by Ray Viola | Jun 13, 2025 | Devotionals
Mark 9.49,50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Old Testament offerings...
by Ray Viola | Jun 12, 2025 | Devotionals
Psalm 68.19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. A very short devotional this morning, beloved. Inspired by words that my daughter spoke to my wife and the conversation of saints after a memorial service. God...
by Ray Viola | Jun 11, 2025 | Communion Messages
Psalm 111 is one of the acrostic Psalms. In the acrostics of the OT, each line or verse begins with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, beginning with Aleph and ending with Tau. This particular psalm of praise recalls the Exodus, the wilderness wanderings, and...
by Ray Viola | Jun 10, 2025 | Devotionals
Mark 1.17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. Come ye after me. The “gospel” or good news demands following Jesus Christ in submission to His teaching, communion and fellowship with His person, and imitation of His...
by Ray Viola | Jun 9, 2025 | Devotionals
Mark 2.5-7 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?...