Beach Theology RCL Blog Archives
Rachael Keefe began “Write Out of Left Field” in Jan. ’12, and retired from writing free weekly RCL posts in 2022. That means this free sermon starter resource has more than ten years of ministry here with over 500 RCL-based reflections, sermon starters, poems and more, published during the span of this faithful ministry of sharing. You are welcome to browse through, search, use, and share with attribution.
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The Challenge of Love: A Sermon on Luke 6:27-38 for Epiphany 7C
How do we as followers of Jesus reclaim this command to love our enemies and treat others as we wish to be treated?
Blessings and Woes: A Sermon on Luke’s Beatitudes for Epiphany 6C
These words are too easily put in service to the Empire rather than the work of liberation.
Fishing for People: A Sermon on Luke 5:1-11 for Epiphany 5C
Do not demand agape, a deep, transforming love, if what is on offer is phileos, a binding, affectionate love. An Epiphany 5C sermon starter.
Agape Redefined: A Prophetic Sermon on 1 Corinthians 13 for Epiphany 4C
If healing, wholeness, forgiveness, unity, mercy do not result from our actions, then our actions are not the way of agape, the way of Christ.
Telling the Glory of God: Sermon Starter on Psalm 19, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a, and Mental Health
We are to include and welcome those who cannot see their own value and those who have been devalued by the world.
For the Common Good: Thoughts on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and John 2:1-11
we are meant to sing the song of Creation
join our voices with the river, the soil, the trees
