Simply Jesus

obedience-and-authority

• Augustus was now officially 'son of god.' If you'd asked anybody in the Roman Empire who was in charge of the world, they would have said: he is.

  WRI-SJ-RC-030

• We want a 'religious' leader, not a king! We want someone to save our souls, not rule our world!

  WRI-SJ-RC-011

faith-and-doubt

• The Temple was the place where God himself had promised to come and live—his Shekinah, had come to rest.

  SJN-RC-117

• Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo—a crescendo of questions to which there can be only one answer.

  SJN-RC-147

calling

• The kingdom agenda, this rescue project, this return of YHWH to Zion, will be accomplished through the work, and specifically the death, of the servant.

  SJN-RC-138

• Not long after his death his associates started to claim that he was now in charge, for real. And they started to act as if it was true.

  SJNV-RC-015