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...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 1, 2024 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Hebrews 10:11-14 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; … For by one offering...
by Ray Viola | Aug 1, 2024 | Communion Messages
1 John 1.8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 27, 2024 | Communion Messages
In 2 Chronicles 15, the Spirit of God spoke through Azariah to King Asa about the need to cleanse the nation of its idols, and to return to a pure worship of the LORD. The promise was given that if Asa and all his countrymen would seek the Lord, He would be found of...