Greater Life Church

Bro. Custer uses as his text the familiar parable of the prodigal son. Often when this scripture is used, we identify the younger son as a back slider. In truth, that prodigal son can be any one of us. We do not have to be back slid to realize that we have gotten too far away from God and want to come back. It is easy to think that we have disappointed God and feel like we are not worthy to return...

We do not know the worth and value that faith has brought to our lives. Faith is beyond value because faith has made all of us better than we would otherwise be. Most of us would agree that we are all better off now than we would have been without the Lord in our lives. Not only that, but because we are connected to the church, we are connected to and associated with a better group of people than...

Our scripture text is the last words of King David. Bro. Hughes uses the last words of this great man to deliver a stirring message.

Bro. Hughes uses the parable of the sower to encourage us to improve our opportunities.

Bro Hall uses the story of the prodigal son as his scripture text tonight. Both the young son and the father had a story. The son’s story was that he was not worthy. The father’s story was that he son had returned. The son had a choice of which story he would believe. The older brother also had a story. The older brother’s story was that he had been faithful and never disobeyed. He was resentful t...

Our scripture text warns us to guard against allowing our selves to slip. Some translations use the word drift. Drift means to move without power; to be at the whim of winds and currents. A life without purpose will wander around at the whim and swirling currents of life. The King James translation uses the word slip. Bro. Hughes suggests that slip is more dangerous than drift. In nautical terms,...

In our text, Moses is traveling and comes upon a burning bush that is not consumed by the flames. He then discovers that the bush talks and it is the voice of God wanting him to do something. Moses offers 6 excuses for why he cannot do what God wants him to do. Bro. James Hughes explores these excuses and offers lessons to be learned from them.

Leprosy is a horrible disease. It is a cell by cell rotting away of the human body. Jewish law was that if a man had leprosy, he must separate himself away from society. Everything that the leper touched had to be cleaned or destroyed. It became as if the leper had never existed. It was forbidden for there to be any contact (physical or otherwise) between a leper and a healthy person. Spiritually,...

Our scripture text asks the two most important spiritual questions that have ever been ask. Even today, Have your received the Holy Ghost and how were you baptized are eternal questions the answer to which will determine how we will spend eternity. Our text takes place 23 years after the day of Pentecost. Paul comes to Ephasis and finds these 12 men who were followers of John the Baptist. When ask...

Paul writing to the early church contrasts the life that was and the life that is resurrected. The life that was dead in sin and the life that lives in a newness of the resurrection. The message of the death, burial and resurrection is a fundamental message. Paul describes how we go about living this new life. The first is a description of what has transpired so that there is no question that we d...

Many things happen in life for which there is no explanation. People die. Good people die. We can be tempted to ask God why. He has to remind us that life is temporary, but what we do while we are here is important. Jesus relates in our scripture text, the story of a rich man who had everything and a beggar who had nothing. The bible tells us that the both the rich man and the beggar died, and was...

Spring is a wonderful time of year. It comes with the hope of new of life and the promise of renewal. All that had seemed dead comes back to life and new growth appears on the plants and flowers. The song birds begin to sing their song amid the dead winter landscape. This singing announces the change of the season. This singing is evidence of the impending spring. If we were to look around, all st...

One can look at humanity and see that we are all different. We have different tastes, different languages, and different customs. But despite all our differences, we are all the same in that we are needy. Every one of us has needs that we cannot supply ourselves. We cannot solve all of life’s problems and mysteries without assistance. Micah was overcome by the troubling times in which he lived. He...