Sermons
2013:
4-21: Still Waters or Choppy Seas
2014:
4-27, Holocaust Sun.: Kept in Heaven
2016:
6-26: Revealed to Babes
7-31: Why Come to Jesus?
9-18: Is God Too High Above Us?
12-18: The Incarnation of the Word
2017:
1-22: The Kingdom Has Come
1-29: The Pure in Heart
3-5: A Broken Spirit
3-12: Be Perfect
3-19: In Spirit and in Truth
4-14 (Good Friday): My God, My God
4-16 (Easter): Do Not Be Afraid
5-14 (Mothers' Day): Show Us the Father
8-27: Let Love Be Genuine
9-10: Owe Nothing
10-22: Forgive, Hand It On
11-26: When Did We See You?
12-24: The Obedience of Faith
1-21: Pour Out Your Heart
1-28: No Deceit
2-11: Healing the Broken Hearted
AT MY NEW CHURCH--
The First Church, West Bridgewater, MA:
7-8: Who Does He Think He Is?
8-5: Bread from Heaven
8-12: Be Imitators of God
Quote of the week
“Figure out what you’re going to do with passages like Deuteronomy 7 and 1 Samuel 15 . . . . If you haven’t grappled with these passages, your Bible is like a loaded gun and your theology is like a license to kill. . . . In sharp contrast, the God imaged by Jesus exerts no dominating supremacy.”
— Brian McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration, 73, 92
8-26-18: What Gives Life
9-2: Be Doers
9-9: Children or Dogs?
9-16: Divine Things
9-23: First Pure
9-30: Whoever Is Not Against Us
10-7: Created the Worlds
10-14: For God, All Things Are Possible
10-21: Lord It Over (not yet
10-28:
Partial Index
Isaiah
9:6-7 > 1-22-17, 8-19-18 11:3-9 > 8-19-18
26:3 > 4-21-13 35:5 > 8-19-18
51:1-8 > 8-27-17 54:13 > 8-12-18
56:7 > 4-14-17 57:15 > 10-7-18
58:5-11 > 2-5-17 61:1-2 > 8-19-18 66:13 > 5-14-17
Jeremiah
3:15 > 4-21-13 7:22 > 1-29-17
8:22 > 9-18-16 15:19-21 > 9-3-17
19:4-7 > 9-30-18 23:4 > 4-21-13
50:6 > 4-21-13
Lamentations
3:25-33 > 7-8-18
Matthew
5:3-12 > 1-29-17 5:8 > 6-26-16, 10-7-18
5:13-16 > 2-5-17 5:45-48 > 3-12-17
6:10 > 6-23-18 6:21 > 6-23-18
7:7-11 > 6-26-16, 9-2-18
7:21 > 12-24-17 8:10 > 9-9-18
11:25-30 > 1-29-17 12:33 > 2-5-17
13:57 > 10-14-18 18:21-35 > 10-22-17
22:30-31 > 1-22-17 25:21 > 10-14-18
25:31-45 > 11-26-17 26:7-15 > 1-28-18
26:75 > 10:6-13 27:46-49 > 4-14-17
28:1-10 > 4-16-17
continued: > > >
Stephen Finlan's Sermons and Book excerpts
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus, in Spirit and in Truth
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus
Email the pastor: sfinlan@bu.edu
Link to PastorSteve's books on Amazon
Excerpt from Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns
A different excerpt on the Amazon site.
Links to excerpts of my Wipf & Stock books:
- The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching
- Theosis, volume 2 including my entire article "Deification in Jesus' Teaching"
from Problems with Atonement, Amazon site
Options on Atonement in Christian Thought
from The Background and Content of Paul's Atonement Metaphors (my dissertation)
Link to Blackwell Companion to Jesus, in which I have an article
LINKS TO RESEARCH SITES:
Ethereal Library (books and commentaries)
Early Christian Writings (40 to 380 AD)
Fathers of the Church (New Advent site)
Bible Researcher(Info on Scripture Canon, translations, and links to other sites)
Partial Index, continued:
Luke
1:32-38 > 12-24-17 2:19 > 12-24-17
4:18-21 > 8-19-18 4:25-30 > 9-9-18
5:31 > 11-26-17 6:36 > 9-9-18
6:45 > 6-26-16 7:34 > 11-26-17
7:36-43 > 6-26-16
7:50 > 6-26 & 10-9-16, 10-7-18
8:15 > 10-7-18 9:52-55 > 1-28-18
10:21-24 > 6-26-16 10:25-37 > 9-9-18
12:13-15 > 7-31-16 17:21 > 8-12-18
18:42 > 10-17-18 22:37-39 > 6-19-16
22:61 > 1-28-18 24:32 > 2-4-18
Romans
8:11 > 4-16-17 8:29-30 > 3-12 & 4-16-17
8:39 > 10-22-17 10:9 > 4-16-17
12:2 > 8-27-17
13:8-10 > 9-10-17 16:25-27 > 12-24-17
Hebrews
1:1-4 > 10-7-18 1:14 > 1-28-18
2:9-11 > 10-7-18 2:14-15 > 4-16-17
2:17 > 9-16-18 4:14-15 > 9-16 & 10-14-18
James
1:17-22 > 9-2 & 9-30-18 2:12-18 > 9-9 & 9-30-18
3:1-6 > 9-16-18 3:16-17 > 9-23-18
4:1-8 > 9-23-18 5:13-20 > 9-30-18
1 Peter
1:3-9 > 4-27-14 3:22 > 1-28-18
2 Peter
1:4 > 3-12-17, 8-12-18