by Ray Viola | Sep 9, 2021 | Devotionals, Who is Jesus?
Nathanael’s cutting remark about Nazareth is another reminder that our Savior is indeed meek and lowly in heart. Nazareth, in our Lord’s day and today as well, is not a place that a couple checks out in the real estate pages. For economic and social reasons, Nazareth...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 31, 2021 | Devotionals
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. In today’s study (Colossians 2:1-10) we’re told to “Beware”, which means to be on one’s guard. Beloved,...
by Ray Viola | Jun 10, 2021 | Special Occasions
To each and every father, grandfather, great grandfather and all men, young and old, married and single. Marriage in and of itself doesn’t make a Christian man. Having children doesn’t in and of itself doesn’t make a man a Christian man. A moral single Christian man...
by Ray Viola | Apr 26, 2021 | Devotionals
My exhortation this morning is regarding a promise of God for all of His people who have shed tears on earth. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes (Revelation 7:17). Think about that, beloved. There is a time coming when you and I as children of The Living...
by Ray Viola | Oct 26, 2020 | Devotionals
I never tire hearing the gospel message. I look forward to Communion services in a very special way, because of how the Lord has used them so many times to get my heart refocused on the eternal and off the temporal. As we read today about Paul’s heart in reaching the...