Chief Cornerstone
1 Peter 2:4-6 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.
I visited my nephew’s monument in Wurzburg, Germany a couple years after he was killed, in the last hours of Operation Desert Storm, the first Persian Gulf war. I went to se...