November 01, 2011
Welcoming a New Editor Several years ago we set out on a long devotional journey. Our aim was to publish an article about one psalm per month, ...
October 01, 2011
I’m not a Facebook liberal. I don’t believe that Facebook will save the world. I don’t believe you have to join the 800 million ...
September 01, 2011
We all know people who are good public speakers and teachers. But there are some in that category who can speak about one particular topic in a way ...
August 01, 2011
As a veteran of 25 years of Synod meetings, I suppose I can no longer consider myself one of the younger guys at Synod. I’ve begun to talk about ...
July 01, 2011
Recently I learned that an acquaintance, a young man, had come to Christ. I marveled at the changes in his way of life. To some of his friends, the ...
June 01, 2011
Within a short span of time, two books were published by different publishers, with different points, but with the very same emphasis: It’s good to ...
May 01, 2011
If you combine net worth, influence, and je ne sais quoi, Donald Trump is one of the most powerful business figures in the world. The intrigue ...
March 01, 2011
Some of you weren’t yet born when the Reformed Presbyterian Witness featured a theme issue about our Canadian churches. The November 1988 cover ...
January 01, 2011
The Reformed Presbyterian Church isn’t the Ferrari of church denominations. It’s more like a heavy duty truck. If you want to get something done ...
December 16, 2010
In the first Gulf War, my brother Tom drove bomb-laden trucks across the desert at high speeds to deliver them to a forward, secret base of ...
November 01, 2010
I’ve probably sat through 100 congregational meetings in my life. Gordon Keddie’s article on that topic (p. 6) caused me to muse a while on ...
October 01, 2010
If you’re like me, you are wary about vision statements and long-range plans. They seem to come to fruition about as often as New Year’s ...
September 01, 2010
The average church member is much more critical of the pastor than of himself. Am I wrong? Think of how many times you’ve heard a critique of a ...
August 01, 2010
A caller to a national Christian radio network was relating how God had convicted and blessed her through an experience of passing out practical gifts ...
July 01, 2010
This would not have been a good Synod in which to catch a quick nap. You might have missed something big—like the establishment of a new RP ...
June 01, 2010
Imagine the blessing of having a godly father through childhood, early adulthood, middle age, and into your senior years. Imagine the blessing of a ...
May 01, 2010
In our world, conflict is often viewed as a chance to gain the upper hand; an excuse to avoid someone; a golden opportunity to sue for damages; an ...
April 01, 2010
To this day, his question still haunts me. Brad (not his real name) was an immature believer who had come from a very difficult past. He was as ...
March 18, 2010
To this day, his question still haunts me. Brad (not his real name) was an immature believer who had come from a very difficult past. He was as ...
February 01, 2010
As promised, I’m going to follow up on an editorial two months ago that evaluated statistics in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America in ...
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 ...