Frontier Church

Re-story Your Exile, Daniel 5

(*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 warning signs that God desperately desires us to receive. We'll encounter a God that is magnificently patient, powerful, and worth letting Him "re-story" our exile stories...DANIEL INSPIRES US WITH 3 TESTS TO BREAK FREE FROM PRIDE + EXILE:1. THE "WEIGHT TEST" (Is there substance to my ways?)2. THE "SECURITY TEST" (Am I trusting in false security?)3. THE "WARNING TEST" (Are there warnings in my life/Where's the handwriting on the wall?)Questions to ponder:- In what ways has God warned you that it's time to take back that lifestyle "bent" more seriously?- How is God leading you into something new?- What are the warning signs in your life?- Are you learning from them or are they tormenting you?

Relating in Deep Unity as a Mature Family, Ajay Samuel

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.

Living in Babylon: Thriving in LA as Disciples in Exile // Daniel 2

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 called to participate in these challenging and demanding times - seeking neither to control nor abandon the world, but to love it to new life through redemptive participation. In applying the idea of a Creative Minority to a Christian community, I describe it as follows: A Creative Minority is a Christian community in a web of stubbornly loyal relationships, knotted together in a living network of persons who are committed to practicing the way of Jesus together for the renewal of the world." -Jon Tyson