Frontier Church

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...

Perhaps one of the best examples of how pride blinds us to its presence in our lives is that what we perceive to be humility, the complete opposite of pride, can be in reality just a different form of pride. Nebuchadnezzar’s pride began in contentment and prosperity, but he had no peace of mind. It caused him to take credit for everything he’d achieved. God dehumanized him in a reflection of what...