by Ray Viola | Jun 11, 2025 | Communion Messages
Psalm 111 is one of the acrostic Psalms. In the acrostics of the OT, each line or verse begins with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, beginning with Aleph and ending with Tau. This particular psalm of praise recalls the Exodus, the wilderness wanderings, and...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Feb 5, 2024 | Devotionals
Judas Iscariot is known in Scripture as the traitor. The various possible renderings of this verse also allow the meaning that he became a traitor. The root of the name Judas can be traced to another name, Jude, which means “to praise”. Saints, when praise is...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Oct 9, 2023 | Devotionals
From a strictly human perspective, God made a serious ‘mistake’ by allowing the apostle Paul to be put in chains. However, man’s perspective and God’s perspective are not the same. God doesn’t make mistakes because what He ordains and decrees will come to pass. The...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 27, 2022 | Devotionals
Jesus said that the Father is seeking people who will worship Him “in spirit and in truth.” Paul wrote to the church at Philippi that we who are in Christ are the truly circumcised who worship God in the Spirit. Today we see that living a Word-centered life is the...