What Do These Stones Mean to Me?--July 14, 2022

[From July 19, 2018 archive]

 

We rejoice in you, O Righteous God,

and give thanks to your holy name;

for we who are many, are one body

in Christ, individually members of 

one another.  When other members 

have served well, we rejoice in them.

Each one, we hold in grateful memory.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62

Josh. 3:14-4:7

Rom. 12:1-8

Matt. 26:1-16

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 97:12

Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, 
          and give thanks to his holy name!

 

Josh. 4:5-6

Joshua said to [the twelve men], “Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, one for each of the tribes of the Israelites, so that this may be a sign among you.  When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’  …” 

 

Rom. 12:5

…so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.

 

Matt. 26:12-13

“…By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial.  Truly I tell you, wherever this good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]