by Pastor Ray Viola | Oct 20, 2023 | Communion Messages
“For I am the LORD, I change not”. Martin Luther wrote “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.” On the other hand, you and I are creatures that are subject to change. We all experience ups and downs, life and death. Outwardly, we begin to slow down; inwardly, we are renewed...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Oct 5, 2023 | Communion Messages
When Jesus instituted what we Gentiles call “communion”, He was actually “tagging on” to the Passover feast a visible expression of the doctrine of grace through His substitutionary death on Calvary. “In remembrance of Me” is the focus of communion. In John 6:48-58,...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 7, 2023 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Today we begin a study of the book of Galatians. We will see in this book how the apostle Paul addresses the issue of legalism. Because the gospel of the grace of God is worth defending, Paul writes this epistle as an apostle of Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:1). He...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jul 28, 2023 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Perhaps you recall the movie or its ad on television: Archeologist Indiana Jones is on a journey to find “The Holy Grail”. Nothing will stop him! He’s on a mission ‘from God’. Determination and faith are some of Indy’s qualities that enable him to successfully...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 21, 2023 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
John 7:37-39 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 3, 2023 | Communion Messages
Hebrews 1:1-3 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of...