by Pastor Ray Viola | Mar 6, 2023 | Devotionals
The word hypocrisy means basically to pretend or to play a part; it is acting something out. In ancient days it meant to put on a mask so as to appear differently to others. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was hypocrisy (Acts 5:1-3). Outwardly they wanted to appear as...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Mar 4, 2023 | Contemporary Christianity
When we compromise we agree to meet the world, the flesh, or the devil half way. You see, the devil loves half-hearted faith because his kingdom is not effected in the least by it. Compromise is extremely dangerous because it sends the wrong message to both the body...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 21, 2022 | Contemporary Christianity, Prayer
As we read in Acts 1, to wait for the “power from on high”, the disciples prayed. The lesson here is that the praying person or church is the one that walks in the power of the Holy Spirit. When told to wait for the promise of the Spirit they prayed. The most...
by Ray Viola | Aug 28, 2021 | Devotionals
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Job 27:8 For...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Mar 15, 2020 | Mark
Mark 12:13,14 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest...