by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 16, 2025 | Devotionals
Haggai 1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. The prophet Haggai exhorted the lukewarm, self-centered people of God with these words: “Consider your ways.” (Haggai 1:5,7) The word consider means to pay attention to. Webster’s 1828 dictionary defines the...
by Ray Viola | Sep 15, 2025 | Devotionals
When we take the Lord’s Supper we celebrate the bodily resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He foretold that His temple (referring to His body) would be destroyed, but in three days He would raise it up (John 2:19,21). Without the resurrection,...
by Ray Viola | Sep 9, 2025 | Devotionals
Paul says that, as God’s children (Romans 8:16), the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts (Romans 5:5). Did you ever ask yourself the question, “What does that love look like?” Well, it would be the height of arrogance to think that I can explain that in a...
by Ray Viola | Sep 8, 2025 | Devotionals
“Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, ‘Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.’ But He answered and said to them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as...
by Ray Viola | Sep 3, 2025 | Communion Messages
This is another one of the Psalms of David, the man after God’s own heart. Though the background of this Psalm is not revealed, in verse 3 and 4, we see that David is going through a time of difficulty, opposition or danger that was behind this declaration of faith in...