Revive Church

Revive Church

Revive has a mission to create a thriving family of believers who deeply experience the love and presence of God and partner with Jesus to bring the transforming power of His kingdom to the world.

  1. Jul 26

    What Are You Building?

    Every person is building something — your heart, your family, your marriage, your calling — whether you're doing it on purpose or by accident. In this message, Pastor David walks through what Jesus actually meant when He talked about building on the rock, and it's not what most of us were taught in Sunday school. The foundation isn't just being saved — it's hearing what He says and doing it. From there, David unpacks the partnership God is inviting us into: He's the builder, but He's not building without us. He's looking for people who will check in with Him, build where His favor is flowing, and be willing to go back and let Him fix the one piece that's keeping everything else from working. He also shares honestly about the daily tension of building with what lasts versus what's easy — and why saying yes to your kids at the pool when you'd rather sit in the shade might be one of the most kingdom things you do all week. If you've been grinding and spinning your gears wondering why things aren't flowing, this message might reframe everything. The Lord is building. The question is whether you're building with Him.

  2. Jul 19

    It's All in the Name

    What we name things shapes what we experience from them. In this message, Pastor David explores the biblical weight of naming — not just what we call our children, but the meaning we assign to our trials, our identity, our circumstances, and even God Himself. He shares how years of insecurity trained him to sort every experience into a "bad bucket," and what shifted when the Lord began redefining his name — beloved, Christ-bearer, king — as a journey He was inviting David into. He walks through the story of Naomi trying to rename herself Mara while God quietly refused to agree with it, and gets vulnerably into what it looked like to declare life over his son Titus in the NICU instead of partnering with the fear that was screaming for attention. James says to count it all joy when you face trials — not find the silver lining, but name the whole thing joy. That's not denial. It's faith that says every tear is a seed, and the God who sees you now is already preparing the harvest. If you've been assigning the wrong name to what you're walking through — or to yourself — this message is an invitation to let Him rename it.

  3. Jul 12

    The Leaven of the Kingdom

    Jesus told His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod — and they thought He was talking about bread. In this message, Pastor David unpacks what Jesus was actually warning them about: two counterfeit kingdoms that can quietly permeate a believer's life without them even noticing. The kingdom of comfort believes in God but lives as if self is on the throne — fascinated by Jesus but unwilling to be transformed by Him. The kingdom of fear earns and strives and performs, convinced that if the conditions aren't perfect, God won't show up. And then there's the kingdom of heaven — where we don't work for His favor but from it, where the bride gets ready not to make the groom come but because she knows He's already coming. David gets personal about what it looks like when these leavens creep in — through exhaustion, through religious habit, through emotions that convince us God must not be near because we can't feel Him — and invites us to ask the harder question: which leaven is in me right now? We pray this message stirs something in you that refuses to settle for comfort or fear when the kingdom of heaven is already inside you.

  4. Jul 5

    United

    Unity was so important to Jesus that He dedicated His final prayer before the cross to it — not that we would get our theology perfect, but that we would be one. In this message, Pastor David explores why unity is the container for everything else the Lord wants to pour out, why it's not the same thing as agreement, and why the blessing of God is already waiting in the place where His people learn to stay connected — even across deep differences. He unpacks the distinction between unity and agreement, why both matter but function differently, and what it looks like to bless people whose methods and beliefs challenge everything you hold dear. If you've ever wondered how to honor the image of God in someone you profoundly disagree with — or why it even matters — this message will give you language for it. We pray it draws you deeper into the heart of what Jesus prayed over all of us in the garden.

  5. Jun 28

    The Work of Our Hands

    What if the job you're in right now — the one that feels far from ministry — is exactly where the kingdom needs you? In this message, Pastor David breaks apart the false division between secular work and ministry and roots us in what Genesis reveals: God worked, called it craftsmanship, and then gave us the same mandate. He unpacks the Hebrew words for work and service, shares honestly from his own journey of wanting to leave business behind for "real" ministry, and walks through what it looks like to plant the right seeds in the right season — even when they're not the seeds you would have chosen. The message closes with a prayer from Psalm 90:17 that reframes everything: "Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands." Whatever you're doing right now, it matters — and He wants to establish it.

  6. Jun 21

    Attributes of our Father

    The first thing the enemy attacked in Jesus after His baptism was His identity — "If you really are the Son of God." He does the same thing to us. In this Father's Day message, MaryEllen Swafford grounds us in who our heavenly Father actually is through His attributes — He loves, He forgives, He fills, He provides, He keeps His promises, and He is faithful — and invites us to live from that identity instead of from the wounds or expectations tied to our earthly parents. She gets personal about her own journey from feeling overlooked to hearing the Father say, "You have always been mine," and challenges us to extend that same forgiveness to our parents and to ourselves. Our earthly parents did the best they could with the tools they had. But our truest identity has always come from Him.

  7. Jun 14

    Walking in Love

    If a word can mean almost anything, eventually it means almost nothing — and that's what our culture has done to the word love. In this message, guest speaker Raul Reyes takes us back to the greatest commandment and sits with a question most of us don't ask ourselves honestly enough: do I really love God? He unpacks why biblical love can't be reduced to what we feel in a worship service, why Jesus insists that loving God and loving people are inseparable, and what it looks like to love your enemy without compromising truth or pretending evil is good. Raul is vulnerable about his own wrestle — seeing others worship with tears and wondering what's wrong with him — and brings it all the way to the uncomfortable edges of politics, division, and the people we've quietly written off. This message will challenge how you define love and where you've been drawing the line on who deserves it.

  8. Jun 7

    Growing in the Prophetic

    The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Which means every time you share what God has done — in scripture, in your life, in your week — the prophetic is already in the room. In this message, Catherine Reyes opens up a foundational conversation about what New Testament prophecy looks like when love is both the foundation and the covering. She gets real about the tension between wanting to step out and being afraid to get it wrong, offers practical bumpers for those just starting to use this tool, and walks through how to receive and steward prophetic words with wisdom.

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Revive has a mission to create a thriving family of believers who deeply experience the love and presence of God and partner with Jesus to bring the transforming power of His kingdom to the world.

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  • Creator
    Revive Church
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    139
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Revive Church
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    Revive Church

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