VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE OCTOBER 6, 2024

We begin our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. She calls us to worship and Dale Reynolds provides an opening reading from Psalm 37. Luisa Fernandez opens us in prayer. Nick Baltazar and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon, “From Hearers to Does Using Scripture,” Pastor Somer Reed, from Marina Christian Church continues our study of the book of James by challenging us to put our faith to work, to be doers of the Word, and not just hearers. She looks to the examples given by James and incidents in her own life to illustrate what it means to truly live out Jesus’s commandment to love others as you love yourself. The temptations and controversies we see in our lives were present in the First Century church that James was writing to. Then as now, true religion is found not in passive acceptance of the Word, but in addressing the real needs of those around us who have been ignored.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Prayers of the People have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of those participating or mentioned. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s CCLI license # 2486815.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.

 

Worship service copyright 2024 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2024 by Somer Reed and Verdugo Community Church.