Greater Life Church

We are creatures of habit. We easily fall into a routine of doing things. It is more difficult to get out of a routine than it is to get into one. We have gotten into the routine of singing and expecting good preaching. Good preaching and wonderful singing do not save people. It doesn’t matter if the music is just right or if the preacher says the right thing, we have to communicate the glory and...

GPS technology has changed navigation. Even with this, one of the biggest keys to getting somewhere is know where you are now. When you feel trapped by life, look up from where you are to find God. God will help you get beyond where you are now and moving to where He wants you to be.

Most of the struggles people have in life have nothing to do with the truth, but with perception. The truth can set us free, but perception can cloud the truth to the point that it will interfere with that. The perception is that if we get close enough to God, then that will change lives. The truth is that the Holy Ghost does not change people; people change people. We can have the greatest relati...

As we draw to a close of the year, we tend to reflect upon the changes and events of the previous 12 months. Many times in the bible, God encourages His people to reflect and think about the happenings and experiences in their lives and to use that to chart a course going forward. Bro. Hughes stops to consider what has happened, and what may lay ahead in 2013. God often commanded Israel to certain...

We all think we know what Christmas is, but for many the meaning of Christmas is lost. It is buried beneath gifts, bows, parties and Santa. Bro. Hughes comes today to tell us why he celebrates Christmas. The reason for celebrating Christmas is found in our text. God created both men and angels. Both are very different, but there are similarities. God made a decision eons ago that of the two; man w...

Life knows how to humble you. The wise person will learn the lesson that it is best to hold your tongue, because often when you least expect it, your chickens will come home to roost. The songwriter says that life can change swiftly. It can change with out warning or notification. Life is a strange mixture of seasons. There are times when everything turns out right, all prayers seem to be answered...

The news in our nation today is very sad with the tragedy in Connecticut. In our text, Mary asks, “How can this be.” Surly there are those throughout our nation that are asking the same thing. Recovering from such a horrendous event seems to be impossible. Bro. Hughes reminds us that God specializes in the impossible. He does not need our help. When God gets ready to do something He can do it all...

There are times when we wonder what is going on in our life. We wonder if there will ever be an end to what we are going through. It is human nature to question if what we are facing is fair and why we are facing it. Bro. Hughes comes tonight to attempt to erase that question from our mind. However heavy life may be at the moment, God has compensations for each of those burdens. The bible tells us...

Often life hangs on the smallest of things. It is usually not the big things that get us; it is the small things that wear us down. There are two words in our text that speak to our lives. Mary approached Jesus about solving the problem of no wine at the wedding. She wanted him to do it immediately. His reply was “not yet.” This is often God’s response to us when we desperately approach Him with a...

Promises are part of our life. Children promise parents their best behavior. Students promise to do their best. Couples promise eternal love and devotion. Employees promise a day’s work for a day’s pay. Promises flowed across the air in the recently concluded political season. The truth is that a promise is only as good as the person making it. We have all known people that we could not trust to k...

In life things will be lost; Keys, money, possessions. If we want to find something badly enough, we will go to any length to find it. Bro. Stevison proclaims that victory will not find us. Victory has a hiding place. If we want to find victory, we must seek after it. In our text, David is offered Goliath’s sword. David knew this sword and had experienced victory with it before. This time, if he w...

If we live for any length of time, we will face a storm in our life. It is foolish to think we can make it through life carefree simply because we are children of God. Life is full of unexpected storms. There are times in life when we will be tossed to and fro. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. People try to fix their own storms. They try to manipulate the situation to make their own mira...

Bro. Kilgore offers prevailing forces that must be in the church. First is prayer. Prayer keeps us connected. Without prayer we will not have communication with the master and will not know what to do. The second prevailing force is the Church. The church is not a building, but a body of people. Jesus promised Peter that the gates of Hell itself will not prevail against the church. The third force...

In our text, it is said that David was a man after God’s own heart. Bro. Kilgore notes that the bible mentions several people about whom God felt similarly: Moses, Noah, Abraham and many others. These men enjoyed a closeness to God that comes from a familiar relationship. In order to find that closeness, we must study His word and pray. Bro. Kilgore asks: What are the prerequisites of being a man...

When we read the bible we are picking up a treasure chest. Forty different men wrote it over a period of hundreds of year. They were led by the Sprit of God, so when we read the bible, we are reading the actual word of God. We all have items in our life that have sentimental value. Bro. Kilgore shows a Martin guitar that belonged to his father. We all have things that are precious to us. We cannot...

In our text Israel was in Babylonian captivity. The children of Israel ask how can we sing in a strange land. Bro. Kilgore tells us that Babylon needed the singing as much as any place ever did. As children of God, we must have a song of praise on our lips no matter what the circumstances. Fear can cause us to lose our song. Sin can cause us to lose our song. Adversity can cause us to lose our son...

Living for God is a journey. There are no stopping places on this journey. If we are not growing, we are failing. Bro. Kilgore proclaims that we cannot stop; we must go on!

Bro. James Hughes comes to the pulpit today to share his heart on a subject he has been struggling with for over a month. By his own description, this situation has caused him to reevaluate his entire belief system. His involvement in this situation took him to the book of Romans seeking the answer to the question of how it could have happened.

Being is state in which things are continuously happening. Living for God is not a momentary experience; it is a journey. It is a lifetime experience. Our text refers to being justified. It is not past tense meaning that it has already happened. It is being as in a process of becoming justified. Living for God is a journey that is a daily process of becoming justified by faith. The result of that...

Isaiah lived in a very difficult and troubling time. He served as a prophet to three kings, two of which were exceedingly wicked. Our text is a vision that Isaiah had for his people. Some of the most powerful promises and assurances are enumerated in the book of Isaiah. It is this book that we read that no weapon that is formed would be effective on God’s people. Isaiah lived in a time when the Is...

We live in a world that is acutely aware of the value of something. None of us want to be short changed. If we pay a price, we expect to get something in return. We all want what we have paid for. Our text says that God paid a price for us. He paid an enormous price for our salvation and our service. Bro. Hughes asks “Is God getting what He paid for in our life? He paid the ultimate price to buy b...

All of us have fallen at some point in our life. Whether it is by our own actions or the actions of others, we have all suffered setbacks in life. It is important to know how to get back up after such a fall. The man who will not stay down is the man who will know the sound of victory. Whatever has put us down, we must realize that it is not the will of God that we stay down. We will not always su...

We live in a time that is difficult to define. We want more, but we want it for less. We try more, but we stand for less than we ever have. We want blessings and increase without challenges. We want to win the battle without ever going to war. What we want and what we have are not the same. Bro. Hughes says we are living a time of dumbing down; the degradation of the standards we have known. Our w...

The gospel as described in our text is a story that is all familiar to us. However knowing the story of the death, burial and resurrection is not enough. We need to understand the significance of the events. We have to understand what God purchased by these events. How do we apply the gospel to our lives and how do we really obey the gospel. We must identify with Christ who was crucified. Secondly...

Our text is not a long one, but like other short verses in the bible, it contains much. It offers in insight into how God works and how a life can be transformed by His work. This was Peter’s first introduction to Jesus. Prior to this, we have no indication that Jesus and Simon Peter had ever met. The bible paints a picture of Peter as a colorful character who could be brash and profane at times....