Skip to content
  • home
  • blog
  • spiritual direction
    • All About Spiritual Direction
    • Spiritual Direction Billing Policies
  • suicide prevention
  • theological poetry
  • about
    • About Rachael Keefe
    • Rachael Keefe's CV
    • media/booking Rachael Keefe
    • Contact Rachael Keefe

Luke

Easter – No Idle Tale: A Sermon on Luke 24:1-12 and Acts 10:34-43

by Rachael Keefe
Easter No Idle Tale Sermon on Luke 24:1-12 and Acts 10:34-43

Honestly, it doesn’t matter what happened at that tomb so long ago. Faith is an act of resistance. Faith centers a God who promises new life. Faith trusts that new life can happen even in the face of an oppressive Empire.

Categories Sermon Starter Tags Acts, change, church, Easter, liberation, Love, Luke

Shouting Stones: A Sermon for Palm Sunday on Luke 19:28-40

by Rachael Keefe
Shouting Stones Palm Sunday Sermon Luke 19:28-40

Jesus risked everything to remind us that life is about more than any individual and we have a responsibility to love our neighbors into liberation.

Categories Sermon Starter Tags change, church, Luke, Palm Sunday

The Perfect Time to be Prodigal: A Sermon for Lent 4C on Luke 1-3,11b-32

by Rachael Keefe
Online home of the Rev. Dr. Rachael Keefe.

God is always with us. Do we take time to realize that we are always with God? Do we recognize the abundance that is all around us?

Categories Sermon Starter, Musings Tags change, church, hope, Lent, Love, Luke

Temptations: A Prayer of Confession for Lent 1C Luke 4:1-13

by Rachael Keefe
Temptations Prayer of Confession Lent 1C Luke 4:1-13e

Awaken us to your presence in this world, especially in the fearful and chaotic places. War is not yours. Hate does not come from you. Division is not what you desire for us.

Categories Liturgy Tags Confession, Lent, Luke, prayer, Temptation

Shifting Perspective: A Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday 2022 on Luke 9:28-43a

by Rachael Keefe
In Search of Dazzle Transfiguration Sermon Luke 9:28-43a

What if witnessing or experiencing some sort of Transfiguration is what allows us to do the work of bringing Divine Love into the world?

Categories Sermon Starter Tags change, Discipleship, Love, Luke, Transfiguration

The Challenge of Love: A Sermon on Luke 6:27-38 for Epiphany 7C

by Rachael Keefe
The Challenge of Love Sermon on Luke 6:27-38 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?

Categories Sermon Starter Tags change, church, Discipleship, Epiphany, fear, Forgiveness, Love, Luke, mercy, Racism, White Supremacy

Blessings and Woes: A Sermon on Luke’s Beatitudes for Epiphany 6C

by Rachael Keefe
Blessings and Woes Sermon on Luke's Beattitudes for Epiphany 6C

These words are too easily put in service to the Empire rather than the work of liberation.

Categories Sermon Starter Tags Beattitudes, church, Discipleship, Epiphany, justice, Love, Luke, social justice

Fishing for People: A Sermon on Luke 5:1-11 for Epiphany 5C

by Rachael Keefe
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.

Categories Sermon Starter Tags change, church, Epiphany, Love, Luke, Peter, Sin, Violence

Jesus is Missing: A Sermon on Luke 2:41-52 for Christmas 1C

by Rachael Keefe
Christmas 1C Luke 2:41-52 Sermon

Mary and Joseph lost Jesus. Before we judge we should ask if we know where Jesus is.

Categories Sermon Starter, Musings Tags change, Christmas, church, hope, Joy, Love, Luke, peace

A Pastoral Prayer for Advent 4C Love – based on Luke 1:39-55 (the Magnificat)

by Rachael Keefe
Pastoral Prayer Advent 4 C based on Luke 1:38-55

This is a pastoral prayer based on the Magnificat for Advent 4C.

Categories Prayer, Liturgy Tags Advent, change, church, hope, Joy, Love, Luke, peace
Older posts
Page1 Page2 … Page12 Next →

Reach out for a free consultation

Interested in spiritual direction or just learning more about it to decide whether it's for you? Curious whether you can afford it? Wondering if Rachael Keefe is available to speak to your group or present at your conference on mental health and faith or suicide prevention and the church? Curious about something else?

Contact Us

Check out the Blog

Matilda the Moose a Christmas Story
Story

How Matilda, a Minnesota Moose, Saw the First Christmas: A Christmas Story

ByRachael Keefe December 27, 2022December 29, 2022
0 Comments

Social Media

Meet Rachael

Learn more about Rachael throughout this website, or check out this About Rachael Keefe page.

© 2012-2023 Rachael Keefe - All Rights Reserved.
Website managed by Erika Sanborne Media.

Contact Privacy Terms
Manage Cookie Consent
Like all websites, we use cookies to optimize our website and our service. Here is the legally-required document that gives you all the exciting details:
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
Preferences
{title} {title} {title}