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We often believe there are empires to build and

Thrones to be overtaken. We build towers of ideologies in the hope of touching the

heavens. But our king has already come.

His kingdom is everlasting.

He was enthroned not through political acquisition or human inheritance but through crucifixion.

They did not come to capture lands but hearts, not to break enemy lines but chains, addictions, and even bread.

So we, the weary, now redeemed, bend swords into plow shares, hold tension, cling to the scriptures, pursue peace and cultivate space

for the temporary difference of opinion. Hello, my Hello Church family my name is Brad George and I currently serve on the production team.

Today's scripture comes from Genesis 1, 26 through 31.

Then God said, let us make man in our image

after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every

creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image in the

image of God he created him. Male and female he created them and God blessed them and

God said to them be fruitful and and multiply, and fill the earth and

subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the heavens,

and over every living thing that moves on the earth. And God said, behold, I have given you every

plant yielding seed that is on the face of this earth and every tree with seed and its fruit.

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