by Ray Viola | Jun 24, 2024 | Devotionals
Col 3.16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace (gratitude) in your hearts to the Lord.” Eph 5:19 “Speaking to yourselves in psalms...
by Ray Viola | Jun 23, 2024 | Devotionals
How we need to remember that this fallen world system is passing away (1 John 2:17), but we serve The Living God Who reigns on high (Psalm 99:1-5). Peter tells us that everything in this universe is one day going to burn (2 Peter 3:10-12), but Our God Himself is the...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 10, 2024 | Devotionals
We are ever being taught by God’s Spirit to walk by faith, and not by sight. Faith sees what the natural eye doesn’t. How important it is for us to grasp this key to a steady walk with Jesus. I was reminded of this again when one of the lines sung during a worship...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 26, 2023 | Devotionals
Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. The NLT of this passage reads, The LORD is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices. Faith in Jesus Christ is supernaturally practical....
by Pastor Ray Viola | Oct 5, 2023 | Communion Messages
When Jesus instituted what we Gentiles call “communion”, He was actually “tagging on” to the Passover feast a visible expression of the doctrine of grace through His substitutionary death on Calvary. “In remembrance of Me” is the focus of communion. In John 6:48-58,...