Drew Gordon | March/April 2018 Issue
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 ...
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 ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2018 Issue
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 ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2017 Issue
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 ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2017 Issue
All but one of the characters in The Emperor’s New Clothes would feel right at home in the 21st Century. Today the pint-sized realist of the story ...
Drew Gordon | May 31, 2017
My mother’s name was never on the marquee. She was never in the front when the spotlight shone. Her passion was to be a pastor’s wife, a mother, a ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2017 Issue
There is a side to the story we don’t talk about often. You’ll read in the Witness about pastors accepting a call to a new congregation. You’ll ...
Drew Gordon | January 23, 2017
As we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year, perhaps the worst thing we could do is just celebrate. I know, I know: At parties ...
Drew Gordon | December 02, 2016
The world has been obsessed with the U.S. presidency this year, and it has been a spectacle. But in the spirit of “all politics is local,” ...
Noah Bailey | November 30, 2016
“Oh, I’m a Reformed Presbyterian.” We stood stunned inside the Renfrow-Miller Museum in Billings, Okla. This town had lost its Reformed ...
Mark Koller | September 14, 2016
The doctrine of mediatorial kingship might be important to Reformed Presbyterians, but it isn’t noticeable on the radar of the larger evangelical ...
Stephen Rhoda | September 14, 2016
As we settle into a hotel room, one of the first things we do is check the view. Especially if we’re on vacation, we hope to have a room that ...
Drew Gordon | September 12, 2016
Who should you vote for in November’s election, if you’re in the U.S.? There were times in this magazine’s history when it featured information ...
Drew Gordon | July 15, 2016
If every person counts, and every vote counts, and every moment counts, that puts a lot of pressure on a group to operate at peak capacity. How does ...
Drew Gordon | May 13, 2016
Most of the year our staff works here at 7408 Penn Avenue, but as the weather warms there are opportunities to work outside the office walls and to ...
Drew Gordon | January 04, 2016
Since it’s the new year, I’m going to write about new things. Three new things. And, for balance, one old thing. New look. The magazine’s ...
Drew Gordon | November 02, 2015
When I saw news photos of the small inland city of Columbia, S.C., floating on two feet of rainfall, it evoked memories. As a 12-year-old I ...
Drew Gordon | September 11, 2015
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of ...
Drew Gordon | July 15, 2015
Historic it is; impulsive it is not.” Rev. Jamie Hunt, moderator of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, used those words to describe the ...
Drew Gordon | May 06, 2015
Sure, the RPCNA has a worldwide vision, but do we have a worldwide impact? Astoundingly, we do. That reach has extended in the past several ...
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 ...