Connection Church Sioux Falls

From A-to-Z, all praise for all of who God is and what God has done will come from all people and places.

God’s powerful Voice, revealed in nature by moving the unmovable and shaking the unshakable, points us to the power of Jesus voice to change the unchangeable heart.

Jesus pays the penalty in the stead of any who betray him in order to redeem and heal them.

We are prone to want some means of control over things that God has said he is responsible for, so we give time and emotional energy to them, resulting in a restless soul. If we choose to, we can calm and quiet our souls by giving our time and energy to the things God has assigned to us, while resting in his authority and faithfulness to handle the things that are too high for us.

When we are afraid, suffering, or alone, we can trust God's character, believe in God's promises, and place our hope in His Son, Jesus.

In creation we have been given the ability to discern right from wrong or have a sense of it, and in Christ we have been given the perfect standard.

If, for you, the worship of God isn’t marked by a deep and abiding joy or excitement, you haven’t yet fully considered - or been transformed by - the miracle of salvation.

Through prayer God, who has dealt bountifully with us in Jesus, hears us and is near despite how we feel in dire circumstances.

In him we now are a royal priesthood, a kingly people with a priestly intercession for the world, a ministry of reconciliation, a prophetic people with the words of life.

Jesus, the Son of Man, the one who has the power and right to judge your sin was judged in your place. https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?qs_version=ESV&quicksearch=%22son+of+man%22&begin=47&end=47

Jesus is the Son of God, God in the flesh, with divine power and authority to carry out His redemptive plan for His people.

What the children of Israel had by birth you and I have perfectly by faith in Jesus Christ.

How the past, present, and future implications of the gospel affect our lives, today.

Does God really love us? How does he show it to us? What difference does that make in our lives? This week’s message by guest speaker, Pastor Steve Treichler from Hope Community Church in Minneapolis aims to address these questions to encourage you as you begin the next 10 years of Connection Church!

Live your life in light of Gospel love.

We are raised with Christ, made alive to go and tell with Christ.

The resurrection is God's pursuit of runaways and outcasts to welcome them as family.

The death of Jesus bring life and invites the outsiders in.

Jesus is our acceptance through humiliation.

Apart from the work of Jesus coming to seek and save the lost, there is no hope.

Matthew does not want us to be moved that Jesus got beat up. Matthew wants us to be moved that Jesus died to take our place.

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Son of Man, and the Lamb of God who came for those who would betray, abandon, and deny him.

Jesus came to be fully like us in order to be fully for us.

Our culture tends to try to minimize our pains and weaknesses, but it is when we are weak that Christ's power is perfected.

Jesus dines with weak, sinful people, because that is the only kind of people there are.

Our life of faith is limitless when our desires are strengthened by the power of the spirit, the presence of the love of Christ, and possessing all the fullness of God.

Jesus was the priceless alabaster flask of treasure, the great priceless heirloom of our Heavenly Father, broken and poured out for you and for me.

Wait with readiness, humble and grateful investment, and generous benevolence because Christ is on his way.

Jesus is the one who knows the difficult future, who meets us in it, and will come back to rescue us through it.

What do we do with the inconsistency that we feel between who we think we are and our external reality? Go to the open arms of Jesus.

Jesus is more worthy of trust than anyone or anything. In your weariness, dont turn away but fix your gaxe upon him, consider him, and run to him with abandon.

Since we suffer and die, Jesus suffered and died, so that we would be emancipated from the fear of suffering or dying and greatly helped in our weakness.

Jesus is the redemptive paradox - the son of David and the son of God, the baby in the manger and yet redeemer and ruler of the world.

We have been invited to a feast that we do not deserve to attend, and we have been commanded by the King to invite whomever we find.

Jesus is the Son of God given to us as a cornerstone upon which we will build an abundant life.

We are called by God to repent and bear the fruit of obedience, and to do that, we desperately need Jesus as both our example and our substitute.

Jesus is the coming king to reign, because he came as the humble king to serve.

The way to be freed from the need to be an insider is to see that the greatest act in all of history was a man becoming an outsider.

Jesus is the true and better rich young ruler, who let go of all he possessed and gave up all he was owed in order that you and I would have an eternal inheritance of treasure.

Jesus gives life and meaning through uniting the two most completely different things: a righteous, holy God, and sinful, rebellious human beings. In Jesus the “two shall become one flesh.”

We are called to represent Jesus in everyday life, everywhere we go.

Otherworldly, awakening encouragement gives life to everything in the church.

The work of an evangelist in our age is having good conversations that turn into God conversations that turn into gospel conversations.

God's grace creates a holy people on mission.

The mission of the church is the task given by God for the people of His to accomplish in the world.

A vital, dynamic church is a repenting, baptized-and-baptizing, Holy-Spirit-filled people.

The greatest story is about Jesus, his death and resurrection, and his grace.

The way is open to any sinner who wants to be heard, who wants to be made right, to have a faithful friend, and to be vindicated.

We become what we behold. Redirect your gaze to that which is truly and infinitely glorious, Jesus.

Don’t expect the kind of unity from the world that can only come from Jesus our high priest.