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+## Context
+
+Scripture Reading: Psalm 90
+
+Sermon Text: Genesis 1:26-28
+
+## Prayer
+
+Father,
+
+We come before you right now to recognize our sin.
+We come before you to confess that we have not lived according to your purpose
+and design for us.
+
+We have failed as your image and as stewards of your creation.
+We have failed in your call to exercise dominion over creation, and have
+submitted ourselves to worshiping creatures rather than you, our Creator.
+The creation that you made us to be benevolent stewards of suffers because we
+love it wrongly.
+You made us stewards of your creation, and we have brought death upon it.
+We twist and contort your image in the world, and then set our hopes in that
+contorted image.
+
+We have scorned your design for us.
+We are ashamed of your noble callings for us.
+
+We have trained our hearts to delight in and esteem mockeries of the Gospel,
+mockeries of your manifold wisdom.
+We allow our entertainment to breed in us, sympathy for and celebration of
+things you have declared detestable.
+
+Masquerading cowardice as compassion, we fail to speak the truth.
+Masquerading animosity as compassion, we use the truth for harm.
+In this we fail as Christ's body.
+We fail as the body of him who is your perfect image.
+
+We are in many ways disciples of our culture, rather than your Son.
+We are in many ways disciples of whichever popular faction of our time seems
+best to us, rather than your Word.
+Whether we are stalwart devotees of tradition, progress, or moderation, we too
+often set our course according to the ideas of men without ever truly
+consulting your Word.
+
+But by your Word, we know that you gave your Son for us, and so we come to you
+now seeking the peace with you that is bought by the blood of his cross, that
+we may share in his life.
+We ask your forgiveness for our sin, that you would deliver us both from the
+from the consequence of our sin and from our sin itself, that we might image
+you rightly.
+
+We ask this in the name of your righteous Son, Christ Jesus.
+Amen.