Connection Church Sioux Falls

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.

The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples in churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands both now as salt, light, and a city on a hill in this world and in eternity in His presence to the glory of God the Father.

Our responsibility in the presence of the false teaching is to earnestly contend for the faith, trusting to be kept from stumbling by walking in the perpetual consciousness of God’s love through Christ, looking toward the day when we shall be presented before Him with exceeding joy.

Just Christ and the apostles predicted, there will always be the threat of false teachers who are revealed by their actions and seek to infiltrate and divide the church community.

Believers must be on their guard lest they be robbed of any essential joy of Christian faith by the craftiness or plausibility of ungodliness that comes in the form of deception, because the stakes are eternally high.

Those who know the character of God will remember and thank Him forever for who He is and what He has done.

God is the fountain of every blessing, and to His holy name we should dedicate our praise. He has crowned us with loving kindness and tender mercies, and he has removed our transgressions far from us. Therefore, we bless His name and call all creation to join us.

A deep and careful reflection upon our sinfulness, God’s wrath, our short span of life and eventual death will reveal our utter reliance upon God’s mercy to save and His will to establish in and through us an eternal grace.

Those who delight themselves in praising God cannot help but desire that others may be brought to praise Him for his salvation and long for the day when all the nations shall bow before Him.

Since God is the light and strength by whom and in whom we live, let our hearts be secure in Christ and our minds fixed upon Christ, expectantly waiting for His deliverance in all circumstances.

Those who yield their lives to the King now are wise and blessed, and “dreadful is the folly of those who continue in enmity toward the King.”

God gives the psalmist a vision of His will for life - not just any life - a blessed, joyful, happy, life - and God uses that vision to speak to you and to me.

God’s Will is revealed through His providence - His sovereign and benevolent governance and guidance over all things for the purpose of being known by every living soul.

Jesus died so that the people who killed Him would see who He truly is.

Jesus lays down His life for those who will betray and abandon Him.