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Consider this.

An idle is not necessarily a bad thing.

It's a good thing that you've made into a God thing.

We may not be worshipping graven images on pedestals,

but Pastor Greg Lorry says if something captures more of our attention than God does, that's trouble.

There's nothing wrong with a lot of things that we're involved in,

but if that becomes the most important thing,

you've allowed a good thing to become a God thing, and it's taken the place of God in your life. Day for a new beginning.

Amazing grace helps with the sound.

Again you hear and the angels are singing.

This is the day, the day. We throw the word idle around pretty freely in our culture. So and so is a teen idle.

Did you watch American Idol? culture. So and so is a teen idol.

Did you watch American Idol?

Humphrey Bogart was a matinee idol.

Biblically speaking, an idol is a representation or symbol of an object of worship.

It's a clear transgression of the First Commandment.

Today on a new beginning,

Pastor Greg Lorry warns about idle worship

based on an epic confrontation in 1st Kings 18.

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