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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

worshiping 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.

This is the day when the lost I found.

This is the day for a new beginning.

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound.

Again you hear, and the angels are seen it.

This is the day. We throw the word idle around pretty freely in our 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 Lori warns about idle worship based on an

epic confrontation in 1 Kings 18.

Elijah goes toe to toe with the prophets of bail.

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