by Ray Viola | Dec 27, 2023 | Devotionals
Matthew 12:18-21 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised...
by Ray Viola | Dec 21, 2023 | Devotionals
The celebration of Christmas is not the celebration of something, it is the celebration of Someone, and that Someone is Jesus Christ. Let’s just take a moment to ponder and wonder at what God did when He became a man. Somehow, in a miraculous, marvelous, mysterious...
by Ray Viola | Dec 19, 2023 | Devotionals
The incarnation, or human birth of Jesus Christ, was not His beginning. Jesus Christ is Emmanuel, God with us. He is the Uncreated Word Who was in the beginning with God, and was God Himself! This is what Scripture declares to be the blessed mystery of godliness. God...
by Ray Viola | Dec 2, 2023 | Devotionals
All four of the gospel writers record the historical event we call “The Triumphal Entry”. On this occasion Jesus rode into Jerusalem upon a donkey, symbolizing His first coming as the Prince of Peace, in order to obtain peace for mankind, especially those who have...
by Ray Viola | Nov 30, 2023 | Devotionals
Hebrews 1:1-3 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners (different times and in different or various ways) spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom...