by Ray Viola | Dec 9, 2020 | Devotionals
This morning we are going to look at the theological term “propitiation” (1 John 2:2). This is one of many words we find in Scripture to describe the work that Jesus Christ was sent to accomplish on the cross. To “propitiate” means to appease, placate, or make amends...
by Ray Viola | Nov 9, 2020 | Devotionals
One unmistakable teaching of Jesus, as well as the rest of the New Testament, is that concerning “good works” (Matthew 5:16) or “fruit” (John 15:1-8). We live in a day and age when people are being told that they are Christians because they made a profession of faith,...
by Ray Viola | Oct 26, 2020 | Devotionals
I never tire hearing the gospel message. I look forward to Communion services in a very special way, because of how the Lord has used them so many times to get my heart refocused on the eternal and off the temporal. As we read today about Paul’s heart in reaching the...
by Ray Viola | Oct 17, 2020 | Devotionals
Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. What was it that displeased Jonah? The fact that God was gracious, merciful, slow to anger and kind towards the repentant Ninevites. Jonah had expected the Ninevites to reject God’s message and...
by Ray Viola | Sep 18, 2020 | Devotionals
As we look into the second chapter of Jonah in the belly of the great fish, we must not disconnect the context from 1.17, where we learned that our man Jonah was swallowed up by the great fish that The Lord had prepared for him. The Hebrew word for swallowed here...