by Ray Viola | Dec 23, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Devotionals
Romans 13.11-14 And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the...
by Ray Viola | Dec 16, 2024 | Devotionals, Lessons from the Old Testament
Prov 18.21 Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.Have you ever heard the phrase ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me”? While the original meaning may have been,...
by Ray Viola | Dec 9, 2024 | Devotionals
2 Cor 5.6-8 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the...
by Ray Viola | Dec 2, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Devotionals
Romans 12.16 Be not wise in your own conceits.Let me show you a couple of other translations on this verse: And don’t think you know it all! (NLT) Be not wise in your own estimation.(HCSB) Do not be conceited.(NIV) In chapter 14 of Romans, Paul deals with saints...
by Ray Viola | Dec 1, 2024 | Devotionals
1 Peter 3.18 For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. Amplified VersionOne of the most forgotten redemption truths of Scripture...