Serving God in Unglamorous Places
In 1848, during the Great Famine, there was a failed Irish nationalist uprising by the Young Irelanders. It culminated on 29 July in a gunfight which became known as ‘The Battle of Widow McCormack’s...
Stranraer RPC: Ministering in Scotland Since 1796
RPCS | Scottish Presbytery | Stranraer (Wigtownshire, Scotland) Organised: 1796 Pastor: Stephen Steele, Ruling Elders: Gerald Milligan, James Fraser, & Peter Loughridge (interim elder) Members: 20 Communicant, 10 Baptized Revitalisation The oldest of the...
Induction of Rev. Stephen McCollum
On the 19th March over 80 people filled the Airdrie RP Church for the induction of Rev. Stephen McCollum as minister of the Airdrie congregation. Besides the Airdrie congregation, visitors were there from all...
Stranraer RP Featured on BBC TV
A recent episode of the BBC NI TV programme ‘Hame’ was partly filmed in the Stranraer RP Church building. The programme also featured an interview with minister Rev Stephen Steele, and presenter Ruth Sanderson....
Book Reviews: Richard Sibbes
Rev. Stephen Steele is minister in Stranraer RPC in Scotland, a member of our Advisory Committee and a keen reader. We asked him to review his favourite book of 2021: I spent most of...
Ministers Conference
The Irish/Scottish RP Ministers’ Conference took place at the end of September in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. The main talks were by Rev. Paul Levy (International Presbyterian Church, Ealing), whose subject was the Fear of...
Historical Lecture: W Symington
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...
Reformed Theological Journal Published
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...
Hope for today from a past crisis
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 As both his unpublished diaries and a memoir written by his sons reveal,...
Points for Prayer: COVID-19
‘“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,...
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