Greater Life Church

Bro. Stoneking shares stories from his many years of ministry where he has seen miraculous healing based on his faith of: “Lord it is in the book, and I have preached it; you have to do it.” Almost in mid-sentence, the power of God stopped the service and took over.

Rev. Stoneking shares the experience of his address to the UN General Assembly and how he was able to use that to share the gospel with them, and by extention, millions around the world.

Recent research has drawn attention to the importance of awe in our lives. Dr. Hughes received a prophecy twenty years ago, that awe of the Lord has been replaced by the awe of self. Awe will either draw us toward or move us away from something. Scientists have discovered that awe has a physical effect on us. It changes the nervous system. It causes goosebumps and reduces inflammation. Awe also ha...

Our text today is recorded differently in the other three gospels. Mark was written by John Mark as dictated by Peter. Peter’s perspective is different than the other disciples because of his denial. Despite vehemently denying to Jesus that he would never leave or forsake Him, Peter did just that in a moment of weakness. How low and lost must Peter have felt in that time of his life. Jesus’ words...

The church has been called many things: The body of Christ, the church of the living God, the bride of Christ. It is a spiritual house, a habitation of God, the household of God. Matthew tells us that Jesus is the one who will build the church against which the gates of hell will not prevail. Our church is a fire that was ignited by God Himself that cannot be put out. It is more than an institutio...

Our text today contains a phrase that is almost foreign to our world. Freely Given. God has freely given salvation, blessings, grace, and mercy. God’s rain benefits even the most undeserving and uncaring as well as the just. All this is our simply because God has a heart that is generous and loving. There is no limit to God’s generosity and compassion. We are not worthy of the blessing and favor t...

The circumstances of life can change very quickly. Things can be calm one moment, and in tumult in the next. In our text, the cloud came on the disciples suddenly and produce fear. Scripture describes many effects that fear has on a person. Defeating, demoralizing, paralyzing, or silencing their testimony. The circumstances in our text came on so quickly, that it overwhelmed Peter, James, and John...

Time is a strange thing. It is expressed in days, weeks, and months. We cannot prevent time from advancing. Some would say that times are hard or difficult. The wise man observed in our text, that better is the end of a thing than the beginning. Why do we say that the former days were better than these? Other translations of our text say that finishing something is better than in the beginning. We...

Our world is in desperate need. The news brings us stores of suffering, depression, and hurting. We look around and see people that are suffering and hurting from situations in their lives. We have become experts at hiding that pain. Many face shame and hurt from past failures or situations that cannot be forgotten. Even people who were raised in the church all their lives, and appear to have perf...

Our text describes a group of men; loyal to David; as mighty men. They were warriors. They were men of courage who were experts with weapons and waging war. The bible says they were famous in their own families. Of all the places we should want to be famous, and to excel, is in our own families. Men are successful in other areas, but a failure in their own families, is truly a failure. This does n...

Many people who are facing a challenge will react to that challenge with much activity. The thinking that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is not necessarily the case. Doing something that is effective is better than doing much something that is ineffective. Good intentions do not equate to desirable outcomes. We need purposed action, not just motion. We must be intentional with...

Life is filled with defining moments. Often we are not successful in these moments. The choices we make related to these defining moments are what define us. Life's situations are, at times, unbearable. However, if we allow the moment to define us, the moment will defeat us. This is not God's will. None of us are without a struggle in life. Our battles will cause us to do one of two things: We wil...

The word Pentecost is only used three times in the new testament. It has its roots in the old testament in the Feast of the Harvest. Every fifty years, the celebration of the Feast of the Harvest was known as the year of jubilee when debts were forgiven. Pentecost is a celebration of a spiritual truth. Some view Pentecost as a metaphor. Others marginalize it because “it is beyond the scope of hist...

We often seek out opinions and reviews of places, products, and services. We rely on these anonymous people who have left reviews on various social media platforms. It is not uncommon to see a wide range of opinions from one star to five stars. Often, these five-star reviews are right above other reviews that only gave it one lead. We base our decisions on these reviews, but with so much noise, it...

It was no secret that Joseph was Jacob’s favorite. It not just assumed, it is stated in scripture. Because he was the most loved, Joseph was given a coat of many colors. This coat was a symbol of Joseph being the chosen heir. Joseph’s brothers despised him and plotted to kill him. But for Reuben, they would have killed him. To cover their deception, Joseph’s brothers took his coat and destroyed it...

There is in all of us a weakness. We tend to forget and often take for granted all the blessing we enjoy. We are a blessed people. We are blessed to enjoy the freedoms that we, as Americans, enjoy. In our text, Israel had been on a long journey. It was not difficult because of the terrain, but because of themselves. They had made it much more complicated than it had to be. Because of their stubbor...

Tonight Greater Life Church honors our 2019 high school and college graduates. Kodi Jenkins, Elizabeth Diaz, Kale Jacks, Elijah Wimberly, and Carson Minton are all moving into a new phase in life after completing college or high school studies. Youth Pastor, Ethan Barger offers advice to the graduates drawn from his own experiences to help prepare the graduates for what lies ahead.

Today’s text is often taken out of context. It can be misused if it is not properly understood. We must be careful not to suggest things that are not here. Jesus speaks here (and in other places in Matthew) that what we bind on earth will also be bound in heaven and what we loose will be loosed also in heaven. In our text, God grants us the power of decision. There is something available to us, or...

Life is full of surprises. Things happen in life. Sometimes things happen for a reason, but sometimes, things just happen. Life is a test. It has a way of taking us down paths and roads that we did not anticipate. Often God does this to test our character and to see if we will obey His commands. We know that our text was written by David. We do not know when it was written We do know that David ha...

In the 1940s the DC Comics line was dominated by superpower-endowed male characters. At the urging of his wife, Charles Moulton set out to create a new superhero, one who would conquer not with fists or firepower, but with love. The result was the character we now know as Wonder Woman. But long before Charles Moulton's creation, there was a wonder woman identified in scripture. Our text describes...

The intent of the writer of Psalm 119 was to set before us the excellence of God. Our text tonight is a unique Psalm that was written in a way that could be easily memorized. It was organized into 22 sections, each with eight verses. The 22 sections correspond to the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and the first word of each section begins with the letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order. We do...

For many churches, we see the supernatural on Sundays and Wednesdays, but on the other days, they rely on their own understanding. That is not God’s plan. God wants us to operate in the supernatural in every aspect of our life. We cannot achieve that by reading a one minute devotional in the morning before we go out the door each morning. The disciples suffered from this same mentality. They were...

We all want the blessings of God in our lives. We want the transformative experience with God that will make a real difference. The problem is that most of us do not want to go through the process that God requires to realize that process. God’s process will push us out of our comfort zone. We do not always understand the process. In our text, God uses recognizable symbols to illustrate His proces...

Bro. Ashcraft looks at two areas where we as children of God have some room for improvement. The first is that we give up too quickly. We pray our prayers, and when they do not come to pass, we write them off as if they were a lottery ticket that was not the winner. When prayer does not result in an answer, we rationalize that it was not the Lord’s will. The second fault that we have is living by...

We are not here to celebrate a holiday, but to acknowledge the truth that the resurrection changes everything. All of our hopes, dreams, and anticipations find their roots in the resurrection. If not for that event, how different would our life be? The resurrection changes not only our life, but also our death. When Jesus came out of the tomb, He defeated the greatest enemy of humanity since the f...