The Town Church / Fort Collins

This is the audio life of one congregation, The Town Church in Fort Collins, Colorado, split across three formats that sound quite different from each other. The Sunday sermons are the spine. They move through a book in order, and the teaching voice is direct rather than literary — it sets context, reads the passage, names the main claim, then walks the text in sections. Luke 4:31-44 gets that treatment. The sermon lingers on the detail that the demon tried one last jab on the way out and could not harm the man at all, then reaches back to chapter four, verse six, where Satan had offered Jesus authority over all the kingdoms. The connection is drawn slowly and out loud, so a listener can follow it. Easter 2026 takes 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and starts somewhere ordinary. It lists the things that consume a week — a financial situation with no room around it, news about a health issue, a family member making decisions that wreak havoc, an argument that keeps recurring — and grants that all of it is real and heavy before asking what Paul meant by of most importance. Sermons close in prayer, often asking for patience until restoration comes and for some of it now. Running alongside is Praying the Psalms, short episodes with a fixed shape. A few sentences of setting come first: Psalm 51 as David's plea for cleansing after his sin with Bathsheba, Psalm 53 as a startling assessment that finds no good in anyone at all, Psalm 42 as the work of the sons of Korah, musicians kept from the temple while enemies taunt them with where is your God. Then the psalm is read in full, unhurried. Then a closing invitation to be fully present with God, with the reminder that he is not desiring a performance. Then The Afterword, which is where the feed relaxes. The group revisits the prior Sunday's passage, and the first stretch is often pure room: welcoming each other by name, a digression on whether the Georgia-Tennessee border says y'all or something closer to u-ins, a friend named Betty six days out from leaving for Japan with her visa in hand. One episode opens by cheerfully admitting the first recording was unusable. The joke about voice-acting everyone from a transcript is allowed to run before the turn back to the text. The tone throughout is warm and communal, comfortable being unpolished, and serious about sin, suffering and doctrine without performing seriousness. Sermon episodes begin with a note that listening to preaching is only part of spiritual formation, and encourage anyone without a local church to commit to a body of believers where they live.