Most of us are afraid to acknowledge our fear. That's too bad. Coming face to face with fear is one of the most holy things we can do. Jonathan Williams, founding pastor, continues our Advent series Insisting on Hope.
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Rhema explores the crucial difference between our rigid expectations of how God should act and the resilient nature of true hope. We will walk from Galilee to Nairobi and Rome to see how God often brings renewal through small, unexpected seeds rather than the grand victories we plan for. So maybe it's time to let go of our vision board and open our eyes to the quiet, redemptive work God is doing right now in the wilderness.
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Our Deacon of Storytelling, Theon, begins our “Insisting on Hope” sermon series exploring how hope arrives disguised as invitations, breath, movement, and sometimes simply as survival.
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As he concludes our Liberated Faith series, Kevin Singh reminds us that Jesus invites us into a comfort rooted in God, not in avoiding hard conversations. This week’s sermon challenges us to see how empire has shaped our faith and how holy discomfort leads us toward justice, healing, and liberation. Please note, there is no audio for approximately the first 5 minutes.
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It is easy to become absorbed in our own lives - asking how we will earn a living, where we will make our home, and how we will reach our goals. Yet faith calls us to look beyond individuality. Rev. Venida continues our Liberated Faith series, inviting us to honor our interdependence and connectedness, remembering that true liberation is found not in isolation but in community.
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This fall season finds us contemplating a liberated faith. A faith that courageously calls us to look within ourselves and our communities and journey deliberately across territory which is far too often unchartered. It is a bold faith that continuously takes a U-turn from the road of white supremacy culture. It is a fearless faith that steers clear of perfectionism, one right way, power hoarding, a sense of urgency, and quantity over quality. Rev. Venida continues our exploration of Liberated Faith and helps us navigate a characteristic of white supremacy culture some may fear—Open Conflict.
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What do Jesus, Ella Baker, and Zohran Mamdani have in common? Hint: it's related to building power.
Preaching Bootcamper Denia preaches on the limitations and violence of power hoarding, how Jesus gives as a blueprint for power rooted in collective leadership, and how this blueprint has been used to make historic political gains during troubled times.
Pastor Angela explores our cultural habit of only honoring what is written. In doing so, we erase the wide range of ways we communicate with each other and all living things.
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In contemporary society, success is often defined through quantifiable, outward-facing metrics like numbers, growth, expansion, and visibility. This framework, which measures worth through financial gain and social validation, is heavily influenced by capitalist culture, and the rise of digital technology has made this even more expansive.
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Preaching Bootcamp Deacon, Keli continues our “Liberated Faith” sermon series with a timely invitation to throw off the shackles of false urgency. Despite the chaos that surrounds us, our faith demands that we slow down and put our trust in God, no matter how uncomfortable or unsatisfactory that may seem.
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We continue our Liberated Faith sermon series with a look at how we can unlearn and break free from our alignment with white supremacy culture. Rev. Venida explores the role of perfectionism this week, and as we prepare to courageously weave our way through other critical topics in the following weeks.
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Happy 13th Birthday to Forefront Church! We celebrate and give praise to God for each and every person, service, offering, prayer, hug, kind word, smile, tear, decision, sermon and song that have helped sustain this beautiful community for over a decade. Rev. Venida shares the Good News that the best is yet to come as we continue to liberate our faith and prepare the way for our next chapter.
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We are a church truly lives out Jesus's calling to be the mustard seed. A seed that starts small but They do not stay small. They spread everywhere. They become shelter for all kinds of life. And in Jesus’ time, they were not seen as useful or noble. They were scrappy, stubborn, and impossible to contain.
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The discipline of celebration is believed to undergird all the spiritual practices we’ve explored over the past few weeks. Rev. Venida invites us to reflect on how the joy found in celebration can strengthen us, ease our anxieties, and open us to deeper love and compassion.
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Tsia̍h-pá--buē: What we (might) talk about when we talk about fasting. Kevin speaks about his experience fasting in his life, both for Lent and, this year, for Ramadan. While we are often weary of discipline, what realizations might come out of the discipline of fasting?
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Rev. Venida focuses on the vital discipline of Rest, a practice that is mentioned frequently throughout the Bible and encouraged by Jesus himself. She invites us to reflect on what the Holy Spirit may be saying about embracing rest more intentionally in our lives, and how rest can strengthen and renew us for the journey ahead.
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Kai Ngu walks us through why we are all shaped and disciplined by various institutions and contexts — the workplace, social media, the government, our families — towards becoming certain kinds of people. And while that’s unavoidable, maybe we can pause and think about who we are becoming through these disciplines, and who we would rather be. Perhaps beginning with the discipline of prayer.
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Prayer Deacon Benny reconsiders how we think about meditation, unpacking some of our cultural perceptions about it—decolonized, de-capitalized, and demystified. In preparation, Benny realizes that he has more meditative experience than he thought and realizes that we all meditate more than we realize.
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I Will Use My Voice! As we wrapped up our "Dear Paul" sermon series, Pastor Angela shares her thoughts on the misinterpretation of Paul's letter to a church in Corinth that has been used to justify the silencing of femme voices. If a woman is supposed to be silent in church, why did Jesus commission them to share the gospel repeatedly?
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I Will Use My Voice! As we wrapped up our "Dear Paul" sermon series, Pastor Angela shares her thoughts on the misinterpretation of Paul's letter to a church in Corinth that has been used to justify the silencing of femme voices. If a woman is supposed to be silent in church, why did Jesus commission them to share the gospel repeatedly?
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