Epistle: Revelation 22:1-20 (Easter 7: Series C)
The glimpse of this final vision of healing has healed us before, it heals us here and now, and it will heal us again.
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Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl (MDiv, Yale Divinity School; PhD, University of Missouri) leads mission integration at Lutheran Senior Services. Previously, he served as managing editor of theological publications at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where he continues as a guest instructor. He is the author of Walking the Labyrinth.
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Epistle: Revelation 21:9-14, 21-27 (Easter 6: Series C)
What you are doing for your hearers is sparking their imagination to live in, to dwell in, the images you are conjuring in their mind’s eye.
Epistle: Revelation 21:1-7 (Easter 5: Series C)
This voice of Jesus is the same voice which now beckons us to see anew how God in Christ is at work anywhere and everywhere.
Epistle: Revelation 7:9-17 (Epistle 4: Series C)
We gather and join in this great multitude because the Lamb is at its center, and the Lamb’s Kingdom ushers in the peaceable eternity of life resurrected.
Epistle: Revelation 5:(1-7) 8-14 (Easter 3: Series C)
John the Revelator sees us in his vision just as much as he sees fantastical creatures and myriads of angels, all of us giving praise to the Lamb who alone is worthy.
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 (Lent 4: Series C)
In this time of brutal war and divisive conflict, here we have an especially profound word of gospel.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 (Lent 3: Series C)
The promise is rooted in the fact that the only way we can endure any ounce of suffering in this life is because Jesus Christ is tending the soil of our lives.
Epistle: Philippians 3:17-4:1 (Lent 2: Series C)
In a world where absolutely everything seems to be in flux, indeed, we are all looking for a place to stand.
Epistle: Romans 10:8b-13 (Lent 1: Series C)
Nearly two thousand years after Paul scribbled out these lines, the only reason “we” are here, reading Paul’s magnum opus together, is that we are inheritors of the promise Paul sees in the paradox.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:13 (Epiphany 4: Series C)
Paul has no interest in a love which does not find real traction in our daily lives.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a (Epiphany 3: Series C)
The gift is God’s and not ours, and the fact that any of us have any role to play at all in the Body of Christ is an amazing grace.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 (Epiphany 2: Series C)
The most counter-cultural action any Christian church could take right now would be to foster healthy and constructive conversations among its members and neighbors across their variety of opinions and perspectives.
Epistle: Romans 6:1-11 (The Baptism of Our Lord: Series C)
Paul is thinking of the cross and empty tomb, but the liturgical calendar places us at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, not the end: Jesus standing waist deep in the Jordan River.
Epistle: Ephesians 1:3-14 (Christmas 2: Series C)
As we continue to celebrate the mystery of the incarnation, this is a perfect moment to meditate on how the work of God “in Christ" unfolds in every moment of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.