The Foolishness of Preaching
Christian Community Presbyterian Church Bowie, Maryland October 11, 2026 The Foolishness of Preaching 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Click to hear audio. (A video is not available due to a software glitch.) [This sermon was offered in celebration of the 50th anniversary of my ordination as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)] How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in God’s excellent Word! What more can be said than to you God hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? Amen. ("K" in John Rippon's Selection of Hymns, 1787) T he Corinthian church is divided. Paul begins to speak to the divisions with a quotation from Isaiah, a key prophet in the Old Testament. In Paul’s day, the Hebrew scriptures were the Word of God. Isaiah spoke for God saying, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of t...