Precious Are the Peacemakers
18. November 2020
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). So important is peacemaking that it is highlighted by Christ as one ...
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We’re Doing Great
14. September 2020
You’re Doing Great! And other reasons to stay alive was released in May, written by a comedian. I haven’t read the book, but I applaud his timing. ...
Time for the Next Big Step?
13. July 2020
We psalm singers frequently remember that “the nations’ families all will come, to worship and before Him fall” (Psalm 22E, The Book of Psalms ...
The Upside of Quarantines
14. May 2020
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit, three people gradually realize they are stuck in a room with each other for eternity. No communication ...
Vote or Don’t Vote, and Why I Care
18. March 2020
When I was a child, I looked forward to voting as a privilege and as another sign that I was qualified as an adult. It seemed like it would be an easy ...
Transforming Cities, Souls
30. January 2020
Reformed Presbyterians know that God can transform any city, town, or nation He chooses. In past years we’ve featured stories about how concerted, ...
Why the Younger Generation Is Gone
02. December 2019
Our society is changing much faster than it used to. Middle-aged and older adults can’t just reference their own youth and move things up a notch ...
Things Worth Keeping
25. September 2019
The RPCNA has been changing in some encouraging ways—perhaps most notably through congregations in new areas of the country and the world. Last ...
Not Your Father’s RPCNA
26. July 2019
This is not your father and mother’s RPCNA. A visitor to this year’s Synod meeting in Pennsylvania would first have noticed that the RPCNA was ...
What Do You Most Look Forward To?
23. May 2019
Routine. That’s what it was. Neither drudgery nor joy; this was part of my work and I was following through. That was the spirit in which I drove to ...
Hotter than Hot
20. March 2019
Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown and the long-running Peanuts cartoons, said, “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with ...
Golden Opportunity in Music City
21. January 2019
The modern worship music movement has been driving the church down a dangerous and sinister path. I think it’s because of the move away from ...
Hope in the Tree of Life
14. November 2018
The Tree of Life synagogue is 17 blocks from my office—a quiet, beautiful stroll on tree-lined streets past parks and upper middle-class homes. It ...
Why Do You Attend Your Church?
12. September 2018
Identity confusion has not only damaged individuals but also the church,” said Prof. David Murray as he commended Dr. Barry York’s new book on the ...
When Cell Phones Get Too Heavy
27. July 2018
I was a bit envious of the people I knew with cell phones. The phones and the fees were frightfully expensive nearly 30 years ago, so the people I ...
Like Israel, We’ve Failed in Education
14. May 2018
After we finished excerpts of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, our high school English teacher asked us to write brief essays on our definition of ...
My Field of Thorns
09. March 2018
Bill Edgar’s article focusing on teaching life-giving truths to our children reminded me how much I’ve learned from the book of Proverbs, even as ...
What If You Aren’t a Prayer Warrior?
17. January 2018
A rectangle of light shot into the room as my mother rushed in. We children had gone to bed. In a hurried whisper Mom told me something had happened ...
You Had One Job
16. November 2017
You had one job!” became a catchphrase after the 2001 movie Ocean’s Eleven. It has come to epitomize both the humor and costliness of taking our ...
Maybe You See It, Maybe You Don’t
30. September 2017
There are a lot of invisible things in the visible church. When we think of a particular congregation, we might think about the impact of its key ...