by Ray Viola | Dec 29, 2020 | Devotionals
Col 1.9-11 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being...
by Ray Viola | Oct 27, 2020 | Devotionals
Five times we are going to hear James referencing the virtue of patience in our study this morning (James 5:7,8,10,11). He uses it in the context of living in the last days (James 5:3,8). (1 Peter 5:7). When Jesus gave His last days discourse as recorded in Luke’s...
by Ray Viola | Aug 20, 2020 | 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 | Apr 16, 2020 | Devotionals
Philippians 1.6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. In Nehemiah 4, the adversaries of the Jews looked at their work and mocked it as feeble. Often when the world looks at the...
by Ray Viola | Sep 6, 2015 | Communion Messages
In this section of the epistle to the Romans, the implications of justification by grace through faith in chapters 1-4 are now drawn out. The transition from wrath (Ro 1:18) to grace (Ro 3:21) transforms both the status and the experience of the believer. Instead of...