Each week we release content designed to help you connect to God, connect to others, and connect to purpose. Our episodes are recorded live in Stamford, Connecticut. Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite podcast app for weekly encouragement. ConnectCommunity is located in Stamford, Connecticut.
What does it mean to "WIN" in life? Jesus started his famous sermon with a series of affirmations on the kind of people he declares "blessed". Pastor JD explores the idea of being "Poor in Spirit". Was this for a limited group of destitute people, or being poor in spirit a state of existence we are all eligible for? We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
You are equipped to build! Pastor Alini Müller shares a compelling message encouraging us to discover and nourish our spiritual gifts. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better! For more about ConnectCommunity, please visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
We face a level of anxiety and worry that is beyond what we are meant to endure. Jesus share the antidote, and it might surprise you. Pastor JD concludes the series "Worth The Cost" with a message about the importance of Righteousness. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
What does the word "obedience" mean to you? We all have different responses to the word, but generally it is not a word that is seen as empowering and entirely positive. Pastor JD shares a message about the importance of obedience, and its rewards. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Pastor Alini continues our Worth The Cost series with a compelling message about discipleship. Why do followers of Christ live differently than the world? Is it cult-like behavior, genuine transformation, or dogma? Knowing the difference between salvation and discipleship is an important step in the life of a Christ follower. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better! For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
If we are going to live a life of excellence in any area, it will come at a cost. While certain lifestyles the world offers come at the cost of higher things; love, integrity, family, values; the life we are called to live is worth the cost! Pastor JD kicks off a new series titled "Worth The Cost". We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Pastor JD concludes our "impossible" series with the last miracle John writes in His gospel, and the relationship between that miracle and Jesus's resurrection. If you have been hard pressed to believe in the resurrection of Jesus, or have had difficulty understanding why it was necessary, this message will bless you. We hope today's message helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
A healing and a lesson – in this sixth miracle, Jesus teaches a challenging lesson.
If you have ever been in a place where you were striving and not making headway, in need of a miracle, this message is for you. Pastor Alini share a wonderful parallel between the miracle of Jesus walking on water and her personal life. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, Visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
We live in a culture obsessed with big! We want big, we value big. We live big cars, big roads, big stores, big homes, and big bank accounts. But what about those moments when you feel small? Pastor JD shares a message on the value and importance of smallness. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Jesus's third miracle shared by the Apostle John teaches us something profound about being stuck in a situation, and moving on. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
What does the truth have to do with Jesus's miracles? In this second miracle of Jesus, we will uncover a powerful lesson about the way we should think. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better.
Jesus's ministry was characterized by impossibilities. There are 3 things everyone who decides to follow Jesus must come to terms with: Jesus's nature, His words, and His works. In this series we will focus on his works. Pastor JD kicks off this 7-part series titled: Impossible – an exploration of the 7 miracles of Jesus in the Gospel of John We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
For relationships to thrive, love must remain healthy. Pastor JD concludes our series "More Than Love" with a message about Unity and Intimacy in relationships. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Pastors JD and Alini sit down to talk about the importance of healthy communication, the dangers of resentment and how to overcome it. There is also practical guidance and communication pitfalls to avoid. This conversation will equip you and help you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
We all know love is the essence of a loving and healthy relationship. But how can love remain healthy? In this series we will highlight different elements in relationships that support love and keep it healthy. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Can you know God and be depressed? Can you know God and lose the desire to live? Can you serve God and still wanna give up? Pastor JD shares a compelling message about this essential element each person needs to see breakthrough in their lives. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
What do you need the most from God? Pastor Alini shares a challenging message that will lead you to the right answer. Breakthrough starts here. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Best practices to see breakthrough in your life. Pastor JD encourages us to persevere. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
What does it take for you to breakthrough your limitations? Is there a dream? A plan? A goal you have placed in the backburner of life because you tried and pushed but didn't seem to progress? Pastor JD talks about a fundamental and necessary element for you to see breakthrough in your life, in our new series "Breakthrough". We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
What do you do you do when you feel stuck? Pastor JD shares three areas in your life you must maintain healthy before you blame anyone else or anything else for your problems. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
We were made in the image of God, with God-like attributes. Life can bring circumstances that will try to steal that childlike joy. Pastor JD shares an encouraging message about nurturing a childlike joy. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Have you thought about the chief foundation of your peace, hope, and stability? Pastor JD shares from the Scripture on why faith is essential for living, and why a childlike faith is necessary to become who God made you to be. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
When we pray or go to a church service, we often try to appeal to God's power and mighty hand. We have petitions, desires, and things we want to overcome, and even those of us who self-indentify as less religious follow the popular creed that admits and concedes to a "higher power". Pastor JD starts this series by challenging you to look for God's childlike attributes; to glean from them, and to make them your own. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, please visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Have you found yourself stuck in a thought pattern? Negativity, anxiety, cynicism, self-doubt, pessimism, are examples of pathways of thinking we can get stuck on. In this message, Pastor JD will give you simple counsel on how to break free from these patterns, and how to develop new pathways of thinking. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
If you have ever felt like God was distant or absent, or that your soul has struggled to settle, this message will bless you. Pastor Alini shares a compelling and intimate message about understanding spiritual daytime, and spiritual nighttime. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better! For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Have you every wondered, "why isn't God blessing me?". Sometimes we thing God's love is far from us because His blessings are not apparent. Pastor JD shares a message that will bring clarity and encourage you to live a life of meaning and purpose. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Have you ever wondered where tithing comes from? Did church leaders just come up with these measures to fund the church, or is there something more to tithing? Pastor JD shares a teaching on the origin of the tithe and the Biblical call to tithe. This message will bring clarity and guidance to everyone. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Our world's framework does not lead us toward stewardship. How do we resolve the conflict between the current worldview, and the way God calls us to live? In this message, Pastor JD shares valuable insight on how to have a better worldview and attitude. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Is it biblical to save money? Pastor JD shares part 2 of our series "Money Matters" with a message that will encourage you and challenge you. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Financial debt can be crippling. What does the Scripture have to say about it? Pastor JD kicks off this financial stewardship series titled "Money Matters" with an encouraging message of freedom and hope. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Thank you for joining us today. ConnectCommunity Church meets weekly on Sundays, 10:30am, at Westover Elementary School Auditorium in Stamford, CT. If this is your first time with us and you live in our area, we invite you to visit our website and join us in person next Sunday. It is better in the room. We hope this service blesses you and helps you live better.
Have you considered the possibility that sometimes God is the one leading you to hostile places? Some of the things we face that might seem contrary to our purpose and destiny, are actually there to serve God's plan. Just like Jesus was led to the desert, we too are led to the desert. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
In this message, we pause to learn from two profound verses in Scripture. We should all learn to better love one another. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
What does it mean to be the greatest? Can you be a Christ follower and still be the greatest? In this message, we will explore the connection between personal development and Christian community. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
We are commanded to "love our neighbor as ourself". Why? And what is the implication on my to love my neighbor as myself? Pastor JD shares part 3 of Better Together. For more, visit: www.connectcommunity.org
You are part of a whole, and you have a part to play. God made you for a purpose, to be part of His body. In this message, Pastor Alini encourages you to engage your gifts and talents, and to be one body. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Scripture tells us we should not be "unequally yoked", but What does it mean to be unequally yoked? Pastor JD begins a new series titled "Better Together", as we explore the benefits of a Christ-centered community. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
JD and Santo sit down for a conversation about faith based on 2 Peter 1:3-9. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
How important is intensity? In this message Pastor JD explores the letter in Revelation sent to the church in Laodicea. This letter contains one of the strongest rebukes in all of Scripture, yet, it is not for a sin like murder, theft, or physical abuse. Why was Christ so intentional about correcting something seemingly simple? We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
There are 2 kinds of strength, strength for the moment, and endurance for the long haul. Many times when we are faced with decisions, we lack the foresight of how much endurance we will need for the road ahead. What will you need to endure in faith during hard times? In this message, Pastor JD shares a few lessons on endurance from the letter to the church in Philadelphia, as we continue our series SEVEN. For more, visit: www.connectcommunity.org
Are you still dreaming? Are you still moving forward? In this message Pastor JD shares how dreaming connects to faith, and why it is necessary that we keep that part of us alive. We hope this message encourages you to dream again. For more, visit: www.connectcommunity.org
We continue to learn from the 7 letters in Revelation.
How do you show proof that you are who you say you are? Identity is at the core of our pursuit, and may be more central to our outcomes than we let on. Pastor JD continues our series "Seven", where we learn from the 7 letters sent to the 7 churches in Revelation. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better https://www.connectcommunity.org
We have been trained to value comfort and make it our pursuit. In this second part of our series titled "seven", Pastor JD shares lessons from the second letter in Revelation to the church in Smyrna. There are similarities between our life and this first century church, and lessons for you to apply. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. For more, visit: https://www.connectcommunity.org
Have you been in a place where everything looks right on the outside, but you still don't seem to be living in your purpose? JD Müller kicks off our Summer series titled: Seven – Lessons From The 7 Churches Of Revelation. In this first message, we explore the life of a community who had a lot of positive things going for them, but they were missing one essential thing, and because of it they couldn't flourish. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better: for more, visit https://www.connectcommunity.org
In this last installment of our Love To See It series, Wendy Sanchez shares the story of how she developed a condition during pregnancy that was sure to take her life in childbirth. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. https://www.connectcommunity.org
Markee Johnson shares a powerful message about perception and reality, and how God used her in corporate America to share the love of God. We hope this message encourages you and blesses you. For more about ConnectCommunity, visit: www.connectcommunity.org
On this 3rd installment of Love To See It, Pastor JD sits down with Kleberson Balbino to talk about his journey from Anxiety and Worry, to Patience and Trust. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. https://www.connectcommunity.org
Pastor JD sits down with Adriana Franco who shares a gripping story of love and betrayal. How do you move on? Is forgiveness even an option? We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. https://www.connectcommunity.org
In this series, pastors JD and Alini interview members of our community who faced difficult challenges, but overcame them because of their faith in Christ. Susie Calabrese shares her story of dealing with a tumor on her back. The thoughts, challenges, and anger she faced in that season, and how she overcame it. We hope this message blesses you and helps you live better. https://www.connectcommunity.org
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