Title: Leaving Stones for Your Children (6 of 29)
Series: Walking in Victory- Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 4
Tonight, we are going to be talking about memorials. What is a memorial? A physical object that is used to stir the memory. It is to prompt conversations with generations to come.
It may be a statue, a tower, a plaque, or in this case, a stack of stones. But it is some physical object that is designed and dedicated to prompt our memories, lest we forget some important person or event.
In Joshua 4, as Israel crosses the Jordan, God speaks to Brother Joshua and tells him to erect a memorial made of stones from the Jordan River. The reason is simple and the implication is profound.
Joshua, generations will come behind you who will not know your God unless you share Him; Who will not know His mighty works unless you tell them; Who will not know the way unless you show them.
In this text, God tells Joshua, "Leave some stones for your children."
This past summer I took a trip with my daughter to Washington, DC. And of course, in the nation's capitol, there are memorials everywhere. We were able to get tickets to the Washington monument, a memorial designed and built to celebrate and commemorate the legacy of our first president, General George Washington.
This great obelisk reminded me that our nation was founded through war and hardship. And that even from our earliest days as a nation, freedom has come at a high price. It's no accident or coincidence that our first president was GENERAL George Washington. But it was an even greater blessing to be able to take my daughter and to share with her the meaning and message behind the memorial.
We had a chance to visit the Lincoln Memorial. The walls were lined with his famous speeches including his prayer that because of American bloodshed in places like Gettysburg and Shiloh, that government of the people, by the people, and for the people would ...
Series: Walking in Victory- Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 4
Tonight, we are going to be talking about memorials. What is a memorial? A physical object that is used to stir the memory. It is to prompt conversations with generations to come.
It may be a statue, a tower, a plaque, or in this case, a stack of stones. But it is some physical object that is designed and dedicated to prompt our memories, lest we forget some important person or event.
In Joshua 4, as Israel crosses the Jordan, God speaks to Brother Joshua and tells him to erect a memorial made of stones from the Jordan River. The reason is simple and the implication is profound.
Joshua, generations will come behind you who will not know your God unless you share Him; Who will not know His mighty works unless you tell them; Who will not know the way unless you show them.
In this text, God tells Joshua, "Leave some stones for your children."
This past summer I took a trip with my daughter to Washington, DC. And of course, in the nation's capitol, there are memorials everywhere. We were able to get tickets to the Washington monument, a memorial designed and built to celebrate and commemorate the legacy of our first president, General George Washington.
This great obelisk reminded me that our nation was founded through war and hardship. And that even from our earliest days as a nation, freedom has come at a high price. It's no accident or coincidence that our first president was GENERAL George Washington. But it was an even greater blessing to be able to take my daughter and to share with her the meaning and message behind the memorial.
We had a chance to visit the Lincoln Memorial. The walls were lined with his famous speeches including his prayer that because of American bloodshed in places like Gettysburg and Shiloh, that government of the people, by the people, and for the people would ...
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