Sermons, continued:
9-1-19: Repairer of the Breach
9-15: A Broken Spirit
9-22 Faithful in a Little
9-29: The Good Fight
10-6: The Kingdom Within
10-13: Cleansing or Saving?
10-20: Build Houses
10-27: Other Rogues
11-3: A Son of Abraham
11-10: My Redeemer Liveth!
11-17: Rivers of Living Water
12-1: While It Is Day
12-8: Fulfills the Law
12-15: The Least in the Kingdom
12-22: Scattered the Proud
12-24: From the East
12-29: The Fear of Death
2020:
1-5: Children of God
1-12: To Fulfill All Righteousness
1-19: Arise and Shine
1-26: The Time Is Fulfilled
2-9: Let Your Light Shine
2-16: First Be Reconciled
2-23: My Holy Hill
2-26: Do Not Let Your Left Hand Know
3-8: Born Again
3-15: Gushing Up
3-22: Who Sinned?
3-29: Speaking the Truth
4-5: The Sheep Will Be Scattered >
4-12: There They Will See Me >
4-19: Suffer Trials
4-26: Burning within Us
5-3: They Know His Voice
5-10: If You Know Me
5-17: Another Advocate
5-24: Taken Up from You
5-31: (not yet)
Partial Index
Isaiah
1:10-18 > 8-11-19 1:11 > 10-27-19
2:2-4 > 12-23-18, 12-8-19 2:12, 17 > 12-11-19
5:8 > 6-16-19 9:5-7 > 8-19 & 12-23-18, 4-14-19
11:1-4 > 12-22-19 11:3-9 > 8-19-18
11:10 > 4-26-20 12:2 > 1-26-20
13:11 > 12-22-19 25:6-8 > 4-28-19
26:3 > 4-21-13 32:15 > 1-27-19
35:3-7 > 12-15-19 35:5 > 8-19-18, 4-26-20
40:11 > 4-26-20 42:1-7 > 1-12-20
42:6 > 12-1-19 42:21 > 1-12-20
43:1-7 > 1-13-19 43:8 > 1-12-20
43:19 > 1-13 & 4-4-19 43:25 > 4-14-19
44:3 > 1-27-19 54:13 > 8-12-18
55:1-9 > 3-24 & 8-11-19 56:7 > 4-19-19
57:15 > 10-7-18 58:2-9 > 2-9-20
58:9-12 > 9-1-19 60:1-5 > 1-19-20
61:1-2 > 8-19 & 12-30-18, 4-26-20
63:9 > 2-23-20 63:10-11 > 6-9-19
65:1-5 > 6-23-19 65:17-18, 25 > 6-23-19
66:12-13 > 5-12-19, 1-5-20
Jeremiah
1:6, 9 > 2-2-20 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 24:6 > 5-24-20
29:4-7 > 10-20-19 31:6 > 9-1-19
31:33-34 > 9-18-16 38:6-24 > 2-2-20
50:6 > 4-21-13
Lamentations
3:19-26 > 7-8-18, 10-6-19
3:28, 32-33 > 7-8-18
Micah
3:3 > 6-16-19 4:3 > 12-23-18
5:2-5 > 12-23-18
6:6-8 > 1-29-17, 12-23-18, 10-6-19
6:7 > 10-27-19
continued: > > >
Partial Index, cont.
Romans
5:5 > 4-19-20 6:4 > 11-25-18
6:5 > 4-28-19 6:23 > 11-18-18
8:2 > 11-25-18 8:11 > 1-27-19
8:15 > 1-27-19 8:24 > 1-27-19
8:39 > 10-22-17
10:8-13 > 3-10-19 12:2 > 2-26-20
12:10 > 10-21-18, 2-16-20 13:8-11 > 12-8-19
15:13-14 > 12-16-18 16:7 > 6-23 & 9-8-19
Hebrews
1:1-4 > 10-7-18 1:14 > 3-3-19
2:9-11 > 10-7-18 2:15 > 4-28-19
2:17-18 > 9-16-18 4:14-15 > 9-16 & 10-14-18
11:1-3 > 8-18 & 12-24-19 11:5 > 6-16-19
11:8-10, 16 > 8-18-19 13:3, 5-8 > 9-1-19
James
1:17-22 > 9-2 & 9-30-18, 7-14 & 12-1-19
2:12-18 > 9-9 & 9-30-18
3:1-6 > 9-16-18 3:16-17 > 7-15 & 9-23 & 9-30-18
4:1-8 > 7-15 & 9-23-18 5:13-20 > 9-30-18
1 Peter
1:3-6 > 4-19-20 1:4 > 2-24-19
3:13-16 > 5-17-20
2 Peter
1:4 > 8-12-18
Quote of the week
“The perfect Christian is not one who is necessarily impeccable and beyond all moral weakness; but he is one who, because his eyes are enlightened to know the full dimensions of the mercy of Christ, is no longer troubled by the sorrows and frailties of this present life. . . For such men, true lovers of God, all things, whether they appear good or evil, are in actuality good. . . All things enable them to grow in love.”
