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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
Scripture of the week
Psa 13:1-6 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. 6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
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LORD'S DAY SNIPPET 10/24/2026
by H. Rondel Rumburg, ThM, DMin
Snippet #541 The Majesty of God’s Happiness
“Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?”
Job 22:3
The eternal affection in the Godhead is one of perfect happiness, and the works that that One true and living God produces issues in His perfect happiness; after all He is the only eternal Being, and only He exists in perfect harmony with Himself. These are declarations supported by sacred Scripture. There was a profound statement made by Dr. Robert L. Dabney, “Since God is the original Cause of all things, all the happiness amidst His works is of His doing; and therefore proves His benevolence.” God’s happiness has no limit and is underived. He is totally sovereign and His resources are infinite in Himself. He is the blessed or happy God even when He is angry with the wicked. God cannot be unhappy for all things are according to His will in the armies of heaven and upon the earth. His happiness flows from His infinite perfection!
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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).
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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10:00AM Sunday School class, Sam Snyder
11:00AM Worship Service, Sam Snyder
6:30PM Evening Service, Dwayne Cook
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7:00PM Prayer meeting, Sam Snyder
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