Old Skool Deliverance (i.e. I am speaking (writing ), of course, about heavy metal music of Christian influence. It’s a far cry from the thugs, tramps and homies who sing about sex, violence and money but point to the heavens when they receive... 

Every day it begins again, the same old things I wish would end temptations rear their head to say, “you ain’t different today…” Enticing me to defy as the tether of the old man knots and binds from thought to sin I fade away,... 

But didn’t Christ have to die first? The lack of Christ on a cross is clearly representative of the resurrection; a barren cross left as a worldly symbol with the Son of God free from its grasp. A cross is usually just that; two pieces of material...