[You can make this sermon interactive by handing out river rocks/stones for people to hold in their hands.]

Stones.

They fascinate us.

We love to look at them. We assemble collections of them. We place them into museums of natural history. We chisel them. We wear them. We admire them. We love to identify their types and origins. Whole fields of science have been dedicated just to the study of rocks. Rocks even hold various meanings.

Rock types, rock formations, surface rock, layered rocks, volcanic rocks, gemstones. Stone masonry, stone homes, stone wells, arrowheads, stepping-stones. Since the beginning of time, we’ve been in an interesting relationship with stones.

It’s no wonder then that stones represent a major metaphor in scripture.  Think for a moment of the kinds of stones you…