Travis J. Scholl
-
Reformation Day • John 8:31–36 • October 30, 2016
By Travis J. Scholl Commemorating the sixteenth-century events that came to be called the Protestant Reformation is more complicated than it used to be. Triumphalism—a certain…
-
Advent 4 • Luke 1:39–45 (46–56) • December 20, 2015
By Travis Scholl [Advent’s historical] character was that of a joyous looking forward to the Parousia. . . . The fact that Christ has come…
-
Proper 19 • Isaiah 50:4–10 • September 16, 2012
By Travis J. Scholl Allow me a roundabout way to this text from Isaiah. Because I find today’s epistle lesson (James 3:1–12) to be a…
-
Easter 7 • Acts 1:12–26 • May 20, 2012
By Travis J. Scholl I sense deep sadness in Peter’s voice: “The scripture had to be fulfilled…for he was numbered among us and was allotted…
-
Advent 1 • Matthew 24:36–44 • November 28, 2010
by Travis J. Scholl Socrates summed up the first principle of philosophers everywhere: to know that we don’t know. And perhaps the “not knowing” is…
-
Proper 15 • Jeremiah 23:16–29 • August 15, 2010
By Travis J. Scholl The crux of this text is the ongoing conflict in Jeremiah between true and false prophets and Jeremiah’s own ongoing conflict…
-
Proper 7 • Isaiah 65:1–9 • June 20, 2010
By Travis J. Scholl Let’s be honest. Given the wondrous epistle reading from Galatians 3 (“But now that faith has come … There is no…
-
The Transfiguration of Our Lord · Deuteronomy 34:1-12 · February 14, 2010
By Travis Scholl None of the gospels tell us what mountain Jesus climbed with Peter, James, and John to be transfigured. But I’d like to…
-
Christmas 2 · 1 Kings 3:4-15 · January 3, 2010
By Travis J. Scholl Wisdom doesn’t seem to come up much in our biblical preaching, despite the fact that the themes and literature of wisdom play…