Connection Church Sioux Falls

Salvation is not a subjective experience of doing things for God. It is an objective standing based on what God has done for us in Christ.

The work of the antichrist is not new. Many have come before and after him in form and function.

As we delight in the finished work of Christ; our prayers become less and less for shallow, superficial, and consumable things and more for eternal, God-glorifying things.

Jesus returns to repay the ungodly in righteous vengeance or to relieve the suffering of those who have believed in Him.

A church worth boasting about is marked by genuine faith, growing love, and a deep hope in God’s sovereignty.

Every new church must grow up into its head, Jesus. Each member learning to ask the Father for growth-needs is a key.

Fruitful ministry only comes through death.

As we truly behold Jesus, we look more and more like Him. As we look more and more like Him, we join His mission of being sacrificially sent and sacrificially sending.

If Jesus came to destroy sin, then we are called to join Him in the daily sabotage of sin.

The enemy invites us to join him in rebellion. Jesus invites us to join Him in His triumphal procession over the enemy!

A healthy church is identified by how they relate to God, to Godly leadership, and to one another, trusting in God alone to empower them to live a holy life as they anticipate the coming of Jesus.

What we know about the future influences how we live in the present.

In Christ, there is a certain and everlasting hope that is greater than any circumstance we face, whether in death or in life.

Since our sovereign God is never in a state of panic, then God’s people who reflect God's character shouldn't be either.

The church is made up of followers of Jesus that are growing, excelling, and hungry for more of Him. They are striving for holiness, separateness, and fleeing assimilation into worldliness in the categories of sexuality, work, and their beliefs about death and dying.

Biblical leaders invest unrecoverable resources in those they lead, and they stand on unchangeable convictions as they lead.

The Biblical Church will be receptive, attentive, and responsive to the word of God, and in standing in God’s Grace alone will humbly enduring persecution will provoke the privileged.

As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our view of the family.

As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our theological convictions.

Christ has done something for us that, when our eyes are opened to it and we trust in it completely, causes us to begin to lead others in imitating him as we throw off all forms of false rescue.

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.