by Pastor Ray Viola | Jan 6, 2023 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
Marriage, as designed by God and revealed in Scripture, is not a power struggle or the ‘Battle of the Sexes.’ The marriage union is a covenant relationship that is entered into by both a man and a woman in the sight of God. There are distinct role differences in a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 1, 2022 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
How sad for us human beings that it often takes a tragedy to get our priorities right. Haven’t you found after some tragic event that things that you and I thought were very important have become insignificant? What is our purpose on earth? What is really important?...
by Ray Viola | Oct 19, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Acts 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their...
by Ray Viola | Oct 13, 2022 | Contemporary Issues, Marriage
‘ – And a three-fold cord is not quickly broken’ (Ecclesiastes 4:12) In Ephesians 5, we find a beautiful picture of a Christian marriage. One man and one woman, filled with the Holy Spirit, ‘submitting to one another in the fear of God.’ Thus, if we are...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 30, 2022 | Contemporary Issues, Marriage
Every age of the Church has characteristics that reflect the influence of the world instead of, or in place of, the influence of God’s Word. Our age is the age of secularizing, or redefining, Biblical terminology. A prime example of this is the redefining of the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 13, 2022 | Contemporary Issues, Prophecy
We are seeing and reading on a regular basis now about the human atrocities in places like Syria and Afghanistan. It wasn’t that long ago when the same horror was going on in Kosovo and Somalia. My sister-in-law tells me about the ethnic wars that she and her family...