This Sunday, Pastor Carl taught about Christian formation and the life Jesus is praying us into. Teaching from 1 Peter 2, Pastor Carl taught that Paul was concerned about believers’ who detached their faith from the morals of the Old Testament. From eternity past, God had been revealing His nature to His people through His apostles and prophets, th…

This Sunday, Pastor Carl continued the Supernatural Connections message series teaching out of John chapter 17. Our world is more connected than ever but at the same time it is more divided. Jesus prayed to his Father on the night that he was betrayed that we would be connected as a body. Being connected to one another in a supernatural way is coun…

What a Sunday we had at Revival Life Church! We celebrated our church anniversary in the presence of God was tangible in the room. Pastor Carl started a new message series entitled Supernatural Connection about the body of Christ. Teaching from Ephesians 4, Pastor Carl detailed the three ways Christ’s body is represented in the Scripture and why it…

Jesus is present with us in ever pain and darkness. It is only when we are present in our pain that we can be truly present with the one who can heal us and make us whole. The post Jesus is the Savior We Need appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

In this Palm Sunday message, Pastor Carl continued the message series The Beloved Community by talking about The Hopeful Community. The teaching text was the Triumphal Entrance of Jesus on a borrowed horse. Jesus was riding a donkey to what would be His death, but the disciples were accompanying Him telling of the miracle of Lazarus. We live in an …

In our fifth message in the Beloved Community message series, Pastor Carl talked about the supernatural community. Reading from Acts chapter 2, we studied how Peter spoke of a new dynamic in the community of God. We have to make decisions in our walk with Jesus. We have to decide if we have added Jesus to our lives, or have we given our lives to Je…

Pastor Carl continued in the fourth message in our message series entitled The Beloved Community by bringing a message surrounding three words and appoint. Teaching from1 John 4, Pastor Carl taught how real love comes from God. God revealed his love by sending Jesus to be the propitiation for our sins. This word propitiation was our first word taug…

This message looks at life of Mary, specifically the story of the annunciation as narrated by Luke on the first chapter of his gospel. With the intention of learning from Mary’s being pregnant with The Word with a focus on how to become a prophetic community, not in the sense of personal prophecy, but how the community can be a place where God is a…

This Sunday, Pastor Carl continued The Beloved Community message series declaring that we are A Jesus Community. The service started normal enough but at the end of worship Holy Spirit broken the room with a spirit of breakthrough. Many people testified to the nearness of God as people came forward and were touched by the power of Holy Spirit. The …

This week Pastor Carl kicked off our Lenten message series The Beloved Community. Traditionally, Lent is the time of prayer and fasting between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Since revival life Church just completed a season of prayer and fasting the Lord spoke to Pastor Carl about the specific fast he has called our house to. The Lord challenged u…

This Transfiguration Sunday, Pastor Carl talked about viewing the word with fresh eyes so we can rightly see what God is trying to accomplish in our lives. So many times we spend wasted time hoping wishing and praying that things would change. We can wonder why we didn’t get our breakthrough. We can pray and cry out to God but if we are not hearing…

Holy Spirit interrupted our service today and changed Pastor Carl’s message shifting the focus from what the enemies doing to what God wants to do in our lives. Pastor Carl taught that there are facts, faith, and feelings. Our facts are found in the word of God. Our faith believes those facts. Our feelings fall into line with what we are shown by f…

This Sunday, Pastor Carl continued our I’m Listening message series by teaching on how Jesus exerted his power over the enemy in Mark 1. The enemy does not have power of his own, he only exerts power that he steals from people who believe his lies. When Jesus came, he did not go along with the teaching of leaders that did not hear God’s voice. Jesu…

In this Sunday’s service Pastor Carl prophesied that God is drawing you out from where you are into God’s place of blessing. Teaching from the calling of James and John in Mark 1, Pastor Carl taught how God is actively moving in the lives of people at Revival Life Church. This is a work of grace that we cannot accomplish without the Holy Spirit. Th…

In today’s message, Pastor Carl taught about God’s desire that we hear Him and live in a way that we get direction and guidance. There is a great tragedy of a godless Christianity all over the world and it is diametrically opposed to the promise of Jesus that it is better that we leave. God wants us to live in a way that Holy Spirit is the presence…

On his third missionary journey Paul met a group of Christians who did not receive the Holy Spirit when they were baptized so he Baptized them again, laid hands on them, and they received the Spirit. This is the power that we need to navigate the world today. The post Order out of chaos appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.…

