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Genesis 1:26-28
26God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27God created man in his own image. In God`s image he created him; male and female he created them.
28God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
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Dear God who shaped humanity from dust and breathed into us Your own image, This morning I sit with the radical claim of Genesis 1:26-28 — that every person who has ever drawn breath carries the *imago Dei*, the image...
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Lord of all creation, You who breathed Your own image into every human soul — hear this evening prayer. Tonight I remember that Genesis tells us something revolutionary: You did not stamp Your *imago Dei* upon pharaohs alone, nor reserve...
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Heavenly Father, Creator of every soul who bears Your image, Tonight I hold before You the faces I passed today without seeing — the woman counting coins at the grocery checkout, quietly putting back the bread; the man in the...