Connection Church Sioux Falls

I want you to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ in exile.

Jesus has come, and He will come again to right every wrong, to heal every wound, and to bring reconciliation by His Grace.

God comes to make us pure, because He possesses everthing, including us.

As recipients of God's love, we are to respond with honor and devotion in such a way that the nations magnify the Lord.

We have hope because God has seen our situation and kept His promise to deliver us.

Wisdom isn't just something we can obtain and apply to our daily lives. Wisdom is a person with whom we can have a relationship.

Life is fraught with hardship and stress. When you are afraid, anxious or just plain stressed the answer to your anxiety isn't found in worry, in control, or in escape. That answer is found in remembering who God is.

Suffering reveals the inability of people and things to save us as well as our inability to save ourselves.

Sin and its effects bring us low, yet since the Lord hears us and redeems us, we know that He will also vindicate us against our enemies.

The only way to experience hope in each and every circumstance is to have hope above and beyond each and every circumstance.

When earthly kingdoms fail and it seems that God is against us, His mercy and faithfulness never come to an end.

We lament the holy and righteous anger of God against sin and appeal to God's compassion.

We can lament the presence and consequences of sin in ourselves and in the world, because we know that, in Christ, we are never punished.

We will grieve over sin and its effects now and experience God's grace forever, or we will be content with sin and its effects and experience God's justice forever.

We can lament the presence and effects of sin because we know the presence and effects of God's redeeming Grace.

We have been subject to, and a part of, an age-old curse that believes we can be like God, but we are called to be a part of an eternal blessing that sings of the one, true God.

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.