by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 19, 2023 | Devotionals
The incarnation, or human birth of Jesus Christ, was not His beginning. Jesus Christ is Emmanuel, God with us. He is the Uncreated Word Who was in the beginning with God, and was God Himself! This is what Scripture declares to be the blessed mystery of godliness. God...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Oct 5, 2023 | Communion Messages
When Jesus instituted what we Gentiles call “communion”, He was actually “tagging on” to the Passover feast a visible expression of the doctrine of grace through His substitutionary death on Calvary. “In remembrance of Me” is the focus of communion. In John 6:48-58,...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 14, 2023 | Devotionals
Jesus Christ came to this earth to save sinners, not destroy them. Theology has misrepresented the teaching of Scripture about the mission of Jesus. Some have portrayed an angry God; others a racist God. Today, to be “politically correct” (which is usually Biblically...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 20, 2022 | Devotionals
Exodus 15:1-21 is a beautiful Old Testament picture of the glorious gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ. Israel was delivered from Egypt, a type of the world, by the powerful blood of the Passover Lamb. That deliverance was the glorious victory of Jehovah for His...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 28, 2022 | Devotionals
The Lord’s Supper and grace go hand in hand. Jesus, by the grace of God, has tasted death for every man.1Jesus Christ, Grace Incarnate, has shed His blood of redemption for us, according to the riches of His grace. Our salvation rests solely upon the grace and purpose...