At The Front Church, we are inviting as many people as possible to experience Jesus’ story. Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray wraps up our teaching series, “Values: Who are We Becoming?”, by looking at John 4 and Jesus’ “you should come” approach to life. Not only should “you should come” Read more…
When you get in a car the morning after a snowstorm, the light of the sun exposes every little speck of dirt on the windshield; the things you couldn’t see while driving the night before now can’t be ignored. Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray looks at Isaiah’s dirty windshield moment Read more…
Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray continues our series, “Values: Who are We Becoming.” We want to become people who are hearing Jesus’ story. One way we hear Jesus’ story is through baptism. What is baptism? Why are we baptized? Why was Jesus baptized? Should I be baptized? Nate walks through Read more…
Ever feel like you’re in a storm; like the weight of life seems to be bearing down in an unrelenting way? It feels like you just keep getting pummeled? It’s the diagnosis you never expected; it’s the relationship that seems unsalvageable; it’s the winds of another war. At times, we Read more…
We live in a pressure cooker world. We feel this acutely, whether it’s the pressures of work, the pressures of home, or the pressures of a life not going according to planned. We wait for the pressure to be released, thinking life will be found on the other side. But Read more…
Super Bowl Commercials – are they the main point or a distraction? On this Super Bowl Sunday, our Lead Pastor Nate looks at a story in Luke 4 where the people in Jesus’ audience have lost the plot. Have you ever discovered you’ve lost the plot? You’d be in good Read more…
Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray reflects on the Apostle Paul’s words, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2). We confuse radical independence with freedom, but if we don’t allow people to carry our burdens, radical independence is nothing more than slavery. Read more…
When we think of church, we tend to think of church buildings. But the first church buildings weren’t built until the mid 300s. Before there were church buildings, church met in homes. Church, at its core, is community formed by Jesus’ story. And the first communities formed by Jesus’ story Read more…
“Who, me?” “Who, them?” Jesus is like a captain picking the wrong people for his team. But if we’re not careful, we’ll miss why Jesus assembles his team like he does – we are formed in community. Community is messy, but community is worth it. Community is the way Jesus Read more…
We were made for community. But in the Christian story, we take a step even further back: we were made *from* community. This week, we’re developing a Christian theology of community. We begin with God. At the source of all things is a relationship of self-giving love (the Trinity). We Read more…