Singing with Jesus Drew Gordon | December 08, 2007 Viewpoint 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 ...
I Accept Your Challenge Drew Gordon | November 01, 2007 Viewpoint 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 ...
Fiery Trials Drew Gordon | July 01, 2007 Viewpoint 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 ...
Land of Opportunity Drew Gordon | June 06, 2007 Testimonies / Viewpoint Which pleases God more? To work one’s way up the ladder of success, eventually reaching leadership positions where one has great influence for ...
The Greater Condemnation Drew Gordon | May 01, 2007 Viewpoint “The search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues at full speed, but as of now there is no breakthrough. Of course, this could change at any ...
The Way You See It Drew Gordon | March 05, 2007 Viewpoint 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 ...
One Hundred Fifty or Bust Drew Gordon | February 01, 2007 Viewpoint 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 ...
The W Factor Drew Gordon | January 01, 2007 Viewpoint “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger,” is a saying popularized by ...
A Shooting Near Paradise Drew Gordon | November 01, 2006 Viewpoint After retiring, my father moved to a house in Paradise, Pa., in the heart of “Pennsylvania Dutch Country,” a label descended from a misnomer ...
My One Phone Call Drew Gordon | October 01, 2006 Viewpoint 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. ...
That Other Cultural Sin Drew Gordon | September 09, 2006 Viewpoint 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 ...
Following Up Drew Gordon | July 01, 2006 Viewpoint 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 ...
Small Congregations Get a Big Bullhorn Drew Gordon | June 01, 2006 Viewpoint 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 ...
The Editor’s Agenda Drew Gordon | May 01, 2006 Viewpoint 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, ...
A Google of Grace Drew Gordon | February 01, 2006 Viewpoint 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 ...
A Note to You Drew Gordon | January 01, 2006 Viewpoint 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 ...
Viewpoint Lynne H. Gordon | December 08, 2005 Viewpoint How God gave Sycamore (Kokomo, Ind.) RP Church its building is an amazing story, according to Miriam York, wife of Pastor Barry York. That’s why it ...
Viewpoint Drew Gordon | November 06, 2005 Viewpoint It was perhaps the second weekend of my college experience. A few of my roommates had participated in a college prank, and the booty was sitting on ...
Viewpoint Drew Gordon | October 03, 2005 Viewpoint For three years my wife and I helped put away the chairs following the worship service and clean up until the room looked like a school gymnasium once ...
Viewpoint Drew Gordon | September 01, 2005 Viewpoint Throughout the horrific pummeling of Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast, some everyday things continued unabated, including the birth of babies. ...
The Kingdom of Heaven in the Middle Kingdom March 2024 News / Missions News It can be hard to grasp the subject of persecution here in the West. We live at ease and in wealth like the world has never known. Only in the last ...
A Heart for Students, Missions, and the Globe Agency Features / College Dr. Jonathan Watt is a Bible and linguistics professor at Geneva College, and he is very passionate about missions. Born in Sydney, Australia, Watt ...
How Can We Sing the Lord’s Songs in Babylon? Theme Articles Can you picture the scene? A group of Jewish exiles have gathered for their daily catch-up by the banks of the Euphrates River at the end of another ...
Answering the One Big Question Gentle Reformation Why does a good God permit evil in His world? This is the one question that has occupied mankind since the garden of Eden. Many poets, playwrights, ...