Drew Gordon | May 08, 2008
Being present at the bedside of a dying person has a deep impact on those witnesses. Often they are spurred to a deeper appreciation of life and ...
Drew Gordon | March 08, 2008
When marriage is in the news, it’s almost always bad news. Marriage laws are being challenged, marriage benefits are being eliminated, and marriage ...
Drew Gordon | February 02, 2008
There are times when one simply has to admit ignorance. My family and I were enjoying the scenery on a peaceful country highway in Alabama. Mapquest ...
Drew Gordon | January 01, 2008
This morning as I drew my first tantalizing sips of coffee, I listened to Sen. Barack Obama tell a newscaster what he meant when he said that ...
Drew Gordon | December 08, 2007
When I was a child, I thought like a child. Sadly, I can’t remember wondering what Jesus sang when He was on earth. The Bible version I used said ...
Drew Gordon | November 01, 2007
I don’t have to see them. I don’t have to know their names. I don’t have to know anything about them. But I know that when I get to work with ...
Drew Gordon | July 01, 2007
When we saw the gray smoke escaping like a thief from the church windows, we weren’t thinking about the building. We were thinking about the people ...
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 ...
Drew Gordon | May 01, 2007
“The search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues at full speed, but as of now there is no breakthrough. Of course, this could change at any ...
Drew Gordon | March 05, 2007
When I was in the sixth grade, a friend was sitting beside me as a group of us chatted following class. She looked at me rather strangely and ...
Drew Gordon | February 01, 2007
When a 5-year-old puts on daddy’s suit coat and shoes and says he is a father, no one expects that idea to last more than an hour. But when a ...
Drew Gordon | January 01, 2007
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger,” is a saying popularized by ...
Drew Gordon | November 01, 2006
After retiring, my father moved to a house in Paradise, Pa., in the heart of “Pennsylvania Dutch Country,” a label descended from a misnomer ...
Drew Gordon | October 01, 2006
We felt shocked and empty. Out of breath. A member of our congregation, a drug dealer? We had received a call that he was in jail on that very charge. ...
Drew Gordon | September 09, 2006
A more unlikely place for a primer on Reformed theology would be hard to find in America. There was no church for miles around. Loud music filtered ...
Drew Gordon | July 01, 2006
Thank you for the supportive comments on “The Editor’s Agenda” from last month’s Viewpoint. One thing mentioned in that editorial is that we ...
Drew Gordon | June 01, 2006
About a year ago I began to hear comments from pastors that I hadn’t heard prior to that. Some pastors told me that at least half of the visitors to ...
Drew Gordon | May 01, 2006
A reader wrote to us recently and asked about my political agenda and the political agenda of the RPCNA (see Comment). That’s a good question, ...
Drew Gordon | February 01, 2006
There are few things as difficult to reach as grace. That’s part of the point, really. If we were capable of reaching it easily, of reaching it at ...
Drew Gordon | January 01, 2006
This is a thank-you note. We do send out specific thank-you notes during the year, but when we really take mental inventory of who has supported our ...
Location: Colorado Springs, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1981 Membership: 101 communicant; 56 baptized Pastor: Ed Blackwood Website: ...
This article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of God Breathed: Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself. I will never ...
In the early years of the Witness, it was published weekly, and correspondents reported many small events in their congregations. Here are some news ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...