by Ray Viola | Jan 13, 2022 | Devotionals
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Chances are that some of you reading this blog this morning have heavy hearts. My hope and prayer is that in our few moments together this morning, God will give me that good...
by Ray Viola | Jan 12, 2022 | Devotionals
Okay, life is tough. There are struggles and hardships for sure. Do we really need a revelation from God to point that out to us? Doesn’t the nature of life itself lead us down various paths of difficulties? Of course it does. My concern this week is toward you,...
by Ray Viola | Jan 10, 2022 | Devotionals
Almost one-third of the books in the Bible mention a yoke and often the reference is figurative or symbolic, necessitating the knowledge that a literal yoke is a wooden frame, fitted across the neck of two animals, that joins them together. Man, by birth, is yoked to...
by Ray Viola | Jan 9, 2022 | Contemporary Christianity
Revelation 1:17, 18 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and...
by Ray Viola | Dec 7, 2021 | Devotionals
A common misunderstanding about the resurrection of the dead exists today, both in and outside the church. That is, that there is going to be one general, all-encompassing resurrection of the dead and then a final judgment. Is there going to be a bodily...