Is God Really Omnipotent?

I think that this paragraph really articulates where I've found myself after years of wrestling with scripture, systematics and life experience (my own and others'). It comes from this dialogue:Tripp Fuller and Bo Sanders: Is God Really Omnipotent?:

Jesus died with the power of empire inscribed on his cross-dead body.  It is that body that God raised from the dead, and it is the future of the Cross-dead Christ that we as Christians share. Yet for some reason, we so easily speak about God’s power as if God was being revealed in the building of crosses and not in their bearing. God’s self-revelation in Jesus was a rejection of the coercive, determining, and controlling power that the empires of this world love so much for the power of love.  Infinite divine love, the freedom it gives, the risks it takes and the possibilities it continuously creates offer an alternative ultimate theological principle for Christian theology and one I think coheres with the story of Jesus

The helpful thing about it is that it roots the thing in Christocentric reading of scripture and reflection on that. I love, too, the first two sentences of the quote. The 'building ... not... bearing.." phrase is also helpful.

The quote leaves me thinking of expressing some of the ideas in riffs.

"Jesus crossed out by
 a mobbed popular vote; the lynch-pin
of age-change
condemnation by rote.
Sold not just for thirty argent slivers
but
for for an Empirical peace
which passed all otherstanding" 

... maybe ...