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Here is a Search Story video that I made on YouTube.  Where do you look for answers to life’s big questions?

Create your own Search Story here.

“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.

A friend shared this with me and I just couldn’t resist posting it here.

What do you think? Is this take on the contemporary worship service fair or unfair?

(via The Art of Manliness)

The above video is a short presentation given by Brett McKay at Ignite Tulsa. In his five-minute Ignite Talk, “The Menaissance: The Death of the Metrosexual and the Rise of the Retrosexual,” McKay discusses the resurgence of manliness in our culture.

If you are interested in “reviving the lost art of manliness,” then I highly recommend that you visit McKay’s blog, The Art of Manliness, and read more.

Do you see the same trends in our culture? Do you agree that the “Rise of the Retrosexual” is positive for our culture?

“…unless you distinguish the Gospel from religion and moralism, they assume that you are simply asking them to become better people…” -Tim Keller

In the video above, Tim Keller discusses the importance of distinguishing between the gospel and religion and moralism, especially when sharing with the irreligious and secular.

Knowledge of Sin Through the Law

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. (Romans 3:19-28)

Beauty Outside – Death Inside

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matthew 23:27-28)

We have been called to make disciples, not Pharisees. How tragic it would be if, in an attempt to share the gospel, I led one to believe that the answer to irreligion is religion or moralism.

If you are a regular visitor to Foolish Cross (I know there are at least 5 of you out there), then you have surely noticed some changes today. Over the weekend, FC was moved from Blogger to WordPress. Though the transition was successfully made (thanks to some help from BLOGBloke), there is still plenty left to do. I hope to tweak, or completely change, the theme you now see. You may have also noticed that all past comments are absent, as I am experiencing some technical difficulties with the migration of comments. I will be working to solve this issue as well.

I hope to have these items, and others, crossed off my list by next week.  Thanks for your patience.

Recently, I started to read Loving God by Charles Colson.  In the introduction, Colson poses a very important question: Do Christians know how to love God?

…most of us, as professing Christians, do not really know how to love God.  Not only have we not given thought to what the greatest commandment means in our day-to-day existence, we have not obeyed it.  And if this was true for individual believers, what were the ramifications for the church?  Perhaps the reason the church was so ineffective in the world was that it had the same needs I did.

 I look forward to reading his response.

When exactly was Jesus born? Mark Driscoll discusses this question at The Resurgence.  His conclusion? 

In the end, the year and date of Jesus’ birth are apparently not a significant issue because God did not find them valued enough to clarify in Scripture, which simply says it happened “in the fullness of time.