Drew Gordon | March 06, 2015
Persecution can be hard to identify. The severe forms of it may be crystal clear, especially outside the West where some believers suffer physical ...
Drew Gordon | January 05, 2015
I was raised a country boy. I lived in the manse next to a 100-year-old, mountain-stone church building. Those properties were bordered by two small ...
November 05, 2014
LifeFocus is a “one-week, live-in discipleship program training high school and college students to stand confidently for Christ in a hostile ...
September 17, 2014
The nation of Iraq invades the nation of Kuwait; the world responds and restores Kuwait’s sovereignty. Nazi Germany invades Europe and North Africa; ...
August 01, 2014
This summer, I’ve been surprised that things have gone well with my garden. I don’t have a green thumb; I’m not well educated in horticulture; ...
June 21, 2014
Until the past couple of years, if you asked Reformed Presbyterians to say one word that came to mind when they thought of RP minister Ken Smith, many ...
March 01, 2014
Like you, I’ve continued learning long after my formal schooling was finished. One of the things I’ve learned a lot about is education itself. ...
February 01, 2014
When I choose to waste breath on conversation, I prefer longer, one-on-one conversations to group banter about the weather, headlines, or what’s ...
October 01, 2013
Though I didn’t watch this year’s Emmy Awards show, I know it was controversial. The show changed the way it memorializes TV stars and staff who ...
July 01, 2013
The devastating dust storms of the Dust Bowl era of U.S. history were caused, in large part, by the mechanized plowing of vast ranges of prairie grass ...
May 01, 2013
At times, summer conferences or Synod meetings seem timeless. One feels a connection with history, with previous generations. But when you read ...
March 01, 2013
While at Patrick Henry College, where Reformed Presbyterian author Rosaria Butterfield was interviewed by WORLD editor Marvin Olasky with an audience ...
January 31, 2013
The secret to successful evangelism and outreach at your church is that there is no secret. We want there to be a secret, a special method, a unique ...
November 01, 2012
Days before my sister Anne died of brain cancer, my wife and I visited with her in the hospice. For several months Anne had had trouble finding the ...
September 26, 2012
My three children will always be my children; but, with all three in college or beyond college, they are seldom within the shelter of the nest. My ...
July 30, 2012
I’m so glad that, of all the religions and all the churches in the world, I grew up in the right one.” I remember thinking that in my childhood. I ...
June 01, 2012
All ministry is local. No matter how big or broad the brush of the message, it always comes down to the Holy Spirit convicting a person’s heart and ...
April 13, 2012
For all of my adult life, I’ve worked among strong Christians with a biblical world view. We know that God has called us to work and that our work ...
January 01, 2012
I had never heard of the Reformed Presbyterian Church until I placed Geneva College on my list of prospective schools. In God’s providence I ...
December 01, 2011
When you talk about the makeup of the RPCNA, you have to talk about small congregations. The great majority of our congregations are small: 1-100 ...
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 ...