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NO. LIVERMORE — At the North Livermore Baptist Church April 25 service, the congregation was welcomed in by Pastor Bonnie Higgins at 9:30 a.m. to begin the service.
The Call to Worship was read and the Invocation/Lord’s Prayer was recited. The hymns that were sung was “Standing on the Promises”, “Trust and Obey”, “We are Called to be God’s People”. We completed the service with “Go Now in Peace”. Linda Lyman is the organist each week.
The sermon, titled “Idols”, and reading the scripture from Exodus 20:1-6. Pastor Bonnie also read from Psalm 115:2-8. Pastor Bonnie began with examples of people and things that we don’t consider as idols but we actually make them idols. People like athletes, TV stars, movie stars, singers, money, cars, boats, homes, etc. Basically, anyone or thing we put above God is an idol. She gave the example from scriptures of when the people of Israel wanted a “real” god and they came up and erected a statue of a calf. They thought Moses and God were taking too long to get them a god. God knew their weakness then and He knows our weakness now, that is why He said that we should have no gods above Him.