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Hospitality That Heals — Make Room (Luke 14) | Live the Story, Tell the Story

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.Timestamps0:00 Context: uncertainty, faith, and our unchanging mission4:28 “We’re still the church—our purpose doesn’t change”5:00 Luke 14 setup9:23 Big Idea: Make Room11:04 Scene 1 — Heals our excuses (vv.1–6)15:10 Practice: reshape your interruptions15:38 Scene 2 — Humbles our striving (vv.7–14)20:02 Honor/shame, identity, and grace26:26 Grace seats us at the banquet33:12 Scene 3 — Invitation & excuses (vv.15–24)36:49 Respond: accept your seat, compel others41:05 Ministry & responseHow 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.New here?Plan a visit and get location updates: frontierchurch.us

LIVE THE STORY, TELL THE STORY: Revival that looks like Justice, Isaiah 58:1-12

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.

“Faith, Evidence, and the End of Tribalism” — Michael Murray, Ph.D.

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.