by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 8, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Despite all of the alleged scientific language hype we hear today, the theory of evolution (which really isn’t scientific) is only an excuse for man not to believe in the existence of God. In a nutshell, evolution teaches that matter working with matter over billions...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 7, 2024 | Devotionals
The apostle Paul’s life was “split up” into three stages of separation. First of all, he recognized that his human birth was not an accident, but rather a separation by God from his mother’s womb. Secondly, he was separated unto the gospel of God. Thirdly, we find the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 6, 2024 | Devotionals
After we believe the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. This coming to Jesus for salvation is through the conviction of the Holy Spirit, by whom we are then baptized into the body of Christ. We have this witness of the Spirit inside...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 5, 2024 | Devotionals
When Paul pens this heavenly minded, God glorifying, Christ exalting letter to the Ephesians, he is sitting in a dungy prison cell. As he sits in a dungeon of squalor, the riches of his redemption captivate his mind. Paul was not Superman. He was a man of passions...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 4, 2024 | Devotionals
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. What does it mean...