Genuine Hope
Emily Mann | November/December 2024 Issue
The St. Louis In May 1939, the German ship St. Louis carried 937 Jews fleeing Germany headed to safety in Cuba. For the two-week journey, they felt ...
Emily Mann | November/December 2024 Issue
The St. Louis In May 1939, the German ship St. Louis carried 937 Jews fleeing Germany headed to safety in Cuba. For the two-week journey, they felt ...
Charity Williams and Alice Odom | September/October 2024 Issue
A Fresh Perspective on RPIC by Charity Williams The 2024 Reformed Presbyterian International Conference was a blessing to me in more ways than one. ...
Julia McChesney | July/August 2024 Issue
I often thank God for the peaceful time and stable culture in which I live, not having to endure the horrors of war. However, I am living and fighting ...
Abigail A. Flinner | May/June 2024 Issue
I’ve heard my pastor say that we have spheres of dominion in our lives. That is, we have God-given relationships to which we have specific ...
Anna Watson | March/April 2024 Issue
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness” (Jas. ...
Alice Odom | January/February 2024 Issue
The path of the Christian life is not as clear as many of us would hope. Today, the world is constantly pulling us in every direction and pressuring ...
Featuring Seth Tyson, Audrey Husted, Asa Stemler, Lydia Tweed, Westin Harper, Kaylin Kingston, and Daniel Thoman | September/October 2023 Issue
As the semester drew to a close, several students of Rev. Rut Etheridge’s Bible class were interviewed on the advice they would give to high school ...
Theodora Brown | July/August 2023 Issue
Prayer is one of the most special privileges we have as Christians. Because of Christ’s sacrifice, we are allowed to talk to the Creator of the ...
Nicholas Johnston | March/April 2023 Issue
The Midwest Presbytery featured a youth retreat at Shawnee, Kan., RP Church in December with a showing of about 80 youth. Pastor Steve Rockhill spoke ...
Clara Panichelle | January/February 2023 Issue
I have been a dancer for the last 10 years at Pazaz Christian Dance Academy (PCDA) in Greensburg, Pa. The last two years, I have also been a part of ...
Alice Odom | November/December 2022 Issue
David wrote many of the Psalms when he was a young man. In them, he shows the struggles of his life and the great depth of his relationship with the ...
Emily Mann | September/October 2022 Issue
Struggles are inevitable in this earthly life. The current day is no exception. Many churches lack pastors, do not own a church building, and worry ...
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge” (Prov. 18:15). From the Editor: The college search is an ...
Gloria Van Vlack | May/June 2022 Issue
Last summer, when I was 15, I went to a mock government camp for homeschoolers called iGov-ern run by HSLDA. At the camp, we participated in a ...
Anastasia Brown | March/April 2022 Issue
The Presbytery of the Alleghenies (POA) hosted their annual fall retreat Dec. 3–5 in Franklin, Pa. Coming near the end of both a calendar year and ...
Katheryn Whitla | January/February 2022 Issue
Everyone come into the living room, we have news!” I remember hearing these words at age 11 and having no clue what was to follow. My four younger ...
Isaiah Weir | November/December 2021 Issue
I brought home two artifacts from the Theological Foundations for Youth (TFY) program, held this summer at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological ...
Rowan Dennis | September/October 2021 Issue
In my younger years of high school, I often wrestled with the significance of cultivating friendships with fellow believers—is it really that ...
Philomena Hanna | July/August 2021 Issue
I live in South Sudan, Africa. I have two brothers, Lucas and Xavier, and two sisters, Rowan and Evangeline. My family and the Smith family, Lydia ...
Nadia Spirydovich | May/June 2021 Issue
Over the past four years, I have changed. I started out as shy, nervous, afraid to talk to anyone new, and terrified of leading. Now, while I can ...
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 ...