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audio sermons & Snippets 8/30/2026
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Our services: Sunday School - 10:00am, Worship Service - 11:00am
Sunday Evening Bible Study - 6:30pm, Wednesday Prayer Meeting / Bible Study - 7:00pm
Psa 5:1-12 To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. 7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. 8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
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LORD'S DAY SNIPPET 8/30/2026
by H. Rondel Rumburg, ThM, DMin
Snippet #533 The Majesty of the Immanent God
“Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”
Psalm 139:7-10
​Where is God? God is everywhere! God’s immanence might seem to contradict His transcendence. “Transcendence” means that God is beyond the range of creation, but even this word is too confining for God is infinitely above all else. God is above creation or independent of it as creator or originator. He transcends time and space, and yet is present in every point of space with His whole being. God’s immanence means that He continues in creation which He is beyond. Yes, creation is distinct from God, but dependent on His sustaining power. The verses referred to in Psalm 139 indicate that God
is everywhere present in His creation. Someone might be saying be careful of pantheism; it is dangerous heresy! It certainly is dangerous and it is heresy. God’s presence in the world He created is certainly not pantheism. Pantheism teaches that everything is God and God is everything. Pantheism denies the transcendence of God by saying everything is God and God is everything thus denying the personality of God making Him a thing. No, the Bible teaches us that God is in His creation and its processes for He is the Creator, and the counterpart is His transcendence which says He is distinct from and totally sovereign over His creation. The fruit of God’s creatorship does not become Him, but is separate from His personhood which is eternal, although it is a part of His work and maintenance.
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OUR ONLY HOPE.
I very recently finished one of the most appropriate discourses I have ever read regarding the current state of the United States of America. The title is, “THE DANGER AND HOPE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.” It was delivered in 1843 by the famed pastor of the Presbyterian “Brick Church” in Albany, New York, Dr. GARDINER SPRING (1785-1873). With minimal alteration, it could have been presented exactly as it stands, in any pulpit in America this past Lord’s Day! Obviously, there is “nothing new under the sun,” as Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes. Everything he describes of the America of 1843 also describes the America of 2026; only the number of states and the population count being much greater than when he first spoke it. Numerous corrupting factors have been added to the mix since he spoke, e.g., Marxism, Darwinism, Theological Liberalism, aggressive “Green” and sodomite agendas, militant Islam, etc. but these have only served to prove both points: Danger and Hope. — The Discourse is easily viewed, downloaded and printed at the following LINK; please read it and pass it along, remembering that God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1).
G. WM. FOSTER, JR.
May 6, 2026
A Biblical World View
By Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg
© 2026 SBSS
“In the beginning God….”
A question that has profound implications is, “What is truth?” This is a foundational question. The sure foundation is the revealed will of God, which has been recorded in an inspired way in the Bible. The special revelation of God (the Bible) is the only true source for such information! God has revealed what is necessary for our living in His world. This includes dealing with man when he is at cross purposes with God and creation. Every attempt to define truth is limited and corrupted by minds distorted by the fall. Such effects of the fall extend to the power of reasoning. All truth is God's truth, but the human understanding of what is true may not be accurate at all!
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Last Pastoral message by Ron Rumburg
Passing the Torch, delivered on 1/18/2026
John 10:1-16
9/16/2025 Bloody Hands
“He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.”
Proverbs 17:15
3/17/2025 The Five Points of Salvation, by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg
Paul and the other apostles tell us that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, and that not of ourselves it is the gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast (Eph. 2:8-9).
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The Lord Jesus said, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” John 6:37-39
3/2/2025 Is Cremation Biblical?, by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg
Amo 2:1-2 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: (2) But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
12/29/2024 Spiritual Check-up, by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg
The astute care we take of things is called vigilance, whether it be with our yearly check-up with the dentist or some other physician who attends to a specialized need. “Vigilance is the state of being watchful and alert, especially to notice potential dangers or problems” [Cambridge Dictionary].​
2/9/2025 Praying in Public, by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg
The need for instruction on public praying is universal. All Christians need help here. Why? There is the danger of dishonoring God and unduly honoring our fellows. We must never address those about us in prayer for our heavenly Father alone should receive our prayers. Remember in the Model Prayer the Lord Jesus taught His disciples to begin, “Our Father which art in heaven.”
But when life tumbles in, what then?, by Pastor Arthur J. Gossip
[This was the first sermon preached after my wife’s dramatically sudden death. Arthur John (AJ) Gossip, Beechgrove Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1927.]
“If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with the horses? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” Jer. xii. 5
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