God's Image in You... Priceless! By Robert A. Schuller "God said, 'Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures.'" - Genesis 1:26 (CEV) A speaker began his seminar by holding up a twenty-dollar bill and asking who in the room would like it. Of course, nearly every hand went up. "I'm going to give this to one of you as soon as I do this..." he said - whereupon he wadded the bill into a tiny ball and rolled it around between his palms. "Anybody still want it now?" he asked. The same hands went up. "Okay, what if I do this?" he asked, dropping the wadded-up bill on the floor and stomping on it with his shoe and grinding it into the carpet. "Anybody still want this badly treated twenty-dollar bill now?" he asked. Again, all the hands went up. The speaker's point quickly became obvious. The value of the twenty-dollar bill was not dependent on...
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