Connection Church Sioux Falls

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.

When help seems far away, reflect on God's relationship to time.

Consider Jesus, the seed that died, was buried in the ground, and was resurrected to redeem a bountiful harvest of people.

God is our only hope for restoration, and Jesus is the fulfillment of that hope.

The Lord gloriously and confoundingly delights to take the blame for things He did not do.

As God’s chosen and dearly loved, we clothe ourselves as a sign and remembrance of what He has done on our behalf.

Because Jesus lived life with God for the glory of God, and became Wisdom personified, we can repent of our anxious toil and receive God’s blessing of grace for salvation and new life.

We will sing with all creation and send the Good News to all the nations, when we live gladly for Jesus’ coming as the perfect Judge, our perfect Righteousness and sovereign King.