by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 6, 2025 | Selah
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 6, 2025 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. The Old Covenant sacrifices reminded the people of...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 3, 2025 | Selah
While waiting for the promised empowering of the Holy Spirit, the apostles and other disciples gathered in prayer for ten days. During this time, Peter told them that Scripture foretold that the vacancy left by Judas would be filled, and they took action to appoint a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 2, 2025 | Selah
Spirit-filled saints of the early Church, personally and congregationally carried out their faith with a holy boldness that could not be stopped. Remarkably, a vast majority of them (including the apostles) were considered by the religious “elite” of the day as being...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 1, 2025 | Selah
Today’s message begins a verse-by-verse study of the book of Acts, which describes the birth of the Church, and it also contains a historical account of its day-in, day-out operation. Moreover, the book of Acts tells us how the Lord spread the Gospel of Jesus...