by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 23, 2025 | Selah
Today’s passage provides a biblical example of when civil disobedience is appropriate in the sight of God. Ironically, the context of this display of civil disobedience does not concern the Roman government, but the religious Supreme Court of the Jewish nation, the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 22, 2025 | Selah
God loves cheerful givers. In a time in which Christians were generously giving to meet the needs of others, a couple religious pretenders had a different agenda. Ananias and Sapphira are not names that young parents choose to name their sons or daughters. Why?...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 21, 2025 | Selah
The early Church exhibited a beautiful flow of unity. Filled with the Spirit, many, but not all, early Christians sacrificially loved and cared for one another. They functioned as a family, not as a business. They learned quickly that they could not follow Jesus...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 21, 2025 | Devotionals
There is a real personage known as the devil. His name means “Destruction” (“Abaddon”), or “Destroyer” (“Apollyon”). Jesus described him as a thief who comes “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” He also stated that the devil is a murderer and liar, and the father...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 20, 2025 | Selah
After being threatened to stop preaching in the Name of Jesus, Peter and John, filled with the Holy Ghost, put their lives on the line in sharing about Jesus’ resurrection and His glorious Gospel: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name...