by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 19, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
The Biblical meaning of oppression is “to exercise power over; to tire down with toil; exhaust with labor; afflict”, according to Vine’s Expository Dictionary. When Israel was in Egypt and being cruelly treated, Scripture declares that God saw their oppression and...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 17, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works...
by Ray Viola | Dec 17, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works...
by Ray Viola | Sep 20, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:12 AMP)Jeremiah was ordained by God before the foundation of the world to be a prophet to the nation of Israel. He was given the difficult...
by Ray Viola | Sep 12, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.I am very thankful for...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 28, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me....