by Ray Viola | Jul 25, 2025 | Devotionals
1 Corinthians 16.23, 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. Paul needed to say some very hard things to the church at Corinth. They were carnal, out of order, and divided. Some had even preferred the preaching...
by Ray Viola | Jul 24, 2025 | Devotionals
Ecclesiastes 9.14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is...
by Ray Viola | Jul 23, 2025 | Devotionals, Who is Jesus?
Imagine sitting in the congregation in Thyatira and hearing the pastor say, “I have a letter from the risen Lord Jesus, the Son of God.” I would fully expect that each person in that room would be sitting on the proverbial “edge of their seats”! These are the words of...
by Ray Viola | Jul 21, 2025 | Devotionals
Job 19.25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Job is reeling under the pain of suffering. Neither he nor his friends have any...
by Ray Viola | Jul 20, 2025 | Devotionals
When we come to The Lord’s Supper we are reminded that Jesus simply said, “…do this in remembrance of Me.” (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:24,25). In the elements of the bread and the cup, we find symbols of the broken body and shed blood of The Lord Jesus on...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Jul 19, 2025 | Devotionals
Titus 2:3-5: “The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet,...