{"id":158,"date":"2008-11-17T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/11\/stone.html"},"modified":"2008-11-17T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:36:00","slug":"stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/11\/stone.html","title":{"rendered":"Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SSGdngJGgNI\/AAAAAAAABpA\/RyyOO3jAJF0\/s1600-h\/stone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 149px;height: 112px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SSGdngJGgNI\/AAAAAAAABpA\/RyyOO3jAJF0\/s400\/stone.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STONE:  THE COLD HARD FACTS*<\/p>\n<p> A stone<br \/> Stands alone<br \/> Unmoved<br \/> Unmoveable<br \/> In stele silence.<\/p>\n<p> Solid but cold<br \/> Hard but old<br \/> Yet not aging<br \/> Rocks of ages<\/p>\n<p> The stuff of idols<br \/>        Edifices<br \/> Statues<br \/> Monoliths<\/p>\n<p>        Cornerstones<br \/> Keystones<br \/> Tombstones<br \/> Petraglyphs<\/p>\n<p> From you<br \/> The Pieta<br \/> From you<br \/> Rocky<\/p>\n<p>        Petrified by<br \/> Stone Mountain or<br \/> Mt. Rushmore<\/p>\n<p> From you<br \/> Avalanche<br \/> From you<br \/> Lava rocks<\/p>\n<p> Precipices<br \/> Points<br \/> Pebbles<br \/> Ledges<br \/> Edges<\/p>\n<p>        Stoning<br \/> Head stoned<br \/>       (Goliath of Gath)<br \/> Millstones<br \/> Neck stoned<br \/> Stones of<br \/> Kidney and Gall<\/p>\n<p> Stone cold<br \/> Sober<br \/> Stoned<br \/> Tripping<\/p>\n<p> Rolling stones<br \/> May gathering no moss<br \/> But they sure do<br \/> Rock\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Who rolled away the stone<br \/>On chilly Easter morn<br \/>Not Pierre, Petros, Peter<br \/>With faith not yet reborn? <\/p>\n<p> A house built on rock<br \/> A house built on sand<br \/> With Christ the living stone<br \/> The foundation will stand<\/p>\n<p>* To be read with increasing downhill momentum and crescendo<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 17, 2008<\/p>\n<p>BW3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STONE: THE COLD HARD FACTS* A stone Stands alone Unmoved Unmoveable In stele silence. Solid but cold Hard but old Yet not aging Rocks of ages The stuff of idols Edifices Statues Monoliths Cornerstones Keystones Tombstones Petraglyphs From you The Pieta From you Rocky Petrified by Stone Mountain or Mt. Rushmore From you Avalanche From&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stone - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/11\/stone.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stone - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"STONE: THE COLD HARD FACTS* A stone Stands alone Unmoved Unmoveable In stele silence. 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