Jesus in the Gospels... has received God's anointing as the chosen king, but another king is currently on the throne. The story of the Gospels is one in which Jesus inaugurates a new reign of God and deals a deathblow to the imposter king through his death on the cross. If the Cross is the defeat of the old king, the Resurrection is the enthronement of the new. Jesus now literally sits... at the right hand of God. Though the preexistent Christ has always been God's agent in the creation and rule of the world, the human Jesus is now joined to that role as Lord and king over all.J.R. Daniel Kirk in A Resurrection That Matters
Richard Beck on Boredom
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After discussing our feelings of arbitrariness in modernity -- making
something matter in a world where nothing matters -- Dunnington goes on to
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