by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 6, 2025 | Selah
In today’s passage, the Apostle Paul urges believers to live with spiritual alertness—putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of the hope of salvation. God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. These...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 6, 2025 | Devotionals
John 1:18 (NLT) No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God,… has revealed God to us. An interesting revelation is found by studying the life of Jesus as it is given to us in the four gospels. When we read the gospels there is a tendency to...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 5, 2025 | Selah
Jesus can come for His Bride, the Church, at any moment. That is why there is great personal and eternal danger in delaying the acknowledgment that Jesus Christ is God—and in repenting of your sin as you receive Him as your personal Lord and Savior. Right now is the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 5, 2025 | Contemporary Christianity
1 Timothy 5:22 …keep thyself pure. Those words were spoken by the apostle Paul to Timothy, his son in the faith of Jesus Christ. The word pure means to be innocent, clean, holy, sincere, free of defilement or impurity. Jesus tells us that the source of defilement or...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 4, 2025 | Selah
In today’s passage, the Apostle Paul reminds us that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While believers may differ on the timing of the Rapture, one truth remains: Jesus will come suddenly—and we must be ready! That reality should shape how we...