Q&A#12: God’s Image
Q/A#12
Q: After what pattern did God create us?
A: God created us in his own image to be relational and rational, to both work and rest, and to live morally upright in all things.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion…. – Genesis 1:26a (ESV)
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. – Ecclesiastes 7:29 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Genesis 2:3, 15-20
Our Response
Live as an image-bearer of God
Praise God for who he made you to be
Rest Reflections
But all that hurry has gotten me no farther ahead. It’s actually set me back. It’s diminished me. My efforts to gain time have only lost it. Whole epochs of my existence have swept by me in a blur, with nary a cheap souvenir to remember them by. There are seasons and seasons of my life swallowed whole, buried in a black hole of forgetting…. Through all that haste, I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.
– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
Awed
Sometimes we are awed into silence in the presence of the Eternal.
– J. Oswald Sanders in Enjoying Intimacy with God
Ministry Collection
Here are some good posts for pastors:
Burnout Begins with Bad Theology – David Murray (DG)
Should a Pastor Take a Day Off Every Week? – Brian Croft (PS)
How To Control Your Calendar – Mark Dance (F&T)
Preaching Point
Is Jesus Christ the dominant theme in your preaching? In the pulpit, do you magnify his sovereign lordship and saving work? In your ministry, do you continually point your listeners to him? Do you call people to commit their lives to Him?
– Steven Lawson in The Kind of Preaching God Blesses
Rest Reflections
A Sabbath heart is restful even in the midst of unrest and upheaval. It is attentive to the presence of God and others even in the welter of much coming and going, rising and falling. It is still and knows God even when mountains fall into the sea.
– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
Worship and Love
Worship flows from love. Where love is meager, worship will be scant. Where love is deep, worship will overflow.
– J. Oswald Sanders in Enjoying Intimacy with God
Family Collection
Here are some good posts to help parents think about their children and smartphones. You may not agree with everything, but these posts address some important issues and possible approaches.
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – Jean Twenge (Atlantic)
Should Teens Own Smartphones? – Tony Reinke (DG)
Twelve Tips for Parenting in the Digital Age – Tony Reinke (DG)
Brian J. Mikul 