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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 liberated to live physically free. Drawing from Isaiah 40, Miriam Thomas taught how Jesus came in […] The post Advent II appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 struggles, but our struggles don’t define who God is or what our life will become. […] The post Advent I appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 live our lives in the middle of these two realities. We were created in God’s […] The post The Supernatural Wellspring of Joy : Heb 1 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 pleasure. The thought leaders of the day saw how destructive this was to both the person and society. They moved into a […] The post How to Get Peace Working : Psalm 36 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 us. Then we set our minds on the things of God, not our problems. Jesus pointed […] The post Attracting the Blessing: Matt 6 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 are not only pushing back the attack of the enemy, we are watching our tests turn […] The post Flip the Script on the Enemy appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 bombarded with plans that run counter to the plans of Jesus. We are told this is wisdom or […] The post Saving Your Life : Matt 16 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 enough to confess his love of black jellybeans and how his disordered desire for jellybeans outweighed his desire to […] The post Talking Back to the World | John 15 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 the flesh while we sow to the Sprit. What happens to the natural, unregenerated person is the […] The post Talking Back -The Flesh 2 : Galatians 6 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 harmful. Also, some of our non-harmful desires are better than others. In 1 John 2:16 we read that the […] The post Talking Back to the Flesh : Eph 2 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 lies of the devil. Truth is hard to find […] The post Talking Back tot he Devil : John 17 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 began talking about the actions of the devil. In charismatic circles, spiritual warfare is often thought of as […] The post Talking Back | John 8 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 week, spend time with God asking Him to remind you of the miracles you are supposed to be […] The post The New Season | Isaiah 43 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 given us His Spirit. He has given us community, called the Church. And He has given us His word. All […] The post Power with Purpose | Matt 18 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 the story. We need to make times in Communion, at the altar, and in our prayer closets […] The post The Fuller Meaning | Exodus 3 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 that and that reality. We have to train our soul to be aware […] The post Revealed by the Father | Matt 16 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 Lectionary text of Matthew 15, Pastor Carl cautioned the church against the tendency to read ourselves into the text. Instead of allowing Holy Spirit […] The post Seeing the Story | Matthew 15 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 time we read about them crossing the same sea and turbulent waters was in Matthew chapter 8. Jesus was awoken […] The post Transforming Encounters | Matt 14 appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 a toxic substitute. The false life offered by the enemy does not give life, […] The post Seeing the Unseen Kingdom appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.

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 our Savior. Trusting faith is the faithfulness we show to God by being diligent in our faith. Obedient faith […] The post Miracle Working Faith appeared first on Revival Life Church Boca Raton, FL.