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?
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
9-10: Owe Nothing
10-22: Forgive, Hand It On
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
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
9-30-18: 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: The Theme of 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
1-20: (not yet)
Partial Index
Isaiah
2:4 > 12-23-18
9:6-7 > 1-22-17, 8-19 & 12-23-18
11:3-9 > 8-19-18
26:3 > 4-21-13 35:5 > 8-19-18
43:1-7 > 1-13-19 43:19 > 1-13-19
54:13 > 8-12-18 56:7 > 4-14-17
57:15 > 10-7-18 61:1-2 > 8-19 & 12-30-18
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
31:33-34 > 9-18-16 50:6 > 4-21-13
Lamentations
3:25-33 > 7-8-18
Micah
4:3 > 12-23-18 5:2-5 > 12-23-18
6:6-8 > 1-29-17, 2-11 & 12-23-18
Matthew
1:1-16 > 10-28-18 2:1-12 > 1-6-19
3:15-17 > 1-13-19 5:3-12 > 1-29-17
5:8 > 6-26-16, 10-7-18 5:9 > 12-9-18
5:44-48 > 3-12-17, 11-4 & 11-18-18
6:10 > 6-23 & 12-24-18 6:21 > 6-23-18
6:25-33 > 11-18-18 eve
7:7-11 > 6-26-16, 9-2 & 11-25-18
7:21 > 12-24-17 8:10 > 9-9-18
9:2 > 12-23-18 9:22 > 10-7 & 12-23-18
10:16 > 12-9-18
11:25-30 > 1-29-17 12:33 > 11-25-18
12:50 > 6-26-16 13:33 > 10-21-18
13:57 > 10-14-18 17:5 > 1-13-19
18:21-35 > 10-22-17 22:30-31 > 1-22-17
25:21 > 10-14-18 26:7-15 > 1-28-18
27:46-49 > 4-14-17 28:1-10 > 4-16-17
continued: > > >
Quote of the week
We need to take the love mandate as seriously as Paul did: “Through love become slaves to one another” (Gal 5:13). . . . Without love, we are nothing more than a social club. But if we start practicing the difficult but transformative ethics of Jesus, the church becomes a force for the only kind of social change that is deep and long-lasting—change that is based upon transformed individuals.
— Stephen Finlan, Bullying in the Churches (2015), 2
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
1:7-20, 63 > 12-23-18
1:32-38 > 12-24-17 1:38-45 > 12-23-18
2:19 > 12-24-17 2:42-52 > 12-30-18
3:1-6 > 12-9-18 3:15-17 > 12-16-18
3:21-23 > 1-13-19 4:18-21 > 8-19 & 12-30-18
4:25-30 > 9-9-18 6:36 > 9-9-18
6:45 > 6-26-16 7:36-43 > 6-26-16
7:50 > 6-26-16, 10-7 & 12-23-18 8:15 > 10-7-18
8:27-39 > 12-23-18 9:52-55 > 1-28-18
10:18 > 8-26-18 10:21-24 > 6-26-16
10:25-37 > 9-9-18 12:13-15 > 7-31-16
17:21 > 8-12-18 18:1-8 > 12-2-18
18:42 > 10-17-18 21:27 > 12-2-18
22:37-39 > 6-19-16 22:61 > 1-28-18
24:32 > 2-4-18
Romans
6:4 > 11-25-18 6:23 > 11-18-18
8:2 > 11-25-18 8:11 > 4-16-17
8:29-30 > 3-12 & 4-16-17
8:39 > 10-22-17 10:9 > 4-16-17
12:10 > 10-21-18 13:8-10 > 9-10-17
15:13-14 > 12-16-18 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
2:17-18 > 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