Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
THE BODY: THE IMAGE OF GOD
Paul Brand writing about what it means to be in the image of God in his book In His Image:
"We will not explore the psychological and mental attributes in each one of us that might reflect the image of God. Instead, we will center on a community, that group of God’s
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Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 2, 2009
JESUS: THE IMAGE OF GOD
If you are old enough to remember, or watch the old series Dragnet on the Nickelodeon channel, you will see at the end a greasy hand come out with a hammer and a die. The hammer hits the die, and when the hammer and die leave, the mark ’VII’ is left in the stone. Although
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2009
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OUR IMAGE OF GOD
Brennan Manning said, "It is always true to some extent that we make our images of God. It is even truer that our image of God
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2007
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The image of God in Human beings is like a sponge.
Sponges are useful creations. They are, we would say, Good.
But human beings after the fall are like a sponge that has been dipped in crude oil. The sponge is still there – it is still “good” but there is no where in the sponge that the oil is
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Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 1, 2001
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The Bear and the Atheist
An atheist was walking through the woods looking at the beautiful trees and flower that had just bloomed. Because he was an atheist he couldn’t thank anyone for the beautiful landscape that he was witnessing. As he was gazing at the sky he saw a bear running toward him,
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In the movie: “The Bear” a bear cub whose mother died took up with a male bear. They traveled together. One of my favorite parts happened when they got separated and the little bear came upon a mountain lion. When the mountain lion came at the cub he stood up trying to scare it away. The mountain
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 30, 2009
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However, it the image of the “enraged king” who sends an army to destroy the city and kill those who have committed but then rejected the summons that bothers us. Is God really that way? I don’t know about you but I have this image of someone who completely flies off the handle in a rage and temper
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IMAGE IS EVERYTHING
In 1990 when Andre Agassi was at the start of a career that lifted tennis' popularity to new heights, advertising execs for Canon cameras invested millions in an ad campaign
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Contributed by Charles Wood on May 14, 2009
The image from our first reading, of God writing his law on our hearts, is very consoling and meant to encourage us.
The image of writing could call to mind one complication. That is, if we are honest with ourselves we all could probably admit that we may not always be the best medium for God to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Issur Danielovitch Densky did not like the image he thought his name projected, so he changed his name and became Kirk Douglas.
In the same way, Frances Gum transfigured herself and her image into Judy Garland.
Archibald Leach became Cary Grant. Aaron Schwalt became Red Buttons. And would you
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