Summary

We keep assuming God's strength shows up despite our weakness — like weakness is the obstacle He must work around. But again, Scripture says something bolder: His strength shows up in it. On purpose. Which means the cross — the most fragile, humiliated moment in human history — isn't the exception to God's power. It's the demonstration of it.

Sermon Questions

1. The ten-second test. If you had ten seconds to tell someone why they should be impressed with you, what would you actually say — and does that answer reveal what you're really boasting in, even quietly?
2. When the list stops answering. Wisdom, strength, and riches aren't wrong to have, but they're "too fragile to hold what we're asking them to hold." What's one moment in your life when something on your list — your competence, your security, your reputation — got tested and came up short?
3. Knowing vs. knowing about. The sermon draws a sharp line between knowing facts about God and being known by Him — relationship instead of information. Where in your walk with God have you settled for the trivia-night version instead of the years-in-the-same-room version?
4. Two funerals, one cross. Paul says the world's scoreboard is dead to him, and he is dead to it. What's one piece of "scoreboard" thinking — comparison, performance, quiet score-keeping — you'd need to bury at the foot of the cross to actually mean that?
5. The wall in the study. Picture your own trophy wall — diplomas, achievements, things people would recognize. If the worst week of your life showed up tomorrow, which of those would have nothing to say to you at 2 a.m., and what would you need to hang in the empty space instead?