Connection Church Sioux Falls

We are unappeasably thirsty, and Jesus is the only satisfying remedy.

People who have been set free from dire circumstances have a fearless freedom for fellowship.

The priesthood of Christ exposes our great need and proves His great love.

A healthy church on mission has a prayerful, hospitable, and redemptive presence.

Dissecting the anatomy of this praise song leads us to recognize God as our only means of salvation and to respond thankfully for his saving work. It also leads us to see how God offers us the fullness of joy in Him, and praising Him is the completion of that Joy.

As we dissect the anatomy of a praise song, we see how praise can be a response to a command - one that all peoples will one day participate in, and how praise includes standing in awe of a powerful God who is in control and loves His people.

Believing the Gospel is believing you're accepted in full by the God of the universe and now belong to an eternal family from whom you will never leave.

Obedience and love for the church are practical evidences of our blood-bought position before God.

God loves you; there's no person who can discredit you. God loves you; there's no problem that can defeat you. God loves you; there's no past that can discourage you. God loves you; there's no power can destroy you.

Safety is often sought in the confines of the boat but actually the safest place to be is in the presence of Jesus. Even if that means taking a step out on faith, walking on the water towards the Savior is the safest place to be.

God is a loving father and our response to Him is joyful praise.

Sin is toxic and confession is required. If we have been given freedom from being slaves to sin; what then is our fighting strategy? It is to confess.

If you've ever struggled with addiction, made the same mistakes repeatedly, blew up at your kids - apologized - and then blew up at them again. This message can help you. The Bible teaches us a shocking but obvious truth. We are enslaved to sin. Redemption is God's answer to our sin-slavery. God rescues us from both the penalty and the power of canceled sin.

​Jesus uses the things we cling to in order to expose what we truly value and show us a greater joy that can be found only in him.

Like a true friend of the groom at a wedding; we serve Him, honor Him, and celebrate with Him.

The Spirit of God works like the wind to give us new life in order that we might look to the Exalted Christ.

The old way of being was defined by natural birth. The new way of being in the New Kingdom, the New Creation, is by supernatural birth.

Jesus exposes the difference between a Worshiper and a Consumer.

Just as Jesus transformed a wedding by turning water into wine, He took the old system and washing with water and made a new one in his body and blood.

Jesus is who you have been looking for. Jesus calls us to be His disciples, and as we follow Him, we bring others to Jesus.

John was sent by God to expose sin and point to Jesus. So are we. We are sent by God to expose sin for what it is and point to Jesus for who He is: Our means of new birth as sons and daughters of God.

There is a logos, a reason, an existential purpose. It is not a philosophy. It is a person named Jesus.

Expectant people of faith live as those under command and take ownership of the Gospel testimony to the people around them.

Work is the place where we can demonstrate a greater loyalty and higher calling and different identity. It is the cultivation that images God. The very first definition is the subduing of creation for love of God and love of others.

People of faith are prayerfully expectant, proclaiming and advancing the Gospel, obeying and receiving the Word, and unwavering in their trust in Christ.

Christians do not think about things they should do until they have first thought about what Christ has done. We stand firm in the finished work of Christ handed down from the Apostles and find deep comfort in Christ that overflows to all that we do and say.

Salvation is not a subjective experience of doing things for God. It is an objective standing based on what God has done for us in Christ.

The work of the antichrist is not new. Many have come before and after him in form and function.

As we delight in the finished work of Christ; our prayers become less and less for shallow, superficial, and consumable things and more for eternal, God-glorifying things.

Jesus returns to repay the ungodly in righteous vengeance or to relieve the suffering of those who have believed in Him.

A church worth boasting about is marked by genuine faith, growing love, and a deep hope in God’s sovereignty.

Every new church must grow up into its head, Jesus. Each member learning to ask the Father for growth-needs is a key.

Fruitful ministry only comes through death.

As we truly behold Jesus, we look more and more like Him. As we look more and more like Him, we join His mission of being sacrificially sent and sacrificially sending.

If Jesus came to destroy sin, then we are called to join Him in the daily sabotage of sin.

The enemy invites us to join him in rebellion. Jesus invites us to join Him in His triumphal procession over the enemy!

A healthy church is identified by how they relate to God, to Godly leadership, and to one another, trusting in God alone to empower them to live a holy life as they anticipate the coming of Jesus.

What we know about the future influences how we live in the present.

In Christ, there is a certain and everlasting hope that is greater than any circumstance we face, whether in death or in life.

Since our sovereign God is never in a state of panic, then God’s people who reflect God's character shouldn't be either.

The church is made up of followers of Jesus that are growing, excelling, and hungry for more of Him. They are striving for holiness, separateness, and fleeing assimilation into worldliness in the categories of sexuality, work, and their beliefs about death and dying.

Biblical leaders invest unrecoverable resources in those they lead, and they stand on unchangeable convictions as they lead.

The Biblical Church will be receptive, attentive, and responsive to the word of God, and in standing in God’s Grace alone will humbly enduring persecution will provoke the privileged.

As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our view of the family.

As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our theological convictions.

Christ has done something for us that, when our eyes are opened to it and we trust in it completely, causes us to begin to lead others in imitating him as we throw off all forms of false rescue.