Frontier Church

Our Sacred Responsibility: Building What Lasts Passage: 2 Corinthians 9:6–15 What we do with money and resources is never just practical — it’s spiritual. Jesus said, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” In a city like Los Angeles, where people come to invest their lives in something meaningful, the question becomes: what are we sowing with our lives? In 2 Corinthians 9, the ap...

BIG IDEA: Your treasure reveals your trust. And generosity is how the Father reshapes the heart. Luke 12 is one of Jesus’ most direct teachings on money, anxiety, and trust. In this message, we’re not taking a “new building offering” or running a campaign—we’re letting Jesus do heart-level surgery. As Frontier steps into a new season of stewarding a building and a long-term vision, the deeper ques...

What Is Shaping Your Truth? | John 17:13–19 We just stepped into a new building — but Jesus reminds us we’re stepping into something much bigger. In John 17, on the night before the cross, Jesus prays not that His followers would escape the world, but that they would be sanctified in the truth and sent into it. In a culture where truth is personal, autonomy is ultimate, and happiness is the highes...

Formed to Overcome: "The Only Way to Defeat Evil" | Romans 12 As we close our final Sunday at Webster Elementary and prepare to step into our new space, we return to Romans 12 and ask a defining question: If the gospel is true, what kind of people does it create? Paul tells us that in view of God’s mercy, we offer our lives as living sacrifices. We don’t improve ourselves first — we offer ourselve...

What are we really offering our lives to? In this message from our Vision Series, we linger in Romans 12:1–2 and name the quiet, powerful forces shaping us every day. The Bible calls us to become living sacrifices—but that raises an honest question: What are we already sacrificing ourselves for? This teaching explores five modern “altars” that often form our pace, identity, and sense of worth: -pr...

What does steady faith look like in a chaotic world? In this message from Psalm 71, Pastor Christian invites us to take the long view of faith — a faith formed not by dramatic rescue, but by learning to make God our home over a lifetime. Before opening the text, he briefly and pastorally addresses two real tensions many are feeling right now: 1) the renewed immigration unrest and recent deaths con...

The Bride Jesus Sees — Becoming the Church He Died For Most of us carry mixed experiences with church. Some are beautiful. Some are painful. Some leave us skeptical. But what if our view of the church has been shaped more by consumerism than by conviction? In this message, Phil invites us to see the church the way Jesus sees her — not just in her imperfections, but in her eternal beauty, devotion,...

Why does the debate between individualism and community never go away? Why do freedom and belonging so often feel like they’re in competition? In this message, we explore one of the deepest longings of the human heart — the desire to be fully known and fully free — and why neither radical individualism nor forced collectivism can actually deliver the life we’re looking for. Drawing from James 3:17...

Romans 8 | From Orphan Anxiety to Adopted Hope //A Different Way of Life Many of us came to Los Angeles with a dream. Not just a career dream—but a hope of becoming someone. And somewhere along the way, the dream quietly turned into pressure. When your dream becomes your identity: -Failure feels like disqualification -Slowness feels like falling behind -Rest feels irresponsible Scripture has a nam...

Follow Me Again, A Shepherding Sermon for the New Year John 21 At the start of a new year, many of us feel what could be called the New Year Ache—a quiet pressure to fix ourselves, reinvent our lives, or prove we’re enough. Even when life is good, January often amplifies exhaustion, comparison, regret, and a crisis of confidence. This message explores why cultural solutions to that ache ultimately...

The Scandal of Christmas | Mark 6 — God Came Close NOTE: This stream had technical issues and got cut split into two parts. Please click here for the first 12 minutes of the message: https://youtube.com/live/tf-avztsvcs We love scandal when leaders fall. But Mark 6 shows a different kind of scandal: a Leader who rises. In Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth, people aren’t offended because He breaks laws—b...

The Scandal of Christmas | Mark 6 — God Came Close NOTE: This recording had issues and got cut off at 12:38, please click here for the rest of the message: https://www.youtube.com/live/AE2r11BIt54 We love scandal when leaders fall. But Mark 6 shows a different kind of scandal: a Leader who rises. In Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth, people aren’t offended because He breaks laws—but because He violates...

In this message from John 11, Pastor Phil connects our church’s year—fires, wandering, waiting, and unexpected provision—with the story of Lazarus and the God who seems “late” but is always working. He shows how waiting is often God’s classroom: the place where faith matures, community deepens, and unseen formation prepares us for what’s ahead. If you’re reflecting on the past year or navigating y...

-When Jesus brings your heart back to life, He brings your purpose back to life. In this Advent message, “Sent Again: When Jesus Opens Your Eyes and Reignites Your Mission,” Pastor Christian walks through Luke 24 (the road to Emmaus) and Genesis 12 to show how Jesus meets us in disappointment, opens the Scriptures, reveals His presence, and then sends us back into the world with renewed courage an...

What are you really working for? What if your job, your unpaid labor, your parenting, your studies, and even the parts of your week that feel invisible are actually one of the primary frontiers where Jesus sends you? In this message, Pastor Christian walks through Ephesians 6:5–9 to show how the gospel reframes our everyday work: giving us a new heart for how we work, a new audience we work for, a...

In this powerful and timely message, missionary and leader of YWAM, SunAwh Park, returns to Frontier with a prophetic encouragement for a community walking through transition. Drawing from 21 years in global missions and nearly 100 nations, SunAwh shares two images the Lord impressed on him: Frontier as an arrow being pulled back for greater accuracy and impact, and the wilderness as God’s trainin...

When time, place, and plans shift, our mission doesn’t. In Luke 14, Jesus doesn’t hand out a social policy—He tests our hearts. The gospel creates margin, breaks comparison, and seats us at a table we didn’t pay for—then sends us to “make room” for others, especially those who can’t repay us. Big Idea: Because grace made room for us, we make room for others. Series: Live the Story, Tell the Story...

Real revival doesn’t start with louder worship—it starts with honest repentance. In Revival That Looks Like Justice, Pastor Christian Martinsen continues our Live the Story, Tell the Story missional series with Isaiah 58—God’s piercing confrontation of hypocrisy and hollow religion. His people were fasting, praying, and performing devotion, yet ignoring the very people He cared about. Isaiah’s tru...

Oxford theologian and Frontier’s teaching partner Michael Murray brings a brilliant and timely message from Judges 3 that blends faith, history, and archaeology. Drawing on his years of biblical scholarship and research at Oxford University, Michael traces the evidence for the Exodus—from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to the Amarna Letters—and shows how it all points to the trustworthiness of Scri...

Faith can feel costly right now—but curiosity is rising. From 1 Peter 3, we explore how followers of Jesus turn pressure into a platform: do good anyway, be ready to share your hope, and draw strength from Jesus’ story. This message is part of our fall series “Tell the Story, Live the Story,” built around six practices: Rooted • Your Story • Scripture • Hospitality • Justice • Sent. This week’s pr...

"The Door That Shouldn’t Be Open: Chosen for Holy Ground" A door we couldn’t force open—and didn’t—swung wide. Behind “They chose Frontier,” we heard the Father: “I chose you.” Message Summary: From living-room beginnings to a miracle LOI at St. James, this is a story of God’s initiative. Exodus 3 reminds us that God calls us by name and goes with us. This building isn’t for comfort; it’s a nest t...

This Sunday’s gathering was filled with powerful worship, joyful baby dedications, and a timely message from 2 Kings 5. Pastor Christian explored Naaman’s encounter with God—a story of shattered expectations, humbling grace, and courageous faith. Key themes from the message: -God shatters our illusions. He refuses to fit into our power structures, whether political, religious, or personal. -Grace...

When the world feels chaotic and free speech is under attack, how do followers of Jesus stay bold and gentle at the same time? In this timely message Pastor Christian reflects on the tragic public-square shooting of Charlie Kirk and the deeper question it raises: what kind of nation—and what kind of church—will we be? From the American ideal of a “living document” to Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:17-1...

Every one of us is living by a story. Some chase value through performance, appearance, or approval. Others try to restore themselves by fixing what’s broken or pretending it doesn’t matter. But Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 — those stories don’t work. The gospel offers something better: the Great Exchange. In Christ, our sin, shame, and failure are taken up by Him — and we receive His righteousnes...