Travis Scholl
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Proper 17 • Proverbs 25:2–10 • August 29, 2010
by Travis J. Scholl “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings to search things out” (v. 2). The opening…
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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…
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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…
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Christmas 1 · Exodus 13:1-3a, 11-15 · December 27, 2009
By Travis J. Scholl “The text is designed so that the memory is a generative event in subsequent generations of Israel, generative of energy and courage…
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Proper 16 · Mark 7:1-13 · August 23, 2009
By Travis J. Scholl This week and next week (Proper 17) make up a continuous reading of Mark 7. (Technically, Proper 18 brings the reading…
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Proper 9 · Mark 6:1-13 · July 5, 2009
By Travis J. Scholl Here we are at the first week of July—Fourth of July weekend no less!—and the Gospel of Mark gives us no…
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Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion · Mark 15:1-47 · April 5, 2009
By Travis J. Scholl As seems the case every time we encounter a pericope from the Gospel of Mark, we can start by noticing what…
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Lent 2 · Mark 8:27-38 · March 8, 2009
By Travis J. Scholl This second Gospel reading in the season of Lent begins with a significant geographic border-crossing. Jesus has left the friendlier confines…