by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 3, 2024 | Devotionals
When the Bible talks about renewing the mind, it speaks of much more than memorizing or quoting Scripture. Memorizing and quoting Scripture are valuable and important. But, the place where Scripture is to be hidden is in the heart, not the head. When Scripture is...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 24, 2024 | Devotionals
John 13:13-17 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 23, 2024 | Devotionals
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it....
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 17, 2024 | Devotionals
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Water baptism is one of the two ordinances that Jesus Christ gave us to observe, the other being The Lord’s Supper. The last words of...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 16, 2024 | Devotionals
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. The apostle Paul wrote this verse to pastor Titus as a depiction of the unregenerate person....