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 training ground for identity, courage, and trust.

He sets our moment inside the larger story of what God is doing worldwide—a historic global harvest, a rising hunger for Jesus among Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and the biblical call for every believer to become a witness and a discipler. Through vivid stories from the nations and the marketplace, he shows how God is moving through ordinary people in tech, business, education, and family who see their everyday spaces as mission fields.

This message invites us to step with boldness into God’s redemptive story for Los Angeles: revealing Jesus wherever we are, carrying His presence into every sphere of society, and embracing the season of preparation God has us in.

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 (Mission)

Message Flow (Luke 14)

Scene 1: He heals our excuses (vv.1–6) — Compassion over rigidity; let the gospel reshape your interruptions.

Scene 2: He humbles our striving (vv.7–14) — True honor is received, not achieved; generosity without transaction.

Scene 3: He invites our response (vv.15–24) — The Father’s banquet is open; don’t make excuses—come, and compel others to come.

Practices This Week:

-Identify one overlooked person and make room: send a text, schedule a meal, slow down and listen.

-Create margin: resist busyness, cynicism, and fear that crowd out hospitality.

-Host like Jesus: invite those who can’t repay you.

Timestamps

0:00 Context: uncertainty, faith, and our unchanging mission

4:28 “We’re still the church—our purpose doesn’t change”

5:00 Luke 14 setup

9:23 Big Idea: Make Room

11:04 Scene 1 — Heals our excuses (vv.1–6)

15:10 Practice: reshape your interruptions

15:38 Scene 2 — Humbles our striving (vv.7–14)

20:02 Honor/shame, identity, and grace

26:26 Grace seats us at the banquet

33:12 Scene 3 — Invitation & excuses (vv.15–24)

36:49 Respond: accept your seat, compel others

41:05 Ministry & response

How this fits our series:

Live the Story, Tell the Story focuses on mission as everyday hospitality, justice, and witness. Luke 14 presses us beyond good intentions into a gospel-shaped table: humility over performance, generosity over transaction, invitation over exclusion.

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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 trumpet still sounds today: faith that never costs us anything for the sake of others isn’t faith at all.

This message invites us into a different kind of fast—a Fast of Presence—where grace turns outward into justice, and revival looks like setting others free.

Before chasing emotional revival, God calls us to heart-level renewal:

to stop performing faith and start practicing mercy,

to stop hiding from our own flesh and start moving toward need in love.

Let Isaiah 58 hold up the mirror.

Let grace expose the gap between what we say and what we live—and let the Spirit fill it.

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 Scripture and the faithfulness of God.

But this isn’t just an academic lecture. It’s a powerful reflection on how tribalism—in ancient Israel and in our modern world—tears us apart, and how Jesus, the true King, still unites what division destroys.

If you’ve ever wrestled with doubt, history, or the credibility of faith, this message will deepen your trust in the Bible and stir fresh awe for the God who holds both truth and love together.

Watch now and rediscover the beauty, evidence, and hope of the gospel.

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 practices:

1) Goodness as Witness — Respond with visible kindness where it costs you.

2) Your 60-Second Hope Story — Practice sharing what Jesus has done in you.

3) Strength from His Story — Pray daily: “Jesus, I live in Your story. Suffering, then glory.”

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:13–18

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"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 to send from—a launchpad for mission. Only a people secure in the Father’s love can resist idolatry and carry His presence into our city.

Scripture: Exodus 3:1–12; John 15:16

Remember: “One year for the next ten.”

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 humbles and heals. Like Naaman, we can’t buy or earn God’s favor; we must simply trust and receive.

-Faith in a complicated world. God sends us back into our workplaces, neighborhoods, and relationships with humble courage and a clear witness.

This is a call to surrender pride, receive God’s free grace, and carry His presence into everyday life.

Watch or re-watch the full recording now and let God speak to you.

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 5:17-19, we explore:

-The Power of Words: why written truth shapes nations and hearts.

-The Word of God: Jesus guarantees Scripture’s unshakable authority and fulfills every promise.

-Why a Written Word Still Matters: authority that loves us enough to contradict us, unity in a fractured world, and power that transforms lives.

This message calls us to non-anxious courage—to speak truth without violence, to defend the freedom of open dialogue, and to live under the loving authority of God’s Word.

If you’ve wrestled with sharing your faith in a culture of “my truth” and cancel fear, this sermon will strengthen your spine and steady your heart.

Watch now and rediscover why the Bible is credible, beautiful, and worth living—and even dying—for.

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 righteousness, honor, and new creation life. That’s the story that works.

In this message we explore:

-Why our cultural story of value leaves us empty.

-Why our human story of restoration falls short.

-How the Great Exchange changes everything: restoration, transformation, and a mission to live and tell the story.

Through Paul’s theology and Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son — even Rembrandt’s masterpiece painting — we see the fullness of the gospel come alive: a Father who runs to embrace us, restore us, and send us.

This is the story that actually works.

This is the story you were made to live — and the story you were sent to tell.