Connection Church Sioux Falls

We are people with many troubles who live for the Lord who is close by to deliver and save us.

We are weak and flawed people who get to make much of a good Deliverer.

Difficulty, Disappointment, & Devastation is REALITY for everyone in a world broken by sin BUT we are reminded that we are not confined ONLY to our circumstances. The REMEDY for our reality is our hope in God for deliverance and that He will defend us even while we wait on him.

All other stories, including our own story, only have value in so far as they point toward and fit into this larger Gospel story.

Everything begins and ends with Grace.

God supplies. We give. We get the credit. God gets the Glory.

In the face of the need for reconciliation, Jesus neither fought nor fled but entrusted Himself to and was delivered by the guardian peace of the Father.

Living a life on earth according to the customs of heaven is a life worthy of the gospel.

There is nothing that you can attain or achieve greater than than the surpassing worth of being found in Christ by faith.

The cause of and the cure for division is always connected to mission.

Obedience is humble confidence in God, who takes pleasure in saving us and making us to shine as lights in the world through Christ.

We can rejoice in humility because we know that God has made the most humble to become the most highly exalted.

We can rejoice in the face of suffering and death because our life and death is in Christ.

Jesus has purchases the approval of the only opinion that matters such that we are freed from being a slave to other people’s opinion of us.

In Christ, we have a true identity, joy in any circumstance, a purpose that will not fail, and a family that we will belong to forever.

We are disciple-making servants of Jesus set apart, called out, and recipients of Grace from God in Christ.

Sin and death had a rightful claim on us. Jesus our redeemer paid the price to bring us to new life!

We messily throw ourselves at the feet of our redeemer, Jesus, and we are covered by His righteous kindness.

When we are just trying to get by, God is working for our eternal joy.

We can have peace in our lives because of the most radically sacrificial commitment made to us by Christ.

People doing what is right in their own eyes does not stop God from doing what is right in His eyes.

The Levite divides the tribes to cover his sin. Christ was divided that we might be united.

When we look in dependence upon the Lord for deliverance out of humility and sorrow, we find that there is no story so grotesque that God can not redeem in Christ.

In the same way that God shows His love for Israel in that while they were slaves, He delivered them, God shows His love for the whole world in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

People doing what is right in their own eyes is visible in man-made, man-centered religions.

Samson’s victory through death points us to a greater hero who destroys the enemy through His death and is resurrected victoriously over it.

The first thing God does to deliver His people is to create conflict with their idols with which they’ve grown comfortable and apathetic because God loves His people too much to allow them to remain comfortable with false hopes.

God has a plan for the redemption of His people from the tyranny of the enemy and is working in the midst of their cultural enmeshment to call them out and deliver them for His good purpose.

The Gospel fundamentally transforms how we relate to each other: with radical others-centeredness.

Success in ministry is not measured by the end result, it is measured by our faithfulness to the task.

Jesus has restored our created purpose and identity as image bearers.

It turns out that the baby Zechariah was longing for wasn’t his own, because the Light of Jesus had broken into the darkness to visit and redeem us.

Jesus is the satisfactions to the longings you’ve never even expressed, the answer to the questions you are too afraid to ask.

God sends a savior to redeem the unrepentant and sends grand signals to pave the way so that we won’t miss it.

Jesus was the chaste sacrifice devoted to death by the Father in order to lift the curse on His people and to secure victory over the enemy.

Demonstrating His grace by saving His people is an ordinary act for God overflowing from His character, and rebelling against Him always leads to a longing for a savior.

The enemy doesn’t want it to be public that God conquers through weakness, yet God will give His people an unexpected and unlikely salvation through the crushed head of the enemy.

If Gideon in his fear, vengeance, and disobedience could be anointed by the Spirit of God to save Israel; then Jesus, a truly obedient, covenant-keeping man could save the whole world.

God is on a mission for His Glory in the world, and He is inviting the weak and helpless to show Himself to be powerful and gracious.

The way out of despair and into lasting hope is to confess and repent of our idolatry and trust in the God who has come near and given us a sure sign in Jesus.

God delivers His people by remembering the victimized and inviting them to be a part of His stunning salvation and victory over the enemy.

God delights to deliver his people from their troubles such that they are even able to laugh after their sorrow and to smile after their grief.

God is able to sovereignly use suffering, unfaithfulness, and conflict for His good purposes.

We are a people in desparate need of a deliverer who is not bound by death.

God uses half-hearted obedience and half-hearted repentance to demonstrate the fullness and sufficiency of His Grace.