011

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That we may with “one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 15:6). My father lived for five years after an accident in ...


God’s Grace in My Life

December 16, 2010

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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 ...


Even from My Youth

December 16, 2010

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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 ...


Behind the Headlines in 2010

December 16, 2010

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Editor’s note: Secular headlines about news of interest to Christians can be helpful to believers, but the stories often ignore the underlying ...


Behind the Headlines in 2010

December 16, 2010

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Editor’s note: Secular headlines about news of interest to Christians can be helpful to believers, but the stories often ignore the underlying ...


Having a Heavenly Congregational Meeting

November 01, 2010

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The annual business meetings of churches used to have a bad reputation. Many viewed these as a benign yet boring slog through boilerplate reports on ...


Learning the Community Outreach Lifestyle

November 01, 2010

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As I drove through the urban blight of my hometown of Wilkinsburg on a midsummer day, I was overwhelmed. Our congregation had been reaching out to the ...


What Is Preaching?

September 01, 2010

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My working definition of preaching expands on definitions given by Phillips Brooks1 and Andrew Blackwood2 and also considers our understanding of ...


RPCNA’s First Congregation in Georgia

August 01, 2010

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Atlanta, Georgia, has long been a transportation hub. Its original name was Terminus, signifying the end of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. For ...