by Ray Viola | Mar 19, 2021 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
“Your Majesty has issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold, and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing...
by Ray Viola | Jan 22, 2021 | Devotionals
If there is one word that can sum up what our texts (John 1:16,17; Ephesians 1:7) reveal this morning, it would be the word “grace”. God’s undeserved, unmerited favor through Jesus Christ is the gracious provision of God for the salvation of lost man. God’s plan of...
by Ray Viola | Oct 19, 2020 | Devotionals
“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed...
by Ray Viola | Apr 30, 2020 | Devotionals
Esther 5.11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. Like the religious fraud in the temple in Luke...
by Ray Viola | Apr 17, 2020 | Devotionals
Acts 15.11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. Religion and legalism has great difficulty with the freeness of the grace of the gospel. Inevitably, rules or conditions are made necessary for one to get right...