by Ray Viola | Jul 22, 2025 | Communion Messages
Luke 5.31,32 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole (healthy) need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call...
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 | Jan 17, 2025 | Communion Messages, Philemon
In a very private and personal letter, the Apostle Paul writes to the beloved Philemon to receive back a runaway slave, Onesimus, who had since come to faith in Christ. Reminding Philemon of his debt to Paul and seeking the same grace for this fugitive, Paul paint a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 6, 2025 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. The Old Covenant sacrifices reminded the people of...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 4, 2024 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
The Christian faith isn’t a hunch. Nor is it the best possible choice out of a banquet of religious options. No, Luke wrote that we “may know the certainty of those things in which (we) were instructed.” (Luke 1:4) Notwithstanding all of the questions and...
by Ray Viola | Oct 5, 2024 | Communion Messages
Psalm 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Throughout Psalm 84, the Name of God is repeatedly magnified. He is described as the Lord of hosts, the living God, king, the God of Jacob, the God Who is our sun and shield. Glorious indeed is our...