by Ray Viola | Aug 20, 2025 | Contemporary Christianity
How we handle our differences within the body of Christ in those “gray areas” dealt with in Romans 14 is a critical part in maintaining the spiritual health of the church family. We see in Romans 15 that Paul wrote to a body of Jewish and Gentile believers who were...
by Ray Viola | Aug 7, 2025 | Devotionals
As Jude gets into the meat of his epistle, he addresses the saints to contend for the faith once delivered unto them by God (Jude 3). This communicates to us the need for us to be on the offense in the realm of spiritual warfare (1 Timothy 6:12). Scripture is clear in...
by Ray Viola | Jul 28, 2025 | Devotionals
Romans 8.20,21 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God....
by Ray Viola | Jul 22, 2025 | Communion Messages
Luke 5.31,32 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole (healthy) need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call...
by Ray Viola | Jul 21, 2025 | Devotionals
Job 19.25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Job is reeling under the pain of suffering. Neither he nor his friends have any...