Relevance and Practical Implications of the Resurrection (Part 1)

You pretty much have to live in a shell to have not heard about James Cameron and the long lost tomb everyone has been looking for! Because I most likely wouldn't have anything new or exciting to say on the matter I would like to write about the relevance of the resurrection and the practical implications it holds on us today. So over the next few days I would like to look at how the resurrection gives us a confident joy, a hope, and a divine impulse to service.

Confident Joy
Apart from giving us an assurance of the deity of Christ, the resurrection gives us a confidence throughout life as it pertains to our salvation. We could end each day asking, "Did I pray enough?" "Did I read my Bible enough?" "Was I good?" and when I go through the list of moralistic do's and dont's, I come out a rather depressed person. As I start to understand the resurrection more and more I realize that sin has been defeated and Christ has triumphed over death. So in our sin, we can hate it and find it revolting but we still have a confident joy that I am free from death's grip based on my own good works? No, but Christ's defeat of sin and the grave. So in the face of sin we can be angry over our depraved self, but we can confidently take joy in the fact that Christ has defeated the very thing we hate so much. ESV 1 Corinthians 15:55 "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" As the hymnwriter says, "Behold him there the risen Lamb, my perfect spotless Righteousness, the great unchangeable I AM, the king of glory and of grace. One with himself I cannot die, my soul is purchased by his blood, my life is hidd'n with Christ on high, with Christ my savior and my God."

Atheism Is a Religion

This morning in the Science Times of the New York Times there was an article about a women named Dr. Carolyn Porco. You can find the article here. Very interesting... Maybe atheism is just as much of a relgion. Dr. Porco said, "Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome — and even comforting — than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know."

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog. My name is Ben. I am a student in high school. The title of my blog is Crosscentric meaning that the cross of Christ is at the center of our doctrine and actions. External conformity will accomplish nothing but a self-righteous and "anti-gospel" disposition before God. The answer lies at a biblical understanding of the cross. So in this blog I will attempt to cover issues like doctrine (and the lack there of) to the culture today while trying to bring across the supremacy of Christ and His cross through all matters. So I hope you will stop by and take a look every now and again.
For Christ and His Supremacy,
Ben Prinz

Mark Driscoll

This is a rather old video but I wanted to post it just to get something up.

Starting Up

Just starting up!