 Roy Warren, 7/25/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "Why do some persons 'find God' in a way that others do not?  He has no favorites in His household.  The difference lies not with God but with us."  Join us this Sunday for our annual "Worship Jesus in the Park" at Crooked Creek Park, Heritage Pavilion--next to the Overlook.  The service will begin at 10:00am, with a picnic to follow.  No need for RSVPs--just come.  There will be plenty of food and games--all are welcome!Listen

Christ Our Rock Bible Church Sermons

A Matter of Being Nothing and at the Same Time Everything

Roy Warren, 7/18/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "It is often difficult to tell in a given instance whether we have been defeated or are victorious in a conflict.  Sometimes what looks like a defeat will be seen later to have been a positive victory.  And it must not be forgotten that this principle works just the same in reverse.  Our Lord could die with the same calm in which He had lived.  He had known all along how things would turn out.  He knew His apparent defeat would eventually be universal glory for the human race."Listen

No Small Stir

 Roy Warren, 7/11/2021: A.W. Tozer once said, "I doubt God ever uses any one greatly until they have been seriously hurt."  Brokenness before blessing!  This is an unchanging principle.  For a tree and its wood to be used, it must be cut down.  For a rock to become the foundation of a skyscraper, it must be broken.  If soil is not turned over with a plow, no seed can be planted, and therefore, no harvest gathered.  The Bible says unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit.Listen

Brokenness Before Blessing

 Roy Warren, 7/4/2021: Rev. Hall once wrote, "The more familiar acquaintance we have with God, the more do we partake of Him.  He that passes by the fire may have some gleams of heat, but he that stands by it hath his color changed.  It is not possible that a man should have any long conference with God and be no whit affected.  If we are strangers to God, it is no wonder our faces become earthly, but he that sets himself apart to God shall find a majesty and aweful respect put upon him in the mind of others."Listen

The Light in the Prison: A Matter of Real Freedom

Roy Warren, 6/27/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "I venture to suggest that the one vital quality which the great saints had in common was spiritual receptivity.  They differed from the average person in that when they felt the inward longing, they did something about it.  They acquired the life-long habit of spiritual response.  Receptivity can be present in degrees, depending on the individual.  It may be increased by exercise or destroyed by neglect.  It is a gift of God, one that must be recognized and cultivated."Listen

Rising Again!

Stan Sowl, 6/27/2021: Update from Gideons InternationalListen

2021 Update from Gideons International

 Roy Warren, 6/20/2021: A.W Tozer once wrote, "Faith," said the early Lutherans, "is a perturbing thing."  But something has happened to the doctrine of justification.by faith as Luther taught it.  The faith of Paul and Luther was a revolutionary thing.  It upset the whole life of the individual and made him into another person altogether.  It laid hold on the life and brought it under obedience to Christ.  It had a finality about it.  It realigned all of life's actions and brought them into accord with the will of God."Listen

On Being Kissed and Tucked In

 Roy Warren, 6/13/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "One serious and distressing problem for many who claim to be Christian is their feeling that God is far from them.  It is hard to rejoice in the Lord when we are suffering from a sense of remoteness.  It is like trying to have a bright, warm summer without the sun.   We should never think of God as being spatially near or remote.  God is infinite and in His infinitude, He swallows up all space.  God is not contained:  He contains." (2 Chronicles 6:18)Listen

God Is Not Far From You

 Roy Warren, 6/6/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity it spreads is the pure New Testament kind.  A worldly-minded, unspiritual church is sure to bring forth on other shores a Christianity much like her own.  Not the naked Word only, but the character of the witness determines the quality of the convert."  Join us this Sunday for the message from Acts 4-5 entitled, "Great Power, Great Grace."Listen

Great Power, Great Grace, Great Fear!

 Roy Warren, 5/30/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "Whatever is new or singular should be viewed with a lot of caution.  Over the last half century quite a number of unscriptural notions have gained acceptance by claiming that they were among the truths that were to be revealed in the last days.  The truth is that the Bible does not teach that there will be new light and advanced spiritual experiences in the latter days; it teaches the exact opposite.  Beware of any man who claims to be wiser than the apostles or holier than the martyrs of the Early Church."Listen

In Memorial: Heaven's Door

 Roy Warren, 5/23/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "To speak of the 'deeper life' is not to speak of anything deeper than simple New Testament Christianity.  Some people object to taking vows, but in the Bible you will find many people of God directed by covenants, promises, vows, and pledges.  A carnal man refuses the discipline of such commitments.  He say, 'I want to be free.  It is legalism!'  There are many religious tramps in the world who will not be bound by anything."  Welcome to Pentecost!Listen

But First!

 Roy Warren, 5/16/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "Along with our faith in God must go a healthy disbelief of everything occult and esoteric.  Numerology, astrology, spiritism, and everything weird and strange that passes for religion must be rejected.  All this is toxic matter and has no place in the life of the true Christian.  He has Christ, and He is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father but by Him."  Join us as we close out the Easter Season, and get ready for Pentecost!Listen

The Problem with Toxic Christianity

Roy Warren, 5/9/2021: Dr. Edwin Young once wrote, "One of the most frequent objections I hear to the claims of Christ is this: 'How could God make only one way for people to get to heaven.  As America becomes more of a melting pot, I hear it more frequently.  Because we have no national religion, and our country has become home to so many cultures, tolerance is the watchword of the day.  But many have concluded that tolerance of other belief systems means that all belief systems are equally valid.  They are not!"Listen

Many Other Signs

 Roy Warren, 5/2/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote,  "It is now the accepted thing to talk over religious differences in public with the understanding that no one will try to convert another or point out errors in his belief.  Imagine Moses agreeing to take part in a panel discussion with Israel over the golden calf; or Elijah engaging in a gentlemanly dialogue with the prophets of Baal; or try to picture our Lord Jesus Christ seeking a meeting of the minds with the Pharisees to iron out differences."  Just imagine!Listen

The Tragedy of Not Being With Them

 Roy Warren, 4/25/2021: A.W. Tozer once wrote, "Nowadays, faith means no more than passive moral acquiescence in the Word of God and the Cross of Jesus.  To exercise it, we have only to rest on one knee and nod our heads in agreement with the instructions of a personal worker intent on saving our soul.   People must be told that the Christian religion is not something they can trifle with.  The only man who can be sure he has true Bible faith is the one who has put himself in a position where he cannot go back."Listen