February 1, 2026

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No one likes a braggart. But, truth be told, we all boast. Perhaps we are filled with pride because our favorite team has been performing so well. So we wear our team jersey and, quite naturally, engage in trash talk about other teams. Or, perhaps, there is something we are dying for people to know about us. So we make sure to steer the conversation so we can work into the conversation what a big deal we are. Maybe we brag about our children. And it is never enough to share with just the people who know our children. We want the whole world to know. So we put it on our car bumper. "My child is …"

Our boasting is a window into our souls. Boasting, after all, is praise. And we praise what we love, what gives us identity, and what gives us joy. We all boast. The important question, therefore, is "Of what do we boast?"

Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:18–30 explains his ministry of preaching as an act of boasting. Not, of course, of his own merit or achievement, but of Christ: "we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greek, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men … so that no human being might boast in the presence of God … so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.""

The Greeks who boasted of their wisdom considered preaching to be folly. To them both the content and the act of preaching had the air of something ignominious, something that fell so short when compared to their vaunted wisdom. And Christ crucified was a stumbling block to the Jews who boasted in their vision of the Messiah who will wear a crown of gold rather than a crown of thorns. Thus neither the Greeks nor the Jews were impressed with Paul's preaching. But Paul's preaching, both the act and the content of it, was boasting in Jesus. For "it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe."

A church is most truly Christian, the her ministry most biblical, when every Bible study, every sermon, every worship, and every fellowship is boasting of Jesus Christ. What is your boasting? Let it be Jesus.

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Growth Resources

In February we are reading "Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis. See also 12 for 26

Announcements

2/1 (Lord's Day): Sunday School continues. Essential Truths of the Christian Faith" ch. 71 "The Assurance of Salvation."

2/4 (Wednesday 7PM): Esther Zoom Study. Meeting ID: 884 9003 6844. Passcode: 5sUpUi

2/8 (Lord's Day): Fellowship meal.

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