by Pastor Ray Viola | Mar 17, 2019 | Mark
I love to read the gospels. There is something extra special that happens inside of my soul when I read the accounts of Jesus’ interaction with people. Repeatedly we read things like “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Mar 10, 2019 | Mark
Mark 7:27,28 “Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.” Do any of you have a...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Feb 24, 2019 | Mark
Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. The apostle Paul wrote to the church of Corinth these sobering words of warning regarding defiling the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Feb 10, 2019 | Devotionals, Mark
Mark 6:56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole. When I am reading my bible, I...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 25, 2018 | Devotionals, Mark
Mark 6:17,18 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife....
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 11, 2018 | Devotionals, Mark
Mark 5:34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.” I love to read the gospels and “see” how Jesus ministered His healing touch to those who were in humanly impossible situations. As we move ahead in...