For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

The world portrays those who follow the ways of Jesus as uneducated, or unscientific, or behind the times, or simplistic—foolish. Who in the world believes in a story about a cross and eternal destiny?

Who is their right mind changes their life in order to live by the teachings this man on the cross promoted? Such a foolish idea.

Who instructs their children to follow in the same ways? Who invests a chunk of every weekend attending services with other similarly deluded people? What a foolish waste of time.

Why give money to prop up this dead man’s ideas? Foolish.

Who’s so foolish? I am. Most of you reading the blog are as well, along with billions throughout history.

Christ crucified remains foolishness to the world, a stumbling block to many.

But to the rest of us, it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1 in week thirty-four of reading the Bible cover to cover

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