Pastor's Corner: Stewarding our legacies

[Joshua 4:1-24] Visual aids make great memory joggers, don't they? Things like putting flags on veteran graves. With the phenomenon of a dried-up Jordan at the people's backs, Joshua turns them around for an object lesson. "What do these stones mean?" is the natural inquiry God and Joshua expect from the ever curious children of upcoming generations. Notice that the memorial celebrates not the people involved in this historic event but God who enacted the miracle (the second time something like this had happened!). Interestingly, these crossings of formidable bodies of water bracket events of...