“We preach Christ crucified” - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1: 23.24.

"We preach Christ crucified"
Somewhere in England there was a church over whose porch one could read the engraving: "We preach Christ crucified". In the course of time ivy started growing over the walls and covered the last word: "We preach Christ". Later it was only "We preach", and finally the entire inscription was covered. Today the building is nothing but a ruin overgrown with vegetation.

For every Christian this occurrence illustrates the importance of spreading the complete gospel that the Bible proclaims. If the cross of Christ is omitted, if man's sin is ignored and also the need of Christ's sacrifice to appease God's wrath, a "different gospel" is preached, as the apostle Paul stated on two occasions (cf. .

Today‘s reading: Deuteronomy 33: 1 - 12 · Ephesians 2: 17 - 22