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Israel had been rescued from Egypt, but getting out of Egypt was only the beginning. The wilderness became a kind of “desert honeymoon,” a place where Israel had to learn what life with their new God was actually like. And they quickly discovered that this God had standards, moved at His own pace, and didn’t always work the way they expected. Through Israel’s conflicts in the desert, Exodus reveal...

Moses finally stands before Pharaoh with a message from God: “Let my people go.” Pharaoh responds with the question at the heart of this part of Exodus: “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him?” And that question is bigger than Pharaoh. Who gets the final word over my life? In this message, we look at the confrontation between Pharaoh and the God of Israel, why the signs in Egypt are about more t...

What do you do when you realize you’re not enough for what’s in front of you? In Exodus 3, Moses encounters God at the burning bush after his own attempts to fix things have failed. Moses asks, “Who am I?” But God doesn’t respond by building up Moses’ self-confidence. He says, “I will be with you.” This week we explore the God who reveals Himself as “I AM,” the God who sees, hears, knows, and come...

What has a hold on you? We like to think we're free. But sometimes you don't realize something has a hold on you until it starts pulling you somewhere you don't want to go. This week we begin our fall journey through Exodus, Learning to Live Free, by looking at the masters we serve. Career, money, approval, relationships, control, even good desires can begin to shape us in ways we don't recognize....

What if God’s presence, not merely His promises... is actually the whole point? We spend so much of our lives believing that rest is waiting somewhere ahead of us: when the circumstances change, the prayer gets answered, the breakthrough comes, or we finally reach our “Promised Land.” But in Exodus 33, Moses makes a stunning discovery: he would rather have God in the wilderness than the Promised L...

FORMATION: WE NEED PRACTICES | Exodus 16 Why doesn't getting free automatically make us free? Israel was out of Egypt... but Egypt was still in them. God had delivered them in a moment, but learning to live as free people would take time. So in the wilderness, God didn't just give them information. He gave them practices: daily bread, trust, Sabbath, repetition. The same is true for us. We're all...

What if our obsession with independence is actually making us less free? We live in a world with more content and connection than ever—and yet genuine community can feel increasingly scarce. We’ve been taught to imagine freedom as needing nobody, owing nobody, and belonging to nobody. But the story of Exodus offers a radically different vision. In Exodus 19, God reminds Israel that He rescued them...

What do we do when we have a promise from God, but find ourselves stuck in the process? In this powerful message, Paul Martini, Lead Pastor of New Life City Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teaches on what God does in the waiting seasons of our lives. Through the story of Jacob, his longing for Rachel, the unexpected years with Leah, and the long road between promise and fulfillment—Paul reminds...

FREE TO BELONG | Breaking Comparison & Becoming the Dwelling Place of God We live in a culture fueled by comparison, competition, and the pressure to prove ourselves. But the Kingdom of God offers a different way. In week three of our summer series, Freedom, Tiffany explores what it means to be truly free in community. Through the book of James and 1 Corinthians, we discover that true identity...

Special Note: During this message, the power unexpectedly went out across the entire city of Pasadena in the middle of our service! We want to give a huge thank you to our incredible team for adapting in real time and helping us continue gathering and worshiping together. Please forgive the less-than-ideal audio and video quality—this recording was captured on a phone after we lost power. We're gr...

We all long for freedom, but often don't know how God actually brings it about. In this opening message of our summer series, Freedom, Phil explores the relationship between forgiveness and healing, and how Jesus meets us in the places of pain, disappointment, and brokenness. Through Scripture, we'll discover that freedom isn't simply the absence of struggle—it's learning to walk with Jesus in a w...

BEASTMODE // What Is Marking You? (Revelation 13:11–18) For centuries, Christians have debated the identity of the Beast, the meaning of 666, and the mark of the beast. But what if we've been asking the wrong question? In this final message of our Revelation series, we discover that Revelation 13 is less about identifying the Beast and more about identifying what is shaping us. Every kingdom, ideo...

