November 28, 2009
Adapted from Michael LeFebvre’s introductory material: W illiam Symington (1795-1862), pastor, scholar and theologian, was ordained to ministry ...
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 18, 2009
The following story is fictional. Any similarities in the accounts or descriptions to any person, living or dead, might not be purely coincidental. P ...
September 29, 2009
Romans 13:4 says, “For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is ...
August 11, 2009
Though it feels to you like months have passed, it has only been a day since you learned of your friend’s “Emergent” faith. Yet these hours have ...
August 11, 2009
RP Pastor James R. WiIlson is more than slightly ahead of his time, as seen in the following excerpts from his book, Political Danger. From “Essay ...
June 02, 2009
July marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. In celebration of this milestone, many in the Reformed community are paying due tribute to ...
June 02, 2009
(This letter from Calvin to his dear friend Farel is undated, but October 1540 and August 1541 have been posited.) When your letter was brought to me ...
May 02, 2009
Recognized as a distinguished alumnus of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Dr. Roy Blackwood would want to assign the ...
February 09, 2009
Why Go Out? What is going out about? The first thing you need to do before you go any further in thinking about this question is to flush out of your ...
February 09, 2009
In the matter of courtship I am very much a learner. This alternative to my own experience of dating was relatively new to us when my wife and I were ...
February 09, 2009
Whether you are a woman seeking a future husband, or a man seeking a future wife, the same two-word summation serves as a sound, basic marker. While ...
January 01, 2009
“We believe it a healthy sign to be able to print reasoned explanations for both sides of the matter.” —Ronald W. Nickerson By the end of the ...
January 01, 2009
The RPCNA Education & Publication Board proposed a unique staff arrangement for the next phase of leadership for the Covenanter Witness and Crown ...
January 01, 2009
Dr. D. Raymond Taggart, editor of the Covenanter Witness, died on Nov. 12, 1958. Mrs. Taggart and their daughter Martha prepared the next few issues ...
January 01, 2009
*Post-WWI Conflicts**—An editor is often required to be umpire or referee of his periodical when controversies arise about its contents and readers ...
January 01, 2009
Early in 1979, Rev. Nickerson received a call from the Washington, Iowa, RPC to be their pastor. He accepted the call and that summer Synod elected ...
January 01, 2009
It has been no major service which the present writer rendered in this field. For a number of years the responsibility for editing and publishing ...
January 01, 2009
This article is excerpted from two articles written by Dr. W. J. Coleman and Dr. D. Raymond Taggart as printed in the Sept. 13, 1944, Covenanter ...
December 05, 2008
Many year-end lists are putting the election of the first African-American president of the United States as the news story of the year. Indeed, the ...
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 ...