Connect Church MT

Connect Church MT We’re on a mission to reconnect Montanans to God. We're a Bible-believing, AOG church, with a love of donuts! Join us at 10 AM on Sunday mornings!

We’re on a mission to reconnect Montanan's to God. Find out more at: connectchurch.app/this-is-who-we-are

05/30/2026

In the last six weeks we’ve talked about how free people:

- stop replaying imaginary conversations
- stop gathering evidence
- stop needing revenge to heal
- stop rehearsing speeches
- stop making pain their identity
- and stop letting bitterness narrate their future.

Free people don’t need to win the courtroom in their imagination every night before they can sleep.

Holding onto bitterness keeps the wound alive by making it your future.

So, the question is: can you let the person who wounded you "off the hook"?

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We just wrapped up our sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."

We've been on a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.

Join us Sundays at 10 AM, in person or at connectchurchmt.com/livestream! Get caught up on past messages at connectchurchmt.com/messages!

05/23/2026

Jesus is better at restoring you than you are at condemning you.

Some of us find it’s easier to forgive other people than it is to forgive ourselves.

We believe in grace for OTHER people. But we keep punishing ourselves internally.

So we struggle with SHAME. Shame follows us everywhere: relationships, parenting, church, intimacy with God.

Some of us have confessed the same thing to God a hundred times…not because God keeps rejecting us, but because shame keeps us in that courtroom even though the grace of God has already released us.

Listen to this week's message to find out three keys to forgiving yourself.

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Our current sermon series is, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."

We've been on a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.

Join us Sundays at 10 AM, in person or at connectchurchmt.com/livestream! Get caught up on past messages at connectchurchmt.com/messages!

05/15/2026

Forgiveness is a decision. Trust is a process.

This week we looked at the story of Joseph, to see how he moved slowly before entering into relationship with them again. Here's what we learned:

1. Trust has to be tested.
Joseph doesn’t rush back into relationship. He slowed things down and pays attention. Forgiveness says, “I’m not trying to punish you anymore.” Wisdom says, “I’m paying attention to who you are now.” So, forgiving someone doesn’t mean, they get immediate access to your life, get immediate influence or that everything goes back to normal .

2. Trust is verified by patterns, not promises. Joseph wasn't interested in apologie, he was watching for patterns. An apology is an event. A pattern is a history. Trust isn't rebuilt by a great weekend or a sincere-sounding text; it’s rebuilt by the boring, consistent 'normals' over time. Anyone can say ‘I’m sorry.’ Joseph asked, “Are you different now?” Trust is rebuilt when you see: responsibility taken, different behavior under pressure, consistency over time.

3. Trust God for justice. Sometimes, people don't change, and we need to enact boundaries. But sometimes, boundaries can be weaponized, becoming a form of revenge. Joseph had all the power in the world to make his brothers feel what he felt. But he didn’t use that power to punish them; he used it to see if they had changed. You can create distance without creating damage. Distance can be wise, but revenge, even quiet revenge, will keep you stuck. That’s not freedom. That’s just bitterness redefined as boundaries.

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We're halfway through current sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."
Over the next few weeks, take a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.
Each message builds on the last, so don’t miss a week! Real freedom doesn’t happen all at once. It happens step by step.
Join us Sundays at 10 AM, in person or at connectchurchmt.com/livestream! Get caught up on past messages at connectchurchmt.com/messages! See less

05/09/2026

How do you know you’ve actually forgiven?

Spoiler alert: Forgiveness is revealed in how you treat the person who hurt you.

Here are six ways to check your heart.

1. THE REPUTATION CHECK: You don’t weaponize the story. When you’ve truly forgiven, you stop looking for chances to bring up what they did to others. You’ve stopped using the story as a weapon to damage their reputation.

2. THE PAYBACK CHECK: You don’t make them pay emotionally. If you are still waiting for them to "hurt" as much as they hurt you—or if you enjoy watching them squirm—you haven’t released the debt yet. Forgiveness stops the collection agency.

3. THE GUILT CHECK: You don’t need them to carry the weight. You know you’ve forgiven when you no longer need them to grovel or stay "guilty" for you to feel okay.

4. THE NARRATIVE CHECK: You protect their dignity. You know you’re healing when they are no longer the main character of your pain—God is. You know you've passed the Narrative Test when you can tell the story of your life without that person being the person who ruined it.

5. THE KINDNESS CHECK: Your patterns change. Forgiveness isn't just a feeling; it's a redirection of energy. Instead of spending energy on resenting them, you start spending energy on blessing them. And this isn’t just being “nice.” This is tangible. Forgiveness shows up in real, practical ways.