Why do some people become bitter while others become beautiful? Life is hard for everyone. Sooner or later, the diagnosis comes, the prayer goes unanswered, the relationship struggles, the dream dies, or the future becomes uncertain. Yet some people seem to possess a strength that carries them through suffering without losing hope. In this message, we'll explore James 1:2–8 and discover how endura...

When life feels uncertain, where do you look for stability? In Revelation 4, John is given a vision of heaven—not first to answer all his questions, but to show him a throne. Before God explains the future, He reveals who governs it. In a world filled with anxiety, uncertainty, and the illusion of control, Revelation 4 reminds us that our hope is not found in having all the answers, but in knowing...

What if the greatest spiritual danger today isn’t rebellion against God… but the illusion that we no longer need Him? In this message from Book of Revelation 3:14–22, we explore Jesus’ shocking words to the church in Laodicea: a wealthy, successful, self-sufficient city that believed it needed nothing… while becoming spiritually blind underneath the surface. This message unpacks: The true meaning...

"How to BE rich"... or "How to GET rich?" That is the issue... This past Sunday, Charlie Brown explored a different vision of wealth... one not centered on money, status, or success, but on generosity, wisdom, service, leadership, and the Kingdom of God. Through passages in Romans 12, Exodus 18, Mark 6, and Acts 6, we saw how God uses ordinary people, spiritual gifts, shared responsibility, and su...

Most people spend their lives wondering if they’re doing enough, becoming enough, succeeding enough, or mattering enough… while Jesus keeps asking a very different question: Will you remain faithful with whatever strength you have? This week in Revelation 3, we explore two churches—and two ways of living. Sardis looked alive on the outside but had quietly drifted spiritually asleep. Philadelphia h...

We don’t usually walk away from Jesus… we just slowly adjust Him. In this message from Revelation 2, we look at Jesus’ words to the church in Pergamum—a community that didn’t deny their faith, but quietly began to compromise under pressure. And the warning is clear: The greatest threat to your faith isn’t always what’s happening around you… it’s what’s slowly forming within you. This message expos...

Are You Living a Functional or Relational Faith? In a world filled with global chaos, digital distractions, and the pressure to perform, it is easy to lose the very thing that matters most: our first love. This week, we continue our journey through the Book of Revelation, looking at Jesus’ direct messages to the churches in Ephesus and Smyrna. While Revelation is often misunderstood as a book abou...

This Sunday at Frontier, we had the privilege of welcoming Cheryl Allen, director of the Pasadena International House of Prayer—a leader who carries a deep passion for prayer, the presence of God, and awakening the church to live with both the Word and the Spirit. In this message, Cheryl walks us through Book of Isaiah 6—a powerful vision of the Lord seated on the throne. In a moment of cultural n...

What if the deepest question of your life isn’t “Am I enough?” …but “Who is worthy?” In this Easter message from Revelation 5, we step into a powerful vision of heaven—where the future of the world hangs in the balance and one question echoes across all of creation: Who is worthy to open the scroll? This message explores why every human heart wrestles with guilt, fear, injustice, and meaning—and h...

What if the Jesus you’ve been following… is too small? In Revelation 1:9–20, John doesn’t receive an explanation for his suffering—he receives a vision of Jesus. And that vision changes everything. Most of us, over time, have quietly reshaped Jesus into someone manageable: predictable, comfortable, easy to agree with. But the problem is— the Jesus you’ve made manageable cannot do what only the rea...

Revelation: Seeing What’s Really Real (Revelation 1:1–8) In a world filled with uncertainty, conflict, and anxiety, it’s natural to wonder: Is this the end? But the book of Revelation wasn’t written to help us predict the future—it was written to help us live faithfully in the present. In this message, we explore how Revelation pulls back the curtain on reality—revealing who Jesus is, who we are,...

What if the story of the prodigal son isn’t really about the son at all? In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories — a lost sheep, a lost coin, and a lost son — to reveal something far deeper than human failure: A God who relentlessly pursues. This message unpacks the heart of the Father ,a God who searches, runs, and restores, and challenges us to see where we are in the story. We also hear a powerfu...