The creative calling is present from the very beginning of time. In words that echo through the ages, God intones, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Then Moses reports, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen 1:26-27). Humans are thus made “in the image of God.”
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Ryan P. Tinetti
Ryan P. Tinetti is a pastor who now serves as a professor of practical theology at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis). He is the author of Preaching by Heart and The Quiet Ambition (November 2025) and writes the regular column "The Preacher's Toolbox" on 1517.org. Prior to his call to Concordia Seminary, Ryan served for fourteen years in parish ministry. Ryan lives with his wife, Anne, and their four children in St. Louis on the campus of the seminary.
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