In this year end message, Pastor Carl helps us recap where we have been in our walk with Jesus so we can prepare for the future He has for us. The post Preparing for the Future | Luke 2 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

Today is the story of the birth of Jesus. But it is just as much the story of ordinary lives overshadowed and empowered by Holy Spirit. The post Merry Christmas 2023 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

We are living in a world that is in a doom death spiral. Everywhere you look our society is depressed and expecting things to get worse. To deal with this narrative, suicide, consumer debt, and pessimism about the future is at an all time high. What are we as believers supposed to do in a world that is expecting the worst? Reading the words of John…

Throughout the Bible, the story of God coming to rescue His children from exile is told time and time again. When Jesus came, God’s people lived in the land of Israel, but they were not free. They expected to get rescued from the grip of Rome when the Messiah came. When John the Baptist came preaching, they expected that once again, they would be l…

In our first message of the Advent message series Pastor Carl taught from Mark 13:24-37. Jesus was warning His disciples that things were going to get bad, but with the help of godly wisdom, they were going to flourish in the trial We can navigate through tough times by remembering that God is love, and that His plans for us are good. We may heave …

This week Pastor Carl talked about the radical notion that God desires people to live a life of joy. Teaching from Hebrews 12:1-2 we learned that there is a joy that God provides that empowers us for every situation in life. Our joy begins with how God loves his good creation, and it ends with humanity being redeemed and seeing the face of God. We …

In this weeks message, Pastor Carl continued the “Flip the Script” message series by focusing on how to obtain peace in this world. Throughout history, the greatest minds came up with two general schools of though on how to flourish. The first was Hedonic. In this belief system, hedonism rules with its unabated consumption of vices to bring pleasur…

This past Sunday we continued in the “Flip the Script” message series by learning how to attract the blessing. In Matthew 6 Jesus told his disciples not to be consumed with worry because God cares. God is trying to teach the people of Revival Life Church to be containers that can hold His blessings. We start by being thankful for what God has given…

This Sunday Pastor Carl laid out the where God is taking Revival Life Church. On September 17, we participated in the new season God has invited us into. After that, we talked for eight weeks about battling the three pronged axis of evil the devil, the flesh, and the world. This week we started a two week series entitled “Flip the Script” where we …

Pastor Carl ended the “Talking Back” message series by sharing the difference between choosing life with Jesus or a life of slavery to the flesh. Teaching from Matthew 16, Pastor Carl quoted Jesus in telling his disciples that if they want to follow him they have to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Him. In our society today we are b…

Pastor Carl continued the series Talking Back having talked about the devil, the flesh, and this week moving on to the world. By now we should all have it memorized that deceitful ideas appeal to disorder desires that are normalized in simple society. We all have desires that carry more weight than they deserve in our lives. Pastor Carl was brave e…

This Sunday Pastor Carl continued the Talking Back message series by addressing the second level of warfare we face, the flesh. Reading from Galatians 6 we read how the enemy tries to seduce our flesh to make decisions that lead away from life and godliness and toward death and destruction. The flesh is at war with the Spirit, so we need to master …

This was the third message in the Talking Back message series and this week Pastor Carl taught on a theology of the flesh. For the purposes of this message series we defined the flesh as the base, animalistic, primal drive in us for self-gratification. We all have desires. God has desires. But unlike God, we have desires that are beneficial and har…

Jesus came that you may have life more abundant! The enemy comes to steal kill and destroy. And the chief way he does it is through lies. We all have ideas in our head about what the good life looks like. The enemy temps are flesh to animate deceitful ideas. As the people of God, we have to bathe our minds in the truth so that we can fight back the…

This Sunday Pastor Carl started a new message series, Talking Back – Pushing Back Darkness, Moving Into Destiny. We talked about how there is a war over our souls and that throughout history our church mothers and fathers understood that this war is faced on three levels: the world, the flesh, and the devil. In this first message in the series, we …

In this prophetic message, Pastor Carl shared a timely word through Scripture and lived experiences about the new season God is inviting us into. Each week we bring a service recap as a teaching but this week you need to experience the message to understand the opportunity God has invited us into in this season. As you meditate on the message this …

This special online Sunday service was special. With a core group in attendance due to mechanical issues with the worship enter, Revival Life Church experienced the presence of God in a special way. Pastor Carl taught about becoming a place of encounter from Matthew 18:15-20. As believers, God has given us power. He has given us His name. He has gi…

