The members of the Scottish Reformation Society in Lewis (Western Isles) hosted an instructive and inspiring lecture on Dr William Symington on Friday 19th February 2021. The speaker, Rev Stephen Steele (Stranraer RP Church), not...
This year’s Reformed Theological Journal has just been released. The journal is published each November by the RP Theological College in Belfast and contains articles from the college professors, as well as other RP...
In 1836, a typhus epidemic hit Scotland. The minister in my own congregation in Stranraer at the time was William Symington. As both his unpublished diaries and a memoir written by his sons reveal,...
‘“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God,...
Stephen Steele, pastor of Stranraer RPC recently spent a morning in the local Primary School, teaching a P7 class along with Dumfries & Galloway Scripture Union worker Owain Evans. It was part of an...
The annual Ministers’ Conference for men from the Irish and Scottish RP Churches was held at the end of September. Around 40 men gathered at the Drummond Hotel in Ballykelly for three days of...
J. G. Vos: The Scottish Covenanters (Blue Banner Productions) ‘If you only read one book on the Covenanters, this should be the one’. So proclaims the back cover of this new edition of Vos’s The...
Rev. Stephen Steele, minister of Stranraer RPCS, recently gave a talk on Rev. William Symington. You can listen to the talk, view the presentation, and access some of the sources mentioned by going to...
William Symington: Penman of the Scottish Covenanters by Roy Blackwood & Michael LeFebvre (Reformation Heritage Books) Given Roy Blackwood’s recent passing, now seems a particularly appropriate time to highlight a book he published with...
This sermon was preached 157 years ago this week on the death of William Symington – and Stranraer RPC have made it available to read on their website. Symington was ordained in Stranraer 200 years...