by Ray Viola | Nov 26, 2023 | Devotionals
Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. The NLT of this passage reads, The LORD is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices. Faith in Jesus Christ is supernaturally practical....
by Ray Viola | Aug 5, 2023 | Devotionals
I find it interesting when fellow Christians discuss worship, particularly when they say that they prefer hymns of old instead of contemporary worship songs. I too love the old hymns, but I also love the new hymns. You see, “old” hymns like “Amazing Grace,” “A Mighty...
by Ray Viola | Jul 20, 2023 | Devotionals
The ultimate purpose of the Christian is to bring glory to God. We have been created for His pleasure. So to determine, by God’s grace, to live in a way pleasing to Jesus will result in His being glorified. If we are going to truly bring glory to the Lord, it must...
by Ray Viola | Sep 27, 2022 | Devotionals
Jesus said that the Father is seeking people who will worship Him “in spirit and in truth.” Paul wrote to the church at Philippi that we who are in Christ are the truly circumcised who worship God in the Spirit. Today we see that living a Word-centered life is the...
by Ray Viola | Sep 21, 2022 | Contemporary Christianity
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. John 4:23,24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the...