Tag: paradox

• 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 Eternity of God’s Suffering

  Hebrews 2:5-9 – 6/18/2026 We do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:9 (NRSVue) This verse from Hebrews presents us with an…

  Justin R Marquis

  June 15, 2026

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  bible, christianity, christology, eternity, faith, god, incarnation, jesus, lectionary, lutheran, paradox, temporality, theology, trinity