Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.
Greg Gilbert

Reading Room

The Reading Room

Confession 13 Finances

Confession 13 Finances CONFESSION 13 FINANCES My God supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. It is His will for me to prosper and…

MoreConfession 13 Finances

Friendship In Marriage

Friendship In Marriage FRIENDSHIP IN MARRIAGE A Sermon by Rev. Lawson M. Smith "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you" (John 15:14). Friendship is one of…

MoreFriendship In Marriage

Gods Plan For Man

Gods Plan For Man God's Plan for Man Ever since Adam and Eve first disobeyed God in the garden, the Bible tells us that mankind has been born with a…

MoreGods Plan For Man

Marriage Prayer

Marriage Prayer Marriage Prayer Lord, help us to remember when we first met, and the strong love that grew between us. To see the good within the other, to find…

MoreMarriage Prayer