by Ray Viola | Jan 13, 2022 | Devotionals
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Chances are that some of you reading this blog this morning have heavy hearts. My hope and prayer is that in our few moments together this morning, God will give me that good...
by Ray Viola | Jan 10, 2022 | Devotionals
Almost one-third of the books in the Bible mention a yoke and often the reference is figurative or symbolic, necessitating the knowledge that a literal yoke is a wooden frame, fitted across the neck of two animals, that joins them together. Man, by birth, is yoked to...
by Ray Viola | Jan 8, 2022 | Contemporary Christianity
1 Chronicles 29:14-17 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our...
by Ray Viola | Dec 30, 2021 | Contemporary Christianity
With so many evangelical voices today, it can become quite confusing in determining how God intends me to respond. We have (and deeply need) ministries that zero in on families, prayer, singles, prisons, the unsaved, discipleship, and so forth. Each one is indeed both...
by Ray Viola | Dec 24, 2021 | Contemporary Christianity
I was reading Colossians 3:2 and, as is so often the case when I study the Scriptures, I ran across an interesting translation of this verse. The King James Version reads, Set your affection on things above. However, the Greek meaning in a literal sense is to interest...