by Ray Viola | Jun 9, 2025 | Devotionals
Mark 2.5-7 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?...
by Ray Viola | May 29, 2025 | Devotionals
In the world, a person who is a “put on” is a phony. To be a “put on” is a saying that is used to describe someone who is trying to be something or someone that they are not. And while that saying may indeed be true in many cases, it obviously is not a term that The...
by Ray Viola | Apr 3, 2025 | Devotionals
Psalm 32 is a psalm of David. It’s called a Maschil which means that it is a Psalm of instruction. It is a Psalm that instructs us about the right way and wrong way to deal with sin. The right way is to bring it into the light, the wrong way is to seek to justify it,...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Mar 1, 2025 | Devotionals
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ; James, a servant of God; Simon Peter, a servant of Jesus Christ; Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ. In each instance, these “heavyweights” of the church prefaced their calling in the Body of Christ with their title – a bondslave of...
by Ray Viola | Jan 5, 2025 | Devotionals
Our next section of the Sermon on the Mount deals with the very important subject of forgiveness. The subject of forgiveness includes a Godward, vertical aspect as well as a human, horizontal aspect. In the Godward sense, we read that it is “in (Jesus Christ) we have...