by Ray Viola | Jan 31, 2016 | Contemporary Christianity, Corinthians
The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of the church that is meant to be a visible representation of the death of Christ as the once and for all sacrifice for our sins. When we observe The Lord’s Supper, oftentimes the emphasis placed upon the process of Jesus’ death...
by Ray Viola | Dec 27, 2015 | Devotionals
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. We begin our last study of the year 2015 by looking at the first 3 words, and we know. The underlying idea behind these 3 words...
by Ray Viola | Nov 29, 2015 | Corinthians
It appears that the vast majority of the Corinthian church was a congregation of people that pushed the limits of grace and liberty to the edge. They were divided over “favorite” teachers. They were flaunting how tolerant they were of sexual sin. They were bringing...
by Ray Viola | Aug 23, 2015 | Corinthians
William Barclay tells us in his commentary “(The Greeks) were characteristically a litigious people. The law courts were one of their chief entertainments… In a Greek city, every man was more or less a lawyer, & spent a very great part of his time either...
by Ray Viola | Jul 7, 2015 | Devotionals
Today we will begin to look at the three epistles written by the Apostle John. John was the last living apostle and it is almost unanimously agreed that he wrote these epistles at the end of the first century. Already, though, there had crept into the church false...