Greater Life Church

Everything has to stay connected to its essence in order to live. If you take the fish out of the ocean, he will die. If you take a cow and put him in the ocean, he will drown. If you pull a plant out of the ground it will die. The only way a man can live in a spiritual sense, is to stay connected to the source. In our text, Paul wants to know Him. We must stay connected to Jesus in order to know...

We celebrate Easter in a world that is shadowed by many uncertainties: war, economic distress, and moral decay. Our world is in the process of rewriting history to eliminate references to the difference between good and evil. The world does not want to deal with the evil that condemns us, so they try to purge it. No matter how they may try, the world cannot put Jesus back in the tomb. Easter is a...

Since 3600 BC the world has known only 292 years of peace. During this period of time there have been 14,351 wars in which 3.64 Billion people have been killed. Since 650 BC there have been 1656 arms races only 16 of which have not ended in war. The remaining 16 resulted in the economic destruction of the countries involved. Our world has needed and sought peace since for a long time. These statis...

Bro. Hilton begins with the story of a young man who was the first draft pick in the Major league draft in 1999. He had a rocky start to his career with injuries and missed games. As he dealt with these, he turned to substance abuse including alcohol, and both prescription and illegal drugs. In 2004 he was banned from baseball. In 2005 he hit rock bottom when he awoke on his grandmother’s doorstep...

In our text, Jesus is entering Jerusalem for the last time. As he entered, those that saw him cried out and worshiped him loudly and boisterously. The Pharisees wanted Jesus to rebuke them. Jesus replied that if those that worshiped were silent, the very stones of the earth would cry out in praise. The question is not could the stones speak. If He said that they could speak, they surely would. Bro...

Trials are not good or bad. They are something that happens. They are unavoidable and unstoppable. Bro Hughes is not concerned with the actual trials, but our response to the trials. Our responses to trials determine whether the trials are done to us or for us.

Fear is one of the most troublesome emotions we have in life. None of us are beyond its reach. It affects us in many ways; none of them good. It is easy to tell someone to not be afraid, but the person offering that advice is not dealing with the same thing we are. Bro. Hughes comes today to do more than tell us to not fear, but to give us a word that can help deal with fear. Our text is rich with...

In our text, Jesus sends the disciples into the city to secure a place to eat for the Passover feast. The journey took them some two miles into town in search of a man with a water pitcher. Just as the Lord said, they found the man and were shown to the upper room. Bro. Marler offers several examples from his many years of ministry where simply following the Lords command, allowed a series of even...

We do not have to look very hard to find parallels between our world today and the world of Noah’s time that was described as wicked. We cannot watch the news or read a newspaper without feeling the tension, friction and turmoil in the world. We observe unusual weather and natural phenomenon throughout the world. All these things are fulfilling the prophecy of the end times. Though the day is unkn...

The title of tonight’s message is a bit shocking. As strange as giving up may sound, Bro. Hughes believes that it is the best option. After all that we have gone through, we would be best served is to give up. According to Solomon, there is a time for everything. Our text tells us that there is a time to cast stones and a time to gather together. There is a time to get and a time to lose. And Bro....

The story is told that Michelangelo is walking though a stone yard one day when he saw a block of granite and he said “I must let the angel out of that rock” He began to work on the stone until he had carved the stone to a beautiful angel. God sees in us far more in us than we see in ourselves. He sees more than we can imagine possible. It has always been God’s desire to release that which He plac...

Tonight’s scripture is an example of faithfulness. Shadrack, Meshack and Abed-nego were faithful to God in defiance of Nebuchadnezzar. These young Hebrew boys were strangers to Babylon and had attained a position of favor with the king. They had been faithful in their worship of God, and this angered the native Babylonian princes who were jealous of them. The Babylonian princes set a trap. The tra...

