by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 21, 2020 | Christmas
How sad that in a “Christian” nation, the heavenly purpose of Christ’s birth is often overshadowed by veiled references to God or “Seasons Greetings”. (What does that mean?) Jesus came to crush the head of Satan, the number one enemy of man on Jehovah God’s terrorist...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 19, 2020 | Christmas
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass… Jesus Christ is the gift of God that keeps giving. All the promises of God are yea and Amen in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 18, 2020 | Christmas, Devotionals
We have entered into that time of year that is known in orthodox Christendom as the advent season. The word advent means coming. Christmas is the time when Christians celebrate of the first coming of Jesus Christ into this world to die for the sin of the world, and...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 17, 2020 | Christmas
John 17:6a I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: The word manifest means to make visible, known, or to show openly. When it is used in the bible in reference to Jesus, it means that Jesus Christ came to visibly make known the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 16, 2020 | Christmas, Devotionals
Psalm 130:7,8 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. One of the great mysteries of Scripture is that God became a man (1 Timothy 3:16) in order that He,...
by Ray Viola | Dec 15, 2020 | Christmas
2014 Christmas Series, Part 1 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her...