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It is essential that we never forget what transpired the final week of Jesus’ life. It was a lifetime of ministry condensed into just a few days. The events of this one week in time changed life for everyone living then and who would ever live since then. The week begins at dinner on Saturday when a woman broke an alabaster box at His feat. Sunday He enters Jerusalem triumphantly. On Monday He cle...

Our text tonight is often used to introduce a new plan, proposal, or course of action. Many churches have a vision. However, our text is about more than a program or project. The word vision in the original Hebrew means a dream, but it also means a revelation. Bro. Morris, after much study came to the conclusion that the vision is actually the Word of God. The Word of God is a vision. The Word of...

Our text is simple. We do not want to read more into it than is there, but we do not want to pass over what is said. The implication of what God is encouraging and commanding in this verse is powerful. It is a command; “LET the weak say, I am strong.” It is bold and a strong declaration about a mind that is made up. There is significance in each word. We must understand a two words: First is WEAK....

Fire is prevalent in the bible and often has great symbolic significance. In the Old Testament, fire served as a primary method that God manifested Himself to man. In the New Testament fire is vitally connected to our spiritual being. In the natural world, fire is important. It is a source of heat, cooking, and light. As wonderful as fire is, there is an undesirable and often disagreeable part of...

People have the best of intentions. A husband promises to work less and spend more time for the family. A mom promises to take the kids to the park. A child promises to clean his room. Sometimes these good intentions do not come to pass. These have come to be known as empty promises . Empty is devastating. There is usually nothing good about the word empty. It literally means nothing is there. To...

We at times get weary. We look our situation and are unable to see anything but the bad. We see the news and we feel that all is bad in the world and that there is no hope. We may have a good service and feel up, but come Monday morning, we find ourselves facing the same problems. The psalms depict similar emotional roller coasters. David had some of the highest highs, but he also writes about the...

The world is about to experience another royal wedding. Among all the other preparation for the pageantry and the event, Meghan Markle is receiving an intense education on how to be a royal. She will learn all the protocols and expectations of being a princes. The rule are strict and complex. Being a royal is a life that consumes their life and things that they could once do, they are no longer al...

Greater Life is in the midst of revival. This revival is changing lives and hopefully causing us to look at life through His eyes. We have to quit looking at our church through human eyes, and begin to view it from a spiritual perspective. Our physical eyes see a rectangular building, but our spiritual eyes have to view it as a gateway to an encounter with the almighty God. When we read God’s word...

In scripture the word testimony indicates a demonstration or proof of something. It is the personal story of how God had touched us. A testimony is a very powerful thing. There is a distinct message to be conveyed by a testimony. It is a rehearsing and remembering of what God has done. Every provision, every healing, every help is a testimony. Repeatedly in the old testament, God admonished Israel...

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We in the church often encourage new people to get the Holy Ghost because it will change lives. This is not entirely true. Receiving the Holy Ghost will not automatically change people. Change is a choice. It has the potential to change, but In order to activate that potential, we have to choose to be different. Paul gives us a list of things that have to happen in our lives for us to become what...

Desperation is an unusual condition. When someone is in the state of desperation, all rational and normal thought is muted. Instinct takes over and drives a person to be singular in purpose. Desperation like this is not a force to be challenged. Bro. Stanton declares that we must get out of the way of a desperate faith. To do otherwise is to get run over. The woman in our text had been sick for ma...

The word like has many definitions. In this context, it means that two things are comparable. In our text, Lucifer is declaring that he would be like God. It does not take deep theological study to come to the conclusion that Lucifer is NOTHING like our God. We know this, but in our human weakness, we can be tricked, or manipulated into listening to the whispers that the devil speaks into our live...

Our society has blurred the lines, and has established a false standard about how success is defined. We have allowed our world to dictate to us the definition of success. The world defined success in terms of money, power, position or social standing. In the process, we evaluate ourselves against this standard, and compare ourselves to what is declared to be successful. Social media has delivered...

Bro. Hughes offers a powerful message in Wednesday Night Bible Study

In our text Joshua is chasing after 5 kings. He gets word that they are hold up in a cave. Joshua orders the cave sealed with rocks and posted guards. This was at the end of a day where God had provided great victories. It would have been easy for Joshua to rest his troops for the night after a hard days battle. Instead, Joshua tells his men that it is not time to put the sword up. He tells them t...

Mercy is more than just a word. It is one of the characteristics of God. It is His attitude toward mankind. Mercy is defined as compassion for the miserable. It is the act of being spared judgment. It is when one receives from God that which we do not deserve. It is withheld judgment and punishment. Mercy is simply not getting what we deserve. How many times can we count in our own lives when we h...

In order to keep a fire going, it must be tended. Someone has to be mindful to stir the fire and to continue to add fuel. If left alone a fire will consume all of its fuel and will go out. Our spiritual fire is no different. Paul writing to Timothy reminded him to fan the flames. Just like the Levitical priests in the desert, the fire had to be kept going. Fanning this flame is a daily effort. It...

Demus is a bit of a mystery to us. There are only three verses in the Bible that mention him. His is a story of tragedy. This man showed such potential and prospect that Paul included him in his inner circle. Yet in 2 Timothy 4, we see that Demus did not live up to that trust and privilege. When we are introduced to him in Philemon, Demus is described as a fellow labourer by the Apostle Paul. In C...

Bro. Hughes has designated the first week of February 2018 as a week of prayer and fasting. Greater Life Church is in the midst of revival. A revival like this is sustained with prayer. Our text tonight contains examples of intense prayer. Both Hanna and Elijah prayed to God with an intensity and fervency. Not a simple 10 minute prayer, but an intense prayer that took them to another level. If Gre...

When Bro. Hughes was a young person and began to experience some independence, his mother used to send him out the door with the simple statement: “Remember who you are.” This has become part of him and he often passes this wisdom on to our young people as they go out to travel. Paul writing to the church at Ephesus tried to remind them who they were. Ephesus was a wicked place whose people practi...

For anyone who has played golf, the title of today's message is familiar. In one moment you believe you are doing well, and then you wonder why you even play the game. These usually happen on the same round, or for some of us, even on the same hole. The word of God is dynamic. No matter how many times we may have read a particular part, there is always something that will cause a fresh understandi...

There are many examples of beautiful architecture around the world. These beautiful works of art began with a detailed set of plans and calculations to achieve the final result. Everything that we can visibly see was documented and drawn out and described on paper. For buildings like the Empire State Building or The Sydney Opera House, there are literally a truck load of paper plans and specificat...

It seems sometimes that God has a great sense of humor. When we look at the things and people that He uses to accomplish His purpose, we have to smile. It is not really a sense of humor, but a sense of knowing. He sees things that you and I cannot see, He knows things that you and I cannot know. We look at our lives and conclude that we are not worthy or capable of being used because of our temper...

In our text, the children of Israel were on their journey out of Egypt to the promised land Many no doubt, had not fully considered the length of time or the difficulties that they would encounter along the way. All of us experience have at times looked at this thing called life, and wonder if we have what it takes to finish. There are many things along the journey that are enjoyable; but some are...