Here are some upcoming events we have scheduled for the month of August. Pastor Austin Hetsler will be taking a break from preaching for a few weeks, we will have a few guest preachers as well as Pastor Dan filling the pulpit for the month of august. Pastor Austin will resume The series through Acts […]
An overdue update
Hi everyone, its been a while since we’ve updated on what’s been going on at Christ The Rock Church so here are a few overdue updates.
Feelings and Faith
We’ve recently started to go through Brian Borgman’s “Feelings and Faith” in our CE hour preceding the main service led by Chris Spiros. In this series Borgman teaches how we as Christians are to apply our feelings to our faith and not be slaves to them. God has emotions and has created us with emotions […]
Pulpit Supply
Yes, Pastor Austin has been absent from our pulpit in recent weeks. Besides a scheduled Hetsler family vacation to Tennessee earlier this month, we again find our pastor on the move once more. This week, joining our friend and brother, Dr. Silvestro, speaking at an event in Gunnison, CO. In our brother’s absence, though, God […]
God, Government, and the Christian
Pastor Austin came back from his well-deserved, end-of-the-year sabbatical with a conviction to provide a guiding series of messages which are designed to help all of God’s people navigate, with confidence, the mandate-heavy life that COVID-19 has spawned. A several-part series commenced on January 10th, at its core to help the sheep of CtRC, and […]
Welcome Back, Pastor!
After a well-deserved several-week sabbatical, Pastor Austin Hetsler returned to the pulpit today. Commencing a several-part series on God, Government, and the Christian, Pastor Austin will exegete the Scriptures and teach us as it pertains to a Christian’s role under, alongside, and apart from government authority. You will not want to miss any message in […]
2020 Vision
Shaking the dust of last year from our sandals…onward towards another year of blessing, sanctification, and the fellowship of the Spirit. The new year begins as the last one ended. Pastor Austin nearing the end of his 8-week sabbatical, enjoying, with his family, the much deserved time off from the pulpit. While, many able and […]
Christ the Rock-tober
Where do we start? The end of October saw a flurry of CtRC activities. Primarily, our 2nd Annual CtRC Retreat at Camp Peniel in Fredericktown, OH. This occurred from the 21st through the 24th. We prayed, sang, cooked, ate, played, scavenged, s’mored, crafted, zipped, ate some more, praised God, and sometimes slept. I mean, what […]
Two Lives. Two Loves. For Always.
That’s what it said on the invitation…the one inviting us to witness the joining in Holy Matrimony of our very own James and Dena. They now answer to “Mr. & Mrs. Fobel”. At Noon on the 5th of September, at Johnny’s On Fulton, many of us were privileged to celebrate the marriage of these two […]
Reviving the CtRC Fellowship Picnic
It had been a while since we ventured out for our once-frequent, but not-so-much-lately, fellowship picnic after our Sunday service. Determined to charge out of the COVID miasma, and reclaim our right to worship our Lord through grilling and chilling, we frolicked in the Lorain County Metro Park this afternoon. If you listen to today’s […]
Worship in the time of COVID
To say that it has been a busy summer would be understating things a bit. To reflect on the busyness of our CtRC body of believers, during the time of COVID hysteria, brings pause and cause for celebrating the grace and protection of the Holy Spirit of God. From the early summer cookout hosted by […]
A Welcome Guest
We are blessed to have Dr. Anthony Silvestro expose God’s Word and deliver our Sunday messages on June 7th and 14th. You’ll be well fed by the message this past Sunday about false teachers. And, stay tuned on June 14th when Anthony reveals the satanic basis for the ideology behind “Black Lives Matter”.
Where the Body Gathers
Praising the Lord for having completed our third consecutive Sunday worship, in the flesh, as a body, at Redeemer Lutheran. And, gloriously, today’s service featured our first chance at partaking of the Lord’s Table in a few months. This past Friday evening, many of us gathered at the home of Linda Cowie, for some grilling, […]
Open For Business
Let’s start by praising our merciful Lord for bringing us back to in-person Sunday Morning fellowship at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Let’s not also forget our gratefulness to the leadership at Redeemer, for allowing us to occupy their Fellowship Hall, and fill it with praise, teaching, singing and prayer. Lord willing (always), we will return here […]
Reunited, And It Feels So Good
Just found out tonight, that Redeemer Lutheran Church is opening it’s doors this weekend, making it possible for CtRC to conduct Sunday Services there once again. Pastor Austin has let it be known that we indeed will be able to worship, in the flesh, this Sunday, May 17th at the familiar Noon starting time. Please […]
Pure Nard
As we await word about when and where CtRC may finally reunite in corporate worship and prayer, let’s take a hint from today’s sermon and remember to take the time, regardless of circumstance, to pour lavish praise upon our Lord. He is good, and only wants good things for His church. We hope you are […]
Hoping For Renewed Fellowship
Several weeks into our self-imposed and reasonable COVID exile, our CtRC Elders have agreed to begin the process of putting us back into common pews again. Pastor Austin is currently awaiting word from our hosts at Redeemer Lutheran as to whether they’d agreed to letting CtRC back into the building. Your prayers in this regard […]
He Is Risen
Happy Resurrection Sunday from the basement. For another Sunday, we find ourselves socially-distant, though one in the Spirit. Another outstanding, and timely, message from the Gospel of John, delivered by our beloved Pastor. We pray that you are quite nourished and uplifted by today’s Word…now available through all the usual outlets.
Palm Sunday LockDown
Another Sunday service, streamed/recorded from the Hetsler’s basement. You can find the audio and video in the usual places. God has been so good as not to allow any immediate members of CtRC to be struck down by COVID-19 thus far. Pastor Austin…well, all of us…are sorely missing our fellowship opportunities. We know they will […]