by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 18, 2021 | Contemporary Issues
Our society is stuck on stars – rock stars, movie stars. Some people even ’follow the stars’ in the heavens to supposedly determine their futures (via horoscopes). How true God’s word is when it writes about people worshiping and serving the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 8, 2021 | Prayer
Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; As the apostle Paul is coming to the close of this letter to the body of believers in Colosse, he urges them to make prayer a priority in their personal and corporate lives. Their pastor was a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 7, 2021 | Marriage
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Whenever a person repents and turns to Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sin, he or she becomes a new creature (2 Corinthians...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 5, 2021 | Devotionals
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Although it is true that you cannot judge a book by its cover, how a person dresses says a lot. I may not be a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 4, 2021 | Devotionals
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. The union between Jesus Christ and the believer is a heavenly union. Our life, our identity, our value system are now hidden with Christ in God. Since we have been raised with Christ, our...