In this Sunday’s Communion message, Pastor Carl talked about the importance of encountering God. The encounter with God marked Moses to face Pharaoh as one who could see the unseen. It inspired Abraham to seek the city whose builder and maker was God. And it caused the disciples to read the Old Testament in a way that showed Jesus was the point of …

Before the message, we heard testimonies from people who have had live altering encounters with God in this season. Jesus came and showed the disciples a new way of viewing the world. He taught them to view the world connected to the Spirit of God. When we experience the reality of the kingdom of God, we have to live in a way that we are aware of t…

This was a special Sunday at Revival Life Church. There was a spirit of breakthrough from the beginning of worship followed by times of prophetic prayer and spiritual warfare. God was truly present in the service! Pastor Carl started the message with prophetic ministry over several individuals with words of hope and destiny. Drawing from the Lectio…

Returning to the lectionary, Pastor Carl began a new message series entitled Marked, bearing the imprint of God. The teaching came from Matthew 14 where Jesus caught up to the disciples as they were tossed in a small boat on the Sea of Galilee. The disciples often found themselves in events that stretched their understanding of the world. The first…

In Sunday’s message, Pastor Carl taught on seeing the unseen kingdom as an extension of our Summer of Faith message series. Jesus taught in the Parable of the Tares and Wheat in Matthew 16 that the enemy sows counterfeit life in our lives. The tares look like wheat up until the end of their lives. Only then can you tell that this is not wheat, but …

Obedient Faith Carl Thomas Summer of Faith / Luke 8:10; Acts 5:32; Acts 19:11–12; Romans 1:5; Romans 16:25–26; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 11:8–10 In the final message of the Summer of Faith message series, Pastor Carl taught on Obedient Faith. Saving faith is the faith we have to believe that Jesus Christ has been risen from the dead and now reigns as ou…

This past Sunday Pastor Carl continued the Summer of Faith message series by contrasting internal faithfulness with external faithfulness. Trusting Faith is expressed by being faithful to God and His ways. Faithfulness is a heart condition where a person decides that following Jesus is the beginning of their ethics. Internal faithfulness is the abi…

This Sunday, Pastor Carl continued our Summer of Faith series by teaching Trusting Faith. There is a war in today’s society over where we will place our faith. As we are inundated with messages in media, we don’t recognize how culture shapes or values until Holy Spirit challenges us to reflect the values of God’s kingdom. Pastor Carl taught from Ro…

In this Sunday’s message, Pastor Carl taught out of Romans 5:1-5 about the need for each of us to know our standing before God. Before coming to Christ, each of us have lived lives that brought trauma to our soul. We often view our future and God through the lens of that trauma. Pastor Carl called these trauma glasses. These trauma glasses color ho…

This Sunday, Pastor Carl kicked off our “Summer of Faith” series with a teaching on three types of faith. After Jesus was resurrected, he met with his disciples and gave them a prophetic promise. He told them that they would be filled with the Holy Spirit and become witnesses. While Jesus spoke that word to them, it was a conditional promise. For t…

This Sunday Pastor Carl continued the Empowered message series by talking about Jesus commissioning the disciples in Matthew 9 & 10. Jesus saw how the people of His day were neglected and discarded and he was moved with compassion because of it. Jesus spent years discipling his followers to see the world the way God sees the world. The framework of…

This past Sunday, Pastor Carl taught out of Matthew 9 and the calling of Matthew the tax collector. The Pharisees were challenging Jesus, asking why he was fellow shipping with people who broke the law. Jesus quoted Hosea 5 in told the Pharisees to go and learn what this means, “I desire compassion and not sacrifice.” We learned that before God gav…

Pastor Carl taught in this message that the Gospel brings the light of Jesus into our lives so we can share the light with others. The post Empowered with the Gospel appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

The day of Pentecost is the day the Church celebrates the sending of the Spirit of love. The post Empowered appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

In this message Pastor Carl shares how taught His disciples to reject the false order offered by Satan and walk in the true power of God. The post In the Power of God appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

In this message from Pastor Carl, we look at how we find the life direction God has for us by welcoming Holy Spirit into our world. The post Life from Beyond Death : John 14 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church

In this message Holy Spirit was working to give us a new way of looking at old circumstances so we can see our prophetic future. The post New Life New Lens appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.โดย Revival Life Church