Listen to the Stones

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🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

After our family held a riverside memorial service for my father, we each selected a stone to help us remember him. His life had been a checkerboard of wins and losses, but we knew his heart was for us. My fingers traced my stone’s smooth surface and helped me hold him close.

In Luke 19, Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, while the crowds waved palm branches, shouted Hosannas, and cheered, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” (v. 38). In the Pharisees’ disdain of what they perceived to a blasphemous claim of messiahship, they ordered Jesus to tell the disciples to be quiet. Jesus replied, “If they keep quiet, the stones will cry out” (v. 40).

The stones do cry out, in many ways. God used stones throughout the story of His love for us. Two rough-hewn stones carried ten chiseled commandments to tell us how to live (Exodus 34:1–2). Stones of remembrance piled by the Jordan River reminded generations of God’s provision and faithfulness (Joshua 4:8–9). The one rolled into place to contain Jesus’ body is the same one rolled away to show He had risen (Matthew 27:59–66; Luke 24:2). We “hear” this stone as it reminds us of Jesus’ words, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25).

Listen to the stones and lift your own voice along with them in praise to our loving Father.

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0:00.0	I tell you, he replied, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.
0:06.5	Luke chapter 19, verse 40.
0:11.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.
0:15.3	Our reading, Listen to the Stones, was written and read by Elisa Morgan.
0:23.2	Luke chapter 19 verses 37 to 40.
0:28.2	When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole
0:33.1	crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen.
0:41.1	Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
0:49.2	Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, Teacher, rebuke your disciples.
0:55.8	I tell you, he replied,
0:58.1	if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.
1:08.2	Listen to the stones.
1:11.6	After our family held a Riverside Memorial Service for my father, we each selected a stone to help us remember him.
1:20.6	His life had been a checkerboard of wins and losses, but we knew his heart had been for us.
1:31.3	My fingers traced my stones' surface and helped me remember to hold him close. In Luke chapter 19, Jesus made his triumphal entry
1:39.3	into Jerusalem, while the crowds waved palm branches, shouted Hosanas, and cheered,
1:45.9	Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.
1:49.8	In the Pharisees' disdain of what they perceived to be a blasphemous claim of messiahship,
1:56.3	they ordered Jesus to tell the disciples to be quiet.
2:00.5	Jesus replied, If they keep quiet, the stones will cry
2:05.4	out. The stones do cry out in many ways. God has used stones throughout the story of his love for us.
2:15.1	Two rough-hewn stones carried ten chiseled commandments to tell us how to live.
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