Jesus has a way of finding those who need Him. Jesus did not say that he needed to go through Samaria. He did not declare to the disciples that He had to go to Samaria, but John records that “he needs go through Samaria.” To get from where he was to Galilee, was not an easy journey both in terms of distance and physical demands to climb out of the Jordan valley. This was an all day journey and by...

The devil is not able to cause us to do anything, but he is a master at setting traps and snares. One of these is found in our text and is the snare of worry. We live in an age of stress, pressure and anxiety. We look around today and see the affects of worry on people’s faces. We see it demonstrated in their attitudes. We can see the physical effects in general poor health. We worry about finance...

Life does not come with an instruction manual. We come into this world and begin living. In that living we face many things. There are no crystal balls that can give us a vision of how life will turn out. Some will look at life and say life is killing me. Another will look at the same set of circumstances and describe their life as wonderful. Our text is an example of that principle. The first ten...

There is perhaps no more colorful character in the bible than Jacob. He was an extremely troubled man. He had come into the world reaching for something. Jacob was a man who knew what he wanted. He didn’t always go about getting what he wanted in the best way, but Jacob was the kind of man who would find a way to get what he wanted. Jacob had talents and abilities, but he lived a troubled life bec...

There is nothing in our lives that the Lord Himself didn't to encounter in His time on earth. In Hebrews, Paul says that we do not have a high priest who is not capable of understanding our problems and who was in all points tempted. One of the most difficult things to overcome in life is betrayal. It is so bitter that we even have difficulty talking about it. It is difficult to move on when someo...

Haggai had one job and that was to get a people who had become side tracked back on track. The people had started well, but had grown weary and had become distracted. Somewhere between their starting point and the setting of our text some fourteen years went by and they quit working on a place of worship. Their houses were built, and they had food and clothing, but they were never satisfied. They...

Rodney Mississippi sits near the Mississippi river between St. Louis and New Orleans. It missed becoming the capital of Mississippi by three votes, but today it is on the verge of being a ghost time. In the late 1800s it was a busy seaport. At the time it was a cultural center with shopping, banking and Broadway shows. It was not only a town of growth and prosperity; it was a town of vision. They...

For many people it is natural to see the negative side of situations. It is easy to get caught up in what life had done to us rather than focusing on what is happening in our life. Many people are so focused on the things that have been lost in life that they forget to look at the blessings they still enjoy. Bro Hughes believes we need to get over what is not here. Often our life is defined by wha...

The Komodo dragon is capable of killing a cape buffalo. They don’t do this by a direct attack. They do this by biting the buffalo on the leg. The bite will become infected and eventually the buffalo will die. It is a horrible and tortuous way to die. The Cape buffalo is one of the most feared and most powerful animals in the world. It is know as Black Death, but this wound can bring down this huge...

The port of Shanghai China is some 20 miles inland from the sea and is accessed via the Yangtze River. The large river deposits slit as the waters begin to slow their flow as it approaches the sea. This threatens to choke off access to the port by filling up the channel so that the large ships cannot come in and out. To combat this, the port officials continually dredge the river to remove all the...

Where would we be with out the faithfulness of the Pastor? In a world of turmoil, chaos, confusion God has placed a great man in our life to turn to. How many times have things seemed impossible, when God gave us a promise and victory because God blessed the feet of the Pastor? When the children of Israel came to the river the Red Sea, God parted the waters and provided safe passage because of a p...

There are some things about life that when we get them right, everything else works like it is supposed to. Conversely, if we get them wrong, nothing falls into place. Bro. Hughes shares a story about how he assembled something. He had in his mind how is should work, but he decided to follow the instructions provided. While doing this, he discovered that there was a process that the manufacturer h...

What God wants to do and what He gets to do in our life is often is very different. What God wants to do is often limited by what we will let Him do. God is love and God loves us. Understanding that simple truth is key to our allowing God to work in our lives. If we can embrace the truth of our text, something will happen that will transform our live. It will lift burdens from our shoulder and bri...