Greater Life Church

here is no more beautiful story than the one told in the Song of Soloman. It is a very intimate book. Some parts can be embarrassing at first glance. Many avoid reading Song of Soloman because it is so intimate. It is however, a portrait of divine love. It is a picture of the type of love that God has for us and His desire to have a relationship with His creation. It is a great book for couples to...

In many ways Israel limited God. Because of their spirit, choices and lack of desire. We must take care to not limit God by our lack of faith, or motivation. Sometimes we develop spiritual blind spots that cause us to miss what God has for us. We get into a routine and become comfortable with life and we do not allow ourselves to worship God in the way that He wants and deserves. There is a world...

I never thought I would be in this place. How often have we observed that. Most of us would write the story of our life differently. We would have eliminated the mountains and storms that are part of our story. We would not write into our lives the painful things that we have had to endure. The truth is, however, it is the experience of those storms, mountains and dark places that have formed who...

Sometimes the greatest gifts come to us in the simplest form. One of the greatest and most magnificent messages are on our text today; He came. He came from the perfection of heaven to our world for us. He did not send a representative, God came Himself to the world He created because we needed Him to do it. Our text assures us that He came for everyone. "But as many as received Him." THis means t...

God is able. He can do exceeding above all we can ask or think. God has not exhausted His supply. The greatest of tragedies in life is to live among plenty, but be without. We have all things that we need for life. The danger to a lot of folks is to think that our best days are behind us. Many think that we cannot experience revival because the world has become too carnal. Many people have fallen...

God is always taking his people on a journey. From the beginning of Genesis to the end of Revelation, God the Bible is full of examples of God trying to move his people to where He wants them to be. As we move along this journey, there will be set backs and difficulties. The thing that keeps a set back from being a failure, is getting backup. In our text, Jesus uses a fishing boat as a stage to te...

We are often afraid to address the new. Often we compare the new to the old. New makes us uncomfortable. It can rightly be ask, what is wrong with the old. There are many who believe that new is better, but that is not always the case. In marketing, an old product can be revitalized by simply changing the color of the package and putting the word NEW on it. There is nothing changed about the produ...

The Boston Red Socks had not been to the world series in 86 years. This long drought had come to be known as the curse of the bambino. After a come from behind win in game 4 of the divisonal play off series, they find them selves down 3-1 in the series. They began to ask themselves "Why not us" Someone would win game 5 and game 6, why not them? With this they went on to win that series and ultimat...

It does not take much look at our world and know that our faith is under attack. Anything that is decent, clean and wholesome is ridiculed and maligned by the world. Those who live by faith and hope and who live by the love that Jesus demonstrated are a target. We live in a world that is in constant change and flux. Uncertainty is a fact of life. There is little that remains the same year after ye...

In studying the account of the birth of Jesus, Dr. Hughes noticed something in the writing of Luke. Luke is writing to a man named Theopolis. We do not know who this is other than he is probably someone of importance. It occurred to him that we all have the same opportunity as Luke did to tell our account of Jesus to someone. The beauty of the bible is that at first it is a story that we read and...

We live in a time when we have little patience. We are used to things happening on the first click. If it does not, many in the millennial generation will give up and think that it does not work. Life does not work that way. We cannot get to something until we go through something. As a society, we talk about the destination: Triumph, Winning, Success. But many do not have the desire to do the thi...

There are times in life when we believe that we would not be dealing with the things that are happening to us if we had made better choices. People may say "Maybe if I had prayed more" or "if I had fasted more" There are things in life that we will deal with that come to everybody no matter how much we may pray, read our bible or talk in tongues. Those are all good things, but they will not insula...

Solomon was not just a smart man he was a wise man. Not only is he wise and blessed with this gift, he apparently has anything anyone could ever want. He is the most unhappy person even though he has everything a man could want. Your born, you grow, you decay, you die. How can a man who has that kind of resource at his fingertips still complain? This tells us that having it all doesn't mean anythi...

The enigma of Judas is an interesting study. Judas has come to become the name for everything that is base and treacherous in the human heart. The mention of his name invokes images of betrayal and treachery. No parent would name their child Judas. No doubt the name Judas being given to children went into steep decline. Ironicaly the name Judas comes from the root word Juda which means praise. Whe...

Some have suffered all that they think they can suffer. Some have lost all that they think they can lose. Our text tonight applies to all of us for we have all experienced storms in the path of life. Paul is in a ship on his way to Rome. He warned them, but they did not listen to the dangers that lay before them. Life was rough for Paul and the others on this ship. The storm was intense. The ship...

It is often amazing to ponder the people that God chooses to use for His purpose. If we had to choose a group of people to be disciples, likely none of us would have chosen the men that He did. One couldn't keep his foot out of his mouth and had a temper, but Peter was chosen to stand up on the day of Pentecost and deliver the most important message that anyone had ever heard. The cast of characte...

He was born in 1899 to a baptist pastor. Like his mother he became a pianist. The music in the church had a tremendous impact upon him and by age 12 he was emulating that in his music. In his late teens he left home and to make his life in music He began to play in speak easys and other outlets for the emerging jazz music scene. He made his way to Chicago. He turned away from his convictions learn...

There are times when we have to face things when we didn't know what to say. In those times, the right words can make all the difference the world. This miracle is one of the most interesting in the bible. In everything that Jesus did, there was a lesson within the miracle. When studying the miracles, we need to be mindful that there is something more than just the miracle, but there is a lesson t...

The worth of faith in a person's life is seen when it is subjected to the changes and challenges of life. Our text is the story of a father and a tormented son, a tortured home. It is the story of the agony of son and all that he endured with the spirits that possessed his life. The issues of the son were many, but the father too had issues. The father was a troubled man. He was a believer, but al...

The world does not need our talent. There are singers that can out sing us. There are musicians that can out play us. There are men and women of talent that can out do any that we may have. But we have the sprit of the living God within us. The worlds problems are not going to be solved by talented worldly men. The solutions to the world's problems begin at an alter with the submission of a man or...

We live in a time when it seems that all of the old guidelines of life have been torn down. Our moral standards have been swept away and replaced. It seems as the fabric of who we are has been ripped apart. We seem to be a confused and drunken nation that has drifted off the path and find our self stumbling toward an unknown destination. Bro. Hughes reminds us that as Christians we have to guard a...

Discouragement can hide behind a lot of things. It can even hide behind a smile. Discouragement can walk into any house at any time. Discouragement can tell us that life is not worth living. It can lie and cause us to think things that we normally don' t think. Our mouth might be saying praise the Lord, but discouragement can hide right under that. We look and see people that do not seem to be liv...

Beginning late last year and Bro. Hughes was reading the book of John, he realized that there were several phrases that appear but they didn't need to be there. The story about the healing of the man by the pool concludes with the statement that it was on the Sabbath. It was not consequential to the story other than it points out the attitude of the leadership at that time. At the time of this wri...

When we discuss or think about the coming of the Lord, many are more concerned with the day and time of HIs coming, but Bro. Hughes explains that we should be more concerned about the events that will take place preceding HIs return. In our text, Jesus and the disciples have left Jerusalem and look back to view the city. Jesus said that the city would be dismantled and no stone would be left stack...

When we are expecting guests most of us go out of our way to make sure that their visit will go well. If the person visiting is an important person, we will make sure every detail is taken care of so that the VIP will be pleased. In our text, we read the familiar story of Joseph and Mary and no room at the Inn. For many years, the arrival of the Messiah was prophesied, but the world was unprepared...