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Happy Birthday Zayne!
Today is my first-born son’s birthday, Manuel Zayne Rivera. If there’s anything I’m learning this year is to live my life in moments and not in minutes. Before I’m a leader to pastors, a church planter and pastor to multitudes, I’m a father to my children and a husband to my wife. And leveraging special…
Read More...Honoring Dishonor and Dishonoring Honor
This Sunday will bring us to a powerful time in the presence of the Lord. I know this because we’ve been in intense spiritual warfare for some time now. As the pastor of Impact Church, my prayer is that our church receives the Spirit of wisdom and revelation (Eph 1:17). With this, we will be…
Read More...HONOR NUTRITION
We are entering the second week of our Honor series. I’ve never felt so strong about a sermon series. Although I feel every sermon preached from our pulpit is a word from God, this message series carries a very critical timing to it. Sermons are like nutrition. All nutrition is necessary; without it we die. …
Read More...Apostolic Pleasures
We returned yesterday from our trip to Peru. Words cannot express the joy I feel with the work there. It’s always a wonder to see how success and prosperity trails the response to a word from the Lord. The ministry in Peru was birthed from a word spoken in the hearts of Laz & Janet…
Read More...Taking Me Back…
We had a home gathering last night, in Lima, Peru, that took me back to 1986. That was the year salvation came to the Rivera household. For three years prior, my mother prayed and fasted for us. She also went through a very intense spiritual and emotional trial. We didn’t understand it at first, but…
Read More...Odds Are Against Them…
I’ve been in Lima, Peru for about four days, I have some thoughts to share… Church planting is a very misunderstood venture. It’s more complicated than starting a business. It’s more than just having meetings and gatherings. It’s more than just singing and preaching. It’s way more… Without getting into a long dissertation on the…
Read More...In Lima, Peru
I’m spending a week in Lima, Peru. I’m here with my dear friends and spiritual children, Pastors Laz and Janet Perez and with their beautiful children, Hannah, Caleb and Abigail. They are doing a tremendous work here! It’s difficult enough to start a church in America; starting one in another country increases the odds in…
Read More...HONOR!
Beginning March 20th, we begin a new series that, I feel, will alter the life of our ministry. I know that all sermons series are important; after all, they’re the spiritual food that brings us to a place of understanding and maturity. But this series is more than that; it holds to key to the…
Read More...IMPACT WEAR IS HERE!
Impact Church is an entrepreneurial ministry and the starting of our own businesses is just the beginning of it. Besides providing jobs to our congregants, these businesses are designed to fund projects, missionaries and the church’s property account. We are ready to begin! We’ve been given an opportunity to begin a screen-printing company. A tremendous…
Read More...Tithing Vow…
This Sunday I’m continuing in our message series, TITHING VOW. What a powerful time we had last Sunday! I was blessed to see the two long lines that formed in our isles, as hundreds of people who brought their tithe, received a revelation of tithing and made a vow to tithe. This week we’ll unpack more…
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