Tag: isaiah

• Choosing One’s Own Oppression

  Isaiah 55:1-5 – 8/2/2026 – The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:2 (NRSVue) Deleuze puts it roughly this way. Why do some people fight for their own oppression as if it were their salvation?…

  Justin R Marquis

  August 7, 2026

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  alienation, bible, christianity, existentialism, faith, Freud, god, isaiah, jesus, lectionary, lutheran, Marx, oppression, original sin, paradox, salvation, the fall, theology

• The Four Sources of Suffering

  Isaiah 51:17-23 – 7/31/2026 Rouse yourself, rouse yourself! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the cup of staggering Isaiah 51:17 (NRSVue) Today’s reading from Isaiah is about the wrath of God poured out on the people.…

  Justin R Marquis

  August 5, 2026

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  bible, christianity, faith, god, gods-nature, isaiah, jesus, lectionary, lutheran, problem-of-evil, suffering, theology

• A Strange Deity

  Isaiah 48:6-11 – 7/10/2026 For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, so that I may not cut you off. Isaiah 48:9 (NRSVue) The traditional understanding of the theistic God is that God is impassible. In other words, God is not affected by that…

  Justin R Marquis

  July 11, 2026

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  bible, christianity, faith, god, gods-nature, hermeneutics, isaiah, jesus, lectionary, lutheran, philosophy-of-religion, theism, theology