Frontier Church

As we begin the Season of Lent leading to Easter, Christian is continuing an emphasis on "authentic repentance" in our pursuit of Discipleship in a Secular Age. Tomorrow message is on "The Miracle of the Spirit: Perseverance in Suffering" from Romans 5.

A Move is Coming + The Miracle of Forgiveness, Psalm 51 (PART 2) Christian shares a sense that there is a move happening in the American Church of deep repentance and turning back to the Lord... Addressing the complacency and self-righteousness in our hearts... The last several decades of the church has gone after breaking the strongholds and hypocrisy of religion, and we are moving into a time wh...

A Move is Coming + The Miracle of Forgiveness, Psalm 51 Christian will be sharing a profound burden on how he senses that there is a move happening in the American Church of deep repentance and turning back to the Lord... Addressing the complacency and self-righteousness in our hearts... The last several decades of the church has gone after breaking the strongholds and hypocrisy of religion, and w...

The grace God provides is not based upon social standing, personal merit, or any other achievement deemed worthy or important by human society. It re-defines our self-worth and personal significance. A peasant girl (Mary) rather than a temple priest’s wife (Elizabeth) was bestowed the Messianic blessing and entrusted with the motherhood of God’s Son; as such, God’s grace “looked with favor on the...

"Making Room", Cheryl Allen, PIHOP Director Sunday, Dec 8, 2024 was our final Sunday Service at the International House of Prayer, our home for the last 6 years! A very special and bittersweet service as Cheryl Allen, the director of PIHOP is with us, giving a message titled, "Making Room". Every time Cheryl ministers, she gives a message that gives us fresh eyes to see the challenges of our calli...

Advent Week One// "The Songs of Christmas" // Phil 2:1-11 This week, as we transition from Acts to “Songs of Christmas,” we’re looking at a song that Paul recounted to the very church he planted in Acts 16. This church in Philippi is the healthiest of all the NT churches, and yet Paul is sending this letter to deal with their fighting. The symptom of the problem is self-interest. The root of the p...

Jesus not only modeled but built a "Culture" of authenticity and vulnerability. He was the picture of total and complete emotional health (Mat 14). In his humanity we can see ourselves... and find His invitation to transformation... Pastor Sue Martinsen shares this significant message, accompanied by a powerful testimony...

We will all face some kind of danger in life. How will you face it? How does your faith prepare you for it? Paul expects difficult circumstances because Jesus told him to. When his life is at stake in exactly the same way as he murdered the church's first martyr Stephen, fear doesn't paralyze him, and Paul not only survives this encounter but gains an audience for The Way of Jesus because (1) He e...

WHY DON'T PEOPLE SHARE THEIR FAITH? AND WHY IS SPIRITUAL OPENNESS CHANGING? Rising Spiritual Openness in America... In an October 2022 Barna survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, three out of four (74%) say they want to grow spiritually. Additionally, the same proportion (77%) say they believe in a higher power. Nearly half (44%) say they are more open to God today than before the pandemic. Secular people...

Paul encounters a woman, a slave, and a gentile, in that order, all of whom come to faith in Jesus on the same grounds as he himself was welcomed. Each of these people, Lydia, the slave girl, and the jailer, illustrate to us different ways the Way of Jesus meets people and the manner in which Christ’s kingdom breaks the barriers that we create amongst ourselves. We'll look at 2 questions and 3 act...

Jody + Vanessa Romero are with us from Restoration Los Angeles in East LA. The Romeros have been amazing friends of the Martinsens from before Frontier was planted, and have been regular guests over the life of the church. Jody gives a beautiful message integrating our series on Acts and navigating the life & gifts of the Spirit in the local church. Enjoy.

Acts 17 is the ultimate showdown of how ancient cultural ideology & philosophy is most relevant to our time. Paul was confronting the most influential and culturally forming ideas in history and they are directly connected to our day. This passage reminds us of our message to those ideas and how to engage cultural ideas and real people, while exposing the issues of our hearts. We will look at:...

Acts 15:1-21 This passage has a critical theological debate that is often ignored in sermon series. But this debate teaches us incredibly important things about the gospel itself. Truth matters because truth has consequences for how we live. No other religion offers freedom from burdens like Christianity because Christ took on our burdens for us. We'll hear a powerful testimony of how God uses com...

The book of Acts is all about the earliest Christianity. It shows us something about the character of the earliest Christianity, especially about where the church got its power. No matter what your culture or what your class, no matter what conceptions and categories you come to the Bible with, it will smash some of them. Tomorrow we'll look at a section with two key episodes... The conversion of...

Phil Chan is giving us a special message out of Acts 10, looking at the story of Cornelius + Peter. This incident is a critical juncture of when the church was primarily Jewish but opening to the Gentile world... We'll see how this juncture was happening, and how the gospel began reaching the rest of the world by Peter (the leader of the early church) coming to a moment where he had to see "the ot...

Scholars believe that when early Christians were under the leadership of the apostles and the church in Jerusalem, they had become somewhat passive. When they were scattered all of that changed: they had to gather up the courage to communicate to total strangers what they had learned. They were less eloquent and less experienced than the apostles but, in the end, they proved to be extraordinarily...

The first ever "Christian" sermon saw an environment of supernatural miracles, manifestations, encounters, and the launch of the first church... a mega-church:). But the power of the sermon cut them to the heart. WHY? We're going to see how the Spirit's Sermon (through Peter) addresses the heart of the human condition by looking at the: -Barriers to Our Hearts -How Hearing the Gospel Renews our He...

The trajectory of Luke’s narrative in Acts constructs the history of the beginning of the church as a promise from Jesus Himself. That promise foretells the arrival of the Holy Spirit and the global spread of Christianity throughout the ancient world. The way in which Luke introduces the promise of the Spirit informs us that Jesus’ ascension will take who He was and what He did on earth and releas...

We continue our "Fall Heart Reset" leading to our fall series launch, as we have Ryan Macdonald from Foster the City and Southlands Church with us giving a message on "Growing in Compassion in a Compassion-less World" out of Luke 10. The message starts with a powerful testimony pertaining to this subject in our community by Lamar and Sarah Bontrager. How should we hear this parable for our time? L...

A special Sunday as we begin to cast our vision into our fall, we invite our community into a "Fall Heart Re-set" over the next couple weeks... Before we all get bombarded and committed to the responsibilities, pace, distractions, and chaos of our culture (both good & bad), we want to take a Sunday to re-set and re-align our hearts, and let the ways of Jesus draw us back to vision, peace, joy,...

Daniel and Exile shows the tension of 2 things that arise in exile: 1) "To Give in" (Assimilate) 2) "To Get away" (Separate) 3) Creative Minority (The 3rd option that Daniel lives out) There's always a window to a third option! It's the idea of a creative minority. This is a phrase coined by the late historian, Arnold Toynbee, and his work on the rise and fall of empires and then made popular by C...

(*We apologize that the first few minutes have been edited out due to technical issues) Christian continues our series from Daniel and the "Living in Babylon" series as we look at the bizarre encounter with the "handwriting on the wall" from Daniel 5.... It provides a challenge to allow our exile (Exile= our second choice world) to prove what's in us, to expose what we trust in, and to examine the...

Ajay Samuel is on the senior leadership of the Pasadena International House of Prayer (where we meet on Sunday mornings). Ajay carries a unique combination of humor and scriptural depth, always imparting a relatable and inspiring lifestyle of intimacy with the Lord.

There may be no more crucial theme ignored in the American church than the subject of exile... As we increasingly live in a post-Christian city + culture, exile gives us the vision of hope to thrive despite circumstances. Prepare to be convicted... and filled with a consuming hope to thrive as a "Creative Minority". "Becoming a Creative Minority paints a compelling picture of the way the church is...

Last Sunday Christian launched a new series on "Living in Babylon: Thriving in LA as Disciples in Exile"... As we increasingly live in a post-Christian city + culture, exile gives us the vision of hope to thrive despite circumstances. Last week we talked about how exile is "our second chance world"... that we all have realities where our first choice, our hopes, dreams, plans ("what should have be...