by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 18, 2022 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Jesus Christ came to this earth to provide forgiveness of sin by offering Himself up on the cross as payment for our iniquity. The bread and the cup remind us of His sacrifice for us as the Lamb of God. Yes, there is our personal need to search our hearts in...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 4, 2022 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
In Romans 5 verse 8, Paul writes that the love of God is being demonstrated for us in that while we are yet, or still sinners, Jesus Christ died for us. Charles Spurgeon wrote: “The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 7, 2022 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Hebrews 9:11-12 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the...
by Ray Viola | Apr 21, 2022 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
When Jesus gave us the ordinance that we call communion, He said that it was to be observed in remembrance of Him. There is the responsibility on our part for self examination, and it is important that we allow God’s Spirit to search our hearts for any areas of...
by Ray Viola | Apr 3, 2022 | 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 Ray Viola | Sep 3, 2020 | Communion Messages
This is another one of the Psalms of David, the man after God’s own heart. Though the background of this Psalm is not revealed, in verse 3 and 4, we see that David is going through a time of difficulty, opposition or danger that was behind this declaration of faith in...