Friendship Baptist Church welcomes you to join us in the worship of the Triune God.
Our services: Sunday School - 10:00am, Worship Service - 11:00am
Sunday Evening Bible Study - 6:30pm, Wednesday Prayer Meeting / Bible Study - 7:00pm
How Majestic Is Your Name
Psa 8:1-9 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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LORD'S DAY SNIPPET 9/20/2026
by H. Rondel Rumburg, ThM, DMin
Snippet #536 The Majesty of God’s Lordship
“The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
Psalm 24:1
The Spirit of God leads the Psalmist to begin this psalm with a powerful ascription of the majesty of God’s Lordship over all creation. The realm of divine Lordship is universal. Our text reminds one of the first verse in the Bible. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). This verse marks the boundary between time and eternity. This verse reminds us that the first named subject of the Bible is “God,” who is central to all power, position, promises, and persons. Before there ever was anything else,
“in the beginning God.” God always was and He created heaven and earth from nothing. “The earth” is His object says our text. The word “earth” is used in its widest sense which includes the habitable and uninhabitable regions including what is on it, over it, in it, under it. Every bit of it is God’s in its fulness. The place of your dwelling, the ground upon which you walk, the spot upon which you labor, the plot for your burial is His! He is the great and majestic landlord of the universe. And “the fulness thereof” is His, yea all the things that fill the earth along with the provision of all things as well as all its moveable objects. Yes, the cattle, the birds, the wild critters, and the hills upon which they reside are His (Ps. 50:11, 12). This includes the human inhabitants that “dwell therein.” They were made in the image of God and are to be for His glory.
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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
Services
10:00AM Sunday School class, Sam Snyder
11:00AM Worship Service, Sam Snyder
6:30PM Evening Service, Dwayne Cook
SUNDAY
10:00 AM
12:00 PM
6:30 PM
7:00PM Prayer meeting, Sam Snyder
WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM