by Ray Viola | Oct 26, 2025 | Devotionals
I never tire hearing the gospel message. I look forward to Communion services in a very special way, because of how the Lord has used them so many times to get my heart refocused on the eternal and off the temporal. As we read today about Paul’s heart in reaching the...
by Ray Viola | Oct 24, 2025 | Devotionals
This morning we begin a study in the book of James. Every single chapter and verse is tailor-made to challenge us in our faith. Brother James is writing to the Jewish believers scattered because of their belief that Jesus (Yeshua) is their Messiah (James 1:1). So he...
by Ray Viola | Oct 23, 2025 | Devotionals
Saving faith is a faith that is in the heart, not just the head (Romans 10:8-10). It indeed is vocal about what it believes, but it is not just a bunch of words with no fruit or evidence of new life (1 Corinthians 4:19,20). James tells us today that believing in God...
by Ray Viola | Oct 22, 2025 | Devotionals
Philippians 4.4 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Too often the Christian loses sight of this most important truth. We seem to find ourselves regularly in the slough of despair. I cannot always rejoice in the circumstances, but I can rejoice in...
by Ray Viola | Oct 21, 2025 | Devotionals, On the way to church
Acts 3.1,2 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them...