by Ray Viola | Jan 23, 2025 | Devotionals
Our focus today turns from earth to heaven. Oh what a contrast we see at the end of the book of Revelation in the language of those on earth compared with those who are dwellers in heaven! While on earth there is weeping and wailing (Revelation 18:15,19), the saints...
by Ray Viola | Jan 15, 2025 | Lessons from the Old Testament
The Name of God is not mentioned a single time in the book of Esther; but the invisible hand of a God is very much at work in her life on every single page. There is a tendency to think that if I am not experiencing an “in your face” encounter with The...
by Ray Viola | Dec 9, 2024 | Devotionals
2 Cor 5.6-8 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 7, 2024 | Devotionals
Isaiah prophesied that Christ would be “a foundation, a stone”. Paul called Jesus the foundation in 1 Corinthians 3:11. Christ, without controversy, is The Chief Cornerstone2 and Head of His Church. If there is to be any assurance of salvation and subsequent...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 6, 2024 | Devotionals
So many times after great victory, we find ourselves plunged into the pit of depression or fear of some sort. Why is that so? I really do not think that you have to be a prophet to conclude that the reason is simple. We are mortal; subject to change. Contrariwise, our...