Messages

Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray continues our teaching series, “Christmas Interrupted.” This Sunday, we take a look at the Magi. The first word they speak is “Where?” – the first words of any human character in Matthew’s Gospel. They were a lot like us. The Magi were from a different religious and cultural tradition, and God interrupts their traditions because He loves them, pursues them, and wants them to know Him. Their interruption becomes an invitation to know God – a God quite different than any deity they’d ever pictured. We invite you to look at this story with us with fresh eyes.

December 18, 2022

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Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray continues our teaching series, “Christmas Interrupted.” This Sunday, we take a look at the shepherds. The shepherds needed the lies they believed about themselves interrupted by a word from God. They thought they weren’t worth God’s love; they thought God was far away; they thought God didn’t notice; they thought because of their mistakes, they had to earn God’s love. In their own eyes, they thought very little of themselves. In the eyes of society, they were outcasts. In the eyes of religious society, they were religious outcasts. But God chose these shepherds to announce the good news of His Son. We invite you to look at this story with us with fresh eyes.

December 11, 2022

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Our Lead Pastor Nate Ray kicks off our new teaching series, “Christmas Interrupted.” We take a look at Joseph, a character in the Christmas story whose dreams and expectations for his life are violently interrupted by two words: “I’m pregnant.” What do we do when our dreams and expectations for our imagined life are so violently interrupted? What do we do when the interruption is so fierce we can’t imagine a future beyond it? Sometimes the only thing that will suffice in these moments is a word from God. That’s what happens with Joseph in Matthew 1:18-25. We invite you to look at this story with us with fresh eyes.

December 4, 2022

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Do you ever feel “ungrounded?” Do you feel like life is moving too fast and getting your bearings seems to be an impossibility? What if this holiday season could be an opportunity to (re)discover practices that ground you? This week, our Lead Pastor Nate shares about an encounter with Jesus, recorded for us in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 17:11-19) and offers some reflections and suggestions as we enter the Christmas season. Be encouraged and take a listen.

November 27, 2022

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This week The Front Church has a guest speaker. Listen and be encouraged as Bo Corbin, our very own Pastoral Resident, gives the message, “After God’s Own Heart.”

November 20, 2022

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This week, our Lead Pastor Nate wraps up our teaching series, “The Good Life,” by looking at Jesus’ most perplexing words in His happiness manifesto: “Happy are the persecuted” (Mt 5:10). How could this possibly be? Could it be we’ve so squeezed out any element of suffering from our definition of “the good life” that we lack an imagination for how this is even possible? Our personal versions of “the good life” don’t seem to be helping the happiness statistics or the depression rates. So just what exactly is Jesus saying here, and how does He define “the good life?” Be encouraged and take a listen.

November 13, 2022

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The Front Church is a new church in the Salt Lake Valley, inviting as many people as possible to experience Jesus’ story. To learn more, visit www.thefrontchurch.com

[The Good Life is a teaching series inspired by Derwin Gray’s book, “The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches about Finding True Happiness.” You can learn more by visiting https://thegoodlifebook.net]

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