Manny Rivera

21 Years – It’s Only Getting Better!

Today is a very special day!   Today I celebrate 21 years of marriage to the most beautiful women I’ve ever known! I’m a “list person.”  All my study notes, plans, strategies and dreams are in a list format.  My lists are never prioritized by importance.  I also never...

LOVE OUR CITY!

I love CHRISTMAS! Impact Church, this Saturday we get an opportunity to LOVE OUR CITY!  We will be giving services, gifts and lots of love to our community! We will be giving away car washes along with pizza and drinks to anyone who wants them.  And for all the...

I Love December!

I love Decembers.  It’s our favorite time of the year!  And to be truthful, our December really begins on the last Thursday of November – Thanksgiving.  We get a little over one month to celebrate new life, new seasons, hope and love with family and friends!  We also...

Believe-Assume-Deny

The proverbial roller coaster metaphor of the “up and down” inconsistency of the church, throughout history, is quite apparent.  If you’re any kind of student of church history, you’ll notice this pattern of irregularity and variation in the universal church’s...

Feeding Season

As you may well know, my writing has been somewhat infrequent this past month.  I haven’t been writing as often as I used to in the past.  The truth is that I believe I’m in a feeding season.  As people of the Kingdom and ministers in particular, we should...