Connection Church Sioux Falls

The Gospel comes by the power of the Holy Spirit with full confidence of our sin and sinfulness and our complete pardon in Christ.

The Good News of who Jesus is and what He has done confronts us with power and calls us to revel in the God who saves us.

Your soul was made to need and desire deep and eternal satisfaction in God.

We are often oblivious to the things in our lives that are obvious to others.

God has, in Jesus Christ, esteemed us with a gift of the highest cost, so we join all the nations of the earth in granting Him the highest glory.

God’s goodness in hearing and answering prayer leads us to continual thanksgiving, praise, and sustained prayer and communion; even in the face of death.

God’s goodness in hearing and answering prayer leads us to continual thanksgiving, praise, and sustained prayer and communion with Him.

Jesus resolves the irreconcilable differences between a perfect and holy God and sinful people and turns them into unstoppable forces for His glory.

Trouble and perplexity drive us to earnest prayer and earnest prayer drives away trouble and perplexity.

In Psalm 22 we see both suffering and glory side by side and are stretched to believe that one leads to the other to the extent that we begin to anticipate both the sufferings of Christ and the glory to follow.

A high view of God as creator and sustainer and a high view of God as righteous judge allows us to look to Him as the one who can declare us innocent and lead us toward His purposes.

Suffering is a universal experience. Comfort is a universal need. God's word is filled to the brim with comforting truth. 2nd Corinthians teaches that comfort comes from a relationship, is found in a biblical perspective, and is found when we use our suffering to love others.

The goal of a disciple of Jesus is to leverage what they have for the sake of drawing others into glory of Christ. (Fishers of Men)

Jonah repents by telling a story about himself in which he is not the hero; the Grace of God is.

If your identity isn’t as a forgiven person; then it will be in vengeance or avoidance, and Mission will be impossible.

While Jonah’s transformation by God’s grace propels him to the mission, the mission exposes his need for ongoing transformation by Grace.

When God restores you, he restores you to His purpose in the world.

Genuine repentance ends with addressing lordship and idolatry, by admitting that there is a real and eternal cost to sin, and a pleasure in the grace of God once the sin is out in the open.

When God asks a hard thing of us, the painful truth about us is revealed; and God’s transforming grace in the form of a willing substitute and a miraculous deliverance is patiently waiting to catch us.

When God speaks, everything changes. His Word, a sacred text, exposes our sacred text and illuminates who we are at the core.

The sovereign freedom of God, the limits of human wisdom, thoughts on the use and abuse of wealth and power, and the brevity and absolute contingency of human life—all lead to the command to fear God.

Faith in a Sovereign God is visible in investments and generosity. Faith in a Sovereign God is visible in enjoying life by beholding how precious it is.

For those of us who are in Christ Jesus, “who became to us wisdom from God” according to 1 Corinthians 1:30, wisdom in this fallen world under the sun is of supreme value.

Godly wisdom is to live in such a way in this life “under the sun” that points and testifies to the reality beyond the sun.

Godly wisdom is to live in such a way in this life “under the sun” points and testifies to the reality beyond the sun.

There is one who was righteous who was treated according to the deeds of the wicked so that the wicked might be treated according to the deeds of the righteous. His name is Jesus.

Those who have much, yet do not know Christ, will never stop craving and never find rest.

Since the world is full of trouble by reason of humanity’s corporate and individual depravity, the only solace can be found in genuine, deeply rooted community and the Coming King.

We are called to take heart in the ultimate purpose, nearness, and timing of God.

We cannot look to the finished work of Christ until we become displeased with our own work.

To despair of things that are not God is the beginning of joy in God.

Christ becoming a lowly, obedient servant is the means of God’s saving grace, thus taking the position of a servant is one of the most powerful displays of Christlikeness and one of the most compelling evidence of the Gospel’s power to transform.

The Gospel declared by the apostles was by the revelation of Jesus Christ. It is a Gospel of pure grace, and any message that excludes grace or mingles legalism with grace as a means of salvation is under the curse of God and is to be shunned.