6. THE TIME CHECK: It holds up over time. Real forgiveness doesn’t have an expiration date. You don’t "re-calculate" the debt the next time you get angry or when a new conflict arises.

You don’t know you’ve forgiven someone by what you say—you know it by how you treat them.

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We're halfway through current sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."

Over the next few weeks, take a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.

Each message builds on the last, so don’t miss a week! Real freedom doesn’t happen all at once. It happens step by step.

Join us Sundays at 10 AM, in person or at connectchurchmt.com/livestream! Get caught up on past messages at connectchurchmt.com/messages!

05/01/2026

Bitterness from unforgiveness is a cancer that grows and spreads. If you don't want it to steal your peace, your joy, even your relationships, you have to cut it out. If it stays in you, it will grow in you.

Once you detect and diagnose the bitterness, cut it out.

One of the most powerful ways you can cut out the bitterness is to replace it with a prayer that God would bless the person who hurt you. You can also replace it by meditating on scripture, or praying in the spirit.

Romans 12:2 says,
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

But if it stays in you, it grows in you.

You don’t have to solve every relationship this week.
You don’t have to go back and fix the past.
You don’t even have to feel like forgiving yet.
You just make a choice today to not let it grow.

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We're in week two of our new sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."
Over the next few weeks, take a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.
Each message builds on the last, so don’t miss a week! Real freedom doesn’t happen all at once. It happens step by step.
Join us Sundays at 10 AM, starting April 19th!
connectchurchmt.com

04/24/2026

Now, here's what Forgiveness IS: 👇🏼

Forgiveness IS:
- A conscious decision
- Releasing your right to revenge
- Letting them off the hook
- Choosing not to keep a record of wrongs

You might have to do it over and over again.

And you get to choose.
But forgiveness will set you free.

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This week we started our new sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."

Over the next six weeks, take a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.

Each message builds on the last, so don’t miss a week! Real freedom doesn’t happen all at once. It happens step by step.

Join us Sundays at 10 AM, starting April 19th!
connectchurchmt.com

This Sunday starts our new sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."What if you could let go of resentm...
04/17/2026

This Sunday starts our new sermon series, "Off the Hook: The Freedom of Forgiveness."

What if you could let go of resentment, regret, and the pain someone caused you? Over the next six weeks, take a journey to discover how forgiveness can free your mind, heal your heart, and help you move forward.

Week 1: The Freedom of forgiveness - Why letting go changes everything
Week 2: The Poison of Bitterness - What unforgiveness is doing to you
Week 3: How to Know You’ve Forgiven - The surprising signs of a healed heart
Week 4: Forgiveness Isn’t Trust- Why boundaries matter
Week 5: Forgiving Yourself - Letting go of regret and shame
Week 6: Living Free - Moving forward without the past holding you back

Take the 6-week challenge!

Each message builds on the last, so don’t miss a week! Real freedom doesn’t happen all at once. It happens step by step.

Join us Sundays at 10 AM, starting April 19th!
connectchurchmt.com

04/04/2026

Water baptism allows us to become participants in the death and life of Jesus!

This isn’t just ritual or acting something out. There’s something real happening to the people being baptized.

Colossians 2:12 says, "For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead."

This action allows us to step into the gospel story at a whole new level.

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This week in our current series,"The Beautiful Gospel", we talked about BAPTISM - a representation of Jesus's death and resurrection that we get to participate in.

Join us this Sunday at 8:30 am and 10:30 am as we celebrate Jesus's resurrection again! Gather with us in person at 642 Milky Way Drive in Bozeman, or online at ConnectChurchMT.com/livestream

03/21/2026

In John 9:25, the healed blind man shares a simple but powerful one-sentence story. He says, "I was blind, and now I can see."

That sentence contains the healed man’s BEAUTIFUL WITNESS.

If you were to share a one-sentence story of how Jesus had changed your life, what would it be?

You have something in your life that tells the story of:

Past → Present
Darkness → Light
Broken → Restored

It doesn’t have to include everything about Jesus.
The blind man didn't really know anything about Jesus.
But he knew what Jesus did for him.
And that is enough.

You have the power to witness with a one-sentence story.

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We're a few weeks into our latest sermon series,"The Beautiful Gospel". This series is designed to move people from gospel intimidation to gospel confidence.

Join us at 10 AM on Sunday, in person or online! ConnectChurchMT.com/livestream

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