Connection Church Sioux Falls

Judges is a story of the mess in which God works.

We have reason to be grateful to God because he delivers the wanderer, the imprisoned, the fool, and the proud.

Joy is the result of God bringing restoration.

We were weak, fatherless, afflicted, destitute, needy, and under the power of the wicked one; but Jesus adopted, justified, defended, rescued, and delivered us into His eternal inheritance.

In any circumstance, no matter how deep and dark it seems, there is forgiveness. Psalm 130 is a song we sing with believers as we trek through life, reminding us of the hope we have, and the plentiful redemption and grace offered by Jesus.

We have great reason to be the most patient, prayerful and praise-giving people. We have a great God who gives great deliverance in whom we have great faith.

God’s abundant mercy over our sin and sinfulness restores us to communion with the Father and overflows to proclamation in mission and worship.

True repentance involves confession of sin and sinfulness.

Confession brings sin out of its hiding place and enables the sinner to take sides with God against it and join God in His victory over it.

Psalm 84 is a meditation on the beauty of God and the blessings of God for those that seek him. This psalm turns us away from ourselves and our idolatry, and instead points us to the source of all truth and beauty: God himself. It shows us that God is beautiful because of his providential care and promised redemption which is found in Jesus.

The refugee who authored this psalm finds himself to be an heir, and his inheritance to be eternal and completely satisfying. Such is true for the follower of Christ.

Confession, humility, and trust are necessary ingredients in receiving God’s guidance.

Those who have been made righteous are brought safely into God’s presence.

We are invited to worship God who is made known to us in suffering and in victory.

Followers of Jesus should anticipate two things: Great suffering and great love from Jesus.

Our hope is the mercy of Christ, our concern is for the people of Christ, and our commitment is to the cross of Christ.

Jesus meets the incapable and serves them out of His capabilities.

Jesus comes and turns grief into joy, just as He promised.

Faith in the risen Christ involves a personal encounter with Jesus and hearing Him call your own name.

The death and burial of Jesus, while obscene and gruesome, is the divine and glorious plan of God.

Jesus steps into the middle of the collision of heaven and earth, and by bearing the brunt of their differences, He unites the two.

Jesus boldly and courageously steps toward His mission to demand the deliverance of His followers.

Just as Jesus is sent by the Father, so are we. Just as Jesus is loved by the Father, so are we.

Jesus intercedes for us to show and share with us the Glory of God through separateness from the world.

Jesus prepares His disciples for life without His physical presence by promising, trouble, the Holy Spirit, joy, intimacy with the Father, and victory.

Jesus begins to wrap up his farewell discourse with a highly relatable analogy that stretches our understanding of the intimacy of our relationship with Christ, what that means for us, what we are to do now, and what the result will be.

In the face of impending suffering, Jesus offers us the comforts of a home, a loving father, a willingness to listen, an abundant peace, and His very presence.

The love of Jesus bends down towards us to do for us what we could not do for ourselves — to cleanse our filth in the face of betrayal and denial.

The grace of God is not an equation to solve. It is a mystery to behold.

When we see the weight of God in Jesus, we worship in the face of misunderstanding and opposition and look to him in his death and resurrection in order to share his glory.

The death-defying love of Jesus is a present and eternal reality for His friends.

The good shepherd is one with the Father, trusting in His unbreakable word and doing His eternal work.

Jesus is the only meaningful answer to Sin, Pain, and Suffering; because He is the only one who has the power to give true sight.

Jesus is the only meaningful answer to Sin, Pain, and Suffering; because He is the only one who has the power to give true sight.

What we say about who Jesus is will determine our relationship to the church and to the world.

God demonstrated His zeal for His people by granting them hope through the path, the people, the plan, and the person of Jesus!

The truth of the person and work of Jesus is the only freedom from our enslavement to rebellion against the God who made us and the consequences of that rebellion: eternal separation from God.

Jesus is our light, because He has reoriented our standing before God on the basis of His Grace by being lifted up to die in our place.

To be a believer in Jesus is to experience the actual, indwelling presence of the Spirit of God by experiencing Jesus as the all-satisfying remedy to the thirst of our souls.

To believe in Jesus is to trust His timing and His work, to be separate from the world, and to be taught by Him.

Being a false disciple - Unbelief under the veneer of belief - is more dangerous than not being a Christian. Here are 10 marks of a genuine disciple.

We receive the unmerited Grace of God by believing in Jesus, taking Him in as our all-satisfying sustenance.

Jesus isn’t pointing to himself as a miracle worker. He is introducing Himself as the divine answer and solution to everything that is broken in the world by sin.

Come join this upside down kingdom where Jesus has authority over death, and join us in searching the Scripture to know and love Him more.

Jesus is the divine source of healing and rest.

The value of faith is not its quantity, it is its object.

We tell the stories of greatest importance, and Jesus has done something on our behalf that is the best possible news.

We were created to worship the things of highest possible value, and Jesus is the object of highest possible value.