Our sermon text for this coming Lord’s Day will be Joshua 3:12-17. This passage provides the record of Israel’s miraculous crossing of the Jordan River as led by Joshua and the priests who carried the ark of the Lord—an event that replicated the earlier crossing of the Red Sea under the leadership of Moses. As we look back upon this amazing event on ‘Jordan’s stormy banks’ we want to know the significance of the two similar crossings, and how these events have shaped the Biblical narrative of salvation. With our eyes carefully trained through the lens of the New Covenant in Christ our Lord, we will begin to see how this Old Testament miracle foreshadows the more powerful and glorious miracle of our own redemption by the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus, as well as the life of service, love, and obedience that follows true faith.