— Thomas Merton, Life and Holiness, 118–19
Stephen Finlan’s Sermons and book excerpts
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus, in Spirit and in Truth
Email the pastor: sfinlan@bu.edu
Link to PastorSteve's books on Amazon.
Excerpt from Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns
See 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 my writings on ResearchGate.
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, translations, links)
Partial Index, continued:
Sermon on the Mount (Matthew)
5:1-10 > 2-2-20 5:3-12 > 1-29-17
5:7-8 > 5-3-20 5:8 > 10-7-18
5:9 > 12-9-18, 5-31-20 5:13-17 > 2-9-20
5:20 > 2-9-20 5:21-26 > 2-16-20
5:24 > 7-14-19 5:44-48 > 11-4 & 11-18-18
5:45 > 3-22-20 6:1-15 > 3-6-19
6:4 > 2-23-20 6:10 > 9-23 & 12-24-18, 2-23-20
6:13 > 12-1-19 6:20 > 2-24-19
6:21 > 9-23-18 6:25-33 > 11-18-18 eve
7:7-11 > 9-2 & 11-25-18, 2-3 & 3-17-19
7:17 > 9-29-19
Luke
1:7-20, 63 > 12-23-18 1:38-45 > 12-23-18
1:39-53 > 12-22-19 2:25-36 > 12-24-19
2:42-52 > 12-30-18 3:1-6 > 12-9-18
3:15-17 > 12-16-18 3:21-23 > 1-13-19
4:16-21 > 8-19 & 12-30-18, 2-3 & 4-14-19, 4-26-20
4:24-30 > 9-9-18, 2-3-19 5:31-32 > 9-15-19
6:17-21 > 2-17-19 6:27-36 > 9-9-18, 2-17-19
7:50 > 10-7 & 12-23-18 8:15 > 10-7-18
8:17 > 2-17-19 8:27-39 > 12-23-18
10:5-11 > 7-7-19 10:16 > 5-10-20
10:18-20 > 8-26-18, 7-7-19
10:25-37 > 9-9-18, 7-14-19 10:42 > 4-7-19
11:50-51 > 3-17-19 12:13-21 > 7-31-16, 8-4-19
12:32-36 > 8-4 & 8-11-19, 4-5-20 13:1-5 > 3-17-19
13:20-21 > 9-8-19 13:31-35 > 3-17 & 12-22-19
14:7-11 > 9-22-19 15:8-10 > 9-15-19
15:11-32 > 3-31 & 9-15-19 16:10-13 > 9-22-19
17:11-19 > 10-13-19
17:21 > 8-12-18, 7-14 & 10-6-19
18:1-8 > 12-2-18, 10-20-19 18:38-42 > 5-10-20
18:9-14 > 10-27-19 18:42 > 10-7-18
19:1-10 > 11-3-19 19:9 > 5-10-20
19:12-24 > 12-22-19 19:29-40 > 4-14-19
20:27-38 > 11-10-19 21:27 > 12-2-18
22:31–34 > 4-5-20 22:37-39 > 6-19-16
22:54–62 > 4-5-20 23:34 > 12-1-19
23:43 > 12-1-19 24:10 > 4-12-20
24:11 > 4-12-20 24:13-32 > 4-26-20
24:49-52 > 6-16-19
Preaching the Gospel of Jesus
Sermons
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2013:
4-21: Still Waters or Choppy Seas
2016:
7-31: Why Come to Jesus?
9-18: Is God Too High Above Us?
2017:
1-29: The Pure in Heart
10-22: Forgive, Hand It On
2018:
1-21: Pour Out Your Heart
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
8-19: That I Should Lose Nothing
8-26: 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
10-28: May the Lord Deal Kindly with You
11-4: Love 'm Both?
11-18: Shine Like the Stars
11-18 (evening): Bearing the Seed
11-25: The Letter and the Spirit
12-2: With the Clouds
12-9: All Flesh: on Peace
12-16: With All Joy
12-23: To Love Kindness
12-24: What Child Is This?
12-30: Debating with Scholars
2019:
1-6: The Word Dwells in You Richly
1-13: I Will Be with You
1-27: Drink of One Spirit
2-3: To Proclaim Release
2-17: Be . . . As Your Father
2-24: A Spiritual Body
3-3: From One Degree of Glory to Another
3-6 (Ash Wed.): Too Great a Burden
3-10: Hearts and Mouths
3-17: Under His Wing
3-24: Spiritual Drink
3-31: We Had to Celebrate
4-7: Con-Formed
4-14: A New Thing
4-19 (Good Friday): Who He Is
4-21 (Easter): My Father and Your Father
4-28: Swallow Up Death
5-5: Feed My Sheep
5-12: I Will Comfort You--Hear My Voice
5-19: Alpha and Omega
6-2: The Secret of Unity
6-9: The Spirit of Truth
6-16: Was Carried Up
6-23: Jew or Greek
6-30: For Freedom
7-14: The Word Is Very Near
7-21: Hospitality
8-11: The Real Treasure
8-18: